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Professional RESUME -- Allan Shore
VENTURE CHARITIES at work!
Below is the resume of Allan Shore, VentureCharities' principal consultant. His experience and
our ongoing work has focused on many relevant issues, including:
 | National Educational Projects | |
| Community / Vocational Training & Reform | |
| Youth Empowerment / Advocacy / Development | |
| Political / Policy Reform | |
| Housing / Homelessness | |
| Family and Community Counseling | |
| Interpersonal & Structural Violence | |
| Gender Justice | |
| Equality / Civil Rights | |
| HIV/AIDS Advocacy & International Organizing | |
| Faith-based Advocacy |
Resume of Allan Shore
With more than 25 years of nonprofit administrative, management, fund raising and advocacy experience, I
street" professional. Here is an overview of my work and why I started VentureCharities.biz.
Please feel free to contact us to learn more about how we can use this experience to your financial benefit! You
can also click over to see my California State Resolution, which summarizes some of my past accomplishments.
PROFESSIONAL FUND RAISING AND NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT
Over the last 25 years my work has been divided between fund raising consultations, grant writing and
administrative management project for numerous nonprofit agencies. I’ve also prepared a good number of for-profit
business plans and investor materials for small business ventures. Most of my work involves seeking grants or
donations from foundations, developing contracts, arranging business loan package materials or hunting for
potential investors. I’ve created hundreds of project packages to support program implementation or expansions
with budgets ranging from $5,000 to $2,000,000. I’ve successfully secured over $10,000,000. Currently, the majority
of work centers on writing and designing double bottom line efforts seeking to help achieve a balance using for-
profit and nonprofit business and operational models.
CURRENT OR RECENT GRANT AND INVESTOR SERVICES
Not-for-Profit Packages:
• Consulting Grant Writer, Grant Writing Partnership. Currently serve as a consultant who is assigned to
various writing and proposal packages for diverse clients, mostly Title 1 (Low Income) schools. Presently
completing school library and multi-media resource proposal for $250,000 equipment, software and neighborhood
networking Literacy for Life Initiative for Dollarway Schools in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. (Current position. I also write for
spontaneous clients seeking short-term writing consultants.)
• Grant Writer, Latino Resource Center on Alcoholism, Addiction and Community Involvement, Latino
Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse (Alameda County). Developed and wrote a 5-year NIH/NIAAA Specialized
Alcohol Research Center grant application for $8 million to focus core scientific research within community-service
settings. Over nearly two years, I prepared approximately 20 packages averaging over $250,000. December 2007-
November 2009.
• Grant Writer Consultant, Delray Credit Counseling Corporation, Delray Beach, Florida. Prepared educational
and investor materials to create online forms and learning activities to empower consumers to better understand
and use debt management and credit counseling or support services. May 2009 to January 2010).
• Project Writer, Children’s Network, Solano County. Prepared the final report and survey assessment of a
2009 salary and benefits review of family and center-based child care facilities in Solano County. Final brochure
report expected to be released in early 2010.
• Grant Writer, Benicia Historical Museum. Prepared basic funding applications and City funding documents
seeking special project and operational money for local historical initiatives. 2009
• Grant Writer, Priority ONE Licensed Family Child Care Initiative, Solano County Licensed Family Childcare
Network and Solano County Office of Education. Developed and continue to refine series of foundation and
business LOIs for a Priority ONE family child care initiate to reduce the eligible waiting list and to empower family
child care programs. Original application sought over $400,000 to create a network of family childcare providers to
enhance and expand the availability of critically needed services while integrating research-supported educational
elements to facilitate each child’s successful transition from day care to public schools.
• Grant Writer, Mom’s In Bloom. Developed initial grant application materials and project descriptive materials
for the creation of a new peer and professional doula birthing and lactation support consultant agency serving
Southern Solano County mothers and families in need. Start-up grant requests for $60,000 are pending, as are
donor and business contribution inquiries of $1,000 to $3,000. Secured $5,000 from Solano First Five project for
writing fundraising strategy. November to December 2007.
• Grant Writer, Benicia Unified Schools, Put together Career Technical Education and Physical Education
Enhancement grant applications for the California Department of Education. Prepared separate application
proposals seeking funds earmarked for outstanding extensions of existing school programs. Both applications
received funding, with a CTE grant of $19,000 to purchase equipment and supplies, and Physical Ed. Elementary
school grant of $70,000 to increase health and wellness activities at 4 schools. June-Oct. 2007.
For-Profit Business Packages
• Marketing/Advertising Development, Shiroco’s Fusion Décor Commercial Enterprise. Developed multi-
faceted writing, promotional, investor and sales/partnership package for small-town retail store with emphasis on
integrating new media technologies into successful growth and sector integration.
• Business Plan Writer: Circle of Friends Child Care Center. Prepared investor loan package. Includes project
overview of existing business. Developed idea statements, core marketing, sales, outreach/marketing,
implementation and graphic financial cost and ROI spreadsheets for expansion in Fairfield, CA.
• Business Plan Writer, A Place to Grow, Green-Learning Sustainable Child Care Center. Prepared start-up
loan/investor loan package for new business in Concord, California.
