Ellen Ruppert

• Manage a portfolio of international hospitality clients. • Ensure positive client relations and retention by working with the larger team to ensure positive relationships between clients and our digital marketing agency. • Drive new business from initial contact to expansion for high profile and global clients.

• Managed a portfolio of hospitality clients and new business. • Responsible for internal collaboration and external relationship management to bring a unified and positive experience to teammates and clients.

• Hand built Monhegan skiffs (wooden lobster boats) from board to finished boat and restored wooden boats while honing hand and machine tool skills, finishing and painting methods, machine maintenance procedures, and woodworking techniques while living in community with fellow apprentices and serving the local area.

• Led the Parent Giving program to surpass its annual goal by over 10%. • Responsible for the success of the parent giving program including strategy, marketing, and solicitations. • Co-lead all aspects of the annual giving program including but not limited to strategy, fundraising, digital marketing, direct mail, acknowledgements, stewardship, and volunteer coordination. • Managed and oversaw planned giving program.

• Led the annual fund in the 2020 fiscal year to surpass our goal by over 15% – a school record. • Responsible for the success of the parent giving program including strategy, marketing, and solicitations.

• Established stewardship program and policies to ensure Madeira’s top donors, stakeholders, and trustees were consistently engaged and thanked. • Managed foundation relations including solicitation, the proposal process, and identifying and pursuing prospective foundation donors. • Co-led planned giving overhaul including selection and marketing of a new digital platform. • Managed gift processing team.

• Primary staff grant writer • Researched, identified, and developed outreach strategies for prospective foundation donors • Developed and sustained organization’s relationship with foundation donors • Created marketing materials and strategies for development department communications • Using Salesforce and iContact sent donor communications including emails and major mailings • Assisted staff editor to edit website information, proposals, and general communications to donors

• Managed donation processing, donation entry into Salesforce, and issued acknowledgements • Managed donor and donation information in Salesforce including working with the accountant to reconcile the Salesforce donation records with the bank records • Assisted the Development department with prospect research, invoicing, Salesforce reports, donor calls, travel coordination, credit card reports, and other general administrative tasks

• Processed donations and updated records accordingly using Salesforce • Updated and maintained donor contact information using Salesforce and Eventbrite • Assisted in the planning and coordinating of development events

• Solicited contributions from University alumni and friends for the Sewanee Annual Fund • Met team-wide semester goals of $60,000 • Responsible for donor commitment and solicitation follow up through letters and emails

Studied at the Southern Methodist University- Cox School of Business in the summer of 2012 as a part of the Summer Business Institute. The Summer Business Institute comprises of intensive graduate level business courses for non-business majors.

Studied at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom in the fall of 2011 for six weeks. Then continued to travel through Greece, Italy, and Turkey studying the ancient Greeks and Romans with a classics tutor from the University of Oxford for the remainder of the semester.