Gillian Taylor

Experience

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  Sikand Engineering

  Jun 2007 - Sept 2007

  Administrative Office Assistant

  Worked in reception, phones, mail, and filing (requiring excellent attention to detail) and assisted in copying and compiling plans and contracts for project managers.Helped organize conference rooms and arrange lunch set-ups. Trained new assistants on office practices and procedures.

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  Warner Brothers

  Jun 2008 - Sept 2008

  Production Office Intern

  Supported writers in various office tasks (copy, fax, script running, script collating, sitting in on pitches, and white-boarding storylines, a process that involves outlining major script points in detailed form before writing the actual script).Utilized attentive listening while shadowing writers, producers, post production editors, and assistants and observed the step-by-step process of taking a television episode script idea from the drawing board to the final editing touches.

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  Mindstorm Creative

  Jan 2009 - Jun 2009

  Digital Media Marketing Intern

  Made grammar and formatting edits for main website's written content, researched, and drafted e-mail.

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  The Davis Voice

  Apr 2010 - Sept 2010

  Blog Columnist Intern

  Wrote posts for a Literary Corner inspired section of this blog, sharing my literary opinions on greater trends and fads in the literary market.Covered local community events on issues ranging from sustainability to urban chicken farming.Published online with links and pictures on a semi-weekly basis.

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  Disney Consumer Products

  Jul 2010 - Jan 2011

  IT Communications Undergrad Associate

  Developed communications within the IT group (experience drafting and sending e-mails to listservs, creating calendars and organizing meetings in Outlook, revising and standardizing various reports into one document for senior executive to share with his peers and leadership, updating SharePoint website content, and capturing salient information in order to suggest blog topics).Headed up a project set to improve e-mail correspondence and website presence in order to create a stronger Intranet, improve dissemination of information, and enhance team collaboration and employee engagement (well-practiced with mockups, approval processes, and working with multiple players-sensitive, supportive, and flexible group worker).Surveyed employees and suggested updates and streamlined web content based on employee feedback. Gained experience with internal business related social media elements.Worked with the employee development center to assign, schedule, publicize, and credit courses.Helped with PR and organization of the department's major quarterly global event from start to completion. Coordinated various speaker's decks, gathered and documented information for Keynote presentation, and selected video time code for final video cut to be posted to the IT employee Intranet. Show less

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  AmeriCorps

  Feb 2011 - Nov 2011

  AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps)

  Worked in a full-time, 10 month residential national service program on a team of twelve carrying out a mission of urban and rural development, environmental stewardship and conservation, infrastructure improvement, disaster relief, and energy conservation.Strengthened interpersonal skills, problem solving abilities, and stress management working, eating, sleeping, and living with a team of 12 other people 24-7.Grew as a leader in an assistant team leader role, while directing and guiding a team of 5-10 on project sites.Expanded basic construction skills and safety practices, lead teams of volunteers.Networked across high level city planners in order to enact change in Buffalo, New York neighborhoods through street clean sweeps, debris removal, and landscaping efforts.Experience flooring, dry walling, and painting.Maintained trails, planted trees, and helped in a garden nursery. Show less

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  Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS)

  Apr 2012 - now

  Manage Raiser’s Edge NXT donor database with 10K+ active donors and a $3.5MM+ annual budget.Lead major donor stewardship: Identify, research, and assign key donors and prospects, cultivate relationships, plan solicitations, set goals, and track results.Administer improved database best practices to boost data health and ensure all users are following organization standards and polices.Produce regular reports on appeal performance, donor retention, fundraising objectives, and moves management goals. Analyze data for trends and opportunities to improve outcomes.Supervise data entry employee: Coordinate scheduling and project assignments; facilitate trainings. Show less Manage donor database and administer precise and consistent data entry to ensure strong data health to boost the quality of contacts in mailing lists and targeted solicitations.Negotiated database upgrade: Researched and advocated for more robust and integrated database systems.Refine queries to better pinpoint and convert most likely donors into gifts.Oversee online donation systems and donor acknowledgment processing.Early design work for moves management tracking in RE NXT. Show less Cultivate relationships with volunteers and community partners in local schools, faith groups, and businesses. Coordinate employee and student volunteer projects, engage community partners in special events, and publicly recognize partnerships for outstanding support. Manage speaker’s bureau engagements in the community – train staff and volunteers on talking points, tailor content for audiences, annually update materials and content for speakers, and schedule talks.Interview volunteer candidates, consult program staff to decide placements, check references, and run background checks.Recruit volunteer support for major fundraising events and assign and manage as many as 180 volunteers in one event.Acknowledge in-kind gifts in Raiser’s Edge: Update donor records, create batches, run queries, generate thank you letters.Process all check, cash, and credit card donations, code gifts according to appeal, run detailed and precise tapes for accounting checks and balances, and track major donor gifts for immediate follow-up. Show less Work in a full-time, national service program working with the development team to build new media capacity in a local nonprofit that serves homeless and at-risk families and individuals in the community.Migrated website content to new WordPress platform, update and maintain written and image content.Write an average of 3 post a month for the COTS blog.Curate local and national articles, videos, offerings, etc. on homeless issues to share across social media networks.Develop content strategy for fundraising events (event scale ranges from 20-300 people), volunteer recognition, and online promotions through social networks, website, blog, and e-newsletters.Expanded fundraising skills as a development team planner with a peer-to-peer fundraising walk event, a phonathon, and multiple smaller fundraisers throughout the year. Launched a mobile giving campaign with the capacity to receive text donations, pledge donations, send out text alerts. Show less

  • Prospect Research and Database Manager

    Jun 2021 - now

  • Development Database Manager

    Jul 2015 - Jun 2021

  • Community Outreach & Volunteer Specialist

    Oct 2013 - Jul 2015

  • AmeriCorps VISTA Outreach & Social Media Coordinator

    Apr 2012 - Oct 2013