Tom Block Email & Phone Number

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

• Serve as a member of the FSU Foundation’s senior leadership team.
• Analyze implications of proposed initiatives and collaborate with and inform other Foundation departments, colleges and units.
• Work together with other Direct Support Organizations of the University, including the FSU Alumni Association, Seminole Boosters, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and the FSU Real Estate Foundation to coordinate.
• Provide direction and administrative oversight to the Office of Advancement Relations (OAR), which includes the departments of Communications, Donor Relations and Stewardship, Board Relations and Special Events.
• Provide leadership for these individual departments within OAR as they develop short- and long-range goals as well as yearly work plans and budgets.
• Serve as the lead architect of communication strategies, meaningful donor stewardship programs and strategic prospecting and donor recognition events with the goal of advancing and supporting the FSU Foundation’s.

• Report directly to the VP for University Advancement, helping direct the day-to-day efforts of FSU’s billion-dollar campaign, the largest in university history.
• Oversee internal and external campaign communications, and supervise campaign marketing, promotions, publications, and advertising efforts.
• Organize monthly principal gift meetings, bringing together key fundraising staff to discuss and strategize regarding the university’s top donors and prospects with interests across the university.
• Coordinate internal staff communications among FSU Advancement DSOs, organizing staff meetings, retreats, training sessions, and other events.
• Manage half million to million dollar plus budget.
• Lead key volunteer constituencies internally and externally, including the Faculty/Staff Campaign Committee (staff focused) and the National Campaign Committee (donor focused)

• Directed FSU’S worldwide network of more than 80 Seminole Clubs and Chapters.
• Led a five-year initiative to transform club structure to refine mission, improve engagement efforts, foster greater participation, revise reporting and tax structure, enhance risk management policies, and create.
• Affected significant change in the Seminole Club revenue model and university fundraising opportunities related to Seminole Clubs by removing clubs’ ability to charge local dues.
• Managed two budget lines, two full-time staff, and a volunteer network of 300 leaders.
• Regularly presented at FSU Alumni Association National Board of Directors meetings, and on occasion before the FSU Foundation and Seminole Booster boards.
• Collaborated with Programs Department to engage FSU’s 300,000+ alumni through various efforts and core programs including Homecoming festivities, legacy scholarships, reunions, Emeritus luncheons, and other social and.

• Created, packaged, and hosted the daily FSU Headlines radio show which highlights FSU’s talented faculty and students and their stellar achievements. Also produced the FSU Headlines television show, which aired.
• Interacted with and interviewed countless prominent administrators, faculty, and students on a regular basis, including the university President, Provost, VP’s, Deans, Department chairs, and esteemed professors and.
• Directed special projects such as recruitment and training videos for departments, schools, and colleges on campus, including the College of Business and College of Human Sciences.
• Traveled internationally to FSU’s year-round campuses in London, Florence, and Valencia and produced, developed, and hosted several videos and features to highlight the university’s International Programs and celebrate.
• Commissioned a work group among University Communications and Athletics Department staff, including respective Directors Frank Murphy and Dave Hart, which met monthly to strategize on how to best generate positive news.
• Instituted a satellite feed for television stations around the country to receive and disseminate news and sports features highlighting positive stories about FSU, specifically its student-athletes.

• Serve as pre-game host, sideline reporter, and post-game locker room reporter for FSU football radio broadcasts on the Seminole Sports Network from Learfield Hosted the Willie Taggart and Jimbo Fisher shows.
• Host “Front Row Noles” a weekly talk show and podcast focused on Florida State Athletics.
• Served as host, play-by-play announcer, color-commentator, and/or sideline announcer for ACC Network Extra, WatchESPN, Sunshine Network/Sun Sports, Fox Sports Net/Fox Sports Florida, Comcast, and other networks, in a.
• Former radio play-by-play announcer for the Florida State Seminole baseball team. Called play-by-play on 40-45 games per year for 7 seasons as FSU won 7 ACC Atlantic Division crowns, appeared in 6 Super Regionals, and.
• Co-hosted a nightly one-hour sports news show that aired in nearly 6 million cable homes via Sun Sports, a regional sports network majority owned by Fox. Responsibilities included writing and anchoring show, plus.
• Served as main sports anchor for statewide cable news station, Florida’s News Channel. Anchored multiple daily sportscasts for the nation’s first all-digital news network.