Effective September 6, 2024, Amelia Swisher Maijala will be resigning her position as Development and Communications Manager at NYFS after 25 dedicated years of service. On behalf of the NYFS leadership team and staff, we are saddened by Amelia’s departure, but overjoyed with the work she has accomplished in her tenure at NYFS. Amelia has been crucial to NYFS’s success and has helped to steward the organization over many different iterations, watching it grow, meet the needs of our community, and live its vibrant mission.
Amelia is an exemplar of what it means to be a mission-driven nonprofit champion – helping to move our mission inside and outside of our walls. Though capturing her accomplishments in a list is a challenging task for a 25-year tenure, some of her core accomplishments are listed below:
- Comprehensive, collaborative, and community driven outreach with thousands of community members over decades, championing the NYFS mission and services.
- Completing two NYFS re-brands, most recently including a revised mission, vision, and values.
- Developing informative, trauma informed materials including our general brochure, rack cards, flyers, and annual reports.
- Updating our signage at both sites, ensuring our warm brand welcomes clients into our organization in a trauma-informed way.
- Serving as a member of Many Faces of White Bear Lake, advancing race equity in our communities.
- Leading the revision of our website to be more trauma informed, functional, and accessible.
- Re-launching the Leadership Luncheon with a new vision for fundraising support for our organization.
- Re-engaging lapsed long-term donors in our mission and innovative growth.
- Launching robust, well-attended Quarterly Open Houses to engage donors and our community.
- Starting the NYFS Giving Circle to support multi-year gifts and donor engagement.
- Thoughtful leadership and messaging, especially during times of crisis.
- Stewarding NYFS partnership relationships with municipalities, schools, and legislators.
- Oversaw the compassionate closure of our Senior Services, providing direct client support.
- Helping to launch the Restoring Power Program to support victim-survivors of domestic and sexual violence by communicating its value to our stakeholders.
- Supporting NYFS Board of Directors relationships, recruitment, logistics, and sense of community.
There is no shortage of ways in which Amelia will be missed. We will celebrate her accomplishments and will continue to honor her investment in NYFS into our future. We thank Amelia for all she has done for NYFS and wish her the very best on her next adventure!
Best,
Angie
