Jenni Person
jenniperson@modernbalabusta.com
305.607.4585
Organizational
Management: Day-to-day
not-for-profit organizational management; Board development and relations;
long- and short-term planning; budget planning and management; program
implementation and management; staff and volunteer oversight.
Resource
Development: Grant/proposal
writing and grants management; government and foundation relations; annual
campaign development, implementation and management; individual solicitations;
sponsorship solicitation, implementation, and stewardship.
Marketing/Public
Relations: Media campaigns,
Direct-Mail Campaigns, Newsletters, Special Events Planning and Production,
informal market research and survey implementation and assessment; community
outreach and relations.
Programming: Development/creation and production of
cultural arts programs; artist negotiations and relations; audience development
and outreach; oversight of technical production.
Educational
Leadership/Teaching: Development/creation and production of
educational programming in music as well as Judaics; curriculum development in
partnership with county school boards.
Teaching theatre, Hebrew, and Judaics as well as Bible study combined
with cooking.
Positions Held
WORKMEN'S CIRCLE/ARBETER RING
Southern California District, Los Angeles, CA 2002–2003 Assistant Director
HEBREW
UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION, Los Angeles, CA 2001 – 2002
Director,
Tartak Learning Center
BAT
KOL: A FEMINIST HOUSE OF STUDY, Jerusalem, Israel and
Philadelphia, PA 2000 - 2002
Managing
Director
ALTERNATE
R.O.O.T.S, Atlanta, GA 1997 -
1998
Co-Director/Director
of Planning & Development
FLORIDA
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties, FL 1995 - 1997
Education
Director (1996-97), Grants Manager (1995-96)
SOUTH
FLORIDA ART CENTER, Miami Beach, FL 1993 - 1995
MARY
STREET DANCE THEATRE, Miami, FL 1992 - 1993
Managing
Director
THE
LOFT THEATRE, Tampa, FL 1988 - 1992
Owner/Producing
Director (1990-92), Managing Director (1988-90)
BENNINGTON COLLEGE JULY PROGRAM, BENNINGTON, VT 1990
– 1997
Teacher, Drama Faculty
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PERSON
& COMPANY, CPAs, St. Petersburg, FL 1988 – 1991
Other
Professional Activities
Grant
Panelist, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, 2003
Co-Host/MC
Jerusalem Poetry Slam, 1999 - 2001
Director,
artsfusion, inc. artists’
organization, 1990 - 1999
Participant,
Moving Jewish Communities, Liz
Lerman Dance Exchange, 1998
Grant
Panelist, Fulton County Arts Council, 1999
Grant
Panelist and Site Visitor, Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural
Affairs, 1991 - 1999
Hebrew
& Judaics Teacher, Temple Judea, West Palm Beach, FL 2004
Writer,
various articles for the website, “ClickOnJudaism” of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), 1999-2002
Writer,
client website content, Person Consulting Organization, 2001
Subsitute HebrewTeacher, The Temple, Atlanta, GA 1998
Local
Slam Master, Lollapalooza 1994
Spoken Word Stage, Miami
Talent
Coordinator, Anheuser-Busch In Concert Program, Miami and Tampa,
1992
Residency
Coordinator, Miami-Dade Community College, Department of Cultural Affairs, 1992
Marketing
Director, 1992 Florida Dance Festival
Promoter
(and performer), estrofest, a celebration of women in music, Tampa, 1992
Board
of Directors, Georgia Shares (workplace giving program benefiting progressive
organizations), 1997 - 1998
Friends
of the Future Steering Committee, Planned Parenthood of Georgia, 1998 - 1999
Business
Volunteer for the Arts Program Committee, Arts & Business Council of
Greater Atlanta, 1998 - 1999
Board
of Directors, Children’s Cultural Coalition (Miami-Dade County); Chair, Arts in
Ed Committee, 1996 - 1997
Mayor's
Committee on Cultural Affairs, City of Miami Beach, 1996 - 1997
Initial
National Steering Committee, Alternate ROOTS Community/Artist Partnership
Project, 1992
Executive
Committee, Dade Cultural Alliance (the county’s political advocacy organization
for the arts) 1994-96
Chair,
Cultural Committee, Dave & Mary Alper JCC’s "Building Bridges,
Crossing Boundaries", 1995
Special
Events Committee, Lincoln Road Partnership (Local Management District),
1993-1995
Board
of Trustees, Bennington College, 1990-1995
Board
of Directors, National Association of Artists' Organizations (NAAO) 1991-1996
BENNINGTON
COLLEGE, Bennington, VT
Bachelor
of Arts in Drama, 1990
BEIT
HA’AM, Jerusalem, Israel
Intensive
Hebrew Language Program (ulpan),
Summer 1999
BEIT
MIDRASH/A LIBERAL YESHIVAH (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion), Jerusalem, Israel
Intensive
Jewish Text Study and Hebrew language study (ulpan), 1999-2001