Kathleen Dawson Clancy
Nonprofit Director
Nashville,TN
Summary
Dynamic leader with a track record of guiding teams to success in nonprofit settings. As a seasoned Director, I've effectively led teams in comprehensive fundraising efforts, program development, strategic planning, and data analysis.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Development Director
Nurses For Newborns
8 2021 - Current
- Developed and executed annual fundraising plans, resulting in consistent revenue growth year over year.
- Secured new government grant dollars totaling $1 million through strategic proposal development and successful grant writing and application processes.
- Contributed to successful acquisition of $2 million in funding from Mackenzie Scott & Yield Giving open grant call through grant writing and collaborative project management.
- Collaborated with program staff to ensure accurate reporting on project outcomes for grant applications and donor communications.
- Oversaw creation of marketing materials to effectively communicate organizational impact to donors and stakeholders.
- Serve on leadership team, supporting development of three year strategic plan and providing guidance and support for full staff team along with Executive Director and Nursing Director.
- Led all event planning and execution, increasing signature event giving by 77% from 2022 to 2024.
- Cultivated relationships with individual donors, granters, and foundations.
- Developed and implementing PR/Marketing Plan, managed digital communications such as newsletter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media tools resulting in 15% increase in overall engagement.
- Oversee management of our donor database.
- Direct grant application and reporting process and ensured grant funding support for mission from federal, state, county, foundation, and corporate funding.
- Managed development budget and supported management of organization's full budget process.
- Lead Trauma Informed Care Team, overseeing Family Advisory Board and monthly staff trainings.
Performance Measurement Lead
Schuler Scholar Program
10.2019 - 08.2021
- Designed and implemented organization's first universal program activity tracking and reporting system that contributed to 12 out of 15 program sites increasing student retention results
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve project goals within budget and on schedule.
- Supported development and adoption of new Salesforce platform, representing over 100 staff members on-boarded and trained
- Provide key information to Founder and Funders via quarterly reports and meetings as well as ongoing
- Reviewed all program data and evidence collected during year one of adoption of new platform, analyzed information, and provided clear, actionable recommendations for improved outcomes to all departments. Including identifying over- or under-performing programs, identifying inequitable outcomes, suggesting areas for increased (or reduced) activity, and posing questions for further consideration.
Regional Director, Program
Schuler Scholar
08.2016 - 10.2019
- Managed and supported School Directors at 7 High School sites to ensure organizational goals and vision were met at each school site to achieve 100% high school graduation and 100% four-year college matriculation of Schuler Scholars with 93% of Scholars matriculating to highly selective colleges with financial need met.
- Built and maintained relationships with partnership High School Principals and District Superintendents to support strong student results.
- Designed and implemented scholar selection process that was adopted organization wide with evidence demonstrating increase in 4 year trending retention rates across 11of 12 fully matured programs.
- Designed and implemented Crisis Management Plan and lead Crisis Management Team for Schuler Scholar Program.
- Designed and implemented scholar support materials adopted organization wide to guide staff in socio-emotional intervention support as well as holistic and college ready high school course selection.
- Created and rolled out “Restructuring for Growth” plan to allow for organizational growth and development of internal management pathways that resulted in eight internal promotions.
School Director
Schuler Scholar Program
08.2014 - 12.2016
- Developed strategic plan to support program growth that resulted in program site increasing in size by 46% during first two years of strategic plan, increasing another 17% following year and has sustained that size over time.
- On boarded, oriented, supervised and provided professional development to team of eight staff, including six AmeriCorps members with two year commitments to organization.
- 100% of non-AmeriCorps staff members supervised received and retained internal promotions, retained 50% of AmeriCorps staff members supervised to permanent staff positions.
- Developed comprehensive community outreach strategy to identify qualified candidates that resulted in 36% increase in number of students selected, increase that has sustained over time.
- Developed program strategy that identified key core practices and interventions for students to support academic and college readiness success that resulted in 34% increase in 4 year student retention rate that has sustained over time.
Associate Director
Summer Search NYC
01.2014 - 08.2014
- Oversaw and maintained quality in all areas of programming to achieve 98% high school graduation rate, 94% college matriculation, 77% BA attainment rate in 6 years for 222 underserved high school students in New York City Public Schools.
