Experience

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  Legacy Brisbane

  • Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  • Annual Giving & Grants Coordinator

    • Mar 2021 - Present
    • Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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  Flying Arts Alliance Inc

  • Development Lead

    • 2018 - Nov 2020

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  Spinal Life Australia (contract)

  • Brisbane, Australia

  • Independent Contractor

    • Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
    • Brisbane, Australia

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  Grow Australia

  • Holland Park East, Queensland, Australia

  • National Fundraising & Marketing Manager

    • Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
    • Holland Park East, Queensland, Australia

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  Logan Together (Contract position)

  • Griffith University (Logan Campus)

  • Partnerships Officer

    • Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
    • Griffith University (Logan Campus)

    Logan Together is a long term, whole of community effort to create the best life opportunities for every child in Logan.

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  Griffith University, Mt Gravatt Campus

  • Mt Gravatt, Brisbane

  • Acting Business Development Officer (Contract Position)

    • Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
    • Mt Gravatt, Brisbane

    Acting Business Development Officer- Arts, Education, Law Group Griffith University was the Principal Partner for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Dedicated Memorial Committee Queensland, working to develop and raise funding needed to erect a permanent memorial in Anzac Square. http://atsidmcq.com/ My work included research and outreach to potential corporate donors, working closely with key Griffith staff and ATSIDMCQ members, coordinating events at the Museum of Brisbane where the short-listed memorial designs were on display, and developing and writing collateral and other outreach materials.

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  The Benevolent Society

  • Queensland, Australia

  • Business Development Manager

    • 2009 - Jul 2015
    • Queensland, Australia

    The Benevolent Society is Australia's first charity. As Business Development Manager in the Queensland state office for over six years, I identified and developed substantial new funding streams, significantly raised organisational awareness, established important new relationships across business, trusts and foundations and government sectors, and strengthened stakeholder relations.

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  Time off to raise little one and move to Australia!

  • Mother

    • 2007 - 2009

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  Downtown Community Television Center, New York

  • 87 Lafayette St. New York City

  • Development Director

    • 2003 - 2006
    • 87 Lafayette St. New York City

    DCTV is the most honored independent nonprofit media center in America. Their youth media program, PRO-TV, is the most successful youth media arts training program in the U.S. Along with significantly increasing existing and establishing major new funding streams for PRO-TV, my work generated over $1.2 million in capital grants that provided the seed funding for the creation of the DCTV Cinema, a year-round venue devoted to “all documentaries/ all the time.”

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  Wall Street Rising

  • Broad Street, New York City

  • Director of Development & Programming

    • 2001 - 2002
    • Broad Street, New York City

    Wall Street Rising was founded as a response to the September 11th attacks on Lower Manhattan and focused on creating many ambitious projects to encourage people back downtown and promote the area as a 24/7 community. Working hand-in-hand with the organisation's founder/ managing director in its start up year, I oversaw and met major fundraising goals by engaging with government agencies, trusts and foundations, the private sector and the public to maximize programmtic success. I directed the creative and logistical elements of acclaimed community engagement programs and events such as: Taste of Wall Street, Do It Downtown, and Art Downtown.

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  News Limited Australia

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Event Coordinator, Olympic Hospitality Division, Sydney2000 Summer Olympic Games (Contract Position)

    • 1999 - 2000
    • Sydney, Australia

    News Limited Australia was a major sponsor of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games. The Hospitality Division was responsible for coordinating the Olympic Games experience for News Limited and News Corporation's most important editors, clients, company executives, and business partners. As a key member of a dynamic team, I developed and brokered vendor relationships and costs for the complex 800+ VIP Guest gift program; wrote the comprehensive guest guide book; and coordinated dining and other excursions at many of Sydney's top destinations.

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  UJA-Federation of New York

  • Development Executive, Theatre, Film and New Media Divisions

    • 1996 - 1999

    UJA Federation of New York's programs provide a safety net for vulnerable people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds. I headed the Theatre; Film; and New Media divisions. Along with cultivating new and increasing support from existing donors, I directed all production components for major fundraising events in honor of luminaries in these fields.

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  Karenina Productions

  • New York City

  • Producer/Principal

    • 1991 - 1992
    • New York City

    Co-formed own independent film/video production company that produced several music videos for artists such as Michelle Shocked, The Oyster Band and others. Responsible for business promotion, all pre and post production elements: talent/client relations; budgeting, location scouting, negotiating costs for and hiring of crews, craft services, post production facilities, and permiting.

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  Initial Film & Television

  • New York City

  • New York Line Producer

    • 1990 - 1990
    • New York City

    Initial Film & Television, a U.K. based entertainment company, produced WIRED, a weekly world music television magazine series that profiled global music luminaries and bands. WIRED aired in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. I was responsible for handling talent/management relations, writing copy for on-air host and producing 'docutainment' segments on music industry icons and spotlighting emerging arists of the day.