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Tont Burns
6648 Baca Grande Drive,
Batesville, Ark. 72502
(505) 55-9293

Career goal A community relations position.
Summary of experience

Organizational/management skills
  • Organized volunteers, secured corporate donations and planned fund-raising events to pay for construction of $2 million Boy's and Girl's Club facility.
  • Serve on board of directors for club, help develop policies and procedures and coordinate annual fund-raising auction, which provides more than $6,500 for operational expenses.
  • Recruited to supervise annual fund and membership drive for local library, raising donations 35% and membership 20% in two years.
  • Served two terms as secretary/treasurer of Parent/Teacher Association and recommended new parent/teacgr conference idea that increased parent classroom participation 35%.
  • Managed three-member staff at rehabilitation hospital and increased productivity 25% despite operational changes brought on by two new owners in five years.
Communication/marketing skills
  • Work with local business and civic organizations to gain sponsors for 30 soccer, 40 basketball and 25 baseball teams.
  • Developed brochure to attract and retain club members and sponsors.
  • Handle publicity for local March of Dimes walk-a-thon, which has seen participations increase 35% and donation increase 40% over the last thre years.
  • Handled three in-house, high-volume acounts for rehabilitation hospital and helped develop long-term marketing plan that increased number of clients 25%.
Instructional skills
  • Supervised Arkansas Dyslexic Association's Saturday math program for more than 300 students and tutored up to 30 hours per week.
  • Developed new tour guide program for local hospital and trained up to 15 vilunteer tour guides.
Experience Fund-raising Chairperson, Batesville Public Library (1994-current)
Director, Fund-raising Chairperson, Batesville Boy's and Girl's Club (1992-current)
Local Publicity Chairman, March of Dimes Walk-a-thon (1992-current)
Volunteer, Wishard Memorial Hospital, Batesville, Ark. (1991-1992)
Secretary/Treasurer, Parent/Teacher Association, Tipton County Community School Cotp. (1989-1991)
Volunteer, Arkkansas Dyslexic Association, Little Rock (1988-1991)
Admissions Director, McKenzie Hospitals, Little Rock (1983-1988)
LPN, McKenzie Hospitals, Little Rock (1981-1983)
LPN, Robert W. Hall, M.D., Batesvillr (1980-1981)

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