Educator/advocate for ocean health, marine mammology, sustainability, climate change.

• Major Gifts portfolio management• Donor cultivation and engagement• Manager, Women's Philanthropy• Event planning• Manager, Annual Judith Chapman Memorial Women's Leadership Award• SalesforceFORMER POSITION:• Manage personal calendars for both Chief Development Officer and Women’s Philanthropy Director.• Process monthly reimbursements.• Schedule and staff meetings for Women’s Philanthropy Director, lay and professional leadership: ○ Use tools such as Doodle for scheduling.○ Reserve conference rooms and prepare all necessary materials/agendas/documents for meetings.○ Set up/manage conference calls.○ Record/disseminate minutes and track required follow-up. • Oversee organizational and community calendars when scheduling meetings and events.• • Work across organization to develop goals, timelines and annual event calendar.• Event management:○ Research venues and manage venue contracts.○ Research, plan, coordinate and manage logistics for fund-raising, outreach, and thank you events; ○ Work with Marketing Department to develop invitations and PR; ○ Organize/manage event staffing; ○ Interface with/manage venue directors, caterers, photographers, IT department and A/V staff.• Interface with marketing, program, accounting, operations, and senior staff, to implement cultivation and fund-raising strategies. • Cultivation, stewardship and solicitation of individual donors and prospects, for both Community and Major Gifts Campaigns.• Creation and implementation of highly successful solicitation materials, including fund-raising letters, pledge cards, and additional documents and templates.• Research and develop donor profiles, using Wealth Engine and other internet vehicles.• Maintain donor records in organization’s database; track and enter donor communications; gifts, and all relevant information.• Track budgets, create/submit check and invoice requests.• Supervise summer interns.• MS Office Suite, including Excel, Outlook and Raiser’s Edge.

• Implementation and management of California-wide program which annually awards Jewish teenagers $36,000 each for exemplary leadership in community service. ○ Responsible for annual program launch, i.e. coordination of PR (local and national ad placement). ○ Arrange site visits and participate in conferences to educate the public about the program.○ Process incoming nominations/applications. ○ Liaison to selection committee members (lay leaders and professional staff), and serve as chief planner and coordinator for all pieces of annual gala events honoring award recipients.• Assist international staff, including Director, North American Education Director, Israeli Education Director, and professional and lay leaders of a 16-community international Jewish teen education/ leadership program.• Supervise interns and office assistants.• Draft and edit all correspondence, agendas, and timelines. • Manage annual budget expense spreadsheets.• Management of web pages.• Travel and event coordinator; flight/hotel accommodation research and management for individual and group reservations; logistics manager for annual international staff conferences.• MS Office Suite, Outlook and Raiser’s Edge.

Member, Creative Arts Therapy team; staffed locked ward for male adults with various diagnoses, as well as the hearing impaired teen program.