Emily Elizabeth Bianco

I performed all fundraising efforts for this non-profit. I succeeded in securing initial funds and building a development team to support a start-up organization with thirty one employees in less than six months.

• Solicited major gifts from individual donors totaling over $450,000 in less than five months of incorporation
• Developed and solicited major gifts ranging form $10,000-150,000
• Researched and successfully wrote grant proposals
• Began annual fundraising events, increased event revenue by 100% in one year
• Managed development strategy and leveraged technologies to optimize efficiency
• Wrote copy for and launched the direct mail campaign 
• Grew and managed the development team: expansion officer and grant writer
• Managed volunteers and created development committee
• Built monthly donor base 

I was responsible for building and executing a cohesive development program for a rapidly growing non-profit as the first full-time director of development.

• Secured largest gift to date the organization has ever received ($165,000)
• Helped develop organizational budgets
• Grew annual banquet revenue by 50% 
• Launched and successfully completed organizations first annual appeal
• Researched, coordinated and secured grants for the first time in organization history
• Re-designed and wrote copy for online fundraising 
• Managed volunteers and a summer intern

• Assisted in research and development of the International Business Program at Franciscan University in Gaming, Austria for Professor Dr. Tilman Rusch
• Traveled around the European Union on International Business Observations with students

I was the first student chosen to represent the university and recruit prospective students at conferences in over 15 locations across the country by myself.

• Spoke on stage to auditoriums of 4,000 high school students
• Managed marketing table and engaged students, parents and youth ministers
• Spring 2009, Awarded "Student Worker of the Year" out of the entire university 

Planned and coordinated the Honduras Mission Team of 20 students and 4 priests for a week-long mission trip. 

• Interviewed, screened and hired the team
• Lead team formation
• Coordinated trip logistics in Spanish
• Lead team in fundraising efforts for raising $72,000 necessary for the mission trip

Continuing education courses in strategic corporate partnerships, grant writing, board creation and planned giving

Completed graduate-level academic classes; Theology of the Body I: Head & Heart Immersion and Theology of the Body II: Into the Deep

12-week intensive course in non-profit fundraising

Graduated Cum Laude

Completed International Business and History & Literature of Mexico courses in Spanish