District VIII 2019 Rising Star Awards recipient

Elizabeth serves as foundation relations coordinator at Oregon State University Foundation where she supports work to develop, submit and steward grant proposals. She is known for her skills in proposal writing, relationship development and research and analysis. In the past 10 months Elizabeth developed new programming including mid-level giving recognition and faculty grant training. She has also helped increase the distribution of open funding opportunities to faculty by 70 percent, worked on large proposals to private foundations and established new relationships between campus partners and the Foundation. So far this year, her proposals have netted nearly $1 million.