Ruby M. Thomasson Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As the Contracts Manager for the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board I manage a portfolio of improvement projects that aim to enhance and better maintain the parks to benefit its patrons. This includes comprehensive planning for new pools and swimming opportunities in all neighborhoods, re-roofing and opening new recreation centers with increased services to meet the needs of after-school programming for youth and adults, providing operational heat and cooling in all recreation centers so they can stay open year-round, and other improvement projects. Environmental projects will include the re-opening of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and education for schools and naturalists.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Managed large capital improvement projects, community and staff involvement, and grants administration

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Brooklyn Park, Mn

As the Manager of Development, Fundraising, and Alumni affairs I manage a portfolio of alumni who show the capacity to give to scholarship funds and emergency grants to ensure that students are able to afford their education at Hennepin Tech and stay in their program. As well I cultivate new prospects both individual, corporate, and foundations. I write new and existing grants along with senior management and College Deans. I work with a consultant to mine for new grants in order to increase the funding from the pool of grant prospects. I manage grant reporting and research statistics with Hennepin Tech's Office of Institutional Research. I examine school programming, retention, goals, and outcomes. I am part of a strategic plan that the Hennepin Tech Foundation Board of Directors plan to implement in order to increase fundraising from grants but also among constituents such as parents and students Ambassadors that have not been targeted fully in the past. I coordinate the discovery and writing of success stories about current students, alumni, and faculty as a way to market the value of a Hennepin Tech education. Other duties include general administration of scholarships funds from our industry funders and other foundations. To cultivate new industry connections to provide funds, as well as, internships and jobs for students. Other special projects as assigned by the Director of Development and the President of Hennepin Tech.

As Manager of Fundraising and Alumni Relations I was tasked with the training of Development Assts. and the full overhaul and cleanup of the Donor Database. I prospected for new funders and developed relationships with alumni. I managed the processing and accurate entry of multi-million dollar gifts and bequests. I attended finance meetings monthly with the Finance Dept. to reconcile all donations. I met bi-weekly with the President's Office to review the overall school budget, identify shortfalls and needs and find resources to cover these shortfalls. I processed all student scholarships and met with students to review their progress, GPA's, and to discover new sources of funding so they can continue their education. I managed a portfolio of Athletics, Student Services, Wellness, and The Colin Powell School of Political Science. I was tasked with creating relationships with each school's Chair, their Budget Director, identifying their needs, and finding new funding. Lastly, I processed the creation of new funds and replied to and completed forms and financial reports as requested by Donors and the Finance staff.

Greater New York City Area

I assist the Executive Director in devising new fundraising schemes and to develop a strategic plan with the Board and community members alike to create more robust and long-term funding sources that will not only sustain the organization far into the future but allow it to expand and provide additional services to the public such as gardening, horticulture and Eco-geared learning opportunities, fitness programs, art programming, and in general provide a safe and satisfying green space experience for all New Yorkers.

New York, Ny

As a Development Associate I was the first point of contact for all alumni questions and needs. I kept a daily log of the phone calls and emails received from Alumni via a Google apps platform and logged in the questions and measured response time of when the inquiry was initiated to when the inquiry was completed and/or resolved. An archive of emails was maintained by me and organized into several folders depending on the subject matter of the inquiry. I managed all social media including: a School of Visual Arts (SVA) Alumni Facebook group, the SVA Alumni Twitter page, Flicker, Tumbler, etc. I research new opportunites for artist Alumni for grants, scholarships, fellowships, and all-calls for artists to art shows at galleries and other art-related organizations and/or fairs and exhibitions. I maintained a monthly calendar of posting to the Facebook group of artist Alumni's art portfolios for purposes of promotion and to assist in getting the artist's career going. I managed the SVA Alumni membership which included benefits such as a job board, reduced health care, and other such benefits and discounts to area businesses and art supplies outlets. I performed the entry of alumni and other constituents into the Raiser's Edge database and coordinated the preparation of mailings and email campaign push for the annual gala fundraising event, scholarship celebration, and other events or forums with VIP Alumni in the Art, Literature, Film, and TV worlds. I assisted in improving the database and created a manual for incoming employees on how to use the database. Other duties included administration around awarding student scholarships, general fundraising and prospecting, and special projects as needed.

Assisted the VP of Social Justice and Global Religions with all operational needs, staffing, expense reporting and quarterly budget monitoring and management, grants analysis, foundation and grantee performance analysis and prospect research.

Greater New York City Area

Perform budget and fiscal analysis for grants management lifecycle. Make recommendations on how money should be allocated towards state-of-the-art technology services for students, employees, and others within the NYU system. Act as special projects manager and liaison for the director of Fiscal Affairs, ITS Unit for all of NYU's clients in the NY campuses, as well as, over fifteen global sites: Abu Dhabi, Florence, Paris, Sydney, etc. Supervise two students’ workers and assist Budget and Property Control Manager in conducting weekly reconciliations and preparing budget reports for the review of Assistant Vice Presidents, the CITO, and President Provost of NYU to decide how to allocate funding towards technology upgrades.Attend and run meetings, perform public speaking, and prepare presentations on behalf of the director. Interface with clients and resolve major technology issues faced by a major academic institution with over one million students and client users worldwide.Created a reporting tool to help senior management understand how much funding is being used for re-upping major technology contracts. Provided recommendations on potential cost savings and proposed a process that would help the computing services operations staff to do more long-term planning and be more efficient when entering into lease/buy-out agreements with vendors for major hardware, technology licenses and labor.

