April Calnin

About April Calnin

With 18 years of experience in local, national and international organizations, April brings creativity, skill and passion to her work with a goal of collaborating to design and implement innovation solutions. She loves to collaborate with colleagues, mentor new staff, is a life-long learner and values opportunities to engage closely with the work. Key highlights:*Partnership development and management*Project design and evaluation planning*Grant writing, development and management*Experience with government, foundation and corporate partners and donors*Expertise in prospect research*Internal and external communications: content development and project management*Building and leveraging internal and external relationships to maximize results*6+ years of project design, management and evaluation for the field of education (local, district, state and international)*Career development areas: conscious capitalism, corporate social responsibility, business management

Experience

1. Senior Director of Development

   CARE

   Jul 2021 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   CARE is a global non-governmental organization which works in 100 countries around the world to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. CARE has a unique, holistic and proven approach that addresses immediate needs and also provides skill-building and advocacy tools that create resiliency, equipping people and communities in ways that forever change lives and create sustainable and scaled results. At CARE, April:*Successfully secured re-investments from the largest U.S. based foundations totaling over $10M*Brought in a new corporate donor to CARE and successfully increased year on year funding*Manages a portfolio of CARE\'s long-standing professional foundation partners, stewarding over $20M in active grant funds*Coordinates internal team relationships with CARE\'s global Humanitarian and Advocacy (domestic and global)*Collaborates with program teams and country office staff across all sectors where CARE works: education, sexual and reproductive health and rights, water, food and nutrition security, environment and climate change, humanitarian and emergency response, advocacy, and impact investing*Leads proposal development processes for large, competitive grant opportunities*Supports partnerships with international donors (Europe, Arab States of the Persian Gulf)

Education

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Studies

  2004 — 2007

Skills

• Editing
• Event Planning
• Non-Profit Administration
• Grants
• Program Evaluation
• Blogging
• Research
• Nonprofits
• Volunteer Management
• Political Science
• Fundraising
• Proofreading
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Program Development
• Newsletters
• Grant Writing
• Public Speaking
• Creative Writing
• Community Outreach
• Community Development