- To utilize my real estate sales, management, and marketing skills for the utmost benefit of my clients.
- To employ my contacts with individuals in community, civic and professional organizations and businesses in the Greater Sarasota area for the utmost benefit of my clients.
- To treat all of my clients with the utmost degree of honesty, ethical conduct, and equality.
REAL ESTATE CAREER SUMMARY
- Licensed Realtor, State of Florida
- Ilene Mirman Realty, Inc., Sarasota, Fla.
- Realtor
- Can work with clients to provide a full range of real estate services
- Licensed Realtor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- John J. Geldi Real Estate and Insurance, Hatboro & Willow Grove, Pa.
- Sales Manager – directed the sales force and sold residential, commercial and industrial properties.
- Youngest person licensed as a real estate salesman in Pennsylvania.
- Licensed real estate broker.
- Property manager
- Real estate skills
- Residential sales
- Commercial/industrial property sales
- Land tract sales for residential developments
- Property management
- Tract development for residential, commercial/industrial land
- Sales force manager,
- Work with planning commissions, zoning boards and developers
- Special tax knowledge for real estate charitable gifts
- Applied knowledge of real estate law, ethics, and principles in all transactions
CHARITABLE CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- 25 years as a chief executive officer, financial development executive, and management consultant
- Special expertise in creating new and stabilizing existing not-for-profit organizations and foundations
- Strong background in financial and administrative management, including portfolio oversight
- Board and volunteer training for prospect identification, education, rating, cultivation and solicitation
- Proven skills in strategic planning, and goal oriented planning for marketing and fundraising
- Directed raising $1.5 billion in planned and major gifts, and $500 million in annual and capital gifts
- Counsel to individuals and families in the development of private family foundations
- Developed and presented marketing and communications workshops for donor prospects, volunteers and staff
CHARITABLE CAREER HISTORY
- Founding President, CHARITABLE & FOUNDATION SERVICES, Sarasota, FL
Noteworthy accomplishments:
- Established the Academy of Planned Giving, a workshop for volunteers and donors (national)
- Founding President & CEO, Senior Friendship Centers Foundation (Sarasota, Lee and Collier Counties)
- Founding Executive Director, Suncoast Communities Blood Bank Foundation (Sarasota County)
- Primary management role in establishing Greater Sarasota’s Great Kids! day care center (Sarasota)
- Founding President, People Touching the Future Foundation (Pinellas, Manatee, Sarasota & Charlotte Counties)
- Primary management role in establishing the C. K. Smith Foundation (Manatee & Sarasota Counties)
- Primary management counsel in assisting the Florida Panther Project (Sarasota County)
- Founding Director, Catholic Community Foundation of Southwest Florida, Diocese of Venice (SW Fla.)
- Foundation Director, UNITED WAY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY. Sarasota, Fla.
- Chief Planned Giving Officer, UNITED WAY, THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY, Allentown, Pa.
- Director, Agency Relations, UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA., Phila., Pa.
- Director, Development and Alumni Relations, PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY, Phila., Pa.
- Founding Executive Director, SENIOR ADULTS FOR GREATER ADVENTURE, Ambler, Pa.
- Personnel Training Group Manager, SUN OIL COMPANY, Phila., Pa,
United States Army Military Intelligence (Defense Intelligence Agency –GS 14)
- Europe and Southeast Asia. Honorable Discharge, awarded various medals for service
CURRENT AND PAST PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & HONORS
- Founding Chair, Board of Trustees, The Community Music School of Southwest Florida
- President, Sarasota Rotary Club Foundation and Member, Rotary Club of Sarasota Keys
- Board member and Historian, Ivy League Club, Inc. - Sarasota and Manatee Counties, Florida
- Secretary, Board of University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club of Sarasota & Manatee Counties, Florida
- Member, Historic Spanish Point Planned Giving Committee, Osprey, Florida
- Member, Girls Incorporated of Sarasota County Development Council, Sarasota, Florida
- Board member, Southbay Yacht & Racquet Club Owners Association, Osprey, Florida
- President’s Advisory Board, Sarasota Women’s Resource Center, Sarasota, Florida
- Advisor, Sarasota Ballet Planned Gift Committee, Sarasota, Florida
- Treasurer, Board of Sarasota County Historical Society, Sarasota, Florida
EDUCATION
THE WHARTON SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Phila., Pa.
- M. B. A. -- Marketing and Finance
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, Phila., Pa.
- B. S. - Administrative Management
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
ED KLOPFER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE, Sarasota, Fla.
- Real Estate post licensing continuing education (45 hours)
SARASOTA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, Sarasota, Fla.
- Real Estate post licensing continuing education – on-going
BERT RODGERS SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE, Sarasota, Fla.
- Real Estate Principles and Practicalities (63 hours)
STETSON UNIVERSITY, Deland, Fla.
- Zero Estate Tax Planning
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, Williamsburg, Va.
- National Planned Gift Institute -- Planned Gift Marketing
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON PLANNED GIVING, Indianapolis, In.
- Continuing education workshops on special issues related to Planned Giving
UNITED WAY OF AMERICA, Alexandria, Va.
- National Academy of Voluntarism: Conducted and participated in courses in Planned Giving, Major Gifts
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Ogontz Campus, Jenkintown, Pa.
- Continuing education courses in Real Estate Law and Finance
