Executive Director, Polk Education Foundation Resume Example

Distinguished Executive Director offering 22 years of experience in non-profit work supporting education. Highly organized, detail-oriented leader. Skilled in directing high-performing teams to meet goals to promote student achievement. Success implementing systems to increase organizational functionality. Focused, yet flexible, to accommodate changing needs. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Lifelong Polk County resident entrenched in the local community. Passionate about managing daily operations that support student and teacher success.

• Raised over $31,800,000 in the last 15 years.
• Grew scholarship program from 75 awards valued at $284,000 in 2005, to, 476 awards valued at $799,000 in 2020.
• Worked with school district Information Services Department to develop and implement an online scholarship application to screen applicants and provide a workable database.
• Introduced the use of donor records software allowing for tracking of donations, historical information and personalized acknowledgments
• Created Just One for the Kids, an employee payroll deduction campaign, that generates an average of $10,000 a year in unrestricted gifts.
• Spearheaded and opened the Free Teacher Market in 2010. Since that time over 18,700 teachers had appointments to shop and take free classroom supplies.
• Supervised a team of 7 and increased that staff by two part-time employees by writing and securing salary grants.
• Created Stepping Out for Education, a Dancing with the Stars type fundraiser that has grossed approximately $500,000 in the last 10 years.
• Provided fiscal oversight and developed staff processes, to support financial control standards and earn clean audits (0-1 material findings) for the last decade.
• Secured grant funding for, designed and piloted, a successful teacher leadership program. The program was then replicated and funded by the school district and moved to the Human Resources Department to help retain teachers.