University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Luther College

Learner-Centered Training  -  Strategy Facilitation  -  Evaluation  -  Program Development  -  Nonprofits & Philanthropy

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Doing Good Together™

Director, Family Service Fairs

I design and facilitate programming to support grantmakers across Minnesota be more effective in fostering prosperity and equity in communities. I also help coordinate the Ron McKinley Philanthropy Fellowship - a program creating a pipeline for underrepresented communities to serve in leadership roles within philanthropy.

- Train philanthropic professionals  on topics such as proposal review, financial analysis, evaluation, equity and personal mission and strategy for philanthropic professionals
- Coordinate hiring process, monthly learning sessions, annual retreats for Fellows.
- Lead relationship with management at 8 fellowship host foundations.
- Manage peer-learning and online communities for five statewide networks including over 688 individuals.

Minnesota Council on Foundations

Program Manager - Leadership Development

In this role, I direct the strategic development of the Hubert Project, a global initiative building e-learning materials for use in public affairs classrooms and nonprofit and public sector training. Specific responsibilities include:

Partnership Development
- Establish partnerships with faculty and consultants for the development of new learning materials.

E-Learning Material Development
- Advise the development of new e-learning materials from an instructional design and adult learning perspective.

Management & Supervision
- Lead engagement of advisory board including associate deans from partner schools, faculty, and teaching specialists.
- Manage a part-time employee and five graduate research assistants in producing digital learning materials.

Training Design and Facilitation
- Designed and facilitated trainings for over 40 faculty and technologists from 12 Universities across Africa in case study methodology and the development of digital case studies.
- Plan, facilitate and manage technical logistics for virtual trainings.

Program Evaluation
- Manage implementation of program evaluation strategy for initiative, including developing surveys, phone interview protocol and web analytics dashboard.

Communications
- Develop and maintain external website, coordinating with web vendor and tracking analytics.
- Implement communications and marketing strategy for 300 active initiative participants and engagement of new audiences.

Fund Development
- Oversee $225,000 annual operating budget and raised over $700,000 in philanthropic funds.
- Cultivate new relationships with philanthropic and academic institutions to ensure sustainability of initiative.

Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Director - Hubert Project

I teach a strategic social media skills course to professionals in the nonprofit, public, and educational sectors.

University of Minnesota

Adjunct Faculty, Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Strategic Planning
- Facilitated cross-sector strategic planning processes for external clients including Center for Transportation Studies and multi-jurisdictional Solid Waste Coordinating Board.

Leadership Development
- Facilitated and evaluated university-wide leadership development trainings for 175 faculty and staff.
- Developed & published 2 multimedia case studies of cross-sector leadership for use in public affairs classrooms nationally - one on human trafficking and one on children's mental health.
- Coordinated forum for over 200 individuals featuring research and speakers on Minnesota's top companies for leadership development.

Facilitation & Process Design
- Designed organization-wide conversations on diversity and inclusion as Humphrey School Diversity Committee representative.
- Co-organized a University-wide community of practice around Art of Hosting - frameworks and approaches that foster broad participation to address complex challenges.
- Designed 3 community-wide conversations on cross-sector solutions to human trafficking, attended by over 250 individuals.

Evaluation
- Developed logic model and data collection plan for regional community leadership development initiative.
- Conducted case study for $5 million initiative of the Women's Foundation of Minnesota focused on ending the trafficking of girls in Minnesota.

Program Manager, UMN Center for Integrative Leadership

Concentrated in Public and Nonprofit Leadership and Management and Evaluation

Masters in Public Policy Candidate

I reviewed current contracting processes and workflows to streamline and articulate expectations for a new internal Salesforce relationship management & workflow database. I conducted a marketplace scan of board-volunteer matching services nationally to improve MAP's programming.

MAP for Nonprofits

Summer Employee, Database Development

- Chaired committee planning and implementing national annual conference attended by over 300 professionals.
- Served a year as Programming Committee Chair in which I established quality monthly programming focused on professional development with regularly sold out registrations.
- Served a year as National Liaison in which I fostered relationships with leaders across 30,000 member national network to share local chapter accomplishments while drawing on expertise and experience of partner chapters.

Young Nonprofit Professionals Network - Twin Cities

Board Member

As Associate Program Officer at Northwest Area Foundation, I supported the efforts of people, organizations, and communities over an eight-state region to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable prosperity. Specific accomplishments included:

- Developed evaluation metrics for $5 million budget focused on workforce development and contributed to cross-functional team developing an evaluation framework for Foundation’s comprehensive grant portfolio.
- Designed regional gathering for 50 grantees focused on asset and workforce development.
- Led cross-functional team in requirements gathering for relationship management technology solution.

Northwest Area Foundation

Associate Program Officer

The Minnesota Project

Board Member, Development Committee Chair

As Project Associate for KAL, I served on a dynamic team of 3 employees designing and implementing a capacity building initiative helping grantees of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation develop their management and financial acumen.  In this role, I actively participated in the design and implementation of all aspects of the project including communications, evaluation, service delivery, and reporting.

Most importantly, I served as first-line communicator with over 1,500 eligible organizations and over 200 affiliated consultants across the United States.  I also served as a liaison with external consultants, advisors, and partners.  To ensure effective communications and seamless service delivery, I oversaw the support systems for this project, including both a public website and a private SharePoint collaborative site as well as both a resource and a consultant database.

As our services developed, my position evolved into that of a grants manager for a budget of over $4 million.  I helped initially develop the grantmaking program, and continued to make it more effective.  Most notably, I collaborated with an external consultant to configure Salesforce for grants management as well as an office-wide constituent relationships management (CRM) solution.

Fieldstone Alliance

Project Associate, KAL

I served as Member Programs Fellow through the Lutheran Volunteer Corps, a year-long national volunteer service program dedicated to uniting faith, social justice, intentional community, and simple and sustainable living.

In this position, I executed and coordinated complex projects and programs in conjunction with executive and senior management to strengthen women's foundations across the world.  These programs included an 8-month fundraising training, online evaluation tool trainings, an annual conference and other day-to-day member services.

I also managed, fostered partnerships, and wrote action alerts for Women Without Borders, an anti-violence advocacy campaign involving 30,000 online community members.

Leah Lundquist