Irina Pahlevanyan, CMC®

Fundraising expert, mentor, trainer, and consultant with more than ten years of experience. Head of "4090 Charity" Educational Foundation, co-owner of two businesses, mentor in a few projects, Vice-president of the Executive Board of the ICC NC Armenia, and the Chair of the Corporate Sustainability Commission in Armenia, Board Member at AYWA, Founding member of the Association of private preschools in Armenia, TEDx speaker, certified EFQM facilitator, and the winner of Rybakov Foundation’s Global contest 2020 in the nomination of “Education Community Leader”. I work with NGOs and private entities to improve their organizational capacities and financial sustainability by developing strategies, elaborating and managing competitive projects, and securing funding to turn those ideas into reality. I am cooperating with many international organizations as a contracted trainer and consultant, including UNDP, EC, EBRD, PIN, etc, and managing business development direction at our family cannery "Sunny Food". Now I am doing my second MSc in Philanthropic studies at the University of Kent. Areas of deep expertise: - training and mentoring on effective strategic fundraising, CSR, SE - training on Fundraising, Crowdfunding, Donor relationships, Leadership, Presentation skills, Pitching, Social Entrepreneurship, Strategic planning, M&E - developing and implementing strategies, and guidelines for securing income from grant-giving bodies or events - prospect research and proposal writing including corporate foundations, US, Asian and European donors - working with institutional, corporate, and individual donors - a business setup and development -capacity building and empowerment -report writing, impact measurement, and managing research studies Key Skills: Fundraising Negotiation Leadership Donor Stewardship Donor Advising Pitching Communications and Public Speaking Writing and story-telling Project design and management Proposal writing Strategic management Organizational/Event Management Troubleshooting Decision making Creativity