Sara Case Email & Phone Number

Dublin, Ie

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Responsible for managing the central donor engagement program to benefit donors and share meaningful impact to help cultivate positive relationships for future support. Directs and provides oversight for key donor engagement and stewardship projects and programs including endowment and scholarship reporting, acknowledgements, donor recognition, impact reporting, stewardship, portfolio management, and endowed position stewardship. Oversees strategy for comprehensive student scholarship stewardship program. Partners with donor relationship managers to develop stewardship strategiesand plans for principal gift donors.

Remote

Worked remotely from the United States with the Dean and key academics to develop a strategic philanthropic plan to grow and prepare for a comprehensive campaign, identify, cultivate, solicit and secure gifts with a primary focus of $100,000 and above, and develop a comprehensive alumni engagement program for the College. I developed a prospect and alumni engagement strategy, developed comprehensive philanthropic opportunities, started an Alumni Advisory Board, and developed an annual giving strategy. Additionally, I developed and oversaw the US philanthropic strategic planning, working closely with the ANU Foundation USA Board of Trustees. I have developed a top prospect engagement strategy, developed the first strategic fundraising plan, and worked with Board members around peer-to-peer philanthropic conversations

Portland, Oregon Area

Worked with Deans of central units - OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, School of Social Work, Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative, Library, and Honors College - to help develop long-term strategies and plans to grow their unit’s philanthropic efforts. Identified, cultivated, solicited and secured new and ongoing major and planned gifts for central units, with a primary focus on gift of $100,000 and above.Additionally, oversaw the long-term strategic vision of the annual giving program for the entire university.

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for executing fundraising strategies for the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health and the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, as a joint partnership, works collaboratively with OHSU in identifying, cultivating, soliciting and securing new and ongoing major and planned gifts.Oversee the strategic planning and partnerships for broad annual giving support at PSU.

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for executing fundraising strategies for the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health and, as a joint partnership, works collaboratively with OHSU in identifying, cultivating, soliciting and securing new and ongoing major and planned gifts.

Portland, Oregon Area

Developed and executed strategic stewardship and communications initiatives to connect the impact of philanthropy at Portland State with donors. Focused on individual stewardship strategies, developing systems to ensure broad stewardship occurred and was tracked at all giving levels, and oversaw all communications from the foundations.

Portland, Oregon

Helped rebuild the stewardship program, developing a tracking system to determine how donors were being stewarded institution-wide, systematizing major individual donor stewardship processes, and overseeing all acknowledgements, reporting, and impacts received by donors.

Milwaukie, Or

Oversaw all aspects of the planning and management of the Development program including annual giving campaign and smaller annual events aimed at meeting annual goals, including cultivation of relationships with parents, alumni and friends capable of making gifts at all levels and management and oversight of volunteer committees.Increased annual giving by 85%, the highest annual support in the school’s thirty-two-year history.

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for all aspects of the planning and management of the annual giving fundraising program, building relationships with key donors and overseeing all stewardship and cultivation for prospects and donors, and managed a team of parent, grandparent, and alumni volunteers. Successful in raising over $1.4 million in annual support.Oversaw all aspects of the annual fundraising event, netting over 44% more than the year prior.

Milwaukie, Or

Helped build fundraising from the ground up, in a newly created position to grow philanthropic support for the organization. Created and implemented their first annual fundraising plan through donor recruitment, development and training of volunteers, targeted appeals, and implementation of donor database. ▪ Recruited and trained volunteers to participate in event planning, produced targeted appeals, and provided data entry support. Identified, developed, and maintained grants that funded programs and services and created and planned two major fundraising events: Raise the Roof Celebration and Auction and “What Is Home?” Student Art Contest.

Vancouver, Wa

Oversaw the implementation of the first position for development support for the organization,working with the Executive Director and Board of Trustees to design and produce effectivefundraising and development plans, managed donor relationships, implemented a fundraisingdatabase and managed all aspects of the data conversion, and produced timely metrics andreports to measure successes, and planned two major fundraising events, dramaticallyincreasing their philanthropic support to the organization.

Williamsport, Pennsylvania Area

Oversaw all areas of the annual giving fundraising program, including the development and oversight of all solicitations and stewardship for the annual giving campaign, oversight of all leadership solicitations and cultivation, management the annual fund’s national volunteer committee, created and developed their first class agent program, senior class project, leadership annual giving program, and loyal giving program. Assisted in database conversion efforts to ensure the continued growth of the annual giving program.

Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States

Worked with the Annual Fund team to raise philanthropic support for the college through regional travel to cultivate relationships with alumni and friends capable of making annual gifts. Oversaw all elements of the student calling program.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

Through the management of volunteers, planned, developed, and implemented key events. Recruited, trained, and coordinated volunteers for fundraising activities, marketing and solidifying sponsorships for all events, and overseeing all major donor identification, prospecting, and cultivation.

B.A., English

High School