Have a project that needs to be done professionally, on time, and under budget? That's what I do.

I am “The Super Producer.”

Services include fundraising, films, events, publications, and organizational management.

Stanford University Stanford, CA — 6/90 MA in Education. Teaching Credential in English. Newman Fellowship for teaching excellence. Harvard University Cambridge, MA — 6/87 BA, magna cum laude, in English and American Literature. HOLLY

MILLION Holly Million, The Super Producer, Owner 1991 - Present

25 years’ experience in the nonprofit sector. Experienced in raising millions of dollars, I have been a consultant, director of development, executive director, and board member. I consult on nonprofit management, fundraising, forming a nonprofit, staffing, board development, and strategic planning.

I have 25 years’ experience in fundraising for organizations, films, and events. In addition to securing funding for "A Story of Healing," which won a 1997 Academy Award, I have raised money for or consulted on fundraising campaigns for documentary and dramatic films that have aired on PBS, HBO, and which have screened at hundreds of festivals worldwide.

I have been producing events of all kinds since 1993, from intimate events for 30 to barn-burners for 3,000, including securing corporate sponsorships. I have two decades’ experience creating communications tools including newsletters, books, blogs, fundraising communications, and social media campaigns. Fundraising and filmmaking are two halves of my personal mission, which is tell good stories featuring real people and to promote truth and understanding.

Non-Profit Clients

Acterra; Actors Theatre; Amnesty International; Bay Area Action; Bay Area Girls Center; BioBricks Foundation; Brothers on the Rise; California School-Age Consortium; CELLspace; Centerforce; Chitresh Das Dance Company; Film Arts Foundation; First Amendment Coalition; GirlSource; Goodwill Industries; Health Outreach Partners; HOMEY; Huckabay-McAllister Dance Company; International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation; Interplast KTEH Public Television; InterValley Project; Leela Institute; Mission Graduates; National Center on Disability and Journalism; Nona Research Foundation; Peninsula Conservation Center Foundation; Pro Bono Project; Quan Yin Healing Arts Center; Roxie Theatre; San Francisco Early Music Society; San Francisco Film Society; San Francisco Public Press; SFJAZZ, The Kidney TRUST; YES: Nature to Neighborhoods; Youth ALIVE!; Youth Services California.

Fundraising, Consulting and Producing Films

Story of Healing" (short documentary), "Changing Room" (short narrative), "A Permanent Mark," apermanentmark.com (documentary), “The Rugby Player” (documentary) therugbyplayerfilm.com, "Jack London: 20th Century Man," jacklondonfilm.com (documentary), "It Came From Kuchar," kucharfilm.com (documentary), "Blind Spot: Women Who Kill" (documentary), "Everyday Heroes" (documentary), "Heist" (documentary), "Nominated" (feature narrative), "Prom Night in Mississippi" (documentary), "‘Stronomer" (feature narrative), "The Wisdom Tree" (feature narrative), "These Amazing Shadows" (documentary), “The Seeds of Vandana Shiva” (documentary), “American Storytellers” (narrative series), “Stories of Lupus” (documentary).

• Corporate sponsorship programs

• Prospect spreadsheet/donor gift tables

• Fundraising event design

• Budget development

• Board and staff training

• Event design and consultation

Services Include:

• Assessment of fundraising programs

• Developing and writing business, fundraising and event plans

• Designing fundraising campaigns

• Developing Major-donor program

• Grant proposal development

BioBricks Foundation, Executive Director 2009 – 2013 / biobricks.org First executive director of start-up non-profit, the BioBricks Foundation, a public-benefit organization whose mission is to ensure that the engineering of biology is conducted in an ethical and open manner to benefit all people and the planet.

• Raised just under $2 million in four years while starting with 4K in the bank.

• Secured corporate sponsorships up to $50K, grants up to $150K, individual gifts up to $10K.

• Managed organization’s rebranding, communications and outreach efforts.

• Led and developed board of eight, and led the board strategic-planning retreat.

• Created first operational plan; and hired and managed contract staff of eight.

