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Sewickley, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Oversee fundraising for student affairs including athletics and manage a team of three gift officers and one administrative position.Achieved significant growth overall growth in donors and dollars in athletics over the past five years. Increased average donors from 600 to over 1500, representing 250% growth over 5 years andincreased average dollars raised from approximately $500K to $1.9M.Collaborate with Executive Director of Annual Giving to develop yearly annual giving strategy for athletics, health and wellness, and student affairs.Led multiple successful giving days. From FY23 to FY24, we increased challenge gifts from $2,500 for each sport to $10,000 for each sport. This is a dollar increase of over $100,000.Developed successful event strategy that has engaged over 1500 alumni, parents, and friends in Carnegie Mellon athletics. These events have resulted in identification of new prospects and over $1M of closed gifts.Partner with a diverse group of campus leadership including the Dean of Student Affairs, the Dean of Academic Affairs, the Associate Vice President of Student Affairs and serve as their Advancement liaison.Develop, maintain and cultivate one active advisory board including the current rebuilding effort underway with the Tartan Athletic Club Board.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Maintain a $36M pipeline of 150 key donors and prospects living and working in the Northeastern United States, with emphasis on New York City.Cultivate and solicit gifts of $100,000.00 and above from individual alumni of the business school, as well as documenting estate plans and soliciting annual fund gifts. Develop complex fundraising strategy for individual donors in collaboration with Associate Dean of Advancement and Dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler.Provide fundraising assistance and strategy to UNC Kenan-Flagler professors and staff with individual projects and funding goals.Conceptualize and host alumni events for top prospects at the homes and offices of our most prestigious donors.Provide department representation on various hiring committees across the school and additional units on campus.Collaborate with major gifts officers across campus and communicate the funding needs of the business school.

Secured six-figure annual grant commitments from multiple corporate, foundation and government partners.Author and grant administrator for cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Worked with several Fortune 500 companies in the pharmaceutical and consumer products industry such as GlaxoSmithKline, sanofi, PepsiCo., Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart.Provided leadership over all Development Department activities and staff including, but not limited to: written and verbal reports to the Board of Directors at Board meetings, weekly progress meetings with the President, staff PTO approvals, new employee training, variance reports, annual budgeting process, standard operating procedures, supervision of all related mail/electronic materials and approval of all corporate and foundation proposals.Managed and conducted new funder prospecting, including: research, analyze fit with Women In Government’s policy priorities, set up introductory meetings the President & Executive Director and the funder of interest, and write proposals.Met with prospective funders, track progress of funding relationships and maintained an outcomes database in conjunction with the Policy Department.Directed Business Council program, including the organization and facilitation of Business Council Meetings, stewardship of Business Council Sponsors and building diversity of Business Council membership.Engaged in organization’s strategic planning with President & Executive Director, Board of Directors and other organization staff.Partnered with the President & Executive Director to determine long term key issues for fundraising, ensure that funder interest matches and supports Women In Government’s mission.

• Responsible for all summer associate and lateral associate hiring, intake, separation, and benefits administration.• Primary contact for all firm business meetings and social events, including site selection, vendor contract negotiation, onsite logistics, and post event follow up• Plan, implement, and debrief all aspects of 12 week-long Summer Associate Program• Organize all in house and on-campus recruiting efforts • Maintain business development files and Washington DC recruiting webpage• Coordinate all on-going lateral associate recruitment and orientation• Develop and implement multiple databases for recruitment program management

• Coordinated all aspects of member’s D.C. schedule including constituent meetings, congressional hearings, and floor schedule• Handled all environmental, housing, arts, and animal rights legislative work for the Congressman• Drafted and distributed Congressman’s personal correspondence; maintained contacts database; assisted with arranging Member’s travel; constructed detailed itineraries and scheduled Member’s appointments; greeted visitors• Maintained constituent services for D.C. office• Processed all incoming flag and tour requests

• Planned, wrote, implemented and evaluated all aspects of direct mail program for Washington College of Law• Managed Graduating Class Gift Campaign • Collaborated with Central Development staff at American University to contact WCL alumni via student phonathon program• Developed acknowledgements of Annual Fund gifts • Conducted alumni outreach via personal solicitation and volunteer management

• Prepared comprehensive legislative, new business, and daily news research• Attended congressional hearings and press events• Coordinated appointments and made deliveries to Capitol Hill• Provided one-on-one assistance to firm lobbyists

• Trained and supervised approximately 30 Phonathon callers• Assisted in the preparation of correspondence to donators and other alumni• Promoted by Annual Giving staff from caller to manager

• Planned and organized events for the NAM Award for Manufacturing Legislative Excellence• Staffed Issue Briefing Breakfasts and other media events• Organized and participated in Congressional Insight (program to teach about day-to-day responsibilities of legislators)• Drafted member correspondence

Masters Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Arts, International Business And Management