Tim Stephen Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

• While serving on the Assets & Finance Subcommittee, I contributed to the A.C.E. Mayoral Transition Committee's mission to enhance Jacksonville's arts and culture scene by evaluating historically overlooked venues, identifying underutilized assets, and devising revitalization strategies.• Authored an extensive 80-page research document, crafting a comprehensive repository of financial opportunities and strategic directives that intricately aligned with the ACE Mayoral Transition Committee's overarching goals, instrumental in advancing Mayor Donna Deegan's vision for Jacksonville's cultural transformation.• Conducted an asset review for the arts sector by interviewing stakeholders, developers, city departments, artists, and venue proprietors to pinpoint areas requiring improvement, leading to the formulation of actionable items and a comprehensive financial review.

• With a fundraising total of nearly $3,000,000 and an average contribution amount of $300, this campaign operated under my steadfast principle of grassroots funding, free from any influence of mega-corporations or powerful lobbying groups. It is with great pride that I present Donna Deegan as the groundbreaking mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, who stands apart from her predecessors by solely owing her allegiance to the people.• I launched and operated our grassroots call time program. Collaborating with both the candidate and the team, I advised strategic approaches to acquire campaign finance data, build lists, and curate a weekly roster of influential contributors, assigning asks based on in-depth qualitative data. Compliance relied on my money handling and bookkeeping to provide accurate financial information for public filing. As a fundraiser manager, my events showed implementation of my creative strategies, so that every one of my events in the artistic cosmopolitan of Jacksonville was both memorable and impactful.

Research Triangle Park, Nc, Us

• The FL Dept. of Health's FLATS study seeks to better understand adults’ health and tobacco use of Florida residents. The FDOH will use this information to develop public education programs to improve the health of Florida residents.• Make in-person contact with selected respondents to discuss the study, answer questions and obtain participation, administer standardized questionnaires.• Respondents are asked questions about their demographics, as well as questions about health and tobacco, including use of tobacco products and exposure to secondhand smoke, and opinions and attitudes towards tobacco use and anti-tobacco media campaigns.

• Trained in the foremost strategies and cutting edge techniques for grassroots call time fundraising. • Worked with high-profile candidates from around the country in optimizing their current fundraising ops.

Norcross, Ga, Us

• Managed accurate data entry procedures. Collected and provided forefront statistics, including language and other self-identifications, on the fastest-growing Asian-American community in the Southeast.• Engaged Asian-American voters who were inactive in previous elections, while connecting voters who were active to encourage their community to vote in the Atlanta municipal elections.• Provided election protection at various polling locations, ensuring that language access is neither an obstacle nor a barrier for voting for any multilingual speakers.

New York, New York, Us

Narrative 4's mission is to equip our educators with the tools to illuminate empathy in students – achieving "fearless hope through radical empathy" – all through the power of the story exchange methodology. Volunteering this technology and then seeing to its engagement throughout the Southeast, is the majority of my responsibilities:• Develop targeted research, establishing a database of educational therapeutic support networks that could benefit from our empathy-building tools.• Reach out to prospective schools and educators by email and phone who are in need of SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) curriculum.• Cultivate relationships with school psychologists, directors, and instructors. Follow up with prospective partners, encouraging them to join the network.• Schedule calls with schools and educators to pitch relevant and customized Narrative 4 programs.• Assist the Regional Manager in onboarding new school partners, facilitating conferences.

• Amicably maintained the professional relationship for ProGeorgia and its client, Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda.• Provided strategical field and digital support to a data-based 501(c)3 voter contact project.• Coordinated with local non-profits to ensure election protection at every stage of the voting process.• Engaged in ballot curing and preparing voters who previously may have had difficulty casting their vote due to voter file errors.

• Immediate point of contact for VAN queries & troubleshooting.• Responsible for the majority of turf cutting, management, while maintaining point ofcontact for any turf quality control issues.• Developed and distributed VAN best practices & reference materials.• Evaluated data real-time, identifying vulnerabilities in the campaign to facilitate daily strategies.• Coordinated with field directors to schedule one-on-one VAN meetings with staff as needed.• Flagged, diagnosed, and repaired VAN errors within the team and campaign.• Provided additional support to field directors, providing targets, goal progresslogistics, and real-time turf cutting (& back-up lists) as needed. • Ensured all data was entered in properly and on time from all directors daily.• Created turf trackers and presented data models easy to understand for local & national leadership teams.

• Recruited, managed, and trained a team of volunteers in a winning campaign for Rep. Angie Nixon for FL House District 14, defeating a two-term incumbent. • Scheduled shifts for teams in contactless door knocks, phonebanks, virtual Zoom staging locations, events, and databases through Excel/Sheets.• Supervised a student fellowship digital marketing team. We designed original content for infographics, candidate profiles, and social media promotions. • Created a network of local influencers, evaluating trends to develop Nixon's social media presence on Facebook and Instagram @angieforjax.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Petitioned to see to it that Amendment 4 made it on the 2018 Florida midterm election ballot, which sought to restore voting rights to 1.2 million returning citizens.• Volunteered time to canvass and phonebank potential members of the coalition, recruiting them to join the movement with other returning citizens and their allies to fight for their rights.• Amendment 4 passed, and the work continues in 2020, as we seek out those whose rights have been restored and encourage voter engagement.

Miami, Florida, Us

• Focused on analysis of voter statistics to establish targets in disengaged areas.• Managed a team of street canvassers with the goal of registering voters and educating them on upcoming elections and ballot measures. • Broke state record: 817 voters registered in 2018, placing 3rd in Florida state.

• Responsible for the FLCC and gubernatorial campaigns in Jacksonville's highest priority target District 1, swinging the vote to a historic first Democrat gubernatorial win in the city in 20 years.• Conducted Jacksonville University campus-based GOTV events, surpassing the party's goals. • Secured a visit from Reverend Jesse Jackson as a surrogate for a rally during a GOTV event.• Established targets and demographics through VAN. Trained fellows in the software & to build demographic reports.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Cello Performance

Mental Health First Aid Certification