1. JOAN ALVAREZ
32 East 35th
Street • New York, NY 10016 • 212-685-6494 • Jalvarez37@nyc.rr.com
FUNDRAISING AND DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL
Extensive Grass-Roots and Leadership Experience Directing Cost-Effective, High-Participation Funding
Initiatives Resulting in Increased Revenue, Improved Customer Service and High Visibility
Strategizing, planning and managing internal employee donor campaigns dedicated to
nonprofit and charitable organizations. Raised over 6 million dollars so far in my career.
Consulting with federal, state, city, academia and nonprofit organizations such as the
United Way of New York City.
The competencies I bring to this work include:
Helping employees understand the financial impact and implications of their donations.
Creating ideas for managing special events with the goal of increasing donations and
raising additional funds.
Teaching fundraising skills and sharing knowledge and tactical approaches with new
members to the profession.
Developing strategies and process improvements to maintain and increase contributions
in a challenging economic environment.
Working through and solving complex problems and identifying potential roadblocks.
Helping hundreds of nonprofit organizations meet their fundraising goals.
Combined Federal Campaign – CFC, New York, NY 2009 – Present
Fundraiser
Responsible for creating annual New York City campaigns raising $325,000 from employees
from of 36 federal agencies with over 2200 employees. Agencies include: DOL, SEC, UN, NASA,
CFTC, the FDIC and The NY Smithsonian Museum. This is the only fundraising campaign allowed
and endorsed in the federal workplace.
Consult with and provide counsel to agency leadership on developing fundraising
campaign strategies and methodologies to increase dollars collected over previous years
—especially critical, given the economic recession, federal pay freeze, and impact of
Hurricane Sandy on the New York City community.
Train and motivate agency coordinators and key workers in the behaviors and skills
needed to raise funds from coworkers. Train and mentor new fund raisers.
Develop strategies for planning fairs, auctions, talent shows and other revenue-
generating events convening at federal venues.
Collect all monies raised—cash, checks and payroll deductions.
Work with nonprofits to prepare their applications for acceptance into strictly regulated
Federal employee campaign catalogue. Of the 300 nonprofit applicants I have consulted
with, 95 percent were accepted into the catalogue.
2. Resume, Page 2 JOAN ALVAREZ
United Way of New York City 2002 – 2009
Fundraiser
Account manager for employee payroll deduction plans for: Profit, Nonprofit 501c3 and city
agencies. This included retail businesses such as Lord and Taylor, Target, Macy’s, TJ Max, B&J
Warehouse, NYPD, CUNY, DOS, Diabetes Research, Starlight Foundation, Doctors Without
Borders, The Mission Ship, and many others.
Acted as liaison between the charities and accounts, encouraging and ensuring their
participation in fundraising events. Discussed setting fundraising goals at multiple sites;
helped identify employees most suited to run an internal employee campaign or
volunteer for events; solicited ideas for events—book fairs, talent shows, wine tastings,
etc.
Prepared and delivered employee / management presentations and materials that:
o Emphasized the significance and rationale of donor giving.
o Demonstrated how individual donations concurred with the agency’s mission to
help people and causes and, generally, enhance their overall Social Responsibility
Program.
o Ensured client account received promotional materials, describing campaign
details and goals, for distribution at events.
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Contract Management Agency, New York, NY 1984-2002
Industrial Specialist (1150)
Contractor Compliance Oversight in accordance with government regulations, terms and
conditions of contracts for armed forces uniforms and weapons systems component parts.
Performed pre-award and post-award surveys, cost analysis, progress payments.
Reviewed and evaluated technical proposals, interpreted daily delivery lists.
Selected to work with the Pentagon to prepare monthly reports on the progress of their
most urgent and complex items manufactured in the New York City area.
Planned and executed multi-year manufacturing schedules.
Reviewed all contractors purchase requests for materials, graphed milestone charts.
Wrote corrective actions when the contractor was not in compliance.
Managed, trained and motivated a department of 12 employees.
Education:
Fashion Institute of Technology
Associate in Applied Science
Training Programs:
Employer sponsored programs:
Production Planning
Managerial Skills
Contract Management
