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.
• 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

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.
• 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

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

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.
• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• 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