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• As its first full-time employee, developed and managed the campaign compliance department of a rapidly growing legal and compliance startup dedicated to serving Democratic and progressive political campaigns, state parties, PACs, and nonprofit organizations. • Worked directly with campaign finance teams to design and implement finance plans. Guaranteed accurate, timely, and thorough recording of all contribution and expenditure data with proper source coding and assisted campaigns in raising over $11.7 million. This client portfolio included several statewide campaigns and the Ohio Democratic Party. • Executed payroll and accounts payable for all client campaigns and organizations. • Prepared campaign finance reports for campaigns to report activity to all relevant reporting agencies. Created an organizational reporting calendar for all clients served by the firm to ensure on-time filings throughout the year. In 2022, this calendar included over 100 scheduled reports. • Recruited, hired, trained, and managed compliance assistants. Provided timely feedback and conducted semi-annual performance reviews for all employees within the compliance department.
• Managed the daily operations of a statewide campaign of a first-time candidate for elected office. Our campaign was one of only three campaigns to win any of Wisconsin’s counties in a crowded primary field of seven candidates. • Performed outreach to each of Wisconsin’s Democratic county parties, visited each of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Educational Service Agencies, discussed the campaign's vision for public education with potential industry partners, and met with labor leaders including the electricians, the pipe trades, and several educators’ associations. • Acquired and managed a team of consultants and vendors by performing initial interviews, negotiating work agreements, and drafting and approving messaging, targeting, and creative. • Developed and executed a fundraising plan from the ground-up including list acquisition, donor research, staffing candidate call time, direct mail and email solicitation, and guiding friends and colleagues of the candidate to bundle contributions from their own networks. This plan successfully cultivated contributions from over 200 donors. • Managed a comprehensive earned communications plan including a letter to the editor program, rapid response material, facilitating press conferences, and organizing interviews for the candidate with statewide and local media.
• Lead a finance team of ten staff, interns, and consultants from multiple locations which raised over $2 million from over 8,700 contributions from over 4,500 donors. • Created a small-dollar donor program resulting in the campaign’s best small-dollar fundraising year in a decade. Compared to that previous-best year, this program more than doubled the money raised and tripled the number of donations and donors. • Organized virtual fundraisers which on average raised $15,000, maintained relationships with individual and PAC donors contributing to the average donor donating more than once, and managed the campaign’s digital fundraising program which raised over $250,000. • Oversaw special projects including creating a program to collect nomination signatures for ballot access at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program collected more than six times the number of signatures required.
• Managed the operations of a red-to-blue Virginia House of Delegates campaign, including finance, communications, and field plans. • Developed and implemented a finance plan, including donor research and list development to prepare and manage call time, in-person events, direct mail solicitation, and creative email fundraising. In the first month, these programs more than doubled the total amount raised by the campaign. • Managed earned and paid communications plans including press releases, a letter to the editor program, paid digital, and paid mail programs.