Julia Hodges

Background

About Julia Hodges

I am an organized, friendly self-starter with years of experience in the nonprofit sector. After receiving my BA in community psychology, I founded Empower Mentoring Program, a nonprofit which provides adult mentors to middle school students. After years of wearing many different hats as Executive Director, I am now looking forward to specializing in fundraising. As founder and executive director, I have vast experience in-Volunteer management -Program creation and implementation -Development -Implementing annual appeals -Soliciting major gifts -Executing fundraising events -Marketing -Board governance -Youth relations -Business sponsorship Key accomplishments include-Grew my donor portfolio from 1 constituent to 150 -Retained over 50% of donors each year -Increased annual budget by 45% every year -Doubled revenue raised at 2018 fundraiser from previous year -Recruited, trained and managed over 40 volunteers -Implemented and integrated usage of CRM database Certificates obtained: Certificate in Fundraising and Development - University of California, Davis - June 2019 Grants Magic University - June 2017 Spark the Fire Grant Writing Boot Camp - Aug 2016 Shannon Doolittle's Stewardship School - Sept 2015 Certificate in Nonprofit Management - University of Washington - May 2014