Lexie (Kahn) Tuchman

Manage the development department for a $90M non-for-profit changing the lives of over 23,000 clients.

• Lead a team of five who are responsible for raising $7M for Ohel's annual campaign and restricted funds, as well as capital investments and $500,000 for Camp Kaylie in unrestricted dollars
• Work closely with CEO to create and implement fundraising strategy and with the board to increase fundraising efforts
• Participate in conversations about future strategic opportunities for the Agency
• Executing Ohel’s first Legacy Campaign in order to build out a strong endowment
• Oversee five direct mail and eblast appeals which raise $500,000. Manage and analyze the data to identify how to increase the amount raised year-over-year
• Managed and implemented first-ever online fundraising campaign for Camp Kaylie, which raised over $305,000 from more than 844 people
• Improving systems and dashboards used within the development department, including Salesforce and wealth-screening tools, in order to better engage donors and prospects
• Building and monitoring fundraising goals and projections, as well as the department's budget
• Established weekly Development team meeting with Marketing to identify goals for the week, brainstorm challenges, and learn from colleagues
• Responsible for five fundraising events, including annual Gala and Golf fundraiser, which in total raise over $3M from corporate sponsors and individual donors
• Creating Capital Campaign for two of Ohel's office spaces

Built the development department from scratch and helped the organization grow from seven staff to over twenty, in addition to increasing the number of students and alumni involved.

• Oversaw fundraising efforts for a $3M+ budget
• Created development strategy, and worked with CEO, staff, Board of Directors, and lay leaders to implement it successfully
• Increased number of major donors involved and the overall dollars raised for the organization by $400,000 in one fiscal year
• Closed the largest gift from an individual TAMID had received at the time at $100,000
• Managed strategy and oversaw implementation of annual phone-a-thon campaign, TAMID Together, where more than 3,000 students raised over $285,000, a 73% increase from before I joined the team, from 4,423 individuals in three days
• Worked closely with foundation partners and managed several grants, and secured additional opportunities from new funders
• Established alumni community as an integral piece of TAMID’s programming, which quadrupled alumni giving and led us to hire a full-time professional as a result
• Coordinated and organized cultivation events to encourage community involvement and increase awareness of TAMID's work and mission
• Created the structure and systems for proper research, cultivation, stewardship, and solicitation of donors
• Determined which data needed to be collected, decided how to gather it, and performed donor analyses to identify demographics and trends, which led to the identification and cultivation of new donors and the successful engagement of lapsed-donors
• Designed and deployed internal development dashboards and systems to ensure we understood fundraising progress as compared to goals
• Introduced new fundraising tools and techniques to the organization, including Moves Management
• Created TAMID’s first-ever Annual Report and Donor Report
• Contributed to weekly strategic meetings with the other three C-suite members to discuss big-picture, organizational decisions about how to improve work internally and externally
• Built and managed development department, which quadrupled in size under my leadership, and oversaw the marketing department
• Developed and retained a talented team through training, motivating goals, regular team and individual check-ins, and strong employee engagement
• Facilitated communication across multiple departments and established a culture of fundraising so that all departments were contributing to TAMID’s development efforts
• Created and managed department's budget and helped build overall organizational budget
• Created marketing materials, monthly communications, and appeals for the donor community
• Managed the culture committee which strengthened TAMID’s internal culture and appreciation of staff

Worked with medium and large Foundations on fundraising strategies and how to implement JFNA resources

• Managed, created, and disseminated resources for LOJE25 – an two-year endowment campaign with a goal of $100 million
• Thought partner and implementer of MultiGen Philanthropy program which trained professionals in facilitating conversations with wealth inheritors about their philanthropy
• Organized logistics and on-the-ground implementation of conferences for professionals and donors, including National Young Leadership Retreat and Professional Institute

Consulted for over 30 Network communities across the United States advising them on fundraising, leadership recruitment and training, events, and grants

• Raised over $1.2 million from major donors, community members, and family foundations
• Built relationships with community leaders, boards of directors, and local professionals virtually and in-person
• Advised on fundraising strategies and events
• Connected communities with JFNA resources, such as the Speaker’s Bureau, Missions Department, marketing materials, and planned giving resources

Focused on engaging young alumni and administrative support for the department

• Managed and maintained database
• Built donor profiles for high-level donors and prospects
• Created written materials for donor engagement, such as acknowledgment letters, appeal letters, and newsletters
• Rebuilt and reengaged young alumni community through events, solicitations, and meetings
• Oversaw Young Alumni Board and led the process of creating a strategic plan for engagement and fundraising
• Managed the Senior Fund, which created events for and fundraised from graduating seniors

A new role building out engagement with and fundraising from the UMD Hillel young alumni community.

• Established the strategy and goals for young alumni engagement and fundraising success
• Built relationships with over 300 alumni
• Created, planned, and managed 4-week Matching Gift Campaign which brought in 89 new gifts and $14,608 of new dollars, more than double the campaign the previous year
• Managed alumni solicitors who helped with outreach for Matching Gift Campaign
• Ideated and managed alumni committee which created 9 alumni events in several cities across America engaging hundreds of people
• Designed, planned, and taught a weekly Development Fellowship course to educate undergraduate students on fundraising best practices
• Created and implemented programming for the senior class, including overseeing the Senior Class Gift - a fundraising campaign that subsidized programming for Freshmen
• Produced fundraising materials utilized on social media and in newsletters