Bobbi Zaunbrecher
Director Of External Relations at LSU Law- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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LSU Law
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director Of External Relations
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Jul 2022 - Present
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LSU Law
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United States
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Legal Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Development Officer
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Jul 2015 - Jul 2022
Responsible to engage, qualify and cultivate individual major gift prospects. Train and mentor new/junior staff in major gift work, annual fund, leadership annual giving and alumni relations events and activities. Prepare competitive proposals for foundation grants and Board of Regents match. Develop and pursue strategies in support of team revenue targets. Responsible to engage, qualify and cultivate individual major gift prospects. Train and mentor new/junior staff in major gift work, annual fund, leadership annual giving and alumni relations events and activities. Prepare competitive proposals for foundation grants and Board of Regents match. Develop and pursue strategies in support of team revenue targets.
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American Red Cross
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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CEO, Baton Rouge Region
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Oct 2009 - Jun 2015
Regional Executive for a 35-parish area. Supervised service delivery, operations, public affairs, government relations and fund development functions. Over my six-year tenure, the Red Cross consolidated and re-engineered annually. Subsequent assignments included Chief Operating Officer for two regions and Chief Development Officer for the entire state, while maintaining full responsibility for the original 35 parishes. Regional Executive for a 35-parish area. Supervised service delivery, operations, public affairs, government relations and fund development functions. Over my six-year tenure, the Red Cross consolidated and re-engineered annually. Subsequent assignments included Chief Operating Officer for two regions and Chief Development Officer for the entire state, while maintaining full responsibility for the original 35 parishes.
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Associate Director, Alumni Relations
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Aug 2007 - Oct 2009
Responsible for leadership annual giving, the class reunion program and other alumni events. Responsible for leadership annual giving, the class reunion program and other alumni events.
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President and CEO
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Oct 1999 - Mar 2002
Established and developed sight-saving service programs and local support mechanisms in accordance with the strategic/expansion plan of the national organization within the West Virginia Division. Acquired three year grant to establish services, trained and equipped 100+ child vision screeners in child service organizations throughout the state providing screening services to 5000+ children in year one. Attained additional grants to establish adult vision screening services. Established signature fund-raising event which doubled revenues between year one and two.
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Senior Vice President
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Jan 1998 - Jun 1999
Operations officer for a city chamber, the mission of which is regional advocacy for transportation/infrastructure improvement, governmental relations, business/education linkage and retail economic development. Annual budget of $750,000 - $1,000,000, 13 staff, 1000 business members. Hired, oriented and supervised program staff and work product for ten program divisions, including governmental affairs, community development, communications, leadership, agribusiness, technology and workforce/school-to-work. Staffed the School-to-Work Management Team start-up and led the group that devised effective staffing and fund allocation models, selected/recruited staff, designed the fund deployment mechanism and supervised transition from the previous managing entity. During tenure, the Chamber’s efforts resulted in a $154 million appropriation under state capital outlay and $40 million allocation under TEA 21 for Chamber regional priorities and receipt (by the Chamber) of the management contract for the region’s $605,000 school-to-work program.
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Special Projects Director, HR Manager, Hospice Administrator
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Oct 1994 - Dec 1997
Prepared internal and public service education/information and developed and reviewed agency contracts. Responsible for the day-to-day operation of Metro Hospice. Performed human resource functions for five offices in conformance with requirements of state licensure, Medicare certification and JCAHO accreditation, developing policy and procedure to ensure the qualifications, competence and health status of 75-100 employees and independent contractors.Special Projects: Codification of agency operational requisites into comprehensive policies and procedures for initial Joint Commission accreditation; establishment of hospice service capabilities; ; establishment of hospice service capabilities; and RFP preparation for Ryan White services contract.
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Executive Director
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Apr 1985 - Jun 1991
Responsible to 12-member board for the management of two corporations – a 501(c)(6) voluntary local bar of more than 1300 members, and a 501(c)(3), the public service arm of the bar. Supervised four full-time and one part time staff plus three-to-six rotating law clerks/paralegal interns to facilitate staff support of 25 - 30 committees. Grew the organization from a 650 member, two employee organization in 1985 with no non-cash assets to a 1300 member, five employee, two corporation organization in ,Produced a monthly magazine, annual directory, history of the Middle District and Lawyer in the Classroom Manual. Arranged monthly membership meetings. Organized 40 hours per year continuing legal education programming. Administered a lawyer referral service with more than 2000 clients each year.
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Education
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Eastern Illinois University
Master of Science, Sociology/Community Planning & Development -
The University of Winnipeg
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology