Executive Director Senior

ROBERT ZWANG

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203-***-**** ********@*****.***

Executive Director/Senior Director of Development

Experienced non-profit development professional with extensive experience in total financial resource development. Raised $60 million leveraging strategic relationships that match methods with the mission and require financial and political buy-in at local, national and international levels. I led twenty-five winning annual campaigns reflecting sixty percent growth card-for-card. Twenty million dollars generated in endowment development. Managed and solicited a $6.5 million capital campaign.

Fundraising Campaign Development and Grant Management • Relationship Builder • Business and Organizational Development • Transformational/Transactional Diplomacy • Motivational Leadership • Community Relations • Negotiations and Contracts • Strategic Planning • Board and Professional Development • Organizational Assessments • MS Office 2018 • Mac • Internet • Database Management • Turnarounds • Start-ups • Communications • Succession Planning • Strategic Transition • Governance • Budgets • Interface with Auditors for annual audit • Fine-tuned Emotional Intelligence

Danbury Hospital, The Goldstone Caregiver Center – 1/23/2023 – Present

Volunteer Caregiver Coach

The Caregiver Coach is a trained volunteer who strives to make a connection with the caregivers they encounter throughout the hospital and in the Center, utilizing supportive communication techniques to access and provide what the caregiver needs at the moment.

Temple Israel of Westport Ct – 3/2022 – 12/30/2023

Director of Development

The Director of Development is a full-time senior staff position responsible for coordinating and facilitating fundraising efforts. The Director of Development will report to the Senior Rabbi and will work in close collaboration with the Board and the Executive Director to set and achieve fundraising goals. The Director of Development has a significant role in envisioning, shaping, and executing a major capital campaign that will define the future of Temple Israel for decades to come.

Responsibilities

Develop, execute, and meet agreed-upon goals for TI’s Annual Fund.

Launch TI’s 75th anniversary capital campaign

Launch endowment campaign.

Formalize an approach to an ongoing and sustained major gifts program.

Steward relationships with major donors, individually and through cultivation events.

Solicit gifts and participate in solicitations with clergy, staff and lay leaders.

Train and guide lay leaders and clergy in stewardship and fundraising best practices.

Undertake prospect research, create background materials, and prepare solicitors for asks.

Oversee the production of fundraising events including committee work.

Craft and produce fundraising materials, communications, acknowledgements, and recognition.

Develop proposals for restricted gifts and grants (from individuals and foundations).

Prepare for and report regularly to the Board on fundraising activities.

Maintain and update the development page on TI’s website.

Oversee selection of new fundraising software and put it to use (including data entry).

Work with TI staff to facilitate gift processing.

Private Philanthropy – Danbury, Connecticut 10/2020 – Present

Interim Executive Director - IED

Each generation strives to continue the tradition of leaving the next generation with more and we strive to “better the lot” of those we love and the environment for which we hold collective responsibility. My career has been rich in assisting nonprofit organizations to merge, stabilize operations and plan strategically. I have worked as an IED in transitioning organizations to ensure internal integration and acculturation and passing of the torch.

As a senior Nonprofit professional and trained IED, I have managed a myriad of complicated issues large and small over two decades and in four sophisticated nonprofits. By leveraging comprehensive strategic planning, value relationships and matching methods with the mission, my efforts have fostered close attachments to the organizations and those served. My overall responsibilities have included all G&A operations, budgets in excess of $2,000,000 and management of between forty and fourteen employees. I have held oversight for two Boards of Directors within the same organization. I welcome new challenges and seek to facilitate healthy organizational change.

Jewish National Fund (JNF) – Manhattan, New York 1/2020 – 10/2020

Director, Westchester and Southern Connecticut

Jewish National Fund-USA’s strategic vision has been and always will be, to ensure a strong, secure, and prosperous future for the land and people of Israel. Each project, initiative, and campaign they take on is integral to their vision of building and connecting to the land and people of Israel. JNF plants trees, builds houses and parks, sources water solutions, buys fire trucks, and improves the lives of people with special needs throughout Israel.

Achievements:

Raised approximately $1,800,000

Review the donor data base to develop a VIS Account Management list of 250 donors and prospects as the primary account manager for cultivation and solicitation purposes. Begin active cultivations for portfolio of donor and prospect accounts.

Worked with key JNF lay leaders in the Westchester and Southern Connecticut region.

Face-to-face meetings for solicitation, cultivation and recognition of donors, both new and prospective.

Develop and identifying major gift prospects.

Develop and identify new donor prospects.

Grow and recruit for Affinity Groups.

Create/implement JNF fundraising or branding events.

Work closely with key lay leaders, on and off the board, to empower them to help grow the campaign.

Enter all touch points and activities in the JNF donor database and managed the database to keep the information current.

Managed JNF Salesforce Database Management System and other software tools.

Recruit for JNF Missions to Israel and recruited for JNF National Conference.

Develop fundraising events such as JNF Breakfasts, Dinners and parlor meetings.

Israel Palestinian Cooperative for Economic Expansion, Inc. (IPCEE) – Woodbury, Connecticut 2011 – 2019 ~ A start-up NGO encouraging pragmatic collaboration between Israel and The Palestinian National Authority (Palestine) and the US. State Department.

