Resource Development Associate
Houston, Texas, United States
Worked with the Resource Development team on a campaign to raise over $1,000,000 in unrestricted funding for East Harris County Empowerment Council. My role at the organization involved developing unrestricted funding through employer and corporate-based initiatives.- Created a case for support to communicate the needs and opportunities for various stakeholders engaged with the organization.- Developed campaign and donor stewardship collateral to maximize donations during the campaign.- Enhanced the marketing message to translate the organization’s value proposition into a social impact investment for corporations and their shareholders.- Developed a modernized fundraising strategy with projections to exceed our fundraising goal by up to 4x.- Collaborated with the RD consultant to create and finalize a pitch deck to concisely convey our offering to corporate donors.- Implemented processes to automate the site visit process and enable visitors to schedule a tour, saving the organization approximately 5 hours a week in administrative work.- Utilized Miro to create workflows visualizing processes.- Conducted zip-code-specific research on poverty and food insecurity with data retrieved from census.gov, comparing the data to Harris County and US averages to illustrate the area's inequitable socioeconomic state.- Utilized ZoomInfo to obtain corporate contacts, find company data, and support the RD consultant’s efforts in building corporate relationships.