Greater New York City Area

Enhanced and managed Raiser’s Edge membership and grants database and trained new staff on managing grants lifecycle. Prepared financial and grants reports for closing out of grants. Entered and ran daily financial batch reports and prepared acknowledgement letters. Built relationships with foundations and researched new funding options and trends.

Greater New York City Area

Field managed successful summer fund raising push for Voter Rights and GLBTQ Rights campaigns meeting a weekly quota and consistently raising approximately $500/week and acquired two brand new donors/week to win changes and legal cases for GLBTQ people and disenfranchsied voters for the 2012 US Presidential campaign.Ran field manager meetings and devised strategies to raise funds when goals were not being met. Conducted trainings in cold-calling and fund raising with new organizers and youth interns.

Greater New York City Area

Assisted Development Director in prospecting research on potential high-level donors and developing special connections and events for these donors in order to meet fund raising targets. Consulted on new re-branding and marketing strategy for NYLCV's Education Fund.Performed cold-calling and e-marketing to new and existing donors to increase donations for annual year-end gift campaign; Raised approximately $1,000 in one month.

Wrote grants and processed fiscal reports. Created a database of grants to show progress on projects; Ran monthly meetings with staff and artists.Secured fiscal independence for new non-profit by researching and locating a arts-related fiscal sponsor conduit to allow new company to raise funds and submit to grant requests on its behalf until 501c3 status is gained.Researched inexpensive options and route to 501c3 status and/or incorporation in order for new company to receive funds from dance and cultural benefits and events.Researched possible funders and major donors to budding arts companies.Tracked down rehearsal space and event managed for benefits; Developed strategies for fund raising and marketing ideas for special events in the community and with youth.

Greater New York City Area

Acted as the main contracts and grants manager for a portfolio of environmental sustainability and economic development projects as part of the NYC Mayor's PlaNYC to make NYC a more livable city and reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030. Managed a database of several grant- and federally-funded projects; Provided budget analysis and wrote-up and prepared formal submissions for quarterly financial grant reporting; Developed and culled together language from multiple staff for new annual and renewal of funding proposals.Created a one-page user-friendly reporting mechanism to show progress on projects and a spend-down rate in order to retain current funding and leverage new funding from federal government and foundations.Managed interns and youth "Green Workers" who worked in the office and managed office databaseManaged supplies database, hired engineers and outfitted equipment in order to get new office up and started.Assisted in creation of an e-fees program to bring additional revenue to the office in order to meet budget targets and avoid cut-backs of staff in hard economic (recession) times.Went out into the field to evaluate projects and used GIS planning database.

Assisted the Deputy Chief of Staff in performing economic analyses to bring additional revenue to the City and organize DCA's budgets. Performed surprise internal audits of check receiving and petty cash systems. Developed new petty cash system to shore up checks and balances and recoup missing money. Ran a field study and interviewed staff from multiple departments in order to develop a new cash and check receiving system.Created a database to manage progress and results of audits that were done on DCA by the State and City Comptrollers.Assisted in other emergency press and public relations needs related to audits of DCA's operations.

Managed a portfolio of ten large grant, federally, state, and City-funded parks and citywide environmental improvement and economic development projects; Met with project managers monthly and quarterly to get updates on project progress; Processed and ran variance cost vs. budget reports on their project budgets. Evaluated funding proposals from the NYC Parks Department, ran economic research, quantitative budget analysis, market research, and wrote weekly reports with my formulated recommendations that I then presented to my Director justifying why certain projects should receive funding. Prepared analysis for and wrote up quarterly grant reports; Managed database.Project managed and worked with diverse stakeholders from politicians to architects, planners, and community members to re-scope and stay on target with projects in order to avoid costly overages to the City and get projects moving forward and completed on time.Developed a one-page survey in order to expedite funding approval for critical citywide economic development and environmental health projects.Brought additional revenues to the City by running "user-cost analyses," field interviews, and market studies with City staff in order to increase fees brought in by the NYC Medical Examiner's Office medical reports, NYC Health Department inspections, and NYC Parks Department recreational centers.

Certificate, Nonprofit Management, Development, And Fundraising- Annual And Capital Major Donors, Grant Writing, A-

Activities and Societies: Developed a marketing plan and re-branding for The Rainforest Alliance to enhance the amount of funding brought.

Doctor Of Law (Jd), Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering

I received a NYC Mayor's scholarship to take courses in environmental sustainability planning, environmental impact assessed and analysis.

Master'S Of Science, Policy Finance Analysis, Nonprofit Management, Environmental Sustainability, Economic Development, Dean'S Scholar Recipient

Activities and Societies: Green campus initiative, field studies with nonprofit in Washington DC and NYC. Teaching Assistant to the Dean.

Bachelor'S Of Science, Environmental Policy Analysis