Overview
Work History
Education
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Certification
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Daisy Moran

East Moline,IL

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director, Center for Nonprofit Excellence

Quad Cities Community Foundation
Bettendorf, IA
09.2023 - Current
  • Leads, manages and evaluates the Quad Cities Community Foundation Center for
    Nonprofit Excellence.
  • As the first staff member of this new program of the Quad Cities Community Foundation, the inaugural director of the Center for Nonprofit Excellence works to bring the Center from concept to reality.
  • Vsionary, entrepreneurial bent to developing the Center, deep knowledge of and a passionate belief in the value of the nonprofit sector, and a collaborative nature with community leadership experience.
  • Continually assess the strengths, needs, and interests of the regional nonprofit sector, and
    develop and implement strategies to address them.
  • Coordinate and implement a mix of education programs, networking events, and peer
    learning groups relevant to our regional nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.
  • Recruit 15-member Advisory Committee
    members. Coordinate meetings and engage the committee in guidance of the Center.
  • Manage and supervise administrative assistants and volunteers.
  • Fundraising 3-million dollars for sustainability of the Center
  • Manges an annual budget of $230,000

Clean River Advisory Council

Walton Family Foundation
Bettendorf, IA
02.2023 - Current
  • Collaborative effort by the Walton Family Foundation, Iman Consulting, and the Quad Cities Community Foundation.
  • Disburse $250,000 in grants to address ecological and social issues.
  • Develop an inclusive clean river grant program accessible and achievable.
  • Co-construct a Clean River Strategic Plan.
  • Maintaining effective working relationships with public officials, government agencies, business leaders, developers, financial institutions, citizen groups, and outside agencies.

Board of Directors Member

Love Girls Magazine
Davenport, IA
05.2023 - Current
  • Attended board meetings and reviewed meeting agendas.
  • Participated in various committees to meet specialized goals.
  • Acted as ambassador for organization and routinely arranged meetings with stakeholders.
  • Engaged in fundraising and resource development efforts by reaching out to interested partners and donors.

Strategic Investment Chair

United Way Quad Cities
Bettendorf, IA
01.2023 - 05.2024
  • Led committee meetings to review grant applications, outcomes, and metrics by evaluating impact and regularly measuring performance.
  • Distribute $884,000 in grant funding to local organizations with a particular focus on marginalized and vulnerable populations.

President Council #5285

League of United Latin American Citizens
Moline, IL
04.2022 - 04.2023
  • Allocated and managed a budget of roughly $30,000 annually.
  • Fundraised $21,000 for our scholarship fund.
  • Awarded $55,000 in scholarships.
  • Supervises 50 members to provide leadership and direction, ensuring development standards are met, projects and programs are accomplished, and revenues and expenditures are within budgetary guidelines.
  • Serve as a liaison between external stakeholders and others regarding development projects and programs.
  • Provided organizational leadership and collaborated with external stakeholders to establish long-term goals, strategies, and policies.
  • Advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, housing, health, and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs.

Assistant Director

Augustana College
Rock Island, IL
06.2020 - 08.2023
  • Leads the campus-wide LGBT+ committee with 19 offices represented with the mission of continuous progress for inclusive LGBT+ and ally policies, programs, and practices.
  • Allocated and managed a college budget of roughly $60,000 annually.
  • Supervises 26 student workers and/or peer mentors. Provides robust performance feedback to ensure program goals and highest priority outcomes are achieved.
  • Write and direct the preparation of reports and studies to correspond and communicate with other departments.
  • Assists in all areas of the department’s operations, overall management, and administration of current and long-range planning functions.
  • Manages the relationship between the different ethnic communities in the Quad Cities and Augustana College with the overall goal of accessibility to the Quad City multicultural communities.
  • Develops, facilitates, and assesses programs and services that affirm and assure our underrepresented students' well-being and provide workshops across campus.

Board of Directors Member

Global Youth Mobilization with the Big Six Youth Organizations
12.2020 - 12.2021
  • Assessed and distributed $5 million to support local and national youth organizations, including grants for youth-led solutions and an accelerator program to scale up existing response efforts.
  • Make presentations to businesses, community partners, and government agencies.
  • Acted as an ambassador for the YMCA of the USA and maintain liaison with federal, state, and local governmental representatives.
  • Strategic partnership with the World Health Organization along with the involvement of global governments.
  • Organized the Global Youth Summit in April 2021 with 152 countries represented, 16 government and UN agencies pledging support, and 200+ speakers and facilitators.

Board of Directors Member

University Of Illinois Latina/latino Alumni Association
Champaign, IL
06.2019 - 07.2022
  • Elected Community Involvement Director.
  • Promote a network for the empowerment and advancement of Latina/Latino alumni, students, faculty, and staff at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
  • Lead the community committee to identify and enable opportunities for Illinois LLAA to exert a positive influence in the development of communities.
  • Awarded $7,500 in college scholarships.
  • Awarded $5,000 in DACA renweal scholarships.

