Development and fundraising professional with 23 years experience seeks project development, fundraising, project management position or consulting work.
Specialize in creative partnerships between funders (private, governmental) to develop and manage humanitarian, development, or conservation programs and projects.
Travel in Latin America and world-wide is desired. |
 Contact David King
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Area of Expertise: |
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Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural
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Environment, Climate, Energy, Water, Sanitation
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Fundraising, Business Development, Grants Writer
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Human Rights, Law, Migration, Conflicts, Justice
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Private Sector, Social Enterprise, Corporate Social Responsibility
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Professional Experience: |
Major Giving
• Working with high-net-worth individuals to secure major gifts.
• Prospect research, evaluation of giving potential, marketing & solicitation materials, setting individual strategies, one-on-one meetings, making requests, securing pledges & gifts.
Corporate Philanthropy & Sponsorship; Foundation Grants
• Work with the staff and board members of major corporations (Dominion, Owens & Minor, SunTrust, BB&T, Wachovia Wells Fargo, Landmark Communications, others) to secure philanthropic support.
• Co-developed sponsorship marketing campaign that secured major naming-rights sponsorships from Virginia Farm Bureau, Southern States Cooperative, and Union First Market Bank.
• Grant-seeking and grant management from major national foundations (Kresge Foundation, Ford Foundation, Public Welfare Foundation) to regional and local foundations.
Departmental Planning and Management
• Manage fundraising campaigns with collective goals of over $74 million, utilizing all fundraising strategies and operations.
• Design and lead pre-campaign feasibility/planning studies for a YMCA, a botanical garden, a performing-arts center, a Girl Scouts council, and an equine museum.
• Manage staff including hiring, establishing job duties, weekly goal-setting and –achieving, performance reviews and incentive review.
Executive Team & Board Relations
• Participation on executive team to oversee operations, strategic planning, financial management.
• Key role in SFVA’s organizational budgeting process for department and organization-wide return on investment (ROI) reviews.
• Executive-team strategic and marketing work including organizational branding consultancy (led by ad agency, Siddall Inc.), naming-rights sponsorship consultancy (Sponsorship Resources), media training, and strategic-planning teams.
• Board management and reporting, including managing development committee, capital campaign leadership; extensive experience reporting to boards on fundraising planning and progress.
Philanthropy Marketing
• Identifying, screening, and hiring of outside philanthropy consultants and marketing consultants to assist with campaign planning, campaign plan development, and fundraising program assessments.
• Overseeing of use of direct-mail fundraising marketing consultants to conduct mail appeals.
• Development of donor incentives, recognition, and stewardship practices.
• Producing annual reports, case statements and brochures, PowerPoint presentations, campaign videos, newsletters, and web-site content.
International Workplace Skills, Cross-Cultural Communication
• In China: negotiated teaching policies, work responsibilities, and teaching methods between American and Chinese teachers and the administration of a major agricultural university.
• In Hyderabad, India and Ibadan, Nigeria: worked under USAID development contracts; negotiated collaborative writing assignment that led to a published training manual.
• With refug
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Education: |
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Masters in English Linguistics; Bachelors in English and American Literature; Fundarising Seminars; Language Study: Chinese, Greek, Spanish
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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Years of Experience:
More than 20 years |
Highest Qualification:
Masters |
Languages:
English, Spanish, Chinese, German, Greek |
Nationality:
United States
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