Fundraiser

ELIZABETH K. MARTIN

******@*****.***

** ****** ******, ********* **, New York, NY 10034

917-***-****

OBJECTIVE:

To use my skills and experience in a consulting, temporary, or part-time capacity to advance charitable purposes.

SUMMARY:

Development generalist with 13 years of experience in private sector fundraising, including health care, education, museums and the arts. Proficiencies include foundation and corporate grants/reports; cause marketing and sponsorships; annual fund appeals; donor research; and Raiser’s Edge and Donor Perfect databases.

DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE:

Senior Director, Corporate Marketing/Corporate Relations – Children’s Health Fund (2004 to 2011)

Managed 2.5 person department meeting $4,000,000 plus fundraising goal;

Established five new funding relationships at $300,000 to $1,000,000;

Stewarded Corporate Council for America’s Children recognition group;

Inaugurated sponsorship and cause-related marketing program;

Initiated partnerships with Clorox, American Express and MediaCom;

Promoted from Manager to Director in 2005 and to Sr. Director in 2008.

Consultant -- Lower Hudson Conference of Historical Sites and Museums; Scarsdale Historical Society;

Fraunces Tavern Museum; W3R-RI Tourism Initiative; Friends of Stuyvesant, Inc. (2003 to 2004).

Development Manager – South Street Seaport Museum (2001 to 2003)

Raised in excess of $1,000,000 in foundation and corporate gifts in 2002, with 10 new funders;

Reorganized grant management/stewardship for foundation, corporate, and government funders;

Supervised associates, interns, and volunteers.

Consultant -- Bartow Pell Mansion Museum (2000).

Membership Manager – China Institute in America (1999 to 2000)

Doubled membership giving in one year;

Developed two special interest membership groups, one at major gift level;

Managed goal-exceeding annual fund appeal (direct mail) program;

Planned and implemented members’ events and programming, and gala special events;

Designed and executed database (Raiser’s Edge) conversion correction plan.

Consultant -- The New York Botanical Garden; Brooklyn Public Library; Lower East Side Tenement Museum; Helen Keller International (1998 to 1999).

EDUCATION:

University of Rhode Island – B.A. 1974; M.S. 1997 (History and English);

New York University – NYS Advanced Certificate in Museum Studies 1998 (Development and Administration).

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