Heather Ring

• Led all fundraising and philanthropic services for JewishColumbus, including the Annual Campaign, JewishColumbus Foundation, donor advised funds, planned giving, endowment development, and major gifts.
• Served as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, partnering with the CEO, Board of Trustees, Foundation Commitee, and volunteer leadership to develop and implement comprehensive fundraising and community philanthropy strategies.
• Directed the Financial Resource Development team, strengthening fundraising strategy, campaign operations, performance reporting, and donor stewardship.

Accomplishments:

• Led the most successful annual campaign in organizational history, raising $15.047 million, increasing donor participation to 1,552 donors, and adding 546 new and recaptured donors.
• Directed Foundation growth efforts resulting in more than $18 million in fund contributions, including over $13 million in donor advised fund contributions, while expanding donor advised funds, endowment giving, and legacy philanthropy.
• Implemented comprehensive fundraising reporting, forecasting, and portfolio management systems to improve strategic decision-making and organizational performance.

• Led the Individual Giving program in the successful cultivation of major gifts.
• Managed relationships of key organizational stakeholders, while creating strategies to generate a comprehensive revenue goal of $30 million in annual contributions.
• Serve on Individual Giving's leadership team.
• Created a success-oriented and accountable work environment, providing clear expectations, ensuring appropriate and timely feedback, thus inspiring professional and personal success.
• Collaborated with Advancement team peers in Corporate and Institutional Relationships, Planned Giving, and Community Impact on strategy and tactical planning to ensure alignment and understanding of goals and objectives while developing a path to successful achievement of the organization's strategic objectives.
• Supported the United Way's diversity and inclusion efforts.

• Led the fundraising strategy and team of staff for multiple state programs, including Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
• Supervised a team of 3 philanthropy staff including 2 State Directors of Philanthropy.
• Consulted with the respective State/Area Directors and Field Program leadership on goals, strategies, and projections to ensure goals were achieved.
• Leveraged resources across the organization to elevate Trust for Public Land at the local level.
• Promoted and advocated work taking place in our state programs with our national programs by communicating impact with external partners and stakeholders.
• Directed the Minnesota state program and advisory board.
• Managed a portfolio with an emphasis on individual major gift prospects and donors.
• Served as a member of the Philanthropy Management Team working closely with a variety of internal partners including the Field Advisory & Support Team, Finance, Marketing, Philanthropy Operations, and Philanthropy Programs teams to drive the integration of an organization-wide philanthropy program.

• Developed and executed a comprehensive and diversified strategic development plan encompassing all aspects of fundraising for the Minneapolis Jewish Community.
• Led the annual, planned, restricted, directed, emergency, capital and endowment, and corporate giving programs.
• Reviewed and evaluated existing development operations and initiated new development strategies to support an integrated approach to community fundraising.
• Focused on merging the federated fundraising model with the development work of the Jewish Community Foundation to create holistic donor-centric philanthropic partnerships that drove maximum efficacy of fundraising dollars.
• Restructured development team and implemented performance metrics to determine success of development strategies and activities.

Accomplishments:

• Strategized, planned, and launched COVID-19 relief campaign partnering with 25 independent agencies to raise over $14 million.
• Exceeded 2020 annual campaign goal raising over $10.5 million.
• Led the requirements, bidding, and implementation process for new CRM.
• Collaborated with consultants to strategize capital and endowment campaign.
• Managed portfolio of 90 households.
• Co-managed 90-100 households with CEO.

• Led and managed the daily operations of the Great North Innocence Project.
• Managed Board in developing strategic annual work plans and budgets.
• Evaluated organizational successes and challenges by providing data driven reports to ensure informed assessment of organizational activity.
• Led and managed fundraising activities, including strategic advancement planning.
• Identified and applied for new grant opportunities, managed existing grants.
• Led educational outreach and communications; co-managed public policy work.

• Built donor relationships for the University, collaborating with collegiate units to effectively present the case for philanthropic support of the University.
• Managed a major gifts portfolio of 150 prospects for all collegiate units within the University system with an emphasis on soliciting gifts at the $25,000+ level.
• Developed and implemented individual donor strategies and proposals, while providing appropriate recognition and stewardship of donors' past giving.

• Provided full representation for a case load of 150 - 200 criminal defendants facing both Felony and Misdemeanor charges.

• Managed, coordinated, and staffed international training programs funded through U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development grants.
• Prepared program proposals and responded to government requests for proposals.