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I believe in the power of communities. My passion is guiding organizations to be more effective in their efforts to provide essential services while building community. My expertise is in program operations leadership, supporting the scale of social service models through partnership development and replication, and multi-organization collaboration. With 20 years of experience in nonprofit management and fundraising, I understand the needs and challenges of locally-rooted organizations that think big. My strength is developing and implementing a road map that communicates mission and vision, increases funding, and improves processes and structures. Over the past 8+ years, I have developed leadership expertise in the somewhat niche but critical area of helping nonprofit collaborate and scale impact. I thrive on the front lines of partnership development/relationship management and also behind the scenes in creating, defining, and disseminating operational principles and structures. In addition to my career experience, I am personally interested in community development, ending homelessness and creating structures that enable people to thrive in community with others. My experiences with Jesuit Volunteer Corps, L'Arche, Recovery Cafe, and Feeding Washington have taught me the transformative power of intentional community building. If you would like to discuss how we could work together, please message me.
Feeding Washington
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Executive DirectorFeeding Washington Feb 2021 - PresentGreater Seattle AreaI lead the statewide association of Feeding America food banks. Our members, Food Lifeline, based in Seattle and serving Western Washington, and Second Harvest, based in Spokane and serving Eastern Washington, serve over 1,000,000 fellow Washingtonians by distributing over 100,000,000 pounds of food to 575 organizations throughout the state every year.My focus has been launching the Boundless Collaboration - an initiative bringing together my members and their network of Regional Distribution Organizations (often distributing food to agencies within a county) to focus on how we can source food more effectively statewide and distribute it more efficiently to agencies and people facing hunger. Early focus has been on getting more fresh produce to the regional distribution organizations directly to distribute to agencies, rescuing more food that would otherwise go to waste, accessing Medicaid funding through the Food is Medicine framework, and increasing the capacity to extend the life of produce by processing it into products with a longer shelf life.Advocacy is also a big part of my work. Alongside strong coalition partners in our state, we have increased funding for hunger relief organizations across our state, encouraged programs that increase food donations, and pressed for policies that get at the root causes of hunger.
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Recovery Café Network DirectorRecovery Café Network Jun 2016 - Jan 2021Greater Seattle AreaI led Recovery Café Network's (RCN) efforts to support groups replicating the Recovery Café model in their communities across the United States. During my time as Director, RCN grew from its original location in Seattle to 23 cities in 10 states, one Canadian province, and the District of Columbia serving thousands of individuals a year recovering from addition, other mental health challenges and/or homelessness.Establishing RCN was hard work, required creative thinking, and most importantly was a lot of fun! My focus was providing technical assistance around the areas of fundraising, strategic planning, staffing, etc.; improving recruiting and evaluating new organizations across the country; and our delivery of trainings and ongoing capacity building. I developed and maintained network-wide process standards, helped build a database to track the progress of RCN member organizations, and grew our cross-functional RCN team to nine staff members. -
Director Of Resource DevelopmentRecovery Cafe Mar 2013 - Sep 2016Greater Seattle AreaFocusing on building the community's buy-in of Recovery Cafe's mission, I raised over $2.5 million from four fundraising breakfasts, secured over $1.5 million in grants including Recovery Cafe's first federal grant, and implemented new funding avenues around faith communities, corporations and Seattle's GiveBIG Day.I also led Recovery Cafe's team to redesign the website, launched the Young Professional board to engage young adults in our programming, and expanded communications strategy to include a more active social media presence.
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Resource Raising ManagerRecovery Cafe Aug 2012 - Mar 2013Greater Seattle AreaI was Recovery Cafe's first full time fundraiser. In my first year, I raised close to half a million dollars at our fundraising breakfast, revived our external communications strategy, and began implementing our major donors "moves management" fundraising approach.
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Director Of Constituent RelationsZero - The Project To End Prostate Cancer Dec 2011 - Jul 2012Washington D.C. Metro AreaZERO is a prostate cancer advocacy organization. In this role, I created a program to empower volunteer Regional Coordinators to become exceptional advocates in their community, spearheaded an organization-wide social media strategy across multiple platforms, and designed in-person and online training for advocates and community partners. -
Development OfficerZero - The Project To End Prostate Cancer Aug 2009 - Jan 2012Washington, DcI engaged in various fundraising strategies. This included working with local partners to raise over $500,000 for local programming in 2011, launching a direct mail program, expanding online giving and peer to peer fundraising to over $200,000, and securing new corporate sponsorships totaling over $200,000.
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Development And Outreach ManagerL'Arche Greater Washington, Dc Jul 2007 - Aug 2009L'Arche is a community of individuals living together with and without developmental disabilities. In my first fundraising role, I came to lead six-person team that implemented a new event-based fundraising program raising $600,000. I raised over $100,000 in grants, overhauled the website and launched an e-newsletter, among other fun accomplishments.
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Client Advocate - Jesuit Volunteer CorpsHarry Tompson Center Aug 2006 - Aug 2007Ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, I was part of the team that reestablished the Harry Tompson Center as a day center for the homeless, providing visitors with essentials items and daily lunch. I aided returning neighborhood residents in rebuilding homes with financial aid and food.
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Social Justice Minister - Jesuit Volunteer CorpsUniversity Of Detroit Mercy Aug 2005 - Aug 2006University Ministry provided a place for both spirituality and service. In my role, I led two service trips to Katrina affected Biloxi, Mississippi, spiritual retreat for students, and organized peace vigil trip from Detroit Columbus, Georgia.
David U. Education Details
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David U. attended Gonzaga University, American University, Seattle University.
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