Director of Youth Achievement & Community Engagement

Two Rivers YMCA
Moline, IL
08.2018 - 05.2021
  • Developed operational and policy leadership to further the YMCA's mission at the local, regional, national, and global levels.
  • Trainer for the YMCA of the USA, the national resource office for the nation's YMCAs, providing workshops across 2,400 YMCAs.
  • Allocated and managed a programming budget of roughly $70,000 annually.
  • Strategic planning, resource allocation, and program management of various large projects.
  • Driving accountability through proactively managing milestones and metrics.
  • Identify & managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Supervise 6 employees effectively to insure that programs and services support the mission of the organization.
  • Drafted, assessed and corrected high-quality proposals to pursue grants, donations and contracts.

Latinx Resilience Network Coordinator

La Casa Cultura Latina
Champaign, IL
05.2017 - 05.2018
  • Cultivated mental health, social, and cultural programs to support Latino students.
  • Facilitated community events regarding Latino cultures, heritages, & allyship.
  • Collected metrics over impact of programs & communicated effectively with stakeholders.
  • Co-organizer of the 2017 DACA Rally with over 1,000 attendees and over 25 organization partners, & passed a resolution in the Illinois Student Government.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Psychology

University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, IL
01-2018

Associate of Science -

Black Hawk College
Moline, IL
01-2016

Accomplishments

  • (2023-present) Emerging Leaders Advisory Council, United Way Quad Cities
  • (2023-present) West End Revitalization, Martin Luther King Jr Community Center
  • (2023) Forty Under 40 Selection Committee, Quad Cities Regional Business Journal
  • (2023) Exhibit Focus Group, Putnam Museum and Science Center
  • (2023) Coach, Ignite Retreat, The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation
  • (2023) Provost Search Committee, Augustana College
  • (2022) Judge, Miss Clinton County Scholarship Program
  • (2021) U.S. and World YMCA delegate, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
  • (2021) Unlock Coalition, United Nations Foundation
  • (2020) Founder, DREAM fundraiser
  • (2020–2023) Scholarship Committee, Quad Cities Community Foundation
  • (2020–2023) Advisory Board, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Augustana College
  • (2022–2023) Advisory Council, Diversity and Inclusion, Augustana College
  • (2020-2021) Chair, Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, & Anti-racist, Illinois State Alliance of YMCA's
  • (2020-2021) Facilitator, Diversity, Inclusion, & Global Engagement Solution Circle, YMCA of the USA
  • (2020-2021) Peer Group, Diversity and Inclusion, Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce
  • (2019-2022) Steering Committee, Quad Cities Youth Conference
  • (2019-2022) Steering Committee, The Empowering Latina Leadership Alliance, The Greater Quad Cities Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
  • (2019) 4-H Juntos Mentor, University of Illinois Extension
  • (2017) Researcher, University of Illinois Community Learning Lab
  • (2017) Marketing Committee, University of Illinois Black & Latina Womxns Summit

Affiliations

  • 2023 Illinois House of Representatives Certificate of Recognition
  • 2022 Forty Under 40, Quad Cities Regional Business Journal
  • 2022 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine
  • 2021 Advocate of the Year, Illinois/Iowa Independent Living Center
  • 2020 Diversity, Inclusion, & Global Engagement Award, Illinois State Alliance of YMCAs
  • 2020 Community Spotlight Award, Love Girls Magazine
  • 2019 30 under 30, YMCA of the USA

Certification

  • QPR Suicide Prevention Instructor 2022
  • Leadership for the Quad Cities, St. Ambrose University, 2021
  • YMCA Leader Certification, YMCA of the USA, 2020

Timeline

Director, Center for Nonprofit Excellence

Quad Cities Community Foundation
09.2023 - Current

Board of Directors Member

Love Girls Magazine
05.2023 - Current

Clean River Advisory Council

Walton Family Foundation
02.2023 - Current

Strategic Investment Chair

United Way Quad Cities
01.2023 - 05.2024

President Council #5285

League of United Latin American Citizens
04.2022 - 04.2023

Board of Directors Member

Global Youth Mobilization with the Big Six Youth Organizations
12.2020 - 12.2021

Assistant Director

Augustana College
06.2020 - 08.2023

Board of Directors Member

University Of Illinois Latina/latino Alumni Association
06.2019 - 07.2022

Director of Youth Achievement & Community Engagement

Two Rivers YMCA
08.2018 - 05.2021

Latinx Resilience Network Coordinator

La Casa Cultura Latina
05.2017 - 05.2018

Bachelor of Science - Psychology

University of Illinois

Associate of Science -

Black Hawk College

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