Northwest Regional Director of Development Canine Companions for Independence, Santa Rosa California, 2007–2010

• Implemented and managed development of fundraising for $1.9 million budget.
• Maintained a leadership role in the identification, cultivation and solicitation of annual, capital and major gifts from individual, corporate and foundation sources, including major grant, research, development and reporting.
• As lead staff, coordinated donor receptions, multi–state annual fundraising events including galas and auctions and other stewardship activities in collaboration with staff and volunteers.
• Wrote and oversaw regional direct mail appeals, newsletters, marketing and communications including a calendar of press releases, announcements, annual reports and e–newsletters.
• Developed and maintained close working relationships with the philanthropic community, individual and corporate donors, sponsors, board members and volunteers.
• Created new national program entitled “The Mitzvah Project,” an outreach and fundraising initiative directed toward the greater Jewish community. 14 Bar and Bat Mitzvah students picked Canine Companions for their Mitzvah Project.
• Supervised two Development Associates, a Volunteer Coordinator, an Office Manager and a Regional Data Entry Assistant.

Executive Director, The Jewish Community Center of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa California, 2006–2007

• Developed and implemented $600,000 agency budget.
• Wrote all grants and subvention requests and made all donor solicitations.
• Oversaw daily operations, human resources, and staffing issues.
• Guided marketing committee in creation and implementation of marketing plan.
• Developed strategic plan, fundraising plan and governance policy in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board.
• Partnered with Executive Committee to create new and revitalize existing programs.
• Supervised a staff of 7.

Director of Business Development and Communications, MesArt.com, San Francisco California, 2002–2006

• Oversaw daily operations of an Internet-based visual arts Web hosting company, including advertising, marketing, design, and client development and support.
• Prepared and implemented annual budgets which increased from $50,000 to $500,000 in conjunction with company founders.
• Increased client base from 200 to 2,000 artists and gallery owners.
• Spearheaded partnership–building to position MesArt as top–ranked Web hosting company.
• Co-created and implemented business and marketing plan.
• Wrote all website content.

Assistant Executive Director, Artship Foundation, Oakland California, 2000–2002

• Collaborated with Executive Director and Treasurer to prepare annual budgets, which increased from $200,000 to $2,000,000 during my tenure.
• Partnered with Executive Director in creating strategic plan and writing all grants.
• Assisted in preparation of long–range facility plan.
• Established significant relationships with for–profit and nonprofit companies.
• Supported development and implementation of fundraising and marketing strategies.
• Supervised a staff of 10, including a Facilities Manager, a Director of Development, a Development Associate, 3 Program Directors, a Volunteer Coordinator and 4 Administrative positions.

Program Director, Artship Foundation, Oakland California, 1996–2000

• Directed department heads, oversaw staffing and organized volunteers.
• Created new programs for art exhibitions, lectures, poetry readings and dance/theater.
• Wrote program and project support grants and created yearly program budgets.

Founding Partner, Harris   Company, Executive Search, Chicago, Illinois/San Francisco California, 1988-1996

• Conducted executive search consulting for the insurance industry.
• Increased annual revenue from $50,000 to $200,000 with a client base of one hundred and fifty small and mid cap companies.
• Co–created and implemented strategic business and marketing plan.

Adjunct Faculty, Sonoma State University, 2007

• Perspectives on the Holocaust and Genocide

Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 2006

• Poetry of the Sacred: Rumi, Moses De Leon, Dante Alighieri

Faculty, Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley California, 2002-2006

• Zohar: The Essence of Jewish Mysticism
• The History of Jewish Mysticism
• The Great Kabbalists: Abraham Abulafia, Moses de Leon, Isaac Luria
• Shabbatai Tzvi: The Mystical Messiah & Jewish Messianism
• Sigmund Freud and The Jewish Mystical Tradition
• Darkness and Light: A Modern Psychology of Kabbalah
• Anti–Prophets in Jewish Interpretation Today: Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt
• Who was “J,” The First Author of The Hebrew Bible?
• The Golem: The Artificial Anthropoid in Jewish History
• Demons, Golems and Dybbuks: Monsters of the Jewish Imagination
• Shakespeare and Kabbalah: The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest
• On the Edge of Literary Art, God and Culture: Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Edmond Jabes
• Franz Kafka: Exemplary Jewish Writer
• The Golden Age of Spanish–Jewish Poetry: Samuel Nagid, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Moses ibn Ezra, Abraham ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi
• Jewish Men and Women of the French Resistance
• Mystical Anti–Semitism: The Myth of Satan

Adjunct Faculty, College of the Holy Names, Oakland California, 1995-1996

• Advanced Conversational English, Department of English as a Second Language
• Level II & Level III: English Grammar and Composition, Department of English as a Second Language

