Tara Parrish Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Revitalize clients’ communications strategies to promote their mission and vision, to reach organizational goals and to establish lasting partnerships with their volunteers, communities, constituents and stakeholders.Key clients: Target Corporation · Kwanzaa Community Church · Urban Homeworks · Thrivent Financial · Kaleo Center for Faith, Justice and Social Transformation · Minnesota Council of Churches · Spirit and Truth Publishing · Ameriprise Financial · Neka Creative · Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

COMMUNICATIONS AND DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGERNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | St. Paul, MN 2017-Present· Creates original content that captures attention, imagination and inspires financial support of the organization.· Promotes organization through multimedia channels, including photography, social media, video and website.· Writes and edits engaging content for website, blog, print, e-news, social media and solicitations.· Integrates content across mediums to create a powerful, unified brand presence.

New Brighton, Minnesota

• Envisioned and executed a comprehensive marketing plan to attract and encourage seekers of theological education. Innovative tactics resulted in discovering new marketing for reaching prospective students. • Organized successful information sessions between education seekers with seminary professors, staff, current students and alumni. Format allowed participants to highlight their roles and work at the seminary from their perspective and expertise and seeker so receive a personalized recruitment experience. • Identified and partnered with church leaders, education committees, non-profit leaders and university officers to introduce seminary’s offerings. Efforts resulted in improving community relations and establishing solid business relationships.• Intentionally established relationships to communities of color to enroll new students into the Master of Arts and Master of Divinity programs. Increased student of color enrollment by 30% within first six months of employment.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led efforts to promote diversity as one of Target’s key corporate initiatives. Managed and developed internal diversity messaging by creating editorial calendars, writing creative articles and restructuring content for use in numerous internal vehicles, ensuring wide exposure to Target’s 350,000 team members. • Collaborated with department leadership to incorporate results-oriented diversity goals into their quarterly and annual goal planning, thereby, “bringing diversity to life.” • Served as an integral member of the team who executed and launch of the award-winning Diversity Toolkit; digital programming to assist HR representatives in describing diversity initiatives by department, culture and geographic location. Training tool increased confidence in team in recruiting process and highlighted Target’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.• Crafted speeches for Director of Diversity highlighting corporate diversity integration and the promotion of the Target brand. Elevated profile of department through booking speaking engagements within Target and the business community.