Liza Cucco

Raising environmental awareness and promoting sustainable development through facilitating innovative collaborations between artists, designers, scientists, urban planners, government agencies, and communities. CALL's mission is to make complex issues of sustainability tangible through artist-led, scientifically informed, and culturally relevant experiences.

• COMMUNICATIONS: developing CALL's first multi-platform communications strategy, leading to an 80% increase in online engagement. Copywriting and design of campaigns, appeals, print materials, and website. Managed blog & PR.
• CONSTITUENT MANAGEMENT: implementing a new CMS, doubling the number of constituents and individual donors.
• DEVELOPMENT: grant research and proposal writing; brainstorming and executing donor events and appeals.
• REFINING MISSION: initiating a strategic planning process to align organizational objectives with the UN SDGs; increasing organizational focus and improving measurability. Valued advisor to the Board of Directors.
• BRANDING: drafting style guides and branding guidelines for use with internal staff and external partners.
• PUBLIC PROGRAMS: planning and executing 25+ stakeholder events in six cities, including industry forums, visioning charrettes, community workshops, public walks, and live art events. Producing event-planning toolkits and resources.

developing and delivering design-based curricula geared towards teaching transferable creative and professional skills to underserved students in New York City in partnership with public sector agencies.

• MEDIA: directing, designing, and producing content for nonprofit, corporate training, and commercial film & TV. Clients include 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers Entertainment, Imagi Animation Studios, and Nickelodeon.
• PUBLIC PROGRAMS: producing events including nonprofit fundraisers, community programs, and art exhibitions.

Led the inception, launching, and scaling of a poverty alleviation project and crisis support center based in inner city London, UK. Hackney Foodbank, part of the Trussell Trust Network, now serves over 11,000 people annually.

• BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: drafting the business plan, strategy, project plans, fiscal and program reports, annual budgets, and grants applications. (60%FCR). Evaluating management strategies to ensure alignment with best practice.
• RELATIONAL NETWORK BUILDING: leading to a network of 250 partners, 300 volunteers, and thousands of donors.
• EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: increasing donor engagement, public awareness, and influence on government policy as a spokesperson in outlets including Huffington Post, NY Times, Business Insider, ITV, BBC London, & The Guardian.
• COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING: overseeing all communications, from newsletters to social media. Copywriting all external documents and reports. Writing op-eds in national publications.
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: embedding organization in the wider community through programs such as 'living wage' internships, an artist residency amplifying client voices, and a high school work experience program.
• EVENT FACILITATION: executing 40+ events including fundraisers, CSR days, food drives, workshops, and trainings.

University College London, Slade School of Fine Art MFA in Media, London, UK 2009-2011

Biola University, BFA in Media Art, Minors in Communications and Biblical Studies, La Mirada, CA 2000-2005

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