M. Div. The University of Chicago

• The History and Hermeneutics of Religion
• Certifying Examinations in Western Religious Tradition and Religion in the Modern World: (A) Sacred Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, (B) Post-Canonical Periods to the Sixteenth Century, (C) Sixteenth to 20^th century
• Dissertation: “Kabbalah by Writing in Moses de Leon, Gershom Scholem and Harold Bloom.”
• Committee: Dr. Paul Ricoeur, Dr. David Tracy, Dr. Beth Ash, Dr. Lynn Poland

B. A The University of Denver

• Majors in Philosophy, Religious Studies and English with a minor in Jewish Studies, Magna Cum Laude; Golden Key National Honor Society, The Hornbeck Scholar Award
• Academic Adviser: Dr. Carl Raschke

High School Diploma, Suffield Academy

• C. W. Austin Language Prize: French

Poetry

• Nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize for “Baseball” and “The Last Romantic” published in View from the Middle of the Road IV: Pathway to Dreams, Edited and Compiled by Lucinda Clark, PRA Publishing, 2009.
• Nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize for “Orchard” published in Unio Mystica, poems by Daniel Y. Harris, Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009.
• Nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize for “I” published in The Blue Jew Yorker.

Poetry

Hyperlinks of Anxiety, Cervena Barva Press, (forthcoming) 2012

Anthologies

Continent of Light, Edited by David Magdalene, 2011
FutureCycle Poetry Annual Anthology, Edited by Robert S. King, 2010
Views from the Middle of the Road IV, Compiled by Lucinda Clark, 2009
A Poet’s Haggadah, Passover Through The Eyes of Poets, Edited by Rick Lupert, 2008
The Adobe Anthology, Edited by Claudia Lunstroth, 1993

Poetry

Unio Mystica, Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009

Experimental Writing

Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue: An Exponential Dyad, co–authored with Adam Shechter, Cervena Barva Press, 2010

• Editorial Committee, Reelcontent.org, 2008 and current

• Associate Editor, The Blue Jew Yorker, 2009-2010
• Director of Research and Development, Mad Hatters’ Review, 2007-2008
• Poetry Editor, Muse Apprentice Guild, 2005-2006
• Poetry and Essay Editor, MesArt.com, 2002-2005
• Poetry & Essay Editor, Tea Party Magazine, 1999-2002

Active

• Poets & Writers
• The New York Quarterly Foundation
• The Jewish Federations of North America

Inactive

• National Association of Temple Administrators
• Jewish Community Center Association of North America
• Modern Language Association
• The United Poets Coalition, Regional Coordinator of Poets 4 Peace

• “Israel Solidarity–A Humanitarian Gathering.” Master of Ceremonies, The Friedman Event Center, Santa Rosa, CA, 2006
• “Emergency Humanitarian Gathering in Solidarity with the People and State of Israel.” Speaker, Congregation B’nai Israel, Petaluma CA, 2006
• “Divine Images: Community Artist Encounter The Second Commandment.” Panelist, The Jewish Community Library, Bureau of Jewish Education, San Francisco CA, 2004

• “Development Professionals Institute,” the Jewish Federations of North America, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2011
• “The General Assembly,” the Jewish Federations of North America, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010
• “Executive Director’s Conference,” The Jewish Community Center Association of North America, New Orleans, LA, 2007
• “JCCA Biennial 2006,” The Jewish Community Center Association of North America, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
• “Getting to the Core Conference,” The Jewish Community Federation, Temple Isaiah, Lafayette CA, 2005

Administration

Canine Companions for Independence

• “Paws for a mitzvah: Teens jump-start program to benefit assistance dog nonprofit.” J. The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California (Charitable Giving Supplement), Volume 113, Number 45, November 13, 2009. Also available online at JWeekly.com
• “Exceptional Dogs for Exceptional People.” The Seattle Mariners Magazine, September 2008
• “Canine Companions takes over San Francisco hearing program.” The North Bay Business Journal, Volume 22, Number 22. August 25th, 2008

The Jewish Community Center, Sonoma County

• “Sonoma County JCC up and running, even without a building,” J. The Jewish News Weekly, June 30th, 2006

Lectures

• “Book ’em: Contra Costa Jewish fest spotlights locals,” J. The Jewish News Weekly, October 23rd, 2005

Culture and The Arts

• “Dysfunctional public arts,” The Oakland Tribute, October 4th, 1998

Journals, Reviews, Books and Websites

• “Oy to Joy, He’s the Baum, Kudos to authors,” by Suzanne Burns, JWeekly.com, February 24, 2011
  “And Daniel Y. Harris, now campaign director at the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region, writes that the poetry book he co–authored with Adam Schechter has been named one of the five most important Jewish poetry books of 2010 by the Jewish Daily Forward. The book, “Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue: An Exponential Dyad,” was deemed “a highly original and challenging read” by the Forward.”
• “Terminal Nostalgia, Having Feelings for the Blue Jew Yorker” by Jake Marmer, The Jewish Daily Forward, January 19, 2010
  “Sure, I have a soft spot for the Blue Jew Yorker, the on–line journal dedicated to the “culture of ecstasy and survival”, because a few of my own works have appeared there. But, even the strictest seekers of objective opinions would be impressed by the rag’s young, crisp and acidic intellectualism, as well as the propensity for absurdist humor and a certain nostalgic stance that bypasses the contemporary pop–culture. But don’t take it from me, take it from U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, who described the magazine as “smart and rowdy.”
  
