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1So many small and medium nonprofits need the talents of HR, marketing, finance, and other professionals, yet don't always need their full-time services or have the resources to keep such professionals on staff. It would be great to have some type of co-op or property manager that rents office space to these nonprofits, but also provides as a part of rent, access to a group of these professionals who work in a common space of the building for all the nonprofit tenants/clients.
65 weeks ago
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2While I'm a proponent of creating shared value http://bit.ly/fwsygd, Charles Green over at Trusted Advisor Associates offers an interesting critique http://bit.ly/dI9wLY of Porter and Kramer's shared value and Haque's The Capitalist Manifesto.
65 weeks ago
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3Transforming Story-holders into Story Tellers Like the beginning of The Agitator post states http://bit.ly/gXVkgs, any decent fundraiser knows stories are the best way to capture attention, but as I prepare for graduation, I'm looking forward to finding and sharing an organization's powerful stories with donors and other stakeholders.
65 weeks ago
About Me
Hi, I'm Kristina Brzezinski, and I'm a second year MBA student at The George Washington University. Prior to coming to GW, I worked at Survivor Corps, a nonprofit, led by an Ashoka Fellow, that helped survivors of war and conflict heal and transform communities. While pursuing my MBA, I have further cultivated my managerial and entrepreneurial leadership skills with the goal of being able to drive greater social impact after graduation.
Work History
- SURVIVOR CORPS (formerly Landmine Survivors Network)
- Membership Manager
- November 2007 to August 2009
• Designed new direct marketing strategy and launched the program that doubled the customer base and increased revenue by 77%
• Implemented retention best practices, increasing first-year customer retention by 21% and multi-year customer retention by 42%
• Decreased direct marketing costs by 62% by renegotiating contracts and scopes of work with three vendors
• Collaborated with Executive Director, Board Director, consultants and key staff to create the Survivor Corps brand
• Developed sophisticated systems using Raiser’s Edge, Researcher’s Edge and Crystal Reports to improve customer relationship management, prospect identification and research, and event logistics
• Co-founded and led the five member Green Team to decrease costs and improve the organization’s environmental impact
- SURVIVOR CORPS (formerly Landmine Survivors Network)
- Individual Donor Coordinator
- January 2007 to November 2007
• Worked on cross-functional teams to develop strategic plan for expanding the organization’s mission and programs
• Created and implemented a direct mail appeal that outperformed the previous highest performing appeal by 60%
• Increased annual direct mail revenue by 25% by acquiring more donors
- SURVIVOR CORPS (formerly Landmine Survivors Network)
- Executive Assistant and Receptionist
- July 2006 to December 2007
• Managed logistics for board retreat and meetings in cooperation with Chief Operations Officer
• Supported the Executive Director by making travel arrangements, coordinating his schedule, serving as internal and external point of contact, drafting correspondence and memos, and organizing documents and resource materials
- OFFICETEAM (agency specializing in temporary administrative support)
- Receptionist and Data Entry Clerk
- August 2005 to July 2006
• Served as Landmine Survivors Network’s first point of contact for board members, partners, donors and external stakeholders
• Assisted in recording Landmine Survivors Network’s nine year history in Raiser’s Edge
• Drafted between 25-50 insurance policies, policy renewals and amendments per day
Education
- THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
- Master of Business Administration
- 2009 - 2011
• Completing Certificate in Responsible Management
• Elected Net Impact Board Fellow
• Led team to complete Washington Metro Area Transit Authority Sustainability Audit
• Evaluated World Cup sponsors’ CSR initiatives during 2010 World Cup - Johannesburg, South Africa
• Consulted a Swedish clean-tech company on its U.S. market entry strategy - Malmo, Sweden
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, NEW COLLEGE
- International Human Rights Law Summer Programme
- 2010 - 2010
• Selected to study in elite human rights law program
• Presented affirmative case against BP in debate for Human Rights and the Marketplace course
- MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
- Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, Political Science
- 2001 - 2004
• Studied internationally focused classes in the fields of political science, sociology, history, and anthropology
• Volunteered in orphanages through Cross-Cultural Solutions - Yaroslavl, Russia
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