Dean Thompson Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

PMA empowers mission-driven leaders to accelerate their nonprofit careers by offering targeted support in three vital areas: strategic planning, fund development, and talent management. With our engaging content, personalized coaching, and expert guidance, we help you gain the essential skills to grow, build sustainable organizations, and create a lasting impact in the communities you serve.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

At Communities In Schools, our primary goal is to ensure that all students have equitable school experiences, educational opportunities and the chance to achieve success, regardless of family income or the neighborhood in which they live. In my role, I have the honor of leading the fundraising, marketing and community engagement efforts for the 100+ person agency. Our Advancement team has successfully exceeded our revenue goals each year since my joining the organization in 2020. I work closely with our Board of Directors leadership and individual, corporate, and foundation donors to ensure that the students and families we serve have the resources and supports needed for success.

The Lee Institute serves people and organizations through leadership development programming, process design, facilitation, project management and community engagement. Unfortunately, all Directors were furloughed as the result of the pandemic and loss of business by The Lee Institute.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Project LIfe Movement is a nonprofit dedicated to building the pool of prospective bone marrow donors on college campuses across the nation. I had the privilege of leading the board, staff and volunteer team committed to growing the registry with young, healthy, diverse prospective donors. I was responsibe for all strategic visioning, fundraising, marketing, and performance outcomes. My work involved developing corporate and collegiate partnerships to engage volunteers in philanthropy while building the organization's brand.

Cultivated and solicited leadership-level gifts ($10,000 plus) from individuals, corporations and foundations throughout a 47-county area. Partnered with corporate leaders to develop creative partnerships and engagement programs that met the corporations' strategic goals while also advancing the Red Cross' mission. Consistently achieved well over 100% of annual fundraising and partnership goals.

Recruited as Commuications Director for one organization, quickly promoted to Director of Development and Communications for both nonprofits. Developed marketing initiatives and community partnerships to enhance brand awareness and fundraising support. Served as a face of the two organizations in the community, connecting with donors and prospects to grow awareness and financial resources. Spearheaded all aspects of marketing and fundraising; activities included brand management, grant writing, community outreach and public relations.

Startup consumer goods company owned by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and SSC; ceased operations in December 2008 due to economic climate. Recruited by company to create its sales and marketing platform. Defined the brand's unique value proposition within the competitive bedding consumer goods category. Responsible for development of all marketing disciplines: branding, advertising, creative, public relations, sales training. Wrote, designed and/or produced content for magazine, newspaper, direct mail, collateral, interactive, point-of-sale and in-store fixtures. Established public relations strategy with consumer and trade media, served as corporate spokesperson. Created website, performed search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) strategies. Designed brand training program and conducted sales training for key accounts.

Directed corporate marketing program for company's multiple retail divisions throughout southeast: Thomasville, Drexel Heritage, Boyles, Norris, Classic. Built the company's public relations platform by transforming limited publicity opportunities into large-scale, national exposure (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Dr. Phil Show, NBC's Today Show, New York Times, USA Today). Served as national spokesperson, wrote releases, led all media relations. Created retail marketing programs to grow market share among the following segments: customer loyalty, new homeowner, interior design, and real estate developers. Wrote and produced content for web, broadcast, radio, video, print, training and point-of-sale materials. Designed and presented consumer seminars to build retail design business. Created positioning strategy and directed sales of company's private label brand. Developed additional revenue channel by selling design services to luxury-market developers.

Led marketing, public relations, licensed brands, sales and training programs for high-end furniture manufacturer:Marketing: Wrote, designed and/or produced content for web, collateral, corporate magazine, point-of-sale, print and broadcast. Created and conducted consumer seminars throughout US for key accounts. Spearheaded public relations efforts, wrote product, consumer, corporate releases. Produced quarterly newsletter for retail partners.Licensed Brand Management: Directed marketing initiatives for the Jack Nicklaus, Pinehurst and Lillian August licensed brands.Sales and Training: Spearheaded corporate training program. Sold to national direct mail accounts (Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sharper Image), tripled account base in 18 months. Sold to top-100 national account during 1999, exceeded sales budget. Designed sales training tools: manuals, kiosks, brochures. Conducted multiple-day training forums for sales professionals and corporate personnel from across the nation.

Marketed real estate and life-care programs for nonprofit retirement communities.

Sold fabrics in the Dallas, TX market, significantly growing distribution channels

Sales representative responsible for five-state territory, increased account base from 2 to 10 customers in 24 months

Directed consumer marketing program and direct mail campaigns

Ba, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism Honor Society, graduate top 10% of Journalism School Kappa Delta sorority The Daily.

Interior Design, Design

3.9 GPA