1. Christopher Seelie
Development + Grants
435 Concord Ave. Boulder, CO 80304
Key Skills
Grants
Storytelling, budgets, research, prospecting grant opportunities, scheduling, collecting program
information and data, analyzing W-990s, planning meetings with program collaborators, grant panel
interviews, and acknowledgment processes. Experience writing proposals, grants, program reports,
semi-annual operations reports, Letters of Interest, venue confirmation letters, sponsorship
contracts, letters of agreement between partnering organizations, and budget narratives. Previous
grant work includes: SCFD, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Hemera Regnant, the
Warhol Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, city grant programs like the Boulder Arts
Commission, Human Relations Commission, and the Office of Arts + Culture, numerous private
foundations, corporate foundations, and community foundations.
Communications
Over a decade of content creation including interviews, book reviews, feature writing for print, AV
materials, blogs, vlogs, newsletters, mail campaigns and social media for organizational outreach.
Outwardly directed communications support includes providing quotes and content to journalists,
leading telemarketing campaigns, speechwriting, presentations, and working in a team to analyze
response and refine message. Inwardly directed communications support includes staff emails,
reports, coaching staff and volunteers on talking points for the public, sharing development goals to
foster collaboration within organization.
Events
Several years of organizing and executing awareness-raising events, art openings, concerts,
fundraisers, donor appreciation diners, readings, and staff appreciation events. Conceptualizing
event theme to assist organizational goals, planning essential needs and securing resources,
organizing tasks among helpers. Bartending.
Management
Conflict mediation, organizing meetings and special info seminars, ensuring project efficiency and
group harmony, recruiting volunteers, hiring and supervising interns. Always prompt and courteous.
Computer Skills
MS Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
Database Management, Entry, Organization, and Analysis with GiftWorks and Altru, a Blackbaud
product. Eager to learn other software products.
Adobe Creative Suite including Premiere, Photoshop, Acrobat.
Video editing and formatting with Youtube, CELTX, and several editing freewares.
Social Media platforms including, Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, HootSuite, Ello, LinkedIn.

2. Work Experience
BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Boulder CO 2015-Current
Development Associate (Aug – Nov ‘15), Development and Grants Manager (Nov, ‘15 – Current)
Responsibilities
Maintain grant calendar. Draft, edit, and submit grants, proposals, letters, reports on programs and
operations. Fact-check materials against organization records. Draft preliminary budgets and budget
narratives. Research grant prospects, best practices, local corporations, and high-income donor
prospects. Participate in local events by community leaders and foundations. Seek out private
interests to support museum programs. Assist with programs and events, primarily towards donor
cultivation. Maintain revenue records. Arrange appropriate recognition of sponsors in collaboration
with Marketing. Ensure the prompt acknowledgment of gifts with tax letters and personalized thank
you cards. Recently tasked with administering the Friends With Benefits young members program.
Special Distinctions
Member of the Boulder County Arts Alliance operations endowment grant panel, 2016.
Awarded a professional development grant by the BAC to attend the Non-profit Storytellers
Conference in Chicago, November 2016.
EARTH’S CALL, Boulder CO 2015
Chief of Staff and Interim Development Director
Responsibilities
Work with the Board of Directors to translate organization’s vision into action. Ask for donations at
events. Maintain relations with project supporters. Collaborate with volunteers to put on small
benefit concerts. Coordinate communications between founder/artistic director Michael Fitzpatrick
and the executive staff. Schedule and lead meetings. Campaign strategy.
SHAMBHALA MOUNTAIN CENTER, Red Feather Lakes CO 2012-2014
Development Manager (Fall ’13 – July ’14), Development Associate (Fall ‘12-Fall ’13), Development
Intern (Summer 2012)
Special Achievements
In the midst of the High Park Fire (2012), SMC operations and development was evacuated to
Boulder during peak season. I helped to execute 2 fundraisers totaling $970,000 in revenue.
The following fall (2012), I successfully advocated for the Center’s first online, post-season
fundraising campaign. Using a combination of email solicitation, social media and a humorous video
series we out-performed all preceding campaigns since 2007, and launched the AV wing of the
fundraising department.
In 2013 I revived the grant-writing initiative, renewing relations with one foundation and securing
grant monies from a private and a public group with no previous relationship to SMC.
Responsibilities
Grants: research, writing, coordinating assistance from other depts., editing, submission.
Outreach: cold calling donors, initiating relations with other orgs, public messaging.

3. Communications: In-house Editor for thank-yous, solicitations, newsletter, donor reports, Social
Media content creation and presence continuity, videographer, photographer, regularly required to
maintain confidentiality and conduct sensitive communications in a professional manner.
Events: Campaign strategy consulting, coordination between departments, beverage service, donor
Q&A, PowerPoint presentations, talent scout, data entry.
Volunteers: recruiting, managing tasks, overseeing conduct and tasks.
EGRESSY GABOR HIGH SCHOOL, Budapest Hungary 2011-2012
Native English Expert
English conversational skills and convention, coordinate presentations for competitions, proofread
applications and essays, advise teachers on speech patterns and advanced vocabulary, test and use
new media teaching tools.
INTERIM Magazine, Las Vegas Nevada 2009-2011
Managing Editor
Standard clerical and admin tasks for a small publication. Solicit featured content. Solicit new
subscribers and donors. Edit and organize manuscript. Communicate with contributors and
vendors. Maintain Web Presence on social media outlets. Draft promotional emails. Maintain
database of subscribers.
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS, 2008-2010
Rhetoric and Composition Instructor
Lessons plans. Lectures. Grading. Application advisor. Writing skills tutor.
Volunteering and Internships
Taste of Cinema, Online 2014-Current
Columnist
Create online content to showcase the influential films informing the style of contemporary
directors. 11 articles published.
The Meridian Coffeehouse, College of W&M, Williamsburg Virginia
Communications Manager (2005-2007)
Write weekly briefs of staff meeting in entertaining and informative style. Organize personnel.
Recruit volunteers. Prepare/emcee annual Grits Wrestling event for Stop Police Brutality Day.
Facilities Manager (2003-2004)
File building maintenance claims. Monitor noise/attendance levels during live events. Clean
premises.
The DoG Street Journal, Williamsburg Virginia 2003-2004
Staff Reporter
Research and pitch subjects for articles. Conduct interviews. Write & Edit for online edition.
Education and Honors
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
College of Liberal Arts
Department of English, 2008-2011 M.F.A. (creative writing)
~ Awarded an Editorial position at INTERIM MAGAZINE

4. ~ Line editing for Dave Hickey’s Hot Stuff: Essays on the Art of Women Artists, University of
Chicago Press, 2012
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of English, 2003-2007 B.A.
~ Dean’s List, Fall 2005
~ Dean’s List, Spring 2007
~ first W&M undergraduate to develop and complete a fully credited internship course, Summer
2005 at The Florida Times-Union lifestyle section.