Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
After years of working for others I now focus on meaningful projects that inspire me.
Focusing on self-directed projects that allow space for creativity, heart and depth.
Paoli Hospital Foundation is the fundraising organization for Paoli Hospital. It exists to provide financial support to help the hospital provide highly skilled, compassionate care and community health programs, all essential for a vibrant community. In my role as Development Representative, I manage a variety of day-to-day fundraising responsibilities. Such tasks include but are not limited to: tracking and reporting on activity with organizations and donors; stewardship, appeal and grant writing; graphic design; overseeing special event planning, logistics and implementation; research and database management; and serving as contributing writer and editorial support for Partners, Paoli’s semi-annual development magazine. For two years I also headed the Employee Giving Campaign, collaborating with the Development team and Employee Giving Committee to reach campaign goals.
As a freelance writer, I provided web content and social media management services to small businesses, assisted an independent clothing business with online and social media marketing strategy and planning and conducted interviews and wrote articles on topics of restaurants, parenting and non-profits for web and print publication for Philadelphia Family and Main Line Parent.
The Baldwin School is an independent, all‐girls college preparatory school for pre‐kindergarten through grade 12 students. The school was founded in 1888 by Florence Baldwin under the traditions of academic excellence, integrity and community. In my role as Marketing and Communications Coordinator, I collaborated with the Head of School, Marketing and Communications, Development and Admissions to develop and edit a wide variety of advertising and marketing collateral, digital content, executive speeches, solicitations, and a range of high-level correspondence for all School audiences. I also served as the primary ghostwriter for the Head of School and Board of Trustees Chair and provided leading editing, style and content expertise, helping to ensure communications were consistent and of the highest quality.
As Marketing and Communications Assistant, I collaborated with Head of School, Marketing and Communications, Development and Admissions to develop and edit a wide variety of informational messaging, advertising and marketing collateral, executive speeches/remarks, solicitations, funding proposals, and a range of high-level correspondence. I also successfully incorporated all editorial changes and suggestions from copy reviewers and served as traffic manager for Marketing and Communications -- managing timelines, reviews and approvals on critical projects of the School’s in-house creative agency.