Eric Howard

Oxfam raises $80+ million/year in the United States for global programs to alleviate poverty. • Developing strategic plans to secure new partnerships with multinational corporations. • Launching new initiatives to grow corporate funding from $2 million/year to $8 million /year. • Embedded within the Major Gifts team; collaborating with the Private Sector Division. • Training / advising staff on approaches to identify and close on new corporate engagements.

• Developed and implemented engagement strategies to secure gifts, contracts, and research agreements. • Stewarded 100+ external prospects, leading to new R&D agreements of $10,000 to $3 million. • Organized outreach and hosted corporate executives, government leaders, and entrepreneurs. • Matrixed organization; worked university-wide: Advancement, Research Admin, Provost, etc.

• Co-founder of the Academy: helped secure over $5 million from US NSF, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, universities, individual philanthropists and dozens of corporations and public agencies. • Designed giving strategies, visited prospects, worked effectively with staff, alumni and volunteers. • Identified process or operational roadblocks to achieving funding goals and took corrective action. • Convened expert meetings and outreach events in 20 countries and around the U.S.

CEO of trade association for manufacturing firms. Assisted firms with marketing, management and manufacturing issues.

Policy research on corporate environmental management.

Head of the policy and literature section at the Law Center. Responsible for collecting and disseminating bibliographic and text information about current legal developments during the two years leading up to the UN Rio Earth Summit (1992-UNCED).

Organizational Leadership Studies; Internationalization of Research; Science Diplomacy; Knowledge-sharing practices

Climate change & Regional planning