Carol Erickson
Fundraiser - Strategist - Communicator - Connector
- Role
- Director, Foundation and Philanthropic Partnerships at Education Design Lab
- Location
- Washington, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Carol Erickson
Carol helps nonprofits and foundations understand how to take an idea from inception through implementation so they can have their visions realized. Carol has dedicated her professional career to international development, philanthropy and nonprofit organizations, working to alleviate poverty in low-income communities and to improve access to education and information for researchers and the general public. Extensive experience in organizational capacity building, evaluation, fund raising & board development, communications, and general operations & management.Specialties- Effective negotiator and team leader who empowers people along the way, striving to create a learning organization- Strengths include strategic planning; fundraising from foundations, corporations & individuals; board management & training; communications; building impactful partnerships; evaluation; project management; organizational capacity building; public speaking & representation; philanthropy; social networking; management of complex budgets & funding sources; board development; and international development. I also love to write and tell powerful stories.
Experience
Director, Foundation and Philanthropic Partnerships
Sep 2022 — Present
Education
University at Albany
MA, Slavic Linguistics
University at Albany
BA, Linguistics and Russian
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Science (MS), library and information science
Skills
- Fundraising
- International Relations
- Philanthropy
- Evaluation
- Public Policy
- Project Management
- Research
- Strategic Planning
- Board Development
- Program Management
- Capacity Building
- Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos)
- Program Evaluation
- Program Development
- Management
- Grants
- Public Speaking
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Social Media
- Social Entrepreneurship
- International Development
- Nonprofits
- Non-Profits
- Grant Writing
- Leadership
- Nonprofit Leadership
- Ngos
- Social Networking
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