Sam Kaplan Email & Phone Number

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

• Develop and execute IsraAID’s Global Institutional Fundraising Strategy, together with each ofour Humanitarian Missions and Chief Development and Communications Officer • Support each Humanitarian Mission and Emergency Mission in building and implementing anin-country Fundraising Strategy • Coordinate all grant proposals and report writing for institutional, governmental, and organizational donors, from managing the process, relationship, and timeline, collecting information from the humanitarian mission teams, full proposal and report writing, to coordination and submission with relevant stakeholders.• Coordinate and manage the compliance and reporting requirements related to allinstitutional grants awarded • Manage all due diligence-related demands of institutional donors • Monitor the international development ‘Institutional Funding’ landscape, IsraAID’s, and eachof the Humanitarian Mission's positioning within it• Manage institutional donor relations - develop and maintain contacts with institutionaldonors globally, together with Country Directors and Chief Development and Communications Officer • Conduct prospect research - identify and research new institutional funding opportunities.• Support IsraAID Humanitarian Missions to map institutional stakeholders in their country andregion and contribute technical advice on donor engagement, requirements, and compliance• Develop and provide capacity-building training for IsraAID staff and partners within the areaof institutional funding, proposal development, consortium building, and other related topics• Provide quality assurance for all proposals, reports, and concept notes

Tel Aviv, Israel

• Prepared large scale, multi-year proposals, using experience of project cycle management including using project planning and management key tools (e.g., Logical Framework analysis, PCM, etc.). Won major multi-year grants from European Commission and Bread for the World.• Worked collaboratively with project managers and field coordinators to develop projects that suit our objectives and meet donor requests• Managed relationships with diplomatic community and international NGOs, through site visits and speaking engagements• Maintained and established donor relationships at foundations, including donor prospect research• Maintained donor portfolios and outreach to potential new donors • Managed compliance to diverse donors, including reports• Created fundraising strategies for partner grassroots organizations

Jerusalem, Israel

• Coordinated, supervised and monitored daily activities of the International Relations Department• Created strategic work plan for resource development, identifying fundraising goals to meet annual budget and increase donor giving• Managed relationships with donor organizations, international NGOs and diplomatic community, through site visits, providing updates and maintaining ongoing dialogue • Maintained donor portfolios and outreach to potential new donors • Worked collaboratively with project managers and field coordinators to develop projects that suit our objectives and meet donor requests• Managed compliance to diverse donors • Ensured that commitments are met through regular updates and ongoing monitoring reports• Produced English language promotional materials including website and social media• Prepared and won large scale, multi-year proposals, using experience of project cycle management including using project planning and management key tools (e.g., Logical Framework analysis, PCM, etc.)

Herzeliya, Israel

• Created all marketing material for Israel-related educational, economic and capital projects • Submitted proposals to individual donors, foundations, corporations and other funders • Designed, developed and implemented on-line survey of educational programs including graphic analysis, measurement of impact of programs and phone interviews of selected subjects• Created risk management, impact and progress reports• Created collateral materials of entire philanthropic process: applications; grant proposals; monthly impact reports; presentations; press releases; correspondence with stakeholders; position papers; web-site articles; translations• Provided editorial support for partner organizations

• Published monograph (The Pedagogical State, Stanford University Press) • Published English-language articles at top peer-reviewed journals (International Journal of Middle East Studies; Comparative Studies in Society and History; American Ethnologist; History & Anthropology; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East)• Published invited papers for Hebrew-language Jamaa Journal • Conceived, developed, and coordinated a cross-disciplinary international MA program • Taught undergraduate and graduate courses on history, anthropology, colonialism and post-colonial societies, and development theory• Prepared and won one-year project proposals• Presented scholarly work at national and international conferences• Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Study Centre, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor• Organized international workshops and symposiums at Ben-Gurion University• Lead intensive ten-day study-tour to western Anatolia and Istanbul for Israeli university students

• Taught undergraduate courses on Ottoman history, colonial and post-colonial societies, Middle East anthropology, and critical theory and methods.• Prepared and won two one-year project proposals: (1) on post-World War I international relations; and (2) on the concept of self-determination among different populations in the Near East. Outcome: two articles in leading peer-reviewed journals• Published chapter on Turkey Between the Two Wars for Open University of Israel series on the Modern Middle East• Published invited paper for Hebrew-language Jamaa Journal• Presented scholarly work on Middle Eastern history and society at national and international conferences

Phd, Anthropology

Ba, Archaeology