Strategy * Content Development * Storytelling
Non-profit Board Service
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History & Culture
During my service on the Angels Camp Museum Foundation Board, where I am currently serving as Secretary, I have led the successful transition of the foundation to a digital presence. This has included re-establishing a website, transitioning the quarterly newsletter to digital and expanding the reach, crafting a strategic plan with roles and responsibilities, a grant writing team, and a communications strategy to inform and engage all stakeholders from city council and other municipal decision-makers to valued donors. A digital fundraising strategy was initiated alongside a federal grant writing effort in support of cataloging the extensive gold rush-era collection of the Angels Camp Museum. As we continue to build the board, more capabilities will be available for growth.
Housing & Food Insecurity
While Sierra Hope serves an entirely different audience, my work with this non-profit has a similar focus. Their last newsletter had been in 2017 and was paper-based. We transitioned the outdated and soon to be unsupported fundraising software platform to Flipcause and brought our existing fundraising campaigns online. We relaunched a quarterly newsletter with a newly digital approach and database, expanded our audience and have consistently increased our donor engagement. When we ran into challenges with funding for our food pantry that many in our community count on, we launched our Heroes fighting Hunger campaign which is now in its second successful year.
PUBLIC SECTOR EXPERIENCE & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Served for six years as volunteer Disaster Coordinator for San Mateo, California office of the Red Cross, assisting victims affected by fire and other disasters, participated in SFO Disaster Simulations and collaborated on Bay Area-wide strategic preparation projects with Oakland Red Cross headquarters and other Red Cross offices in the surrounding SF Bay Area.
Appointed by the City Manager to represent East Cambridge, served four years on the Cambridge, MA Police Review & Advisory board improving relations between law enforcement and the community. Pitched and was awarded the honor of having Cambridge be the host city for the International Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement over 4 other countries.
Eight years public sector experience providing marketing support and community outreach with NGOs in the fields of Education, Employment & Training, as well as the non-profit fiscal agent supporting the Harvard Medical School Dept. of Psychiatry and their Mental Health & Substance abuse programs in the Metro North Region of Boston. This included working with local, state, and federal agencies with legislative education.
Participated in two demonstration grants (Employment & Training and School to Work) with the Employment & Training effort adopted as a standard.
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