- Planned and participated in program elements of fundraising events, including speaking at and curating largest fundraising event with over 500 attendees and raising $1.3M.
- Collaborated daily with National management team on organization-wide issues such as strategic planning, program expansion and enhancement, organizational structure, operational efficiency, and full team development to scale programming.
- Oversaw program team of 13 staff; oversaw and documented all hiring and on boarding practices for program staff.
- Built relationships with Board members and external partners to both educate them about Summer Search's programming and to incorporate their expertise into operations as necessary; including creating 5 board reports and presentations throughout year and well-attended and received adolescent development training for Board members and Jr Board members.
- Managed $1-million-dollar program budget.
Program Director
Summer Search NYC
03.2011 - 12.2013
- Managed staff in and oversaw execution of recruitment, retention, summer program completion, graduation, college matriculation, and college persistence of 200 high school students.
- Engaged in yearlong strategic planning process with coworkers, board members, and national staff team to produce 5 year strategic plan for site in 2011 and achieved strategic plan program goals for 2012 and 2013.
- Trained program staff in Summer Search mentoring model to support socio-emotional growth, curriculum development, group facilitation, data entry and project management to reach goals of retaining 85% of students from enrollment to college matriculation.
- Met strategic goals by achieving average rate of 98% high school graduation and 90% college matriculation for classes of 2011, 2012, and 2013.
- Codified hiring processes, program staff role design, and organizational structure in order to scale program and improve program staff retention rate to Summer Search network from 75% in 2010 to 85% in 2011, 100% in 2012, and 93% in 2013 and 2014.
- Supervised and fostered growth in Senior Program Associate, Summer Program Coordinator, and multiple Program Associates; 100% of supervised staff were promoted within Summer Search network.
- Retained 100% of program staff hired to Summer Search network during 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Associate Program Director
Summer Search NYC
10.2010 - 02.2011
Program Associate
Summer Search NYC
06.2008 - 09.2010
Facilitator
Project Success
07.2006 - 06.2008
Education
Bachelor of Science - Early Childhood Education
Miami University
Oxford, OH 08.2001 - 2005.05
Skills
Strategic leadership, performance measurement, team management, fundraising, operations, coaching and mentoring
Software
Salesforce, Little Green Light, Canva, Buffer, MS Office, Google, Prezi, Slack, ETO
Training
Development - Revenue Development and Fund-Raising Certificate, Center for Nonprofit Management
Management - The Management Center, 1:1 Management Coaching, Non-Profit Support Center Managerial Trainings, Behavioral Based Interviewing, InsideOut Coaching
DEI & Anti-Racism - Trauma Informed Care Certified, DEI Quarterly Workshops, SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Year Long Workshops, Undoing Racism Workshops
Youth Development - Mental Health First Responder Certified, Community Organizing with Youth, Youth Story Coach with The Moth, PASE - Adolescent Development Trainings
Data - NPEA Data Counts Seminar Series (9 week nonprofit data analysis certificate program), Graduate NYC! Academy - Data and Research to Improve Outcomes Semester Course
Leadership
Trauma Informed Care Team (2023)
Salesforce Nonprofit Customer Advisory Board (2021)
Founding Board Member, Alegria: Hope Through Art, New York (2010 - 2015)
Co-taught a Leadership and Listening 9 week course with David Marquet, New York Time's best-selling author of Turn the Ship Around!, for a tech startup team (2014)
Timeline
Performance Measurement Lead
Schuler Scholar Program
10.2019 - 08.2021
Regional Director, Program
Schuler Scholar
08.2016 - 10.2019
School Director
Schuler Scholar Program
08.2014 - 12.2016
Associate Director
Summer Search NYC
01.2014 - 08.2014
Program Director
Summer Search NYC
03.2011 - 12.2013
Associate Program Director
Summer Search NYC
10.2010 - 02.2011
Program Associate
Summer Search NYC
06.2008 - 09.2010
Facilitator
Project Success
07.2006 - 06.2008
Bachelor of Science - Early Childhood Education
Miami University
08.2001 - 2005.05
Development Director
Nurses For Newborns
8 2021 - Current
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