Stephen Danner Email & Phone Number

Nonprofit executive with more than two decades of experience and a broad background in both the private and non-profit sectors. Proven track record in developing and maintaining high-quality relationships within major funders, managing teams and volunteers, developing and implementing strategic initiatives for non profits. Expertise includes communications planning, Nonprofit Organizations, Event Planning, Fundraising, Volunteer Management. Strengths include building strong partnerships, developing high performing teams and leading change at all levels of an organization. Passionate about helping people find the most appropriate pathway to reaching their personal goalsThroughout my career, I have formed, developed, and grown non-profit organizations and programs working at the intersection of media, communications, activism, and education to drive impact on progressive social issues. Motivated by directing institutional and individual philanthropic interests toward the climate crisis, I now build teams and design and implement fundraising strategies for highly effective, global climate advocacy organizations. Prior to joining The Sunrise Project, I built a development department from the ground up at Stand.earth and successfully tripled the size of the organization from a team of 24 with $3M annual operating budget to team of 75 and witj $15M operating budget. I was formerly a programmer and development director for Frameline, the world’s first and largest LGBT media arts organization, most well known for producing the world’s largest LGBT Film Festival. I also organized the non-profit start-up, The Odyssey: World Treks for Service Education, an interactive, educational platform designed to supplement traditional world history and US history curriculums. As a member of the US Trek Team, I traversed more than 300,000 miles of capturing untold, or unrecognized stories of US history for more than 100,000 K-12 students. I began my career organizing for labor rights with the AFL-CIO, where I advocated for political refugees via PARC (Parking Attendants Rights Committee) and hotel employees via SEIU (Service Employees International Union), among others. It was at the AFL-CIO where I witnessed first hand that grassroots solidarity is one of the most powerful tools we have to create conditions for large-scale change. .

Listed skills include Nonprofit Organizations, Fundraising, Event Planning, Grant Writing, and 2 others.

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  New College Of Florida

  Latin American Studies / Literature