Steve Schultz Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Serving as Friends’ principal liaison to elected and other government officials at all levels working to develop and implement a legislative strategy that furthers Friends’ mission and building grassroots action and developing relationships to advance Friends’ legislative and policy work, and staying knowledgeable about relevant existing and proposed legislation and regulatory or executive actions.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Convening and facilitating conversations among diverse stakeholders to address environmental, economic, and public health issues. Managing on-the-ground projects to improve our air, land, and water. Planning and hosting events for leaders from nonprofits, communities, business, and government agencies to share information, network, and learn from one another. Building relationships, collaboration, and working across differences to foster an inclusive, just, and thriving world.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Successful coordination of CWA’s legislative and water program with coalitions, partners, and supporters to reach our program goals for clean water in Minnesota. Leader in public policy, advocacy, lobbying, grassroots organizing, communications, and developing relationships with federal, state, and local leaders. Extensive experience:● Improving water quality in Minnesota by leading more than 50 people to Washington D.C. annually to meet with U.S. Senators and Representatives about clean water and the Great Lakes.● Successfully coordinating all state communications for Minnesota Clean Water Action with partners and national organization, including website content, fundraising, member communications, and social media. ● Educating and engaging thousands of clean water supporters by conducting hundreds of public presentations about climate change, water infrastructure, agriculture pollution, lead in drinking water, protecting lakes and rivers, as well as how to get engaged in public policy and elections. Recent podcast: https://anchor.fm/clean-water-action/episodes/Agriculture--Water--Health

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead and direct project teams to develop strategies and execute tactics for online and offline grassroots engagement and communications. Manage multiple projects on a day-to-day basis including: writing grassroots engagement and legislative campaign plans, directing and managing electoral campaigns, developing issue and program recommendations and evaluations, capacity assessments, and drafting training curricula. Other skills and project management experience:● Engaging and consensus building facilitation style covering topics like: advising executives on developing and executing strategic plans, grassroots planning and strategy, evaluations and recommendations, and goal-setting discussions to evaluate and measure success.● Motivating and fair supervisory style. Successfully supervised and evaluated multiple project directors concurrently and hundreds of community outreach staff. ● Directed all logistics for projects including developing and implementing systems for human resources, employee evaluation and accountability, and payroll. Extensive experience with customer relationship management systems like Salesforce, Mailchimp, thedatabank, Salsa, VAN, and others.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Developed a new grassroots membership fundraising program utilizing multiple layered communications strategy maximizing the use of online tools, postal mail, telephone fundraising, as well as in person meetings with members to increase their affinity with and investment in Move Minnesota. Led research and development of relationships with funders. Wrote proposals and reports to corporate, private, and public foundations. Successfully led project teams to draft engaging and informative community outreach and fundraising materials. Highlights include:● Helping to make Move Minnesota more effective and successful by increasing gross revenues by over 400% and improved net revenue from -10% to +25%. Building organizational power by recruiting five times the number of annual donors in less two years.● Increasing major donor program gross revenue by 1000% per year for 3 years, raising over $50,000 annually from individuals.