Jeffrey Bone

Business Development Consulting Firm providing strategic projects development to government and non-profit organizations. Select Projects include Common Good, Inc., John Jay Institute, Prison Fellowship, MOPS International, Inc. and the American Bible Society.

See the details of this work in the roles that I hold/held and the results of my work below:

A para-academic institution providing a “gap-year” leadership training program for college graduates pursuing graduate studies in law, political science, government or public policy.

Developed and managed organization’s strategic plan. Leading brand marketing, public relations, fundraising, finance, accounting, business intelligence, technology, and donor relations.

• Created comprehensive media and marketing materials and built potential donor list of 20K names, 1500 active supporters/volunteers, and 500 donors within 12 months.
• Reduced operating costs by $120K per year, increased student applications by 125%, and increased donations by 20% by scouting and leading campus relocation from Colorado Springs to Philadelphia. 
• Generated 99.995% system uptime for 150 users over 5-year period and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in IT costs by planning and implementing 3 SaaS solutions.

Promoting civility, human dignity, and freedom of conscience throughout the world 

Launching a global educational and support network by partnering with 100+ international organizations.

• Successfully obtained grant of $3 million by establishing accomplishable organizational goals, a budget integrated with each objective, and a sustainable revenue generation plan to perpetuate mission. 
• Created donor pipeline of over 1 million prospects expected to generate another $2 million in grants to fully cover all projected startup capital needs for the first 2 years. 
• Eliminated issues with IT support and document collaboration for employees based in 5 different states by implementing cloud solution for centralized file storage, revision, and control.

A multi-million dollar international non-profit organization concentrated on changing the lives of prisoners around the world through reconciling them to their family and to their community.

Connected with and cultivated financial support from high-net-worth individuals and foundations.

• Quadrupled donation levels in the territory and grew active strategic donor base 3-fold.
• Developed public and private events for large strategic donors.
• Spurred volunteerism by creating major events with hundreds of new volunteers.

Women’s membership association providing leadership training, practical “mothering” resources and peer counseling to young mothers.

Developed and managed strategic plan, managed all brand/marketing, fundraising, finance, accounting, membership development, business intelligence, and education programs.

• Created successful sustainable revenue model, lead a major marketing initiative that generated revenue of $4 million and tens of thousands of new paying members within 18 months. 
• Generated additional $1.5 million within 1 year by mentoring internal staff to lead retail products group and creating branded merchandise and catalog.
• Transformed organization from multi-year record of losses to generating millions in sustainable revenue. 
• Catapulted organization into “Top 10 Places to Work” by fostering sense of purpose among all employees.

A software development company specializing in application service provider solutions and Internet applications for financial service and real estate management companies.

• Built the organization from idea to multi-million dollar dot.com start-up and achieved respectable ROI for private investors through acquisition by CPS Systems, Inc. and secondary division by Didax, Inc.
• Developed early version of online commercial banking software for regional banking client.
• Highlights of work includes the online game, RedZone online for Gatorade which produced more than a million unique online players in less than 30 days.

A billion-dollar non-profit organization operating as a publisher and distributor of scripture, scripture-related products, and programmatic initiatives supporting scripture scholarship and interaction.Consolidated all technology and developed long-term vision and strategy. 

• Saved millions in translation and repurposing costs and made the Bible accessible worldwide by founding Bible Technologies Work Group and building Open Scriptural Information Standard for all biblical text and reference material, seamlessly uniting content from dozens of publishers. 
• Saved $2 million in first year and $1+ million annually, catapulted productivity, and brought former level of employee usage of ERP system from just 20% to 90% by reassessing technology needs, replacing vendor, and creating complete, fully redundant client-server solution.

A NASDAQ traded internet membership site offering extensive member services and content to an online audience in excess of 3,000,000 registered users.Led and managed 20+ member team designing, building, and marketing all services and interactive features to spur frequent and abundant page views. 

• Built team of volunteer moderators donating hundreds of thousands of man-hours annually to maintain clean, active forums by creating incentive and recognition programs rewarding their efforts. 
• Identified $1+ million revenue stream for music catalog and became exclusive supplier to Microsoft’s Windows Media streaming by licensing content and experimenting with array of distribution options.

One of the largest research hospitals and universities in the southeast specializing in cancer, AIDS and heart disease research. The university receives more than $250,000,000 in grants annually.