Justin M. Kirkeberg

• Led artistic initiatives to enhance the company profile and community engagement.
• Managed with Executive Director comprehensive grant application and reporting process to secure ongoing funding for the company.
• Developed a touring educational company that performed in alternative locations such as schools, shelters, adult detention centers with original works earning nearly fifty percent of annual operation costs.
• Teaching acting classes for individuals and small groups

• Developed and implemented operational policies and procedures to move the organization to a more sustainable model.
• Increased earned income over 400% in under 30 months.
• Supervised adult teaching artist and 60-70 youth workers in 5 social enterprises micro businesses
• Developed the first individual donor campaign increasing our individual donor base 200%

• Selected and renovated two branch offices increasing our staffing capacity 85%.
• Implemented brand identity standards for the agency ensuring consistent marketing and communications.
• Supervised a staff of five, coaching and mentoring each of them to move from administrative staff on to licensed agents

• Solicited individual and Corporate sponsors for the Chicago chapter's annual gala.
• Coordinated key-note speakers including then Senator Barack Obama
• Increased overall donations by 125% over three years from

• Revamped internal financial controls effectively capturing $450,000 in lost/unbilled revenue
• Developed 2-year staffing plan expanding staff from a team of ten consultants to a team of twenty-eight consultants and administrative staff, and increasing revenue from 1.1 million per year to 2.8 million per year
• Coordinated a $250,000 facilities renovation in a working office space

• Lead two-year community engagement campaign rallying support around the nation's largest LGBTQ community center
• Created unique engagement platforms to address the very different and complex community's surrounding the center
• Facilitated bi-weekly drop in community meetings
• Organized yearlong campaign of cultural events that supported the LGBTQ community as well as the hyper local community at large

Tish School for performing arts