former marketing project manager
Jessie has a passion for helping organizations tell their story and strongly believes in the importance of personal and professional development. Jessie has several years’ experience in employee engagement, event planning, project management, and marketing and has worked in several different industries, including social services and recruiting. She received her BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Arlington and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a marketing emphasis from Arizona State University. In her spare time, Jessie enjoys playing with her dogs, exploring outdoors, and teaching self-defense classes for women.
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Fundraising Academy
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How to Make Your Nonprofit a Champion of Ethics
We’ve all heard this before: it’s a gray area.
Corporate Training
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#HappyChats: How Our Team Celebrated Success with Superhero Day
Learn all about how the quarantine, superheroes, and trivia games brought our team closer together in today's virtual world.
Fundraising Academy
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Panel Review: Making the Most of Your Digital Fundraising Strategy
Check out the article below for a recap of our Digital Fundraising panel held on June 10, 2020!
Route to Relief
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Job Seeker Series: 5 Common Interview Questions and How to Answer Them
There are so many questions to prepare when you’re prepping for an interview, so how do you know which ones to rehearse?
Route to Relief
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Job Seeker Series: How to Nail an In-Person Interview
In-person interviews can make job seekers feel nervous sometimes, but with these 8 tips, you’ll be a pro in no time.
Route to Relief
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Job Seeker Series: How to Nail a Phone Interview
Have a phone interview coming up? We're here to help you become a phone interview champ!
Route to Relief
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Job Seeker Series: How to Nail a Virtual Interview
With many organizations currently working from home, you are more likely to be asked to participate in a virtual interview right now.
Fundraising Academy
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5 Tips to Enhance Your Digital Fundraising Strategy
Digital fundraising is an innovative strategy to help you reach a wider donor base, especially in our tech-driven world.
Corporate Training
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Product Spotlight: Digital Alumni Recruiting
We know it can be difficult to find the right candidate, let alone fill your pipeline with qualified talent on an ongoing basis. So, what is our Digital Alumni Recruiting service, and how can it help you?
Corporate Training
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The Top In-Demand Workplace Skills and How to Develop Them
It’s no secret that the economy took a hard hit during the COVID-19 pandemic as many businesses came to a halt, laid off employees, furloughed workers, and faced substantial economic downturn.
Corporate Training
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Six Tips for Becoming a Leader in Change Management
Whether it’s during a global pandemic or just everyday life, becoming a change management leader is key to ensuring your team’s success and keeping employee engagement alive during challenging times and unexpected changes.
Fundraising Academy
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Becoming a Time Management Superhero
It seems like we’re always looking to improve our time management and productivity skills, which are more important than ever as we find ourselves stuck indoors surrounded by distractions. So what’s the trick for managing these?
Fundraising Academy
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Advice to Women in Fundraising from the Valley's Leading Fundraising Professionals
Learning from the successes and mistakes of others can oftentimes be an excellent resource for our own success.
Corporate Training
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Staying Mindful in the At-Home Workplace
Mindfulness in the workplace is important – but what about when our workplace is at home?
Fundraising Academy
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Panel Review: Fundraising for the Rest of Us
There’s human services, religion, and education. For everything else, there’s this panel…and this panel review.
Fundraising Academy
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Panel Review: Start the New Year with 2020 Vision
As 2019 comes to a close, we’re looking forward to a new decade full of innovation, fresh ideas, and goals to focus on.
Corporate Training
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3 Reasons Why Education-Industry Partnerships Are Critical
We hear a lot about employees looking for jobs and employers seeking qualified candidates - so how do we bring these two parties together?
Fundraising Academy
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What Exactly is Cause Selling, and How is it Different from Fundraising?
Working in nonprofits oftentimes means that we are less concerned with the “bottom line” or “selling” because that sounds like jargon for the corporate world. We generally focus on our cause (which is important) and our mission (which establishes why we fundraise in the first place). But how do we bring these two focus areas together? How do we combine the bottom line with our cause?
Corporate Training
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Impact Breakfasts: A Year in Review
As 2019 begins to wind down, it’s time to review some of our favorite takeaways from this year’s Impact Breakfast topics and provide tips that you can bring to your team in the coming new year!
Fundraising Academy
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How to Use Stories from Your Nonprofit to Enhance Your Writing
Grammar and syntax are all important parts of writing, but overall, the most important part of writing is to hone in on the stories that are most important to tell.
Fundraising Academy
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Why a Call to Action is Important to Helping Your Donors Out (and How to Use One Properly)
One of the most critical things to know about marketing and writing is that you want processes to be easy for your audience to follow.
Fundraising Academy
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How to Make Your Writing Sound Natural and Appeal to Donors
Writing for your nonprofit can be tricky, simply because writing lasts forever in today’s digital age.
Fundraising Academy
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Getting to Know Your Audience in Nonprofit Writing
Writing can be challenging, but it’s an important part of our jobs that can’t be avoided. Between emails, donor letters, thank you notes, and presentations, writing is critical to any successful fundraising campaign. But how are you supposed to handle writing projects if you don’t feel comfortable with your writing?
Corporate Training
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7 Time Management Techniques to Get You Through Your Day
With all the distractions available to us nowadays, it’s no wonder so many teams suffer from poor time management skills.