• Managed two educational conferences: Stanford, CA with 750 international attendees and Imperial College, London with 750 attendees A Helluva Camp, Founder and Director 2009 – 2010

Designed and launched A Helluva Camp, content-rich, fun mini-camps that provide exciting, practical, and current training for filmmakers and nonprofit staff. o A Helluva Camp for Indie Filmmakers — January 23, 2010, which presented info on fundraising, marketing, technology, distribution, and more, and A

Helluva Camp for Nonprofit Rebels — January 30, 2010, which presented info on fundraising, leadership development, communications, and management training.

Film Arts Foundation, Director of Development and Membership 2007 - 2008 Managed the fundraising and membership program for 30-year-old nonprofit supporting independent filmmakers in the Bay Area, including communications and

outreach efforts.

Secured grants up to $250K in size and major individual gifts up to $20K in size. Goodwill Industries, Director of Individual Gifts 2005 - 2008

Managed relations with regular and major donors for a 100-year-old civic institution

Constructed annual giving campaigns by cultivating major donors and directly solicited gifts

Trained the board of directors to do fundraising, and designed and led a successful emergency fundraising campaign that raised nearly $750K during the height of the Great Recession, including over $100,000 from foundations, many of which had never supported the organization before.

Secured grants up to $75K in size and individuals gifts up to $100K in size through direct solicitation. GirlSource, Director of Development 2002 - 2006 I managed the individual giving program for GirlSource, a nonprofit providing meaningful paid work and college support to low-income young women from San Francisco.

Created first-ever individual giving program for the organization, cultivated major donors and directly solicited and secured individual donations up to 25K in size Secured corporate sponsorships up to $20K in size.

Managed annual appeals. Managed The WAVE Awards Luncheon — organized five separate luncheons for 500 to 700 guests and each honoring four women over the age of 70 for their lifetime

achievements.

Produced 20-minute videos for two WAVE luncheons, including interviewing the awards recipients with the involvement of low-income young women in the GirlSource program.

Conducted a successful emergency fundraising campaign that raised $145K against a $125K goal when the organization lost a major government grant representing 15% of its total budget.

Acterra, Co-Executive Director 2000 - 2002

Co-directed two environmental organizations with staff of 19, board of 24, 20 programs, and combined budget of $1.3 million through merger.

Managed human resources, finance, and development. Restructured financial systems and wrote merged budget.

Secured grants up to $350K in size.

Wrote employee handbook and managed staff.

SFJAZZ, Director of Development 1999 - 2000

Guided West Coast’s leading jazz institution to first-ever $1 million in contributed revenue.

Solicited major gifts. Upgraded top donor to $200,000 gift — next gift was $5 million. Secured grants up to $350K in size. Trained board and staff in fundraising tactics and managed a staff of four employees.

Interplast, Director of Development 1995 - 1998

Oversaw development for international nonprofit providing free surgery for children with birth defects.

Increased revenue 61%. Oversaw special events nationwide. Conducted major donor work nationwide, securing record-setting gifts including $72,000 for Academy-Award-winning documentary film.

Secured grants up to $100,000, corporate sponsorships up to $1 million, and individual contributions up to $50K in size through direct solicitation. Traveled on two of their medical trips, Mongolia, and Nepal. Managed staff of four.

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Bona Fide Films, Inc., President and Executive Director November 2012 — Present / bonafidefilms.org Bona Fide Films is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that produces educational films for public benefit.

Golden Poppy Productions, LLC, Owner June 1996 – Present / goldenpoppy.com Founder and principal of Golden Poppy Productions, a production company that produces commercially oriented films as well as events, plans, books, blogs, and television shows.

A Permanent Mark: Agent Orange in America and Vietnam, Director and Producer, Post-production / apermanentmark.com I am producing and directing the feature-length documentary, “A Permanent Mark.” This is a strong character-driven film for national broadcast that fully integrates the story of Americans exposed to Agent Orange with the story of Vietnamese people still contending with the toxic herbicide. While "A Permanent Mark" is about events that have their origin in the Vietnam War, the film deals with universal themes of war that are relevant today. "A Permanent Mark" shows that war persists, long after we declare “mission accomplished.”

