Grant Writer, Copy/Content Writer

LAURA WOOD

Writer, Professional Consultant, and Grant Writer/Manager

Proven track record of success in strategically directing organizations in the areas of: Development and Communication Strategy Copy and Content Writing Corporate and Institutional Fundraising Complex Gifts Special Events Grant Writing Community Relations EXPERIENCE

NONPROFIT CONSULTANT — 2009 - Current

• Created a grant writing program; successfully researching, writing and managing grants both government and private. Successfully garnered $250,000 in a state grant, over $100,000 in private foundation funding

• Created web copy, brochures, solicitation letters, social media and annual reports Foundation for Young Women's Leadership Academy - Grant Manager

• Worked with Executive Director, Board of Directors and faculty leadership to develop and fund strategies for enhancing school programs for under-served girls in 6th-12th grades

• Researched prospects, wrote and submitted grants to corporate and private foundations, created content for brochures, solicitation letters, social media and annual reports Audubon Texas – Fundraising Consultant/Grant Writer

• Developed strategy and increased year-end giving 21% and the average gift by 32%

• Successfully managed and wrote two complex federal grants and a state grant totaling $550,000 for coastal restoration from BP spill mitigation funds

• Worked with Regional Vice President consulting on strategies for state-wide development team Cancer Care Services - Grant Writer

• Served as interim grant writer while they were between full-time grant writers.

• This was a critical time as they had three United Way Grant reports and proposals due

• Jumped in with the team and completed all three United Way grants, including extensive reports with large amounts of data across three counties

• Additionally added three new proposals to the reports that were successfully funded for each county

M. Gale & Associates - Associate

• Consulted nonprofit clients in feasibility studies, coaching, interim development leadership, strategic planning, development audits & donor relationship management

• Developed cross-channel digital communications through social media that raised money for a variety of missions

Dorothy Marcille Wood Foundation - Executive Director Through my family's foundation, I contracted with Sul Ross State University, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, National Audubon Society, and other agencies and nonprofits in grant writing, major gift fundraising special events and communication strategies DFW501C - Reporter

• Generated content for online publication catered to nonprofit professionals

• Curated articles, formatted and featured them on social media, Mailchimp, and web publication platform

Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge – Executive Director THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXAS, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY 2005 - 2009

• Managed a portfolio of 250+ major donor prospects through the donor relationship management cycle, focusing primarily on new business development.

• Successfully built two development board of directors that raised approximately $500,000 in new dollars for the organization in the first two years. EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX — BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT, 2004 SWISS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT – MBA CANDIDATE, ANTICIPATED COMPLETION 2022 VOLUNTEER POSITIONS

• COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE (CASA) 2018 - PRESENT

• LENA POPE, INC. - PAST PRESIDENT, BOARD DIRECTOR, 2008 - PRESENT

• TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL, SECRETARY, BOARD DIRECTOR, 2009 - 2014 2824 Willing Ave 817-***-**** **********@*******.*** LAURA WOOD

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