Experience

Self Employed

• Machinery Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Retired -available for consulting

  • Sep 2019 - Present



Trenton Health Team

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

• Senior Director, Development and Communications

  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2019

  Leadership role overseeing grants, program development, and communications.

• Director of Development

  • May 2013 - Jul 2017

  Responsible for fund development and community engagement efforts. Have secured substantial multi-year grants from the NJ Department of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Novo Nordisk, and Trinity Health, among others, with ongoing responsibility for program implementation.



Foundations, Inc.

• Executive Director of Development

  • Nov 2012 - Mar 2013

• Director of Development

  • Jun 2007 - Nov 2012

  Responsible for working across the organization to develop grant programs and proposals and cultivating institutional relations. Secured multi-year, first-time grants from Philadelphia area funders including The William Penn Foundation, Lenfest Foundation, Patricia Kind Family Foundation, and Green Tree Community Health Foundation. Developed four successful 21st Century community Learning Center grant proposals and wrote successful charter applications for Achieving Community Transformation (ACT) Academy Charter School (a Pennsylvania cyber high school, based at the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Technology) and City Invincible Charter School in Camden, NJ.



Princeton Project 55 (now Princeton Alumni Corps)

• Director of Development and Finance

  • Sep 2003 - Jun 2007

  Responsible for all facets of development program, generating significant increases in unrestricted annual giving and securing $2.5 million in endowment funds. Managed the implementation of Raiser’s Edge as the fundraising database. Reorganized the accounting system using QuickBooks for Nonprofits. Responsible for all facets of development program, generating significant increases in unrestricted annual giving and securing $2.5 million in endowment funds. Managed the implementation of Raiser’s Edge as the fundraising database. Reorganized the accounting system using QuickBooks for Nonprofits.



Princeton Friends School

• Director of Development

  • Sep 2001 - Jan 2004

  Handled all aspects of development program, including annual giving and endowment campaign, increasing both the number of donors and dollars raised. Responsible for media relations, publications, and advancement events. Managed development database conversion. Handled all aspects of development program, including annual giving and endowment campaign, increasing both the number of donors and dollars raised. Responsible for media relations, publications, and advancement events. Managed development database conversion.



Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Development

  • Jan 1998 - Aug 2001

  Managed all aspects of the development program including annual fund, planned giving, and campaign activities; gift recording, acknowledgment and stewardship; identification, research, cultivation and solicitation of all individual prospects. Helped to secure the largest individual gift to the Foundation. Responsible for establishing a pooled income fund. Secured a five-year, $250,000 endowment challenge from The Ford Foundation and met the matching requirements in nine months. Secured a $500,000 endowment challenge from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Increased annual fund contributions by 57% in three years; increased trustee contributions by over 40% from FY’99 to FY’00.



Saint Joseph's University

• Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations and Associate Director, Capital Campaign

  • Jan 1995 - Jan 1998

  Handled corporate and foundation prospects for a $40 million campaign to raise construction and endowment funds, identifying prospects, researching contacts, developing strategies, writing proposals, briefing Vice President and President. Handled corporate and foundation prospects for a $40 million campaign to raise construction and endowment funds, identifying prospects, researching contacts, developing strategies, writing proposals, briefing Vice President and President.



Westminster Choir College

• Vice President for Development and External Affairs

  • 1988 - 1991

  Supervised the alumni, admissions, public relations and development departments. Responsible for substantial increases each year in the annual fund. Successfully completed a $2.4 million campaign in a five-month period, with $2.75 million raised. Served on the Executive Council of the College and as resource to two committees of the Board of Trustees. Served as chairperson for the College strategic planning committee. Developed and served as project director for Westminster's Challenge Grant program, a $1.4 million grant from the State of New Jersey.



Westminster Conservatory of Music

• Director

  • 1982 - 1986

  Responsible for all facets of the program including hiring and management of faculty and staff, developing office systems and procedures, budgeting, curriculum development, advertising and promotion. Built the Conservatory enrollment from under 400 to over 1300 students; increased size of faculty from 40 to 85 instructors. Added new programs such as "Opera Outings," a certificate program, Summer String Festival, plus numerous classes for children and adults; established and raised funds for the Conservatory Scholarship Fund.