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First Name	Ben Pawson
Last Name	Pawson
Nickname	Ben
Title	Development Director
Organization	First Person Arts – Philly's Original Storytelling Org.
Who I am	I grew up in the town that invented the roundabout ./ traffic Circle. I believe in the power of storytelling to connect people and to attract visionary funders to our work. I earned my MBA from Grenoble Ecole de Management and have over a decade of experience in development and communications leadership roles across five countries and both hemispheres. I have worked primarily in the arts sector and led campaigns across all major donor channels, specializing in trust and foundation work. I love to use storytelling tactics to bring grant applications to life. I specialize in helping small organizations grow and have consistently met or surpassed my fundraising goals. I also have bring a background in IT project management that enables me to implement systems improvements that streamline organizational processes and align with revenue goals. Ed: Interior Architecture BA, University for the Creative Arts; MBA, Grenoble Ecole de Management
My Experience	Publish an academic dissertation, then taking a story story class for a palette cleanser, and starting a job as a grant writer and making the connection! Story makes grant applications less boring! The rest is reading books and pushing story out to the rest of the fundraising channels… Worked in Scotland for a health charity, Science Festival and Intellectual disability day center, Australia for a fine art printing org, and a University research center, and the USA I wrote ghost tours till my greencard came, then found First Person Arts.
Profile Type	Development Director

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