Sara Ackerman Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Work with other members of the national Digital-Communications team to implement a national strategy for digital outreach, fundraising, acquisition, and communications.Oversee day-to-day operations of national and state broadcast email and SMS programs, including drafting and coding emails and managing an integrated email and SMS calendar. Analyze, plan.

Brooklyn, NY

New York, NY

Strategized, managed content calendar, drafted and implemented email campaign strategy for major clients with lists over 1Million subscribers. Clients included UNICEF USA, Heifer Foundation, March of Dimes, Obama Foundation, Team USA, Memorial Sloan Kettering, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Colgate Toothpaste, and more.One-day fundraising high.

New York, NY

Was part of the winning campaign that won marriage equality nationwide!!Drafted email correspondence for 12 state-wide marriage equality campaigns and 8 state-wide anti-discrimination campaigns across the country. Implemented A/B Testing, managed sends, coded emails, and analyzed results of email program.Managed social media accounts for over 20 state-wide.

Washington, DC

• Authored and designed email blasts for clients using Salsa and NationBuilder for list sizes ranging between 20,000-500,000 subscribers. Email subjects included a wide range of topics including economic, environmental.
• Designed A/B and/or multivariate experiments, interpreted and communicated test data in order to maximize donations and actions.
• Successfully helped grow email list subscribers through Facebook ads, list swaps, list acquisitions and more.
• Presented at conferences on increasing email list size, best/worst practices for email campaigns, SEO, blog and social media strategy.
• Organized virtual phone banks with CallFire for three separate successful Senate races. Provided tutorial and email assistance, drafted calling script.

• Coordinated national divestment campaign created by Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post that encourages individuals and institutions to divest from ‘Too Big To Fail’ banks and move to small community banks and.
• Prepared groundwork for organically created Move Your Money/Bank Transfer Day where 650,000 new credit union accounts were opened in the month of October 2011 and 70,000 individuals moved their money on Bank Transfer.
• Spearheaded legislative strategy, working with elected officials to introduce bills in Maryland, New Mexico, Hawaii and Washington State, two of which successfully passed and were signed into law.
• Worked with elected officials nationwide to encourage divestment movements at the local level. Created a campaign to encourage Recorders and Registers of Deeds to move county funds out of Bank of America and JP Morgan.
• Pitched stories to the Huffington Post and managed social media, providing updates to Facebook and Twitter, wrote daily blog posts on website as well as a biweekly newsletter for supporters. Successfully increased.

• Successfully elected Juan Vargas to the State Senate of California by just 22 votes in a historic election.
• Assistant to Regional Field Director responsible for 60% of district in large-scale field operation.
• Originally hired as campaign organizer, quickly progressed through promotion culminating in overseeing four organizers and 35-50 paid canvassers.
• Supervised canvass shifts, planned phone banks, mapped out precinct walks for canvassers using PDI and coordinated canvasser appreciation events.
• Conducted interviews, trained canvassers and conducted opposition research.

• Congressman Larry Kissell (NC-08)
• Compiled and analyzed constituent feedback, organizing input for future correspondence.
• Drafted form letters addressing constituent concerns.
• Attended briefings and reviewed hearings, summarized the information given and wrote memos for legislative staff.
• Attended to constituent services including flag requests and passport needs.

• Spread issue content to the public through email blasts, mailings and local forums to jump-start statewide campaign.
• Prepared daily news clips summarizing press coverage and assembled press packets for distribution.
• Compiled research from press editorials over a ten-year span highlighting the history of statewide media bias against legalized gambling.
• Collaborated with team to review and select platform speakers for local forums and town meetings.
• Maintained campaign website, providing daily updates.
• Sent out weekly newsletters to steering committee members and supporters.