Jack London: Twentieth Century Man, Co-Producer, Post-production / jacklondonfilm.com I am co-producing "Jack London: 20th Century Man," a 90-minute documentary film about one of America’s most popular literary and cultural figures — author, lecturer, photographer and adventurer, Jack London. London is known by many only for his stories of dogs and survival in the Yukon, but this film aims to expose the public to the full range of his prodigious output, including stories set in Hawaii and Melanesia, his ground-breaking reporting and non-fiction, his inconsistent but important portrayals of race and his voluminous photographic archive from his travels around the world. The film will also show Jack London as more than merely a popular writer; his self-made myth made him a major cultural figure of his time, providing a bridge for the reading public from the Victorian Age to the Progressive Era. "Jack London: 20th Century Man" will explore the evolving racial, social, and cultural attitudes in the early 20th Century by tracing London’s own fitful evolution on these subjects during his eventful life. Directed by Chris Million.

The Rugby Player, Producer, Distribution / therugbyplayerfilm.com I produced the feature documentary film, "The Rugby Player," which explores the life of a man who became a hero on 9/11. Mark Bingham was a protective son, loyal friend, successful businessman, championship rugby player, and the life of the party. On United Flight 93, Mark helped lead a revolt of passengers against armed hijackers, preventing the plane from reaching its target. "The Rugby Player" relates the life of an ordinary person who played an extraordinary role on 9/11 and explores themes of individual responsibility, stereotypes, and the true nature of heroism. The film had a sneak-preview screening at the Castro Theater in San Francisco during the 35th Annual Frameline Film Festival and received a seven-minute standing ovation from a sold-out crowd of three thousand people. The film had its official world premiere screening April 29, 2013 at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and has since screened in over 50 cities worldwide on five continents, including having had its broadcast debut on Australian national television. In 2015, the film had its U.S. television broadcast premiere on KQED Public Television in the San Francisco Bay Area. Directed by Scott Gracheff.

It Came From Kuchar, Producer, Distribution / kucharfilm.com I produced the feature-length documentary film, "It Came From Kuchar," including securing over $110,000 in funds to produce the film. The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March 2009 and subsequent television broadcast on the Documentary Channel and IFC. "It Came from Kuchar" tells the story of George Kuchar, a pioneering member of the 1960s New York Underground film scene who became a film godfather to many directors. Such well-known directors as John Waters, David Lynch, Atom Egoyan, and Todd Solondz — as well as dimmer lights in the trash-film firmament — owe a huge debt to George Kuchar. Directed by Jennifer Kroot.

Changing Room, Producer, Director, and Screenwriter, Distribution I directed, wrote, and produced "Changing Room," a comedy that tells the story of three women whose secret body-image problems are exposed in a high-end women’s clothing boutique. Full of fun visuals, and even a cowgirl gunfight, "Changing Room" puts a whole new spin on subjects of universal feminine concern, combining rich fantasy, over-the-top comedy, inventive storylines, and “surprises around every corner” to treat serious subjects. Broadcast premiere on PBS in 2005 and re-aired in 2006.

Blindspot: Murder by Women, Fundraising Consultant, 1999 A documentary by Oscar-winning filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf that premiered in 2000.

Everyday Heroes, Fundraising Consultant, 1999 A documentary by Oscar-nominated director Rick Goldsmith that premiered in 2001.

A Story of Healing, Fundraising Consultant, 1996 I raised principal funding for this documentary featuring the work of Interplast, a nonprofit organization whose medical volunteers provide free reconstructive surgery for disfigured children and young adults in developing countries. "A Story of Healing" won the 1997 Academy Award for best short-subject documentary.

HOLLY MILLION

PERSONAL

Filmmaker. Writer. Teacher. Reader. Blogger. Artist. Interests in animals, food, storytelling, folklore, agriculture, Ayurveda, psychology, and politics. Served on three nonprofit boards of directors. Bay Area transplant, with homes-away-from-home in Pittsburgh and Boston. Have traveled extensively throughout United States. Have also traveled to South Korea, China, Thailand, Mexico, throughout Europe, Nepal, Vietnam, and Mongolia. Good Spanish-speaking ability.