CHRISTINE E. ANKERBERG
Classical Conversations
Lombard
19
years of professional experience
Passionate about Christian education, I bring a desire to see the advancement of Christ's kingdom through education. With over 20 years of proven success in cultivating the relationships and developing the strategies needed to advance the missions I care about, I bring with that zeal a broad range of professional experience in education, communications, fundraising and public relations.
Work History
Manager of Donor and Alumni Communications
1 Year 6 Months- Worked with the Director of Advancement to help accomplish fundraising, event and communications objectives.
- Researched current development, planned giving and estate best practices and provided suggestions to Advancement Director regarding planned giving, stewardship, and other fundraising initiatives.
- Helped Advancement Director work with marketing, communications and events teams to accomplish development goals.
- Worked closely with administration to organize and develop updated advancement website to serve Timothy families.
- Interviewed alumni and wrote profile stories for The Reflector highlighting God’s faithfulness and Timothy’s role in success.
- Drafted advancement communications, including fundraising mailings, website copy, event communications, The Reflector and TCS News articles.
- Helped organize and oversee the Taste of Timothy, Jog-A-Thon and Golf Fundraiser.
Director, Classical Conversations Wheaton North
1 Year- Directed a Classical Conversations licensed community of 12 homeschooling families.
- Brainstormed ways to grow community
- Presented science experiments and art projects to tutors quarterly
- Trained and managed tutors to lead their classrooms effectively in the classical model, also presenting the science experiments and art projects to ensure that the tutors had the tools needed to teach each week.
- Established and nurtured relationships with host church, CC colleagues, families, and vendors to foster community engagement.
- Coordinated and executed licensed community learning days and events, enhancing collaborative learning experiences for families.
- Managed all administrative tasks for the community, including application and tuition processes, maintaining the budget, purchasing and distributing tutor resources, and updating the community handbook.
Director of Advancement, The College of Education at Purdue
1 Year 10 Months- Managed college’s development staff and oversaw development operations with an annual goal of $1M.
- Increased scholarships for graduate and undergraduate students by 10%, establishing 5 new scholarships.
- Grew scholarships for graduate and/or undergraduate students by 10%, adding 5 new scholarships during tenure.
- Created role, strategy, and operations for college’s first stewardship manager, overseeing administration of over fifty scholarships and awards in alignment with donor intent.
- Directly managed relationships with the college’s key donors and major gift prospects, about 70 donors.
- Facilitated meetings between the Dean and donors, based on donor interest and giving capacity.
- Secured major gifts ($10K+), including planned and endowment contributions, to support college’s strategic initiatives.
- Presented to Deans Advisory Council during bi-annual meetings and assisted college leadership with strategic planning.
- Director of Development, WBAA - Public Radio from Purdue (Aug. 2013-July 2015)
- Managed station’s development staff and oversaw development operations with an annual goal of $700,000.
- Created station’s first major gifts club; added 59 members in year-one, generating revenue of over $30,000.
- Tripled station’s historical record for new members joining during an on-air membership drive.
- Solicited and secured the station’s first gifts for a technology fund, quadrupling the return on the lead gift.
- Proposed first tenured internship program with The Brian Lamb School of Communications leading to the station’s first endowed gift in support of a program.
Director of Communications & Corporate Relations
1 Year 9 Months- Led the NYC launch for the organization, coordinating a launch event with 500 guests and securing over $250,000 prior to the launch.
- Planned, communicated and implemented all campaigns and events, raising over $400,000 by first year-end.
- Recruited and managed participants involved in organization’s “FundRacing” (running a race to fundraise for Back on My Feet) activities, a group of approximately 80 participants running six different races, resulting in $150,000.
- Communicated chapter updates to the Advisory Board and established the first Junior Advisory Board.
- Created and maintained all website content, social media, video and newsletter content – grew readership by over 1,200 in first six months of newsletter’s publication, maintaining an average of 26% readership.
- Coordinated local and national media opportunities for chapter.
- Drafted press releases and conducted media training for the Executive Director in preparation for interviews.
Senior Account Executive
6 Years 5 Months- Directly supported two managing directors at leading strategic financial public relations agency.
- Facilitated management of client projects and relationships for crisis communications team, serving dozens of Chartis (formerly AIG) policy holders.
- Drafted press releases, talking points and other audience specific communications; managed all RFPs.
- Drafted press releases, talking points and other audience specific communications; managed all RFP’s.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Rhetoric and Communication major, Business Administration minor
- Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy, Fall 2003
- GPA: GPA 3.50, Major GPA 3.67
Skills
Relationship building
Strategic planning
Verbal and written communication
Passion alignment
Event management
Generating enthusiasm around causes
Organization
Training
Upward management
Affiliations
Cityview Community Church – Elmhurst, IL (2017-2026)
Section name
- Please note that as the director of Classical Conversations Wheaton North I was the sole proprietor of a Classical Conversations license, but not employed by Classical Conversations as an organization.
Timeline
Director, Classical Conversations Wheaton North
Classical Conversations
05.2023 - 05.2024Read More
Manager of Donor and Alumni Communications
Timothy Christian Schools
01.2018 - 07.2019Read More
Director of Advancement, The College of Education at Purdue
Purdue Research Foundation
08.2015 - 06.2017Read More
Director of Communications & Corporate Relations
Back on My Feet NYC
11.2011 - 08.2013Read More
Senior Account Executive
The Abernathy MacGregor Group
06.2005 - 11.2011Read More
University of Richmond
Bachelor of Arts from Rhetoric and Communication major, Business Administration minor
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