As Miami City Ballet's Director of Development for Palm Beach County, Steven Caras increased the company's contributed revenue by 100% to well over one million dollars, and sustained successive increases through out a three-year period while working as their chief fundraiser for the organization's northern tri-county operation.
Caras arrived at this success for the ballet through a multi-faceted approach to the job which included managing strategic board development, cultivating new annual sponsorships, raising support levels with current major individual donors and foundations, securing new corporate, foundation and individual contributors and expanding the annual membership base.
He elevated the company's profile substantially by creating and managing galas and special events, utilizing his excellent writing skills along with building and maintaining successful relations with members of local, regional and national media.
Caras attributes this smooth and fruitful transition into fundraising and senior management to the requisite skills acquired in his early professional life as a dancer with New York City Ballet under the leadership of *George Balanchine, combined with the invaluable expertise his extensive and highly regarded career as a professional photographer has afforded him.
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