504 Cameron Street Alexandria VA 22314
703-684-8448 · [email protected]
Senior management for projects, organizational development, and fundraising with focus on environment and children, both internationally and domestically:
- Focus on program creation, implementation, and funding to expand and innovate the impact of mission.
- Capture and activate the best diverse partners, stakeholders, and audiences to leverage resources and deliver meaningful outcomes, solutions, and messages.
- Build expert development and support teams to achieve targeted results and high levels of program integrity.
EXPERIENCE
WORLD ENVIRONMENT CENTER Washington DC · August 2011 – December 2011
Special Assignment: Worldwide Project Management
Managed public/private project startups, launch, and closeouts in Central and South America, China, as well as North Africa. Proposal development with State Department. Trade marking for the European Union. Report production and budget monitoring.
BELLONA FOUNDATION USA Washington DC · 2008 - 2010
Organizational Development Consultant
Establish USA presence of Bellona Foundation, a Norwegian nonprofit, for climate change, energy, biodiversity, and integrated project management.
Completion of foundation LOI’s on carbon capture and storage and Cultivation of private and institutional funding sources for Sahara Forest Project.
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT Washington DC · 1993 – 2011
Associate Senior Fellow
Director, Corporate Recruitment and Relations
- Recruited over forty Fortune 50 companies for funding, public relations and communications support
- Elevated campaign through graduate business school and museum partnerships
- Letters from key CEOs to key Administration officials and Congressmen
- Arranged Senate meeting to inaugurate bill introduction
- Built first 1,500 record relational database for organization
Author 2008: NCSE 2008 Symposium: Business and Finance: Opportunities and Challenges from Climate Change
Book Review 2009: Jevon’s Paradox, An economic theory of resource use and efficiency
NATURAL PARTNERS Washington DC · 2006 - 2007
Organizational Development and Funding – Volunteer
Motivated and guided Board and key players to strategically position for growth, expand market, recruit new partners, and meet funders.
INTERNATIONAL and NATIONAL CENTERS FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN
Alexandria, Virginia ·2002 - 2010
Fundraising and Program Expansion consultant - ICMEC
- Accelerated growth in Latin America with $100,000 from AOL to expand radio advocacy
- Contacted and cultivated Exxon/Mobil for enlarged Sub-Saharan African presence
- Introduced methods and process for on-the-ground expansion through collaboration with and engagement of child advocates in Europe
- Crafted strategy to advance new partnership with The Hague Convention.
- Advised significantly widening dialogue among legal theorists and practitioners of civil law and Islamic family law through two conferences: Jakarta and Cairo
- Comprehensive funding prospect research and approach for Board to engage globally prominent companies based in American, European, Latin American and Asia.
- Foundation research, including advisory on approach and cultivation, for global operational expansion.
- Global corporate research for Board funding efforts: South Asia, Singapore, Europe, Latin America.
- IT corporate donor strategic research to complement Microsoft support.
- Major donor research and approach for events in New York City and Bucharest.
- Funding research and strategy for a film on parental child abduction for the international legal and diplomatic communities
- Comprehensive foundation research and program strategy for national child pornography prevention coalition for Board.
- Foundation research targeted to complement government funding.
SCHLUMBERGER EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (SEED) New York, New York ·2008
Program Consultant
- Identified strategies and new routes for international growth of science education program
- Developed partner criteria and growth opportunities
- Provided framework for new focus on international corporate and in-country NGO partners.
Cambridge, Massachusetts · 2007 – 2008
Program Consultant and In-Depth Member Research
- Recommended additional regional initiatives with an updated, more flexible membership fee structure
- Identified need for internal employee support networks for sustainability managers
THE WORLD BANK – ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION - SEAWEB – MERMAID
Washington DC and New York City · 2001 – 2002
Portfolio performance consultant: The World Bank
Refined key issues, content, and final version of performance evaluation for the Bank’s worldwide
forestry projects, with special attention to local governance, economies and ecological systems.
Program assessment consultant: Rockefeller Foundation, LEAD (NYC)
Assessed potential for USA business sponsorship and support for program. Advised they seek “new philanthropy”
sponsor, not corporations, as best fit to leadership and excellence emphasis of LEAD.
Fundraising research: SeaWeb
Furnished comprehensive and detailed guide to access prospects and secure funds from foundations, corporations,
multilateral development organizations and associations.
Keynote Speaker: MERMAID (Partner program to AAAS/Ecosystems and Human Needs)
Delivered keynote speech in Mauritius for integrating human actions with ecosystem functions using cutting-edge
ideas and practices.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Washington DC · 1998 – 2001
Senior Program Officer, Ecosystems and Human Needs
Created initiative and led staff on global watershed program.
- Co-Principal Investigator or principal advisor for $475M National Science Foundation grants: watershed projects in Mekong, La Plata, and Kola peninsula .
- Headed scoping mission to Mekong to recruit and assess NGO, academic, and business partners.
- Proposal development with Oxfam-Phnom Penh for community run science education sites.
- Recruited expert, multidisciplinary, international Review Board.
- Member Steering Committee with WHO, USAID, UNEP and UN Foundation for health and environment.
- Invitation to present at Center for Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Indiana University.
- Reviewed “Redundancy” chapter for Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics.
- Received grants from Summitt Foundation for net site of Atlas of Population and Environment, and Hewlett Foundation for open source environmental XML and interactive mapping.
- Convened “International Ocean Day” to report to Congressional Oceans Caucus on fisheries, energy, and marine diseases.
- Chaired one day conference on genomics, nanotechnology and social effects of internet.
- Conducted World Bank workshop and issued report on using science for global development.
- Nominated by Dr. P.S. Ramakrishnan, Head of Environment Department, University New Delhi for International Who’s Who Professional and Business Women.
THE CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS Washington DC · 1995
Investor Advocacy Consultant
- Strategic direction for key markets of financial media and tobacco distributors.
- Advised sustained advocacy with national and key states’ financial media to leverage prosecutorial actions of States’ Attorneys General.
- Elevated institutional investors’ perceived investment risk through key modification to 10K reports.
- Conducted insider evaluation of influencing tobacco stock prices.
AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Alexandria, Virginia · 1992
Organizational Expansion Consultant - Volunteer
- Strategic direction for educational conference to increase membership, and awareness through large co-sponsorship network of environmental, horticultural and scientific organizations.
- Priced conference to both cover costs and produce $10,000 seed money for follow-up international event.
- Designed RFP and all promotional materials for national growth.
Membership Consultant
Qualitative and quantitative market analysis for individual donors and crucial need to: stabilize brand image, significantly increase first year member retention, and offer select program giving for sophisticated high dollar donors.
Quantified market value of children’s market and guided single campaign netting $150,000.
PRIVATE SECTOR EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN EXPRESS - MERRILL LYNCH
Global and Domestic Marketing and New Service Introductions 1973 - 1992
Global, national, state and local campaigns using multiple media to reach new customers and generate revenues. Managed departments of professional staff · Created and directed cause-related campaigns Responsible for business plans and reporting on qualitative and quantitative measures · New service development · Responsible for all aspects of new product integrity: naming, trade marking, prospectus, systems support, branch training, and sales support materials · Market action based on market analysis, market research demographics, and psychographics
EDUCATION
Masters International Business, Management and Marketing
Thunderbird School of Global Management (“Thunderbird”), Phoenix, Arizona
Bachelor of Arts, Honors College – Interdisciplinary Readings
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio