 experience
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| Experience By Industry: Non-Profit Services |
- James J. Hill Reference Library - Co-chairing the Marketing Advisory Board with the James J. Hill Reference Library's CEO and Director of Sales on the development of a dream team of local business professionals who share the vision of enhanced services and fundraising with the goal of creating a national presence for the library.
- Great River Greening - Advises and sits on the board of Great River Greening, a non-profit organization that restores valuable and endangered natural areas and open spaces in the great Twin Cities by engaging individuals and communities in stewardship of the Mississippi, Minnesota, and St. Croix River valleys and their watersheds. Great River Greening also leads the Big Rivers Partnership, a group of more than twelve organizations that is committed to improving the metro's natural resources.
- Milestone Growth Fund - Assisted a Twin Cities-based company that helps fund ethnic minority-owned businesses in its aggressive growth plans by enhancing the company's visibility with prospective clients and supporters. We also provided messaging and communications for a major fund development campaign and overhauled and enhanced the company's web presence.
- Family Pathways - Served on the board
of directors and provided all strategic planning and marketing
services to the board. Initiatives involved everything
from creating a new visual identity for the organization
to conducting a successful search for a new executive
director. The mission of the organization is to work with
people to meet their basic needs, strengthen their families
and develop caring relationships and support in their
communities.
- Hennepin County Ethics Committee - Served
on the ethics board, investigating claims involving the
Lawyer's Board of Professional Responsibility. This board
membership required a thorough understanding of the Rules
of Professional Responsibility, which govern and direct
the practice and business activities of lawyers in the
state of Minnesota.
- DivorceChoice.com - Worked with the
founder of this web-based source of community information
for those contemplating divorce. The project involved
three distinct phases: board member recruitment, site
member recruitment and the development of a community-based
communications campaign designed to draw people to the
website.
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Center
- Consulted with the executive director on the
overall growth plan for the organization and created the
overall marketing strategy for the Center. The Center
was designed to attract human rights organizations from
around the country and encourage them to become a member
and to provide a consortium for members with marketing
materials on the resources available to the public through
the Center.
- Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights - In cooperation with this organization and a local law
firm, this program created an overall strategy to communicate
the value of human rights to children. This initiative
took the form of encouraging lawyers to volunteer in classrooms,
and the creation of a targeted radio advertising campaign
using children to convey the key messages. Ads ran regularly
on a local radio station for children.
- China Industrial Information Institute - Worked with the executive director of this initiative
who was charged with entering China and drafting its newly
forming Occupational Health and Safety (OSHA) laws. Created
a consortium of companies doing business in China with
a focus on their participation in the process; developed
all membership recruitment materials for the Institute.
- Functional Freedom Corporation (FFC) - Worked
with the non-profit arm of the American Association for
Functional Orthodontists on planning for and communicating
the services of the FFC, designed to assist if ethical
questions or issues arise during the treatment of patients
using functional treatment methodologies.
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