Barbara Finnin

SENIOR MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE 20+ Years of Leadership Experience with Emerging and Established Nonprofits and Businesses OVERVIEW Senior executive with verifiable year-after-year success achieving revenue and business growth objectives. Extensive experience developing and managing staffing, boards, operations, fundraising, collaborations, communications, and evaluation systems within a variety of nonprofits. Client-focused and performance-driven. Led and motivated teams within diverse communities. Accomplished public speaker in various settings, from conferences to radio to local news to films. Proven track record in developing and managing finance systems for budgets ranging from $200,000 to $10,000,000. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS HIGHLIGHTS • Grew nonprofit revenues by more than 400% by reconfiguring the fundraising and communications strategy, improving all marketing collateral and branding, and creating a development and communications department. • Managed the transition of an organization from a fiscally sponsored entity to its own 501(c)(3) nonprofit, while creating new financial management systems and human resources systems. • Transitioned a nonprofit from 1.75% FTE staff to a more effective 7.4% FTE staff by facilitating the organization’s first strategic planning process and upgrading the staffing structure. • Applied for and won a competitive $4,000,000 government grant to build a new farm and park, creating land security for organization’s urban agriculture programs. • Shepherded a Board of Directors from an operational to a governance board, achieving 100% board giving and 90% board retention. • Created regional partnerships to expand services from a portion of the City of Oakland to the entire county of Alameda, winning contracts to cover 100% of the services. • Year after year, recruited, selected, and trained talent to fill 100% of clinic’s lay volunteer positions, achieving 90% excellent customer satisfaction.