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Professional RESUME -- Allan Shore
VENTURE CHARITIES at work!
Below is the resume of Allan Shore, Venture Charities' 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 (Downloadable Brochure)
With more than 22 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
My experience has been fairly evenly divided between serving as a private fund raising consultant (10 years) and
being a nonprofit management executive (10 years). The major part of my work as a consultant has centered on
preparing foundation or federal and state government grant packages for particular award competitions. As a
nonprofit executive, I routinely prepared new and continuation applications for foundation, contract and major donor
funding ranging from $5,000 to upwards of $400,000 per appeal. Many of the agencies I worked with ultimately grew
their fund raising successes to the point where new and continuation grants generated millions of dollars in annual
revenues. Most recently, I have been focusing on writing targeted grants and business proposal packages for
nonprofit agencies and for-profit businesses interested in creating socially responsible business enterprises as a
way to advance their missions and build a healthy bottom line.
GRANTS/PROPOSALS
- Latino Institute for New Media Addictions. Latino Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse (Alameda County).
Developed and wrote a multi-year proposal to create a $4,000,000 project designed to scientifically
investigate the positive and negative impacts of communication and connectivity technology on addiction
patterns and practices for high-risk populations. Currently being review by the National Institutes of Health for
special director’s award for innovation. (January 2009; pending).
- Community Action for Language & Literacy, Inc. Prepared a variety of foundation proposals for start-up
funding for after-school and community empowerment model project to help English Language Learning
Latinos avoid inappropriate referrals to learning disability projects because of their struggles with language
retention. Grants of $20,000 to $50,000 currently pending.
- 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 core research project focused on the use of scientific
investigation techniques within community service settings. (Pending at this time.) December 2007-January
2008.
- 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
seeking 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 that
facilitate each child’s successful transition from extended care to public educational settings. (Several
applications pending.) November 2007-Present.
- 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 2007 to present.
- 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.
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. Replaced dramatic public funding cut with foundation emergency and
ongoing grants ($200,000). Also successfully maintained and completed the program elements of the California
Wellness Foundation’s widely acclaimed teen pregnancy and violence prevention initiatives and their 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. (Now defunct). Served as first executive director, where I
helped increase budget from $80,000 to over $250,000 annually while implementing several recognized anti-
violence and gender-awareness initiatives, including helping to coordinate the boy’s component of the first Take Our
Daughter’s To Work Day activities.
January 1986 – July 1992
Development Director, Rubicon Programs, Inc. Richmond, CA. (www.RubiconPrograms.org). Undertook the full-
scale development of several 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 California 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 by 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 (and one of the few) 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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