AMY AMUNDSON

**** **** ****** ******, #* • Chicago, Illinois, 60640 • 703-***-**** • acyyda@r.postjobfree.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

FREEDOM ALLIANCE, DULLES, VIRGINIA (I WORKED REMOTELY IN CHICAGO)

Events Manager, Sept, 2009 – Aug, 2016

Plan and organize internal events – Award Dinners, Galas, Stewardship Events, and 3-Day Conferences:

Negotiate vendor and hotel contracts and cultivate vendor relationships

Track expenses and create P&L reports

Travel for site visits and events

Solicit silent auction items and secure event sponsors/individual ticket buyers

Manage guest registration and allocate/distribute materials and credentials

Coordinate meet and greets with VIPs

Create attendee briefs

Create marketing timelines and write promotional materials – programs, invitations, emails, confirmation letters, etc.

Make menu selections

Create seating assignments

Coordinate external grassroots events:

Travel to events throughout the country

Steward and cultivate relationships with event planners and volunteers

Post events to a website calendar

Create a yearly budget for events

Prospect Manager, Nov, 2006-Sept, 2009

Manage the Raiser’s Edge Donor Database:

Run and analyze statistical fundraising and donor reports

Select mailing list criteria and create queries

Audit and reconcile paper and electronic donor files

Create Policies and Procedures

Train new employees

Attend Raiser’s Edge training classes and seminars

Identify and research lapsed and prospective donors

Audit the database to ensure information is properly entered

Write text for stewardship and solicitation emails

Edit articles, letters, briefs, board reports, and mailings for the president of the organization

ELECTRONIC SCRIPTORIUM, LEESBURG, VIRGINIA

Data Cataloger, Nov, 2006-2009

(I continued to work for ES part-time while I worked for Freedom Alliance)

Assist in building search engines for websites

Gather information from numerous taxonomies and input the data into an Access Database

Write product descriptions for websites

Project Manage:

Oversee staff and daily project activities

Write Policies and Procedures

Schedule and conduct meetings and conference calls

Perform quality control on work completed by my team and give timely feedback

EDUCATION

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science

Minors in Philosophy and the Psychology of Crime and Justice

HAROLD WASHINGTON CITY COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Completed coursework towards General Studies

OTHER

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

Microsoft Office

BlackBaud’s Raiser’s Edge 7 Database Training Classes

Essentials, Parts I and II

Graduate Track: Tools for the Power User

Crystal Reports

Events Module

I have experience using SalesForce, Convio, and WordPress

VOLUNTEERING

Current – a Florida based non-profit organization that goes to Laundromats in low-income communities across the country and pays to do laundry for the day

Treasurer of the Leland Heights Condominium Association - I create the annual budget, keep a ledger of expenses, research vendors for special projects and new ways to keep the Association's costs down

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