Albuquerque-Santa Fe Metropolitan Area
Key Leadership Contributions Led foundation team that increased revenue from under $700K in FY2016 to over $10.5M in FY2017 to support food rescue innovations, disaster preparedness initiatives, advocacy, and programs targeting food insecure children, families, and seniors; Designed, secured funding for, and implemented several innovative outreach initiatives to expand services to priority populations including a collaborative initiative providing wrap-around services to system involved youth and a nationally recognized school-based mentoring program. Over 10,000 children have been served as a direct result of these initiatives; Instrumental in the planning and implementation of a statewide initiative to expand, consolidate, and standardize mentoring services resulting in an average annual growth of 20% in matches served; Aggressively pursued high dollar awards from private, local, state, and federal sources; securing over $50M in government and private funds; Secured over $6M in foundation and government funding to support girls and implement STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Math) programming with a focus on undeserved girls; Developed and conducted workshops and trainings at a local, state, and national level on a variety of topics, including program management, collaboration, child safety, strategic planning, children of prisoners, board development and fundraising; Revitalized Bowl for Kid’s Sake Campaign that had declined the previous three years. Increased revenue by 25%. Provided over 1/3 of the agency's annual budget; Recipient of the 2013 Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Robert Skip Walsh Award, given to a BBBS executive who, through excellence in his own agency work, has strengthened BBBS’ mentoring services; Selected as a 2012 Sunflower Foundation Advocacy Fellow. The fellowship provides leaders in health-related nonprofit organizations training and opportunities to become powerful advocates for Kansans.
With over 30 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, I help organizations maximize their impact. I specialize in strategic growth, fundraising, and mission-driven donor engagement, drawing on my work with national networks including Big Brothers Big Sisters, Feeding America, and Girl Scouts of the USA. My approach: crafting compelling stories that resonate with donor values, aligning mission with sustainable funding. Let’s elevate your organization’s potential and make a lasting difference. Services: Grant Development | Interim Leadership | Organizational Strategy
Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region develops meaningful, professionally supported mentoring relationships that have a positive, measurable, and lasting impact on the lives of young people in Northern and Southwestern New Mexico.
Feeding America is the Third largest charity in the U.S. and nation’s leading domestic hunger relief organization, serving 46M Americans annually. Develop strategy, manage operations, and led a team of four to generate significant investments from national, private foundations. Realized a $9.8M increase in FY17 revenue generated by the team; Work with colleagues on the impact (program), ending hunger, health, and research teams to identify and develop strategic priorities and initiatives and present to perspective foundation prospects for support. Identify, cultivate, and solicit foundation and government support for these strategic priorities and initiatives.
Girl Scouts of the USA is the leading voice for girls, serving 2.6M Girl Scouts and volunteers annually. Developed strategy, managed operations, and led a team of three to generate six and seven-figure investments from nationally focused institutional foundations and government entities. Grew foundation revenue by 200%; Worked with national Girl Scout research, program development, and membership colleagues to discover new funding opportunities to support movement-wide capacity and program priorities; Conducted external relationships to develop and grow program partnerships and funding opportunities.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is the nation’s largest volunteer-supported mentoring network, supporting 400K children and 300 affiliate organizations annually. Exceeded FY 2014 fundraising target by 33%, raising over $10.6M in federal, foundation, and corporate funds; Led all work with nationally focused private and corporate foundations for BBBS National Office.; Led stewardship of relationships with private and corporate foundations for BBBS.