Project Manager Real Estate
Resume:
ROBERT T. CARTER
***B Golfview Road
North Palm Beach, FL 33408
P ROF I LE
For profit and nonprofit organization management experience.
Real estate development (commercial and residential) background.
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Experienced grant writer and fund raiser.
Served as board member of human services and artistic nonprofit organizations.
Directed corporate philanthropic program and served as t rustee of a family foundation.
Taught fundraising and grant writing to graduate and undergraduate level students.
RECEN T EXPER I E NCE
ArtStage Performing Arts Center, Tequesta, Florida . January 2012 to February 2014.
Executive Director. Recruited Board of Directors. Developed bylaws, policies, operating
budgets and job descriptions for staff and board members. Prepared fundraising,
marketing and public/media relations plans. Researched corporate and foundation support
prospects. Wrote solicitation letters to prospective donors and thank you responses.
Jeff Committee, Chicago, I llinois. September 2008 to December 2011.
Served as Treasurer of organization that reviews equity and non-equity theater productions
to identify outstanding performances that are recognized and presented awards annually.
Columbia College, Chicago, I ll inois . September 2007 to June 2011. Adjunct faculty member,
A rts, Entertainment and Media Management Department. Taught Fundraising and Grant-
w riting courses to undergraduate and graduate students.
O T H ER RE LATE D EXPER I E NCE
M usic Theatre Workshop (renamed StoryCatchers Theater), Chicago, I llinois . 2006 to
2011.
Board member, and later Executive Director. Organization performed in public schools and in
juvenile correctional facilities. Children and teens wrote plays telling stories of life experiences.
G aylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Chicago, I llinois. Board member, 1988 to
1996.
Served as Audit Commit tee Chair, and Chairman of Arts and Culture Committee which reviewed
p roposals for support submitted by Chicago area and South Carolina organizations.
N ational Me r it Scholarship Corporation, Evanston, I ll inois. 1987 to 2001 and 2003-2005
Managed Achievement Scholarship Program, a competition for outstanding black students.
I nland Steel Company and I nland Steel-Ryerson Foundation, Chicago, I ll inois. 1966 to
1986.
Served in positions ranged from finance and personnel to Executive Director of the company’s
philanthropic foundation. Also was project manager for a retail/office building the company’s
real estate development subsidiary built on the Georgetown Waterfront in Washington, DC.
Suburban Job Link, Chicago, I l linois. P rogram Manager and later Director of Development for
sponsor of a federally-funded program to connect inner city residents with available jobs in the
suburbs and provide t ransportation and counseling services.
Ga rfield Counseling Center, Chicago, I llinois. Executive Director of substance abuse program
f unded
by the state which provided methadone and supportive services for clients and their families.
E D UCAT IO N
Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, J une 1959. Major: Government Minor:
Economics.
Attended conferences and courses presented by Council on Foundations and Independent Sector.
CO MP U TER SK I L LS: P roficient in Microsoft Office applications, including WORD and EXCEL
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