Sharon Richman

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About Sharon Richman

she leaves everything she touches better off"-(as indicated in a recommendation) Results-oriented, resourceful manager, with an exceptional record of innovation, engaging volunteers/leaders and directing development projects/events that lead to improving fundraising results. Leads the creation, development, planning, and implementation of initiatives that exceed goals, address challenges, build productive teams and collaborative partnerships. Accomplishments include: Expanding involvement and participation by 50% and increasing financial resources by 25%($3M) for a major fundraising event Recruiting participation of three dozen organizations in the planning of a new educational outreach project, which resulted in youth participants locally Creating a Volunteer Resource Center that involved 1500 individuals in "hands on" volunteer opportunities and on agency boards, increasing the number of donors and raising the level of donor contributions Managing a large non-profit organization's Governance system including a strategic planning process which redesigned the system to increase efficiency and effectiveness and the board nomination process to engage new leadership Establishing and managing a retail business, growing the customer list to Specialties: Community Relations; Development and Fundraising; Events and Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Human Reource Management; Nonprofit Governance; Program Development; Special Project Management; Strategic Planning