Emily Oppenheimer

• Successfully manages diverse portfolios of private foundation, corporate foundation, and government funders across multiple program areas and regularly secures new and robust funding including 6-figure grants.
• Effectively leads projects, adheres to overlapping timelines, and collaborates with executive leadership, program leaders, data team, and finance colleagues to produce proposals and reports for funders.
• Provides thought-partnership across teams to design new initiatives to meet community needs.
• Contributes to agency-wide funding strategy and relationship-building with external partners.

• Successfully and creatively cultivated new funders across multiple program and two partnered organizations.
• Collaborated across teams to produce timely proposals and reports amidst overlapping deadlines.
• Worked closely with program leaders and executive leadership on agency-wide fundraising strategy campaigns.
• Supported team in preparation for agency-wide structural transitions.

• Leads on designing mission statement and long-term giving strategy.
• Participates in program evaluation and ongoing discussion about best practices for achieving systemic change through philanthropic practice.
• Attends quarterly board meetings to present updates about current grantee programming and propose new grantees, review foundation financial plans, and to schedule grantee program site visits and conference attendance.

• Assisted in production and distribution of online newsletter for legal community on constitutional norms and rule of law while growing readership and contributed content copy.
• Tracked all FOIA requests and litigation related to the census and kept up-to-date online “map” detailing legal action by different advocacy, oversight, legal, and governmental bodies.

• Worked with Community Board 16 in Brooklyn to produce GIS maps of the neighborhood’s parks and playgrounds and mapped potential capital improvements for inclusion in budget request.
• Designed, conducted, and analyzed community survey to assess infrastructural and programmatic needs.
• Produced report detailing potential impacts of neighborhood development plans on parks and playgrounds in CB16.

Worked with WE ACT for Environmental Justice - charged with identifying new equitable and sustainable economic models to incentivize utilities to assist with interconnection of community-owned microgrid projects in New York City.

• Conducted research including literature review, compilation of relevant case studies, and interviews with community solar advocates, renewable energy experts, and other stakeholders.
• Developed criteria for policy options based on political, technological, and economic feasibility measures.
• Prepared analytic report for WE ACT with recommendations for microgrid development projects and campaigns to complement their Northern Manhattan Climate Action Plan.

Worked with The Office of Community Schools - charged with identifying strategies for increasing retention of Community School directors in the Bronx by The Office of Community Schools.

• Conducted research including a literature review of the community school model in New York and across the country, literature review of human resource management, and interviews, focus groups, and questionnaires with Community School Directors and partner organization staff.
• Developed criteria for policy option selection based on political and administrative feasibility.
• Prepared oral presentation and analytic report for client.

• Conducted research about the impacts of New York City’s zoning, tax, and housing policies on displacement of low-income families and attended weekly service meetings to discuss and plan affordable housing application workshops for constituents.
• Compiled statistics about gentrification to inform development of a racial impact assessment tool for implementation by developers.
• Identified potential donors and tracked city plans for upzoning as well as risk of displacement in Brooklyn neighborhoods to support grant applications.

Worked with GreenThumb - charged with identifying ways to manage food production in community gardens given regulatory ambiguity at the city level.

• Conducted research including literature review, compilation of relevant case studies, and interviews with community gardeners, practitioners of urban agriculture, and food policy experts.
• Developed criteria for policy option selection based on stakeholder input and scalability.
• Prepared oral presentation and analytic report for GreenThumb staff with policy recommendations that they incorporated as part of their strategic plan.

• Kept membership information up-to-date, managed social media, helped plan fundraising events, and organized all incoming publications.
• Produced original content for Facebook and Twitter.
• Assisted with production and execution of annual fundraising gala and writers workshops.
• Maintained professional correspondence with member presses and organizations.