Event Planning & Fundraising Examples

My fundraising experience dates back to 2018 when I got a job working for Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL). The way this organization worked is the University of Texas at Austin would contract RNL to hire students students that would cold call alumni, parents, and other stakeholders and ask for donations to support the university's programming and scholarships. In this role, I was responsible for individually raising over $21,000 for the University of Texas. Four months into this role, I was promoted to a lead caller where I would train new hires on best practices and offer on-site coaching on efficient fundraising techniques.

In 2021, I joined a statewide non-profit called First3Years as a Marketing and Communications Assistant. In this role, I directly reported to the Director of Development and my daily tasks included managing the communications and assisting the Director of Development with fundraising campaigns. My role included organizing internal grant deadlines, researching new grant opportunities, writing and scheduling fundraising campaign newsletters, assisting in the planning/execution of fundraiser events and cold calling local business' for in-kind donation requests.

During my time on the Barbara Canales Campaign I was responsible for planning and executing over 6 community events and11 fundraising events. This work including working with vendors, venues, party hosts, advertising events, and coordinating volunteers. Additionally I was tasked with creating the flyers for this events. While on the campaign, I assisted the campaign manager and the candidate in raising over $500,000 for her re-election campaign. The majority of this money was raised over a 11 month period by cold calling donors, writing email fundraising campaign, and hosting fundraising events.