Ms.

Sativa Quinn
3825 W. 4th Ave., #306
Vancouver, BC V6K 1P8
Cell: 604-992-1111
e-mail: sativaq@gmail.com

Goal: To tell stories that enrich, entertain, and make a difference in people’s lives.

HIGHLIGHTS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Ten years fundraising experience. Owned and operated a small business providing a variety of
fundraising services to non-profits and tribal governments for over six years.
• Worked with both urban and rural clients to raise funds for projects in the following areas: arts,
culture, education, health, justice, crime prevention, social service, community economic
development, neighborhood revitalization, education, and organizational capacity building.
• Trained others in program planning, funding research, and grant proposal writing both through
formal workshops and informal mentoring programs.

WORK HISTORY

March, 2007 – Present

Associate, Knowpreneur Consultants, Vancouver, BC
Key Accomplishments:
• Developed the white paper Feeding Growth: A Guide to Expanding For-Profit or Non-Profit Business
for the company web site. This article has already attracted interest from potential clients.
• Brought in one major client which provides substantial income to the organization.
• Currently ghostwriting a booklet on time management to be published by a popular seminar speaker.
• Developed several investor relations articles for companies in the mining and alternative energy
sectors.

2001 – Present
Owner, Fundgathering – Anchorage, AK.
Key Accomplishments:
• Won Federal grants that have provided over $500,000/year for six years to keep an Inupiaq language
immersion school operational.
• Designed the fundraising strategy for a $3M capital campaign.
• Won a grant that was widely considered “unwinnable” to help the poorest neighborhood in Anchorage
address issues of crime prevention and neighborhood revitalization.
• Taught workshops in program planning and grant writing to Alaska Natives in both urban and rural
areas, teaching over 200 students in 10 different communities.
• Designed, as part of a team, a program intended to build local capacity and increase long-term self
sufficiency in small rural Alaskan communities.
• Mentored 3 Alaska Natives in project planning and grant writing skills over a period of several months
each, 2 went on to write several successful proposals.

1999 - 2000
Director of Grants Administration, Alaska Village Initiatives - Anchorage, AK.
Key Accomplishments:
• Raised over $1M in public and private grants to establish a manufacturing plant and associated job
training program in a rural Alaskan community
• Raised over $1M in public and private funds to design and distribute fire safety equipment appropriate
for use in rural Alaska. This program has continued to the present day and has saved several lives.
1997 - 1999
Deputy Development Director - Alaska Native Heritage Center - Anchorage, AK.
Key Accomplishments:
• Designed Capital Campaign strategy as part of a team, and raised over $10M for the campaign,
through over 40 grant proposals to public and private sources.
• Raised over $2M for opening year programs at the Center, working closely with program staff.
• Set up the Center’s donor database and donor correspondence programs, trained and supervised
one staff person assigned to maintain these programs.
• Prepared talking points for use in the solicitation of individual and corporate donors.
• Prepared summaries of contributions to date and projected future contributions for use by Board and
staff.
1993 - 1996
Staff Anthropologist - Tanana Chiefs Conference - Fairbanks, AK.
Key Accomplishments:
• Completed two reports for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, discussing Athabascan cultural
practices as they impact the amount of moose, caribou, bears and sheep needed for cultural
purposes in a given year.
• Analyzed 3 years worth of data on the quantity of animals harvested in each species, and the
locations and seasonality of harvests. Produced charts, graphs, tables and maps to highlight the
relevant trends in the data.
• Acted as a liaison between rural Athabascan communities and federal and state natural resource
managers.

RELEVANT COURSEWORK
Intro. to Accounting - U. Alaska Anchorage, 1997
Community Economic Development - U. British Columbia - 1993
Tourism Planning and Management - Vancouver Community College – 1993
Grad. Seminar Museum Studies – U. British Columbia - 1992

EDUCATION
University of Chicago
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, June 1990
Master of Arts in Social Sciences, March 1991
University of British Columbia
2 yrs. doctoral study in Anthropology, 1991 - 1993

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

Highly proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, Results Plus. Proficient in Crystal

Reports. Familiar with MS Access, MS PowerPoint and MS Project. Familiar with both
Windows and Mac systems. Able to learn new programs quickly.

LANGUAGES

Spanish, Hebrew, Beginner Inupiaq