Experienced Writer and Editor Resume

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Posted on: 2016-09-01

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Resume:

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SUMMARY

• Development professional with track record of obtaining major awards
  
  • Created successful proposals to funders including John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, United Way Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Yahoo!, U.S. Agency for International Development, Open Society Foundations, World Bank and World Health Organization
    
    
• Strategic planner for mission-driven organizations seeking to grow their impact and visibility
  • Analyze emerging and declining markets, industry and funder trends, success metrics
  • Identify key organizational assets and competencies needed to thrive
  • Define mission impact and revenue criteria for future program areas
• Executive communications consultant to leaders who want to develop compelling stories that advocate, educate and mobilize support for their work
  • Lead rebranding campaigns to help organizations refine brand strategy and messaging
  • Collaborate with C-level executives on speeches, Op-Eds, presentations, white papers, pitch decks and other materials
  • Distill complex concepts into clear summaries of business value propositions and benefits, targeting messages to the audience and platform
• Program design specialist
  • Established outreach programs for homeless and at-risk youth, cancer outpatients
  • Created program in critical thinking and analytic writing for engineering students

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Kristen Yawitz Consulting, San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Principal                                                                                                                                        -, - present

Creative, high energy strategic communications and development consultant to mission-driven nonprofit organizations.

 

GeoHazards International, Menlo Park, CA
A nonprofit dedicated to increasing seismic safety in the developing world

Director of Strategic Planning and Development                                                    -

Directed intensive strategic planning process with staff and Board that involved defining strategic priorities, assessing new areas of work, and translating priorities into action plans. Fostered knowledge transfer within the organization. Created proposals, presentations and collateral materials for funders. Moderated international disaster risk reduction workshops.

 

Benetech, Palo Alto, CA
A nonprofit that develops sustainable technology solutions for social needs

Senior Manager of Development                                                                                       -

Designed and directed institutional fund raising strategy. Reported to and collaborated with the CEO, serving as a member of the Senior Management Team and contributing to overall strategic direction and growth planning for the organization. Personally responsible for securing over $.M in annual grant support. Managed high-performing team that consistently met revenue goals.

 

GeoHazards International, Menlo Park, CA

Director of Communications                                                                                                 -

Directed external communications, promoting the organization and its work through website content, brochures, newsletters, fact sheets, and other collateral. Led comprehensive website redesign. Introduced outreach “e-note” and segmented donor outreach campaigns that generated significant increases in giving levels. Oversaw foundation, donor and Board reporting.

 

Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
A private, coeducational Catholic university

Adjunct Faculty                                                                                                                                               

Taught Technical Writing and Intro to Communications in the School of Business and Management.

 

Healing Through Writing, UCSF Art for Recovery program, San Francisco, CA
A program of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center

Program Specialist                                                                                                                        -

Founded and led innovative outreach writing program for people living with cancer.

 

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE 

• Edited and designed quarterly publication, The New Economy, in addition to reports and briefing papers on economic conversion and disarmament.
• Created award-winning outreach program, in partnership with service agency For Love of Children (Washington, D.C.), for at-risk children to develop and perform plays about their lives.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Friends of Huddart and Wunderlich Parks, Woodside, CA

Member, Advisory Board

 

EDUCATION 

California Institute of Integral Studies

M.A. in Philosophy and Religion. Coursework in ecology and sustainability.

 

California College of the Arts

M.F.A. in Writing.

 

Columbia University

M.A. in Literature. Marjorie Hope Nicholson Fellow.

 

Swarthmore College

B.A. in Literature. High Honors. Phi Beta Kappa.

 

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST