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New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, New York, United States

• Fundraising campaigns: Serve as lead strategist, creative director and project manager for semiannual fundraising campaigns. • Campaign tactics: • Individual donor outreach; direct mail; email; peer-to-peer; social media; staff, board, and advisory council member "gives" and "gets." • Campaign results: • Three July campaigns raised an average of $130,552, with 93% growth in Year 1, 47% growth in Year 2, and 33% growth in Year 3. • Two December campaigns raised an average of $267,198, with 35% growth in Year 1 and 38% growth in Year 2.• Solicitation: Raised more than $52,000 from major and midlevel donors.• Stewardship: Establish and cultivate relationships with donors of every level, leveraging Salesforce, DonorSearch, and other tools.• Management: Supervise Development Operations Associate.• Digital fundraising technology: Led the selection process and transition to a new online donation platform (Classy).• Facilitate staff and lay leader fundraising: Provide collateral, templates, advice, and other resources to stakeholders, from the CEO to program associates to board members.

New York, New York, United States

• Fundraising: Supported senior associates in developing fundraising strategies for clients; wrote cases for support and annual appeal letters adopted by several nonprofits.• Prospecting and grant writing: Researched current and prospective foundational and corporate funders; wrote and edited content for several successful grant applications.• Marketing/new business: Developed strategies for increasing nonprofit clients and revenue; helped plan events such as client and prospect workshops; deliverables included a brand/communications roadmap, which was approved and implemented.

New York, New York, United States

• Digital fundraising: Increased social media fundraiser data capture 250% with strategies based in behavioral science; increased email engagement by focusing on donor journey.• Prospecting and grant writing: Identified and researched hundreds of foundations and stakeholders, drafted LOIs, and wrote content for several successful grant applications.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Website creation: Managed and executed the strategic planning, content creation, page design, and back-end development of the new malesurvivor.org.• Communications strategy: Developed a guidebook used by staff and board members to align communications tactics with objectives of increasing membership and revenue.• Brand strategy: Developed board-adopted brand persona, positioning, and messaging.

New York, New York, United States

• Proposal writing: Drafted responses to RFPs from nonprofits and NYC agencies.• Marketing/new business: Wrote newsletter and email content; managed CRM.

Austin, Texas Area

• Copywriting: Generated content for both traditional and digital projects, including sales aids, print ads, websites, iBooks, emails and more. • Creative concepting: Collaborated with art directors to devise creative ads and campaigns for a variety of clients and brands.• Subject matter expertise: Developed credible and relevant content for audiences ranging from ophthalmologists to teenagers, requiring thorough landscape analysis, market research, and technical expertise.• Leadership: Managed copywriting interns; represented agency at client presentations and in the field.

San Antonio, Texas

• Copywriting: Generated engaging, search engine-optimized website, email, and banner ad copy for a variety of small and mid-sized businesses. • Subject matter expertise: I met with and researched our clients and their industries.• Traditional advertising: Developed concepts and copy for television commercials, brochures, sales sheets, and billboards.• Search engine optimization (SEO): Researched keywords, identifying and incorporating those most likely to place our clients on the first page of Google search results.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• My diverse skillset and interests allowed me to fill several roles in the newsroom: My editing and headline-writing responsibilities included front-page, Metro, Business, Sports and Spanish-language copy. In addition, I served as slot editor for the Metro section, performing final reads on all content.• As weekend wire editor, I exercised news judgment in aggregating content for the Nation & World section, deciding which wire service stories were most relevant to local readers and how to play them on the front page and inside the newspaper. • While my focus has been on writing and editing, I have also been recognized by the Associated Press for outstanding feature and news page designs.

San Antonio, Texas

I profiled exceptional young San Antonians, localized major news stories and penned satirical takes on current events for 210SA, the Express-News’ now-defunct weekly alternative entertainment publication.

Corpus Christi, Texas Area

I was selected to participate in a two-week Dow Jones copy editing boot camp in Austin, Texas, followed by a 10-week internship on the Caller-Times’ news desk, where I edited copy, wrote headlines and designed pages.

Master'S Degree, Public Administration - Nonprofit Management

Activities and Societies: Managing Editor, The Wagner Review; Vice Chair, Wagner Advocacy and Political Action; Communications Chair.

Journalism, Professional Writing

Activities and Societies: Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Copy Editing fellowship; copy desk chief/sports editor, The Oklahoma Daily; Society.