Tabitha Blackwell Email & Phone Number

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Manages Book Harvest’s operations and programming in Durham, with a focus on program excellence, scaling the reach and scope of existing programs in Durham, and piloting new and innovative initiatives that provide books and literacy supports to Durham’s children and families.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Specializing in Family Lifestyle, Portrait, and Personal Branding Photography

Chapel Hill, Nc

Supported local organizations helping young people (ages 5-20) develop into career and college ready citizens by distributing grant funds, providing technical assistance, and facilitating networking opportunities and collaborations.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Rockville, Md

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Develop and manage online books drives for nonprofit partners. Established relationships with partners such as Let’s Get This Foundation and United Way of Tampa Bay. Over $110,000 raised. • Created collateral for online book drives to increase visibility of campaign. Includes blog posts, Twitter posts, and templates for sponsorship letters, secondary stakeholder letters, and appeals for matching funds. • Expand relationships with warehouse partners by developing efficiencies that support First Book’s work via in-kind contributions, donations of warehouse space and staff time, and other methods.• Package book distributions to be marketed to corporate partners for financial contributions to First Book.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Established and managed partnerships with 18 warehouses to provide donated space and logistical support for the First Book National Book Bank.• Recruit new volunteer partner networks to support FBNBB distribution activities.• Train junior staff members to build and approve grant applications, allocate books, and perform other tasks essential to operations.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Coordinated and execute the distribution of over 4 million books annually to hundreds of programs nationwide. Included launching online applications, approving or declining requests and notifying applicants of their status.• Created and conducted marketing surveys on user experience.• Responsible for customer support.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed and maintained relationships with nonprofits, government agencies, community partners and corporate partners, including The Home Depot, Sprint, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Stride Rite, and Computer Associates.• Generated project reports and documentation of best practices. • Led multiple projects at a time in various communities. • Trained Project Managers and Project Manager Associates.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Coordinated and executed 32 community playground builds and 2 community athletic field builds in the United States and Canada. • Managed budgets for community build projects up to $100,000.• Organized up to 500 volunteers in a one day construction project.• Conduct research for the organization in the areas of safe and healthy play, playground design & construction, community building, child development and other related topics.