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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidate14909 Brentwood Dr.Lenexa, KS Street Address
Cell PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEEMAIL AVAILABLE@gmail.comRAYMOND A. DELIA -- RESUME* An experienced fundraiser with more than 30 years of non-profit service.* Skilled in all Microsoft Office programs, Raisers Edge & Crescendo (Planned Giving database)Papa Pal EMAIL AVAILABLE I visited seniors at their homes, helping them by cleaning, painting, garden work, small repairs, companionship, driving them to doctor appointments, church, exercise, walking, etc. From October 2022 - May, 2024 I made 939 visits and 1,911 hours of service.Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City GrantWriter/Poverty Simulation Facilitator October 2015 to 2019Camps For Kids Executive DirectorOctober, 2010 to July, 2015* A one-man office. Camps For Kids supports a network of 30 camps serving Kansas City area children with disabilities or financial need. Grant writing secures matching grants.* Camps re-apply annually, providing extensive metrics which are then used to secure matching funds from foundations and corporations. Camps For Kids vets camps for funding.* Duties include grant-writing, camp visitations, data collection and management, fund raising, distribution of matching grants, newsletters, annual reports, budgets and audit preparation.Junior Achievement of Middle America - Senior Development DirectorNovember 2005 to October 2009Wrote numerous grants to local and national foundations and corporations.Coordinated JAMAs annual Direct Mail and Telemarketing Campaigns.Led the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Bowl-a-Thon campaigns, grossing more than $500,000.Shared additional duties with JAMAs President and Education Staff.Developed partnerships with local corporations, foundations, and JAMA Board members.I retired at age 66. It did not last long.Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans -- Director of DevelopmentNovember, 2001 to August, 2005 (Hurricane Katrina)Led a $7.3 M capital and operational campaign to build JAGNOs Exchange City and Administrative offices on the Delgado Community College Campus.Wrote and secured a $1,056,000 grant from the Baptist Community Foundation.Led JAGNOs Annual Fund Campaign of $400,000 to $450,000 per year.In Fiscal 2005 achieved a 45% success rate (74 foundation proposals - $271,000 granted.)Worked closely with JAGNOs Board, and Hall of Fame Laureates planned-giving program.Continued work with JAGNO after fleeing Hurricane Katrina, securing grants of more than $120,000 while setting up our new life in Kansas City.Development and Planned Giving Associates 2001 to 2010 Founder and PresidentNew Orleans Ballet Association - The Contemporary Arts Center - Ozanam Inn (a homeless shelter of the St. Vincent De Paul Society) - Jefferson Performing Arts Society - The Historic New Orleans Collection - Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Kansas City Young AudiencesAudubon Nature Institute -- Audubon Zoo, Aquarium of the AmericasDirector of Planned Giving and Major GiftsDecember, 1998 to January. 2001Initiated the Institutes Planned Giving program.Trained in Planned Giving by Robert Sharpe Associates and in Crescendo Software.Formed Audubons Planned Giving Society.Wrote and distributed weekly educational emails to a network of more than 200 local attorneys, planned giving executives, and fundraising colleagues.Wrote and published a series of Planned Giving brochures for Institute donors and members.WYES TV 12 New Orleans Public TelevisionDirector of DevelopmentDecember, 1996 to December, 1998Led a staff of 12 colleagues in the Development Department.Responsible for Annual Fund gifts, Membership, Wine Auction, Fine Art Auction, and Riverboat Auction, including on-air fundraising appearances and studio production work.Instituted a successful Planned Giving ProgramResponsible for seeing to it that every commercial complied with Public Television standards.Baton Rouge Opera Chorusmaster, Assistant Conductor, Administrator, 1985 - 1988New Orleans Opera Association Director of Marketing, PR, & Development, Executive Director 1988 to 1997Six years of completely or virtually sold-out performances.Six years of balanced budgets.An Endowment of more than $3,200,000 raised totally in-house during my tenure.Superior standing within the New Orleans artistic and corporate community.Twofold increase in earned income from ticket sales.The modernization/computerization of every aspect of the Associations administration.Negotiated new contracts with artist, orchestra, stagehand and seamstress unions.Education:A.A. in Liberal Arts, Latin, French, Greek, Hebrew - St. Josephs College Seminary, Princeton NJB.A. in Philosophy; Graduate work in Theology - Mary Immaculate Seminary, Northampton PAUndergraduate and Graduate work in Musicology - Hunter College and New York UniversityM.A. in Choral Conducting - Westminster Choir College, Princeton NJPrior to my fundraising experience, I have had close to twenty years of professional music work including Ministry of Music Directorships in large Methodist, Presbyterian and Catholic Churches in Princeton NJ, St. Louis MO, Baton Rouge and New Orleans LA. I have prepared and or conducted major choral and orchestral works in these churches; and have prepared choruses, conducted major choral and orchestral works, Broadway Musicals, and worked with the Baton Rouge Symphony, Baton Rouge and New Orleans Opera Associations, conducted musicals for the LSU Drama Department.I am an avid reader. My wife and I enjoy Symphony, Ballet, and Opera together; we are also film snobs (Rio, Glenwood Arts Theaters) but sometimes I can sneak away for an occasional sci-fi flick. |
