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JOANNE BUTCHER
FUND AND CAPITAL CAMPAIGN CONSULTANT
472 Monterey Boulevard 415-368-3669
San Francisco, CA 94127 joannefilm@gmail.com


Results
Consistent high-level, efficient financial success in non-profit fundraising
Launched and closed $5M capital campaign
Develop Boards, staff and volunteers to full fundraising capacity
Market and implement projects into profitable public visibility

Clients include:
Geneva Car Barn, YMCA of San Francisco, Youth Radio, Oakland
Bass Museum of Art, City of Miami Beach, By the River, Inc., Sebastian, FL

Consulting Expertise
o Design and Implementation of Capital and other Campaigns
o Strategic Fund Development Planning and Organization Development
o PR, Marketing and Communications
o Independent Film Specialist: Film Financing, Non-Profit Film Funding, Script Development

Experience
Principal, Fund Development Consulting
Independent consulting practice working with nonprofits and foundations to achieve greater organizational effectiveness in support of progressive social change. Current/recent clients include Geneva Car Barn ($16M capital campaign); Youth Radio (annual $2.3 - $3.2 M annual + $5M capital campaign);YMCA of San Francisco ($3.8M annual campaign + $38M capital campaign); Community Housing Sonoma County (Prospect research tech sector donor/investors for 10-year $120M permanent supportive housing project for hard-to-house homeless); By the River, Inc. ($7 million, 41-bed Assisted Living Facility serving low-income frail elderly).

Executive Director
Alliance for Media Arts + IFP/Miami, Miami Beach, 1990 – 2003
Executive Director, Program Designer. The Alliance Cinema was one of the best-loved arts organizations in South Florida. Admired for its independent, foreign, avant-garde and GLBT cinema. I became the Executive Director for the last 6 years managing a staff of 12, and handling all booking, PR, governance and management, and fundraising. The cinema was open 364 days a year, with a film school and filmmaking studios and special events year round. Regional membership of filmmakers and a State-wide competition for producers who competed with a script and a budget for a prize of $25,000 cash, plus $175,000 in goods and services to make a feature film. Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival; Made in USA: 25 Cuban filmmakers; Filmmaking summer school for children with cancer; suicide prevention program for gay and lesbian youth; video literacy program for mothers in prison and their children.

Independent Film Consultant
Current clients include scriptwriters working to improve their scripts and also to sell them; producing; assisting professional filmmakers to advance their careers; and finding funding for film projects. Teaching scriptwriting; curating independent and foreign film. Co-created Brazilian Trade Show ( PetroBRas Miami ) which ran annually along with the Brazilian Film Festival and curated each week-long program of seminars on international film financing.

Consulting Services
Clients
Arts Clients
Resume
Selected Fundraising Achievements