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DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPY
Executive Summary

Experienced nonprofit professional with strong leadership and relationship-building skills

Core Qualifications
  • Strategic planning
  • Policy/program development
  • Complex problem solving
  • Legal implications knowledge
  • Financial analysis
  • Operations management
  • Staff development
  • Highly organized
  • Adept at multi-tasking and tracking multiple projects
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office and database systems
Professional Experience
Director, Community Philanthropy
March 2007 to Current The Dallas Foundation － Dallas, Texas
  • Serve as primary Foundation liaison with nonprofit agencies
  • Represent Foundation at community events and through presentations
  • Review and approve all Foundation grants and scholarships, approximately 5,000 grants totaling $40M in 2013
  • Manage Foundation grantmaking strategy and initiatives, including fundraising
  • Evaluate all competitive grant requests, and make recommendations for allocations to Board of Governors
  • Oversee scholarship, designated grant, and community fund processes
  • Department head, managing 3 direct reports and 2 indirect reports
  • Facilitate Community Philanthropy and Scholarship committee meetings
  • Conduct two annual grantmaking seminars for local nonprofit agencies
  • More than 125 site visits to nonprofit agencies annually
  • Oversee maintenance of FIMS grants and scholarships database
Executive Assistant
January 2002 to May 2006 Carnegie Corporation of New York － New York, New York
  • Focus in funding areas of Strengthening US Democracy and Strengthening the Nonprofit Sector
  • Managed due diligence for $3M grantmaking budget
  • Managed event logistics
  • Drafted all department correspondence
  • Completed write-ups for discretionary grants (<>
Professional Opera Singer
January 1996 to March 2007 Freelance
  • Performed in the following cities: Milan, Italy; Tel Aviv, Israel; Chiari, Italy; Graz, Austria; New York, New York; Juarez, Mexico; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Burlington, Vermont; El Paso, Texas; Lubbock, Texas
  • Studied the following languages: Italian, German, French, Spanish, Latin, Russian
Education
Bachelor of Music : Opera Performance, 1995 Southern Methodist University － Dallas, Texas, USA
Affiliations

Center for Nonprofit Management; Junior League of Dallas; Conference of Southwest Foundations; Dallas Contributors Network; Grantmakers for Education; Council on Foundations' Standards Action Team; 0-5 Funders Collaborative; Companion Animal Funders Coalition

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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • The Dallas Foundation
  • Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Freelance

School Attended

  • Southern Methodist University

Job Titles Held:

  • Director, Community Philanthropy
  • Executive Assistant
  • Professional Opera Singer

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Music : Opera Performance , 1995

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