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Arlene Swartz; Consultant, Coach and Writer
Arlene Swartz is a senior development and nonprofit management consultant
with a track record of achieving outstanding earned and contributed income
for health, social service, educational and
advocacy organizations.
As
an independent consultant, Ms. Swartz works on an array of short and long-term
projects for her clients including: development and executive coaching,
custom-designed fundraising training workshops for staff and board members,
board development and recruitment, major donor campaigns and solicitor
training, strategic planning, program and proposal development, fundraising
assessment and the annual fund.
Prior to consulting, she served as Director of Development for City Harvest;
an organization known for recycling donated food from the kitchens of the
city’s top restaurants to New York hungriest citizens. While at City
Harvest, she created and managed a comprehensive fund-raising program,
doubled annual revenues, created major gift programs for individuals and
corporations, created and executed an annual signature awards dinner,
quadrupled the size of the individual donor base, increased donor retention,
and reduced the cost of raising each dollar by one third. Ms. Swartz
developed marketing and communications plans that targeted new food donors
and doubled the volume of food delivery and emergency food programs served.
For six years, she
served as Director of Development for the AIDS Resource Center in Manhattan
where she designed and built this agency’s development department including
individual gifts, foundation, corporate, and government grants, special
events, and bequests. She spearheaded the planning and opening of the
agency’s thrift shop in Southampton, Long Island, which diversified its
funding at a time when traditional philanthropy for AIDS was waning. For
seven years, she was Director of Development and then Executive Director for
NYS-NARAL. There she served as primary spokesperson, and managed
legislative, electoral, community outreach and volunteer leadership-training
programs. Arlene also conducted fundraising and board training for 25 NARAL affiliates nationwide. After her departure from the staff, Ms. Swartz
served as a member of NYS-NARAL’s Board of Directors for two years.
Ms. Swartz
holds a B.A. degree from Queens College and an M.A. degree from Hofstra
University. She began her career as an audiologist and speech therapist,
making a career change through marketing and media buying into fundraising
by becoming the Assistant Director of Mail Campaigns for the national
headquarters of the American Lung Association.
Ms. Swartz is an experienced trainer and
coach, and serves on the Board of Directors of Women In Development New
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