Julie Dickinson

• Set vision and lead strategic decisions regarding organizational structure, scope of services, advocacy priorities, and nonprofit's policies and performance.
• Initiate and grow strategic partnerships and alliances; community, individuals, foundations, and corporations.
• Oversee Chicago's financial operations to ensure fiscal stability and integrity
• Develop and execute marketing strategy including LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, PR, fundraiser promotions, and monthly newsletter
• Led major service expansion and operational transformation in response to COVID -19 pandemic while doubling clients served, limiting exposure risk, and developing a more efficient model to continue increased service after return to face to face service

• Developed and grew individual giving program for mission-driven, world-class circus that helped fund city parks throughout Chicago
• Grew and managed grant funding with a focus on underserved communities in Chicago
• Managed and developed marketing assets, including a website and monthly newsletter, with the goal of fostering and growing donors and growing revenue beyond ticket sales
• Assisted in negotiations between the City of Chicago, Chicago Park District, and Midnight Circus to grow impact through Chicago's Night Out in the Parks program

Created and implemented strategies to help clients effectively reach their target audience.

• Brought together a network made up of Ann Arbor's bookstores, book publishers, and leaders from the University of Michigan to establish the Ann Arbor Book Festival.
• Produced a week-long event that included a street festival, literacy symposium, the publishing of a book, Ann Arbor (W)rites, and a benefit gala with keynote address by Michael Eric Dyson focused on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071755115/960

• Lead B2B marketing strategy for dotcom start-up

• Developed and implemented marketing strategy and programming for national CRM conference.