Michele Zurakowski
Retired Chief Executive Officer at Beyond Hunger
- Role
- Chief Executive Officer at Beyond Hunger
- Location
- Oak Park, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Michele Zurakowski
Retired non-profit executive currently focused on catching up on sleep and friends while honing dormant cooking and gardening skills. Training two new rescue dogs takes is a new skill-building venture!
Experience
Chief Executive Officer
Jul 2012 — Present · Oak Park, IL, US
Leader for multi-faceted anti-hunger services provider: Beyond Hunger serves over individuals living in 13 zip codes on Chicago’s West Side and surrounding suburbs. Guide expanding portfolio of comprehensive programs: Summer Meals for children, Home Delivery for older adults and people with disabilities, Cooking Classes, Nutrition Education, Social Services, and Emergency Food Distribution including an offsite pop-up Despensa serving immigrant Hispanic families. Oversee aggressive food rescue program, recruiting local merchants to donate over pounds of perishable groceries and meals from cafeterias each year. Direct critical strategic processes, fundraising and development, financial and operational accountability, volunteer support, brand positioning. Ardent anti-hunger advocate, working to alter policies and end systems of oppression and racism at the root cause of our national hunger crisis.
Education
Manchester University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Communication
1978 — 1982
University of Minnesota
Ph.D., Communication
1986 — 1992
Skills
- Budget Management
- Public Relations
- Organizational Development
- Event Planning
- Management
- Program Development
- Team Building
- Social Media Marketing
- Healthcare
- Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Editing
- Program Management
- Administration
- Policy
- Marketing Communications
- Research
- Leadership
- Grant Writing
- Higher Education
- Grants
- Training
- Volunteer Management
- Proposal Writing
- Event Management
- Budgets
- Community Outreach
- Community Development
- Non-Profit Administration
- Teaching
- Data Analysis
- Social Networking
- Government
- Nonprofits
- Leadership Development
- Customer Service
- Budgeting
- Staff Development
- Marketing
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