Experience

Humane Society of Southern Arizona

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Donor Relations

  • Feb 2021 - Present



Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Philanthropy

  • Mar 2018 - Mar 2020

  Founded in 1952, the mission of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is to inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the Sonoran Desert. One of the top 10 museums in the country, with 400K annual visitors, it offers a fusion experience: zoo, botanical garden, art gallery, natural history museum, and aquarium. I was responsible for institutional leadership, philanthropic planning, and coordination and implementation of all fundraising activities. My accomplishments included: • Authoring and executing the Museum’s first annual philanthropy and development plan. • Writing and monitoring development budgets; initiating strategy to build reserves and endowments by not depending on revenues from wills and estates to balance the operating budget. • Revising and updating gift acceptance policy and procedures. • Organizing the annual Desert Gala (~500 attendees); cultivating and securing sponsors and underwriters; acquiring live and silent auction items. • Planning and developing planned giving program; in first half of fiscal 2020, $1.6 million in incoming wills and bequests. • Organizing major donor/giving program; identifing, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding a personal portfolio of 120 major donors. • Improving direct appeals, developing annual plan and increasing to four appeals per year, each to 30K households and businesses; standardizing format and layout; integrating e-communications; coordinating design and layout with graphics team. • Transforming donor stewardship program, reducing “thank you” letter and tax-receipt turnaround to two days; signing and personalizing every thank you letter; instituting practice of making acknowledgement calls and sending handwritten thank you cards. • Devising and launching tribute program, included named benches and trees. • Overseeing cleanup and conversion of donor database management system to Raiser’s Edge NXT.



Oregon College of Oriental Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Development Officer

  • Jan 2015 - Mar 2018

  Founded in 1983, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine transforms health care by educating highly skilled and compassionate practitioners, providing exemplary patient care, and engaging in innovative research within a community of service and healing. OCOM's primary activities are providing studies for specialized graduate degrees; running two teaching clinics, providing affordable care for patients and hands-on experience for student interns; and conducting acupuncture and Chinese medicine research. As Chief Development Officer, my mission was to build a culture of philanthropy to help support the College and those it served. I did so by establishing and enhancing relationships with individuals, businesses, special events ("Cherry Blossom Gala"), foundations, and partner organizations, thereby raising needed program, project, and operating funds.



Dave Eshbaugh Consulting

• Portland, Oregon Area

• Principal

  • Jan 2003 - Jan 2015

  Consulting services for nonprofit organizations, including: fundraising planning; board development; strategic planning; membership development; communications and marketing; policy development; nature center planning and operations; volunteer management, special events planning. Consulting services for nonprofit organizations, including: fundraising planning; board development; strategic planning; membership development; communications and marketing; policy development; nature center planning and operations; volunteer management, special events planning.



Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center and Foundation

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Individual Partnership Officer

  • Dec 2011 - Oct 2014

  Identified, cultivated, solicited, and stewarded individual donors for the Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation/Health Center. Managed a portfolio of 180+ individual major donor prospects. Planned and implemented Virginia Garcia's direct appeal program. Primary responsibilities included: major gifts, planned giving, direct marketing/appeals, other individual donations, fundraising events, and helping develop marketing materials. Identified, cultivated, solicited, and stewarded individual donors for the Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation/Health Center. Managed a portfolio of 180+ individual major donor prospects. Planned and implemented Virginia Garcia's direct appeal program. Primary responsibilities included: major gifts, planned giving, direct marketing/appeals, other individual donations, fundraising events, and helping develop marketing materials.



Oregon State Parks Trust

• Portland, Oregon Area

• Executive Director

  • Mar 2006 - Aug 2010

  Served as chief executive officer of the Oregon State Parks Trust, the only statewide nonprofit dedicated to preserving and enhancing Oregon’s state parks; organized and exercised control over all operations. Organization now named "Oregon State Parks Foundation." Raised funds to create a new state park (Iwetemlaykin State Heritage Site), restore a unique historic place (Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum), help restore and preserve historic lighthouses, and update state park interpretive exhibits and visitor facilities.



National Audubon Society

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Executive Director & Vice President, Oregon State Office

  • Feb 2003 - Mar 2006

  Founded the Oregon state office for National Audubon Society; served as the chief executive officer for Audubon in Oregon; oversaw all National Audubon Society programs and activities in the state. Founded the Oregon state office for National Audubon Society; served as the chief executive officer for Audubon in Oregon; oversaw all National Audubon Society programs and activities in the state.



Portland Audubon

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Sep 1996 - Feb 2003

  Planned, coordinated and controlled the operations of Audubon Society of Portland; at the time—with 10,000 members, 1,000 volunteers, 24 employees and a $1.8 million operating budget—the largest of the (then) 500+ Chapters of the National Audubon Society.

• Volunteer Coordinator

  • Nov 1995 - Sep 1996

  Primary responsibility: • Coordinating Audubon Society of Portland's (then) 600-person volunteer program. Accomplishments: • Recruiting, screening, interviewing, and placing 108 volunteers and seven interns. • Writing volunteer position descriptions and updating the volunteer application form. • Developing procedures for tracking volunteer applications and maintaining volunteer records. • Writing a monthly newsletter column about volunteers and volunteer opportunities. • Establishing a “Volunteer of the Month” recognition/award program. • Marketing volunteer and internship opportunities to the larger community. • Coordinating selection of Mamie Campbell (lifetime volunteer achievement) award recipients.• Helping organize and host annual volunteer recognition banquet.



Dave Eshbaugh Zooarchaeological Consulting

• Tempe, Arizona

• Principal

  • Sep 1985 - Aug 1995

  Providing specialized analysis of animal remains and bone tools from (southwestern US) archaeological sites. Providing specialized analysis of animal remains and bone tools from (southwestern US) archaeological sites.