Employment objective: A team-based work environment to which I can bring skills in communication, writing/editing, fund development, research and education.

• Thorough competence with Microsoft Office, WordPerfect and multiple data base platforms including Raiser's Edge, Peachtreesoft, Foxpro and Lotus; Frontpage, Movable Type and HTML for Web-based publication and providing on-line content; The Foundation Center Grantmaker Data Base; all Internet browsers, search engines (Yahoo, Google, Dogpile, Kartoo, Vivisimo) and research tools (Lexis-Nexis)
• Publication credits include peer-reviewed journals; three years service on Editorial Review Committee, Presence, The Journal of Spiritual Directors International
• Experience in high-volume writing and editing on multiple deadlines
• Experience with corporate/foundation grantseeking and reporting/accountability process and major donor relations; budgeting and financial management; corporate and foundation grant strategic planning, prospect research
• Conversant with all major style guides, including Associated Press, New York Times, Turabian, Modern Language Association and University of Chicago
• Writer/editor/publisher of the public policy and current events Weblog, Just a Bump in the Beltway, http://www.node707.com

2002 - 2003

Special Assistant to the Executive Director/Acting Associate Director, Washington Theological Consortium, Washington, D.C.
Primary responsibilities: Program planning and execution, institutional development and grant-writing. Facilitated ecumenical staff and faculty groups, provided development and program assistance to the Executive Director, Board and Development Committee of the Consortium; long range planning for new, ecumenical and inter-faith members; research in: corporate and foundation donors, ecumenical studies, seminary marketing, theological education for teaching and learning, interfaith dialogue. Created public policy and theology events events for major donors (Friends of the Consortium) and alumni of Consortium members and grew the major donor base from a few dozen to over 200 in less than one year. High-volume writing environment with simultaneous deadlines for newsletters, public relations materials and grant materials and reports and constantly updated Website content.

January 2002 - June 2002

Assistant to the Director of Spiritual Formation, Sabbatical Studies and Continuing Education, Washington Theological Union, Washington, D.C. Responsibilities include research in spiritual formation traditions and design of new spiritual formation models and grant proposals for funding new programs.

January 2001 - January 2002

Contract employee for the Department of Institutional Advancement, Washington Theological Union, Washington, DC. Responsibilities included: creation of an alumni relations program; analyst to the grant proposal writer; research analyst for marketing and institutional giving; creation of an institutional newsletter to inform grantors, alumni and friends of the Union; event planning; creation of the alumni relations website and on-line giving program. High-volume writing environment which included simultaneous deadlines. Assigned and edited grant proposals, newsletter articles and web content.

1985 - Present

Adjunct Studio Faculty, Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

1986 - 2000

Assistant Principal Bassoonist, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC

1985 - 1987

Freelance Grant Proposal Writer, Washington, D.C.
(Clients included National Alliance of Business, Virginia State Chapter of NOW.) Activity included researching appropriate corporate donors (with assistance of Development Directors) and creating grant proposals and cover letters for specific initiatives within the organizations; designed corporate and foundation fundraising strategy.

1985 - 1986

Product Sales Coordinator and Grant Proposal Writer, Girl Scout Council of the National Capital. In addition to coordinating the sale of Girl Scout products, in support of the Council and individual troops, I managed the institutional donor program and wrote grant proposals in support of the Council's efforts to upgrade camp facilities for disabled Girl Scouts. Wrote the first winning million-dollar, multi-year proposal for this Council. Managed the first million-dollar cookie sale for this Council.

1981 - 1985

Lecturer in Music, Hart School of Music, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC. Responsibilities included: curriculum design; studio music instruction; class academic instruction, as assigned; development, coordination and administration of the Hart School of Music's summer continuing education programs; manager, faculty chamber music ensembles.

1981

Program director, WDAV-FM, Davidson, NC. I was responsible for programming 16 hours of classical music each day, supervising on-air staff, assigning staff, writing and editing the monthly program guide, on-air hosting of the afternoon drive time program and creating a weekly public affairs program. Additional responsibilities included representing the station to major donors and community arts organizations.

Pending:

• An article on interfaith relations and public policy for UU World
• An article on liberalism and social justice in the Evangelical Christian tradition for Prism

Monthly column in the North Carolina Music Educator, January 1982--May 1985
(not available online)

2001 - Present

Corporate and Foundation Donor program design and marketing for the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Cross, Berryville, VA.

1995 -1999

Lay Minister for Worship, Preaching and the Arts, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, Oakton, VA. Duties included: design of liturgies; preaching; supervision of volunteers; hiring and supervision of ministerial interns; adult religious education; fund raising within and without the congregation (local United Way, Habitat for Humanity, So Others Might Eat, Share Our Strength)

1989 - 1995

Labor Organizer, Local 161-710, American Federation of Musicians, Washington, DC. The primary responsibilities for this elected position were to develop and nurture consensus within the bargaining unit of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, negotiate and maintain its labor agreements, maintain relationships with the other Union bodies present at the Kennedy Center, I also served as shop steward and business agent for the bargaining unit, and developed membership programs to promote good order within the orchestra. During my tenure, I negotiated over $100,000,000 worth of labor agreements.

1995 - 2000

Certified Laubach Literacy Tutor, Literacy Council of Northern Virginia. I am an ESL specialist and worked with the Afghan refugee community in Northern Virginia.

May, 2004 - M. A. in Theology, Washington Theological Union, Washington, D.C. Concentration in systematic theology and formative spirituality

January, 2001 - Certificate in Spiritual Direction, Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, Bethesda, MD

1980 - M.M. with Distinction., New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA.

1972 - 78 - Undergraduate study in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, no degree

Member of The Writers' Center, Bethesda, MD

Member of Spiritual Directors International

Lay Cistercian, Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Cross, Berryville, VA

References are available upon request.