Elise Mackevich Salchli

Experience

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  Illinois Humanities

  Aug 1985 - Jul 2020

  Finance and Compliance• Managed financial operations and collaborated with a board, auditors, and staff to sustain financial stability while augmenting business growth.• Executed financials on behalf of employees at all levels, including payroll administration, financial benefits, and cash reconciliation, to warrant regulatory and fiscal compliance.• Regularly informed departmental leaders, senior decision-makers, and other vital stakeholders on the institution’s financial health, facilitating effective strategic planning to achieve company goals.• Served as liaison and/or fiscal agent for several organizational partnership, separation, and acquisition agreements.• Supervised and monitored enterprise expenditures, carefully reviewing cash flow, identifying funding restrictions, and prioritizing spending to successfully maintain financial stability.• Diligently oversaw contract agreements with outside vendors, evaluating select expenditures to ensure fiscal and federal compliance while sustaining key vendor relationships.Human Resources• Consistently administered human resources matters while ensuring all employees were treated with dignity, fairness, and equity, and policies were in compliance with all regulations.• Utilized best practices to build employee/employer relationships by providing clear expectations, ensuring employees have the appropriate skills and support, and encouraging all to contribute.• Leveraged project management and interpersonal skills to lead training and development programs for employees, building motivated and top-performing teams.• Managed staffing changes to align with institutional needs, including hiring and downsizing, updating job descriptions as necessary.• Researched, designed and negotiated employee compensation and benefit plans to provide maximum benefits to employees and the employer including health, dental, LTD, STD, life and Section 125 Plan. Show less

  • Senior Advisor

    Aug 2019 - Jul 2020

  • Director of Fiscal & Office Operations

    Aug 1985 - Aug 2019

  • Fiscal Officer

    Jan 1986 - Dec 1987

  • Administrative Assistant

    Aug 1985 - Dec 1985
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  Literature for All of Us

  Jun 2020 - Dec 2022

  As the key staff, I oversaw all business activities during a critical time of need. I worked closely with the Board at Literature for All of Us to evaluate the organization's future in light of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on in-person sessions, which are a major component of LFAOU's mission. To inform our decision-making, I created an assessment report that identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. I carefully analyzed different options for the organization, including revamping, closing our doors, or partnering/merging with a mission-aligned organization.After thoroughly evaluating our resources and mission, we made the decision to donate the organization's funds, books, journals, and art supplies, as well as our curriculum files, to the Chicago Public Library. We closed down the organization in good standing and filed all required State and Federal reports.I also crafted communications to inform funders, partners, key stakeholders, and constituents of our decision and worked collaboratively on a celebration of the organization's achievements.Effected the transfer of all resources to the Chicago Public Library, resulting in the mission's reach growing more than 10-fold, having the CPL librarians trained with LFAOU trauma-informed book group model and making book group materials available at libraries across the city. Plus, the website is archived through CPL’s involvement in the national archival project, offering over 1000 weeks of curricula. Show less

  • Executive Operations Director

    Jun 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Manager of Finance and Administration

    Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
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  The Lavender Plan

  Sept 2023 - now

  Principal