Experience

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  HUDSON THEATRE WORKS

  • Grant Writer

    • Jan 2017 - Present

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  Yugntruf - Youth for Yiddish

  • New York, NY

  • Coordinator - Director of Development

    • Sep 2008 - Present
    • New York, NY

    • First Dev. Dir. for 50-year old international Yiddish language organization• Annually raise $25,000/year from grants and appeals, most recently $16,000 from Max & Anna Levinson Foundation• Develop and maintain annual and project budgets; do weekly bookkeeping/banking• Create online marketing & PR (including e-newsletters) • Design and manage annual individual fundraising appeal mailings• Research funding prospects and develop database of donors and prospects• Write general operations and project proposals and create supporting attachments• Run Children’s Program (ages 0-5) at annual “Yiddish Week” summer camp• Helped organization receive first government grant (LMCC) from NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs

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  Union City Music Project

  • Union City, NJ

  • Board President / Development Director (part-time)

    • Sep 2012 - Present
    • Union City, NJ

    • Research funding prospects and develop database of donors and prospects• Write general operations and project proposals and create supporting attachments• Write appeal letters, contact corporate sponsors for fundraising events• Plan and coordinate fundraising events, including soliciting program ads and silent auction items.• Write press releases• Raised $45,828 in new funding support in 2013 (UMCP started Oct. 2011); $41,000 to date in 2014

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  Workers' Circle/Arbeter Ring - Manhattan Shule

  • NewYork, NY

  • Teacher - Yiddish Language, Core Jewish Ethics & Traditions

    • Sep 2007 - Present
    • NewYork, NY

    Teaching basic Yiddish language skills (alef-beys, vocabulary, grammar, conversational skills) to elementary school children at IL Peretz Shule in Long Island. At Midtown Workmen's Circle Shule (NYC), also teach 1st to 4th graders core Jewish ethics (tikkun olam, tsedake, bikkur cholim, emes, koved, loshn hora, pirkey avot, etc.), holiday traditions, and Jewish history through our Family Tree curriculum.

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  Living Traditions - KlezKamp

  • New York, NY

  • Development Director (Part-time)

    • 2006 - 2008
    • New York, NY

    • First Dev. Dir. for 13-year-old national Yiddish cultural organization (“KlezKamp”)• Researched, approached, and built funding relationships with 80 new institutional, government, and individual donors • Raised $65,000 in new funding from institutional and major donors in 1st year; including 2-year $50,000 grant from the Righteous Persons Foundation• Wrote grants, appeals, newsletters, e-mail blitzes, brochures• Directed annual appeal campaigns and special events (silent auction)• Assisted in fundraising board development and major gift solicitation