Founder – CEO/President

Established and shaped the organization's mission and initiatives. Promoted ground-up and bottom-down strategic cross-border relations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, organizations and institutions. Applied for and received tax-exempt status. Developed and implemented the IPCEE Healthcare Initiative, "Peace through Medicine" in coordination with US, Israel and Palestinian governments, institutions and NGO's. Budget control handled public relations and media communications for fundraising.

Achievements:

Successfully raised over $500,000 start-up funding from individual donors and foundation grants, while leveraging governmental financial resources.

Budget control, public relations and media communications for fundraising.

Developed and implemented the IPCEE Healthcare Initiative, “Peace through Medicine,” in coordination with US, Israel and Palestinian governments, regional/international institutions for a common humanitarian purpose.

Sponsored joint medical conferences and establishment of the first cross-border association, the Palestinian and Israeli Renal Society (PARS).

Established precedent-setting Advanced Trauma Life Support capability by training West Bank Palestinian physicians, through an agreement between Israel's School of Military Medicine, at Israel’s Central Command.

United Jewish Federation of Greater Stamford, New Canaan and Darien Stamford, Connecticut 1/2012 – 9/2012

Recruited to serve as Interim - Executive Vice President to realign and improve organizations infrastructure, while allowing board time to recruit a new director.

Achievements:

Planned professional succession for a new Executive and Associate Vice President and the reorganization of twelve professional and admin staff.

Supported Board of Directors in clarification of organizations vision, leadership needs and community relations.

Managed the day-to-day operations and $2,184,000 budget and allocations.

Identify, enlist and steward donors of $5,000+.

Provided vision and critical role raising $1,900,000 and revitalized annual campaign planning. Responsible for nine staff including two new full-time hires in marketing and campaign, four direct campaign reports, volunteer recruitment and training.

Launched strategic plan to establish trust in the organization with major donors and within the community. Recruited and trained volunteer team to build community relations and develop support for new initiatives.

Jewish Communities of Western Connecticut, Inc. – Southbury, Connecticut 8/1992 – 9/2011

Recruited to serve as the Executive Director. Managed staff and all organizational administration. Implemented board policies into administrative guidelines and procedures. Supervised personnel and volunteers for efficient operations. Recruited and trained volunteers. Managed community campus and staff maintained the facility and ensured legal and regulatory compliance. Controlled $1.4 million annual budget and $20 million foundation. Maintained public relations and media communications to increase awareness of local and international programs and projects.

Achievements:

Created and implemented revenue-generating programs for twenty annual and special fundraising campaigns on average of $950,000, representing a 60% growth rate.

Directly solicited major donors of $5,000+ and managed all fundraising from 750 active donors.

Managed advanced growth of twenty winning annual campaigns, raising between five-hundred and 1.4 million dollars.

Developed strategy and solicited $6.5 million capital funding from approx. 45 donors and families.

Oversight and general management of 30,000 square foot community campus containing three organizations.

Launched long-term dental project to promote oral health for more than 10,000 Jewish and Arab children, negotiated and fundraised $5,000,000 to build and sustain first Dental Clinic in the largest hospital in northern Israel.

Fiscal oversight of $1,400,000 - annual operating budget and strategies.

Supervised staff of fourteen employees, six direct reports and five departments in “functional Federation.”

Raised $100,000 for establishment of Medical Exchange initiative between Kazan State Medical University, in Tatarstan (former USSR), to bring Jewish physicians to the US for medical training.

Created new model for strategic transformational planning to change dying neighborhoods into vibrant communities, while working with twenty local community-based organizations and over 1000 participants to revitalize the community.

Jewish Community Federation of Richmond, Virginia

Recruited to serve as Assistant Executive Director

• Grant writing

• Worked with constituent organizations and agencies in submitting requests for allocations

• Community relations activities

• Leadership development

• Director of Commission on Jewish Education

• Multiple fundraising campaign assignments across segmentations

• Implemented community-wide educational, cultural and social programs

• Holocaust education and programming

• Managed all community relation and helped to establish The Virginia Jewish Network

• Lobbied state legislature and Congress on issues of importance to the Jewish community

Eastern Region B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, Richmond, Virginia

Recruited to serve as Regional Director

• Responsible for all chapters in Virginia and North Carolina

• Organized and trained local, state, and regional Board of Directors

• Formulated and managed all phases of program development and staffing

• Policy development and implementation

• Planning and development of leadership training programs on regional and international levels

• Public Relations represented organization in all community affairs

• Trained and supervised professional and non-professional staff

B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, Tampa, Florida

Assistant Regional Director - Florida Council/ and Director for North Florida

• Program development

• Recruited, trained, and supervised professional and support staff

• Supervised and trained youth leadership

• Coordinated community-wide activities and large conventions

• Public relations

Horizon Hospital, Clearwater, Florida

Mental Health Technician, Research, Clinical Therapist

• Provided group therapy

• Applied child therapy (Developmental Play) to recidivistic adults

• Night supervisor on a locked adolescent unit

Education and Training:

• Beacon College, Washington, DC – M.A. Psychology

• International College, Tampa, Florida – B.A. Psychology

• Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, Florida – Associates Degree

• Support Center/Spring 2018 Interim Executive Director Training

• Spring 2018 Transition Planning and Management

• Spring 2018 Organizational Lifecycle and Assessment

References - Available upon request

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