NONPROFIT EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT:
May 2001- March 2004
Executive Director, California Coalition for Youth/California Youth Crisis Line (www.CalYouth.org), Sacramento, CA.
Fully responsible for all agency management, board interaction, fund raising, public policy oversight, legislative
liaisons, and youth empowerment directions. Also successfully maintained and completed the program elements of
widely acclaimed teen pregnancy and violence prevention initiatives with a focus on giving voice to young people in
the California legislature. Co-edited and created the book Young Enough To Matter, a manual for teaching advocacy
and empowerment techniques to adults seeking to work with young people to generate community change.
February 1998 – April 2001
Assistant Director, Xanthos, Inc., Alameda, CA. (www.Xanthos.org). Primarily responsible for general, ongoing fund
raising for seven major program components, community partnerships and capital purchase/renovation campaigns
for family counseling, education, mental health training and project services for runaway/homeless youth. Helped
double the agency’s overall operating and program revenues from about $2 million to nearly $4 million.
September 1992 – September 1995
Executive Director, Oakland Men’s Project, Oakland, CA. Served as first executive director, where I helped increase
budget from $80,000 to over $250,000 while implementing several recognized anti-violence and gender-awareness
initiatives, including helping coordinate the boy’s component of the first Take Our Daughters To Work Day activities.
January 1986 – July 1992
Development Director, Rubicon Programs, Inc. Richmond, CA. (www.RubiconPrograms.org). Undertook the full-
scale development of fund raising campaigns that included securing federal and state funding for transitional and
supportive housing, critical care counseling, money management, and education/vocational training skills for
persons with severe mental disabilities and formerly homeless men. Agency’s annual budget was about $600,000
and has grown to nearly $14 million and is now recognized as a national entrepreneurial project for highly
vulnerable populations in need.
Other ongoing or one-time consulting projects:
• Bi-Bett Corporation, Concord/Oakland, CA. Broad-based drug and alcohol recovery and substance abuse
services provider. Prepared grants for recovery, prevention, and intensive counseling services.
• Alameda County Office of Education, Oakland, CA. Health & wellness programs.
• Asian American Drug Abuse Program, LA, CA. Vietnamese gang violence reduction initiative.
• Berkeley Unified School District, Berkeley, CA. Desegregation proposal packages.
• Filipino AIDS Task Force, San Francisco, CA. Foundation/corporate proposal packages.
• Kings County Office of Education, CA Mentoring/business programs for rural youth.
• La Chiem Schools, Inc., San Pablo, CA. Alternative school revenues for mental health projects.
• Mobilization Against AIDS/International AIDS Candlelight Memorials, San Francisco & Worldwide (precursor to
elements of World AIDS Day.)
NEW DONOR SOLICITATIONS:
* Conducted follow-up calls for California Council of Churches in effort to generate donations specific to social
justice projects for open and affirming Churches addressing gay/lesbian marriage.
* Sought project and financial contributions from religious organizations and leaders throughout California.
(National Religious Campaign Against Torture; National Religious Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons Dangers,
Faithful Security/Project 2030).
* Developed case-statement and donor information packages to encourage planned giving contributions, with
successful commitments of properties.
* Conceived of and implemented new and ongoing donor solicitation campaigns seeking to develop new and
ongoing small donor bases for each agency. (Successfully established Oprah Winfrey and Gloria Steinem as
personal major donors for Oakland Men’s Project.)
* Succeeded in doubling (or greater) overall intake of donations for each agency listed during the course of my
tenure. (Generally developing plan to double average gifts of long-time and new givers.)
* Developed project-specific fund raising events and conferences to serve as stable income resources
(including coordinated $500,000 annual San Francisco AIDS Dance-a-thon in late 1980s).
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN CASE MATERIALS:
o Divine Mercy Shrine and Retreat Center, Alameda County, CA. Currently under development, this $30,000,000
project has achieved a below-market sale of 100 acres of land, and more than $500,000 in personal and
professional donations. This project continues to move forward using glossy fundraising materials and the trainings
that I provided board members and church supporters, who are now doing their own fundraising.
o Xanthos, Inc. Sought and received approximately $2 million in grants, loans and directed donations to
purchase and renovate a 12,000 square foot office and program headquarters, which is currently still in use. The
largest funding source was a below-market nonprofit loan (of about $750,000), and a grant from the California
Endowment for $400,000, the first direct capital grants made by this funder before they decided to link such grants to
program goals.
o Rubicon Programs, Inc. Put together a broad-based campaign to solicit numerous small grants and donations
(under $20,000) to purchase and renovate a large facilities site, estimated at $750,000. Also successfully wrote and
implemented several HUD grants directed toward the purchase and renovation of multi-unit supportive, emergency
and transitional housing projects for persons with significant mental disabilities.
EDUCATION:
• Masters, Sociology/Criminal Justice, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 1983.
• Bachelors, Sociology/Political Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 1980.
RELATED TRAINING:
• Grant Reader, CA Departments of Education/Justice, School/Police Community Action Grants (2004-2005)
• Workshop Facilitator, Northern California Chapter, Society of Fundraising Professionals, July 2005.
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