Willamette Week's Give!Guide  |   December 2016 to March 2020

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Willamette Week's Give!Guide is Portland's largest grassroots, city-wide fundraising campaign. Started in 2004, it has raised more than $32.8 million for 387 local nonprofits in the last 16 years. G!G's fundraising provides services for more than 2 million Portlanders each year. During my time, I: 

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• Planned and administered a budget of $343k to produce a regional nonprofit fundraising campaign that raised nearly $4.8 million annually for 150 local and national nonprofits from 11,000+ donors.

• Tripled Give!Guide’s sustaining funders and sponsorships by fostering and maintaining authentic relationships with 100+ local business partners, including Patagonia, Nike, the Portland Trail Blazers, Prosper Portland, the Oregon Community Foundation, the Oregon Cultural Trust and more.

• Developed and facilitated programming to educate, train and engage more than 300 nonprofit development teams and community partners in effectively executing fundraising best practices and campaign communications across community and digital platforms.

• Developed and executed grant administration process, facilitating annual committee of 10+ diverse community stakeholders to select 150 nonprofits as funding recipients.

• Successfully navigated complex relationships and political dynamics with more than 250 diverse nonprofits to build lasting, meaningful relationships.

• Edited G!G Magazine, working with BIPOC and non-dominant community stakeholders to accurately and effectively convey the stories of Portland’s vibrant change makers, philanthropic innovators and impactful nonprofits.

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