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Chelsea Mottern

Los Angeles

Summary

Seasoned social impact professional with over a decade of experience in grants management, fundraising, sales and marketing, strategic planning, political and grassroots advocacy, community organizing, and leadership. A self-motivated team player with a proven aptitude for developing and implementing short and
long-term strategies, achieving measurable objectives and goals, and working with a wide range of internal and external constituents.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Strategic Partnerships and Development

Everytable
10.2024 - Current
  • Catalyze nonprofit and philanthropic partnerships that further Everytable’s mission to make fresh, nutritious food accessible to everyone, everywhere.
  • Grow food service revenue by leveraging knowledge and networks in homeless services, Title III / OAA, Medically Tailored Meals, Area Agencies on Aging, Philanthropy and Government Agencies
  • Established over 70 new partnerships with nonprofit organizations that contribute to improving social determinants of health and transforming our food system.
  • Established logistics and structure for partnership programs.
  • Create and implement comprehensive short- and long-term engagement strategies with philanthropy and nonprofits
  • Project manage across departments to leverage their functional expertise and ensure effective implementation of new programs and projects.

Director of Institutional Giving

Way to Win
03.2024 - 10.2024

• Contributed to success of meeting $15 million private institutional fundraising goal this year
• Increased number of relationships with philanthropic intermediaries, major
foundations, and philanthropic advisors by 30%
• Host monthly donor briefngs, events, and convenings to highlight the work of
Way to Win and our grantees
• Develop high level strategy to engage and maintain relationships with donors
through an educational institutional membership experience plan
• Synergize cross-departmentally to identify strategies to raise political funds in
addition to nonpartisan funds

Director of Grants

LA Family Housing
02.2019 - 03.2024

• Lead and supervise three-person grants department.
• Exceeded my goal of raising $4.5 million private institutional dollars each year,
as well as managed over 65 public contracts, totaling $60 million annually.
• Write and submit winning proposals to private and corporate donors and
government agencies
• Lead strategy to set annual fundraising goals and develop strategies for
success
• Work with individual, corporate, foundation and governmental funders to
increase support for agency support, program support, and real estate
ventures.
• Work with agency leadership to develop programs, objectives, budgets, and
proposals in line with our mission.
• Oversee grantmaking programs to families and individuals experiencing
homelessness, managing relationships with donors, grantees and program
staff

Deputy Director of Grant Administration

Equality California
11.2017 - 02.2019

• Lead all institutional fundraising, including foundation grants, corporate sponsorships, and government contracts, bringing in more than 10 new funders and increasing institutional support by over $2 million.
• Lead cross-department work groups to implement grant tracking and monitoring systems
• Oversee grantmaking and sub-granting processes to partners and grassroots organizations
• Represent EQCA in cross-sector coalitions to bring an LGBTQ lens to issues such as immigration, education, healthcare, and religion.
• Advise the Program Director with advocacy and legislative programming.
• Supervise and manage workload of three Program Associates

Institutional Giving Associate

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
06.2015 - 11.2017

• Manage portfolio of 30+ private and corporate foundations and government
grants, including solicitations, proposals, financial and narrative reports, and
tracking progress on grant objectives.
• Manage corporate sponsorship program for events, including developing sponsorship packets.
• Improved grants management systems, including database best practices, tracking progress to fundraising goals, and maintaining deadlines and timelines for grants.
• Conduct research to identify new corporate and foundation prospects and cultivate relationships.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY

Master of Public Policy -

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Skills

  • Proposal Development
  • Fundraising
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Contract Management
  • Leadership
  • Budget Development and Management
  • Philanthropy
  • Sales Strategy Development
  • Database Management
  • Event Planning
  • Program Evaluation
  • Grant Writing
  • Communications and Marketing
  • Relationship Building
  • Grantmaking

Community Involvement

East Hollywood Neighborhood Councilmember
Jun 2019 — Present
Governing Board Member; Co-Chair, Homelessness and Displacement Committee; Member, LGBTQ Ad Hoc Committee


Sister District
Feb 2021 — Present
Serve as regional lead for organizing phone banks for progressive candidates across the country


Planned Parenthood Young Professionals Network
Jun 2017 — Present
Engage in fundraising activities, advocacy, education, and event planning for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

Timeline

Director of Strategic Partnerships and Development

Everytable
10.2024 - Current

Director of Institutional Giving

Way to Win
03.2024 - 10.2024

Director of Grants

LA Family Housing
02.2019 - 03.2024

Deputy Director of Grant Administration

Equality California
11.2017 - 02.2019

Institutional Giving Associate

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
06.2015 - 11.2017

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

Vassar College

Master of Public Policy -

University of Southern California
Chelsea Mottern