Mike Everett-Lane

Current

Co-Founder and Consulting Partner at ImprovEdge LLC

Past

Consultant at Social Actions
Executive Director at DonorsChoose.org Northeast
Director of Development and Planning at Computers for Youth

Director, Social Enterprise. at Project Renewal
Assistant Director of Development. at Union Settlement Association
Coordinator, Fund Development at Jobs for Youth

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Education

Harvard Business School
Yale University
Radnor High School

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Industry

Management Consulting

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Mike Everett-Lane’s Summary

MBA with ten years of experience providing leadership, innovation, and teamwork training. I also have broad interest and experience in social enterprise, with a focus on the intersection of technology and social service.

Mike Everett-Lane’s Specialties:

Leadership training, teamwork training, innovation training, creativity training, improvisational training, social enterprise, micro-philanthropy, online marketing, online philanthropy, development and fund raising, technology, education, training, writing and editing, youth organizations, community-based organizations, and social service organizations.

Mike Everett-Lane’s Experience

Co-Founder and Consulting Partner

ImprovEdge LLC

(Privately Held; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

September 1999 — Present (10 years 3 months)

* Helped create this consulting company that provides leadership and team-work training to business people through improvisational techniques.

* Develop and execute workshops on teamwork, innovation, and leadership for clients including Wharton School of Business and Fortune 500 companies.

* Provide strategic direction and operational support for the company.
Consultant

Social Actions

(Non-Profit; Civic & Social Organization industry)

May 2009 — October 2009 (6 months)

Strategic planning for online and social media campaigns.
Set up infrastructure for integrated campaigns.
Support for events, including Mozilla Service Week and Social Capital Markets 09
Executive Director

DonorsChoose.org Northeast

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

October 2005 — September 2008 (3 years )

* Managed marketing, advertising, development and teacher engagement for the Northeast Region (New York, New Jersey, and New England) of DonorsChoose.org, a micro-philanthropy that provides resources for public schools.

* Raised over $3m from regional donors, corporations, and foundations.

* Responsible for executing marketing partnerships with Staples, Bergdorf Goodman, Omaha Steaks, Bank of America, Pfizer, and other companies.

* Executed launch of site throughout the region, including press events; exceeded teacher engagement goals by signing up over 9,500 teachers.
Director of Development and Planning

Computers for Youth

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)

September 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 2 months)

* Responsible for revenues for this $3 million non-profit organization that provides home computers to 1,500 low-income students annually.

* Raise funds through grants, direct mail, and events, from foundation, corporate, individual, and government sources.

* Create communications materials, including e-newsletters, student blogs, web pages and maps.

* Part of three-person Executive Team, making decisions on budgeting, programs, and technology. Assist President in national expansion planning and other strategic planning projects.
Director, Social Enterprise.

Project Renewal

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years )

* Responsible for coordination of entrepreneurial ventures for this $30 million non-profit organization that serves the homeless.

* Managed research, wrote business plans, and coordinated start-up for new social-purpose businesses that employ homeless clients, including a cookie bakery and an aquaculture project.

* Developed metrics for existing for-profit subsidiaries that enabled the agency to evaluate both social impact and business performance.
Assistant Director of Development.

Union Settlement Association

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Individual & Family Services industry)

1994 — 1997 (3 years )

* Raised over $2 million annually from corporations, foundations, and individuals for $19 million community-based organization in East Harlem.

* Developed 7 new successful programs to meet emerging community needs in education, job training, and economic development.

* Created Junior Committee; led team of 40 volunteers and staff which produced two fund raising events.
Coordinator, Fund Development

Jobs for Youth

(Management Consulting industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years )

Mike Everett-Lane’s Education

Harvard Business School

MBA , 1997 — 1999

Author, “The Holland House,” HBS case.

Activities and Societies:

Co-President, Social Enterprise Club
Yale University

BA , Political Science , 1988 — 1992

Departmental Honors

Activities and Societies:

Publisher, Nadine Magazine; Purple Crayon of Yale
Radnor High School

1984 — 1988