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COOPER COLEMAN LLCStrategic Advisor
May. 2024Akron, Ohio, United StatesCooper Coleman is a full-service recruiting and consulting firm partnering exclusively with nonprofit organizations, traditional and corporate foundations, social good organizations, and research and academic institutions to drive meaningful growth. We move organizations forward by placing the right leaders in the right roles at the right time, and we help to strengthen their management and fundraising capacity to amplify their mission and impact. Cooper Coleman is a full-service recruiting and consulting firm partnering exclusively with nonprofit and social good organizations, traditional and corporate foundations, and research and academic institutions to drive meaningful growth. I joined in May of 2024 as a Director of Executive Search, and transitioned into their Strategic Advisor for Cooper Coleman in April of 2025, offering my consulting, brand-development, and Search experience, I am also available as a subject matter expert in engagement, leadership development, management, and fundraising to amplify Cooper Coleman’s mission and impact with clients and candidates.
ProLiteracy WorldwidePrincipal Partnerships Director
Oct. 2023 - Jun. 2024Akron, Ohio, United StatesI served as a strategic partner to ProLiteracy Worldwide as a development, engagement, and fundraising leader, working collaboratively with staff and interdepartmentally to engage a national audience and cultivate relationships that will mutually service the philanthropic and capacity building goals of the organization, it's donors, partners, and supporters. In 2023, ProLiteracy decided to both modernize and redesign their approach to traditional philanthropy and the development department. They hired me as someone with the program design and architectural background in modern philanthropy and engagement skills to aid the growing new team with the support necessary to build brand new models and approaches for their future. ProLiteracy builds the capacity of adult literacy programs to transform lives and communities. We’re experts in adult education, leading the way in advancing adult literacy in the US and throughout the world. Our mission is to advance yours. We provide funding, comprehensive training and professional learning, approachable research, and leading-edge digital and print learning resources through New Readers Press to maximize your impact.
The Aspen InstituteTechnical Expert, Grant Writing & Administration
May. 2023 - Jul. 2023Global As part of The Aspen Institute's Digital Equity Accelerator, I was the Grant Writing and Grant Administration Technical Expert for the 10 global organization enrolled in the program. I provided grant research, writing, management, and administration subject-matter expertise and provided strategic consultations, guidance, strategic visioning, feedback, and hands-on coaching to each organization on an individual basis over several months.
Zoetic PressAssociate Editor
Apr. 2023 - Mar. 2024United StatesI was an Associate Editor on their global editorial team, where I work on reviewing, approving, and advocating for literary submissions (i.e.: fiction, nonfiction, prose, poetry and art), as well as supporting other editorial and administrative needs for the publication and it's other social, print, and digital services. Since 2014, Zoetic Press has collected some of the best voices in short-form literature, both established and new authors. We offer our award-winning journal, NonBinary Review, four times a year. Our podcast 4LPH4NUM3R1C drops new episodes weekly, and you can check out the best in non-linear work in our Random Access Memory feature.
American Red CrossRegional Director of Development
Apr. 2019 - Oct. 2023Northern OhioRejoined the American Red Cross of Northern Ohio in early 2019 to help temporally fill a gap on their team, and then was asked to stay in the role indefinitely. I supported Northern Ohio team overall corporate and foundation strategy, special and capital projects, and fundraising team education and coaching. I also led the regional grant development, writing, reporting, and management for Northern Ohio. I also led several national grant writer and fundraiser leadership efforts, including several new national grant models of donor engagement and ask strategies. I also developed and managed a $1.5M portfolio of corporate, foundation, and individual donors and prospects to help advance the mission of the Red Cross and assist donors in creating deeper philanthropic and engagement through giving to the American Red Cross. Regionally, I was the co-chair of the Northern Ohio DE&I Committee for the American Red Cross, I was the co-lead for the volunteer experience for the Development Department, and the Lead Editor for the Compass Point, a Regional All Staff publication.
TEDxAkron Owner, Co-Leader
Oct. 2018Akron, Ohio, United StatesTEDxAkron has a passion for showcasing Akron’s diverse voice and spirit. I took over the TEDxAkron license in 2018 from the original founders and have been the co-leader with a handful of other leads. I help to secure program and community volunteer leadership, financial partners, board members, community support, marketing and leadership design. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.*
Everywhere Books Are Sold Author, Writer
Jan. 2018Everywhere Books Are SoldI am queer bi-racial author who loves writing about BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ professionals, stories, experiences, and/or characters just living their normal lives or having extraordinary and wild adventures. I’ve been writing my entire life and published in a wide variety of professional and business outlets (GuideStar, Wild Apricot, Forbes, Thrive Global, VolunteerMatch, and more.) which led to my first nonfiction book The Unashamed Guide to Virtual Management, published internationally by ATD Press. I was published again with an experimental modern gothic story in the 2021 anthology Six Feet Apart by the Writer’s Group Press, was the leading profile writer for the 2022 releast of The Gaingels 100, a book featuring 100 LGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs and founders from around the world, was published last month by Zoetic Press in their Nonbinary Review Issue 27, and will be published this late Spring with a queer romance novella in Virginia Nelson’s 2022 flipped trope romance anthology Spring Fling. A wide selection of my fiction and business writings can be found at benbisbee.com.
Rhinocorn ConsultingPrincipal
Jul. 2016 - Jan. 2022GlobalRhinocorn Consulting was a global nonprofit consultancy, developing award-winning development strategy, community engagement, and volunteer administration design. While this was a role I led formally from 2016-2020, I now only take the occasional project when it suits my time and skills. During the formal years, I led a team of three to aid household name nonprofits design and build massive-scale nationalized programming to help raise more funds, engage more people, and build better engagement strategies. Former Clients Included: St. Jude Children’s Hospital, The United Nations Foundation, Share Our Strength/No Kid Hungry, 4-H National Council, The Nature Conservancy, Cleaning For A Reason, American Red Cross, National Military Family Association, Beachwood City Schools, RunningDog, PMA Educational Foundation, Canine Companions for Independence, TrovaNOW, The Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection (PRECEDE) Consortium, ProLiteracy Worldwide, and many others.
Realized WorthSenior Strategy Advisor (contract)
Jan. 2016 - Jan. 2016I was contracted as an advisor to help support Realized Worth with their business and consulting strategies, tools and processes. I helped to build a dynamic new set of fully integrated client inquiry and assessment tools, project management tools and measurement and post-project assessment tools. Realized Worth is a global consulting firm with a niche focus on engaging employees in corporate volunteering and giving programs, which includes designing and fully implementing program strategies. Fundamentally, Realized Worth's goal is to equip companies to develop their employees into leaders – leaders whose decision-making is influenced by their exposure to social issues and societal needs.
American Red CrossNational Sr. Officer of Corporate Employee Programs
Jan. 2012 - Jan. 2016United StatesI was the Red Cross' national subject matter expert for corporate engagement, corporate social responsibility, workplace giving, United Way, the Combined Federal Campaign and employee-activated philanthropic strategic partnerships. I helped to support the organization raise over $100M annually in Federated and WPG revenue and bring in thousands of corporate volunteers for our community and disaster programs annually. I developed the architecture, management, and offered the American strategy for corporate employee programming as it relates to the Red Cross' corporate partners and their employees. I worked within the national development department to support those working with the Fortune 1000 and their employees, directing how corporate engagement creates stronger relationships and financial partnerships.
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