  In the new issue – their seventh, aptly titled “Terminal Nostalgia” – what stands out most is the quality and diversity of the work which ranges from “Rivulets of a Dead Jew,” a waltz by Charles Bernstein, founder of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E movement, to “The Other Universe of Paris Hilton,” a hilarious piece by Matthue Roth, performance poet and writer, who has been featured on Def Jam.
  
  The Jewish discourse, advanced by the BJY, is a particularly fluid, all–embracing one. Not by a long shot do all of the works refer directly to Judaism. In fact, a good deal of contributors are not Jewish. The journal featured Palestinian–born poet Edward Salem whose narrator, in “Soil Poem,” professes pluralistic lust for both Israeli and Palestinian women. The most recent issue features a work by Francisco X. Alarcón, self-described “Chicano poet,” whose bilingual poem, “Crazy Loco” shimmers with spiritual ecstasy.
  
  Another memorable contribution to the new issue is “Ocean Parkway,” authored by the rag’s chief, Adam Shechter. It is a quirky “found” video–poem, full of urban noise, slanted shots, looping sequences and snatches of conversations. The Dziga Vertov meets Grandmaster Flash style of filming evokes the fascination and repetitions of a poetry recitation. Stanza–like segments alternate with choruses and the rhythm of sequence changes merge into something like visual hip–hop. Numerous repetitions not only establish a musical feel, but are the visual double–takes of the ever curious eye of the poet.
  
  Equally compelling is the magazine’s previous issue, co–written exclusively by Shechter and Daniel Y. Harris. It is a collection of fictive bios, published by imaginary, ridiculous and self–important poets. The authors parody the traditional back–page of poetry journals, which contain contributor’s biographies, where the lengthy list of awards (many of them, self–bestowed) and publications (largely, obscure no–name ones) becomes more significant than the poetry itself. Thus, in the parody, the bios overpower the actual works, and “Jacob Schwartz by Phallus Unmasked” and “Dr. Rabbi Ari Ben Lieb Tov by The Brooklyn Son of the Pastrami Sandwich” are every bit as good as they sound.
  
  Small journals tend to have a lasting, if underestimated, effects, and the Blue Jew Yorker, is a valiant candidate for progeny’s nostalgic research and qualms about their ancestors – us.”
• New Hope International Review, July 2008
  A citation of a review of Poetry Salzburg Review #11
  “The poetry here is also very varied in terms of form. There are a significant number of poems that experiment with language in ways that move beyond mere experimentation to actually add to the subject matter. Examples include Daniel Y Harris' THE LAMENT OF DAVAR.” –Juliet Wilson, Reviewer.
• Emerging Writers Network, November 7th, 2007
  A citation of a review of Mad Hatters’ Review, #7
  “…a really nice review of the 7th issue of Mad Hatter's Review – pretty cool seeing one online journal hyping another, and I think Daniel Y. Harris gets it right, Carol Novack is doing some wonderful things in using all the internet has to offer to create a truly wonderful journal.” –Dan Wickett, Reviewer.
• Laurahird.com, 2007
  A citation of a review of Sein Und Werden, Volume 1, Issue #2, Doppelganger, 2006
  “Other poems include Daniel Y. Harris’ bittersweet threnody The Bone.” –Peter Tennant, Reviewer.
• Dogmatica, 2007
  A citation of a review of Sein Und Werden, Volume 1, Issue #2, Doppelganger, 2006
  “Its name is German (translation: being and becoming), the cover a brick wall (recalling those wonderful gritty New Wave band photos) and very early on it boasts these lines by Daniel Y Harris –– “carved like a pas de deux on a patch / of rib–work without nerves” –– which nails what Sein und Werden are about: raw, eclectic, experimental writing with a dash of art thrown into the mix.” –Susan Tomaselli, Reviewer.
• Whispers of Wickedness, 2007
  A citation of a review of Sein Und Werden, Volume 1, Issue #2, Doppelganger, 2006
  “There’s poetry aplenty, again, always inventive, all of it immediate and a good deal of it raw and brutal. My favourites are Bone by Daniel Y Harris, which is a single, beautifully visceral sentence in which image builds on image in a cry that led me (poetry is always subjective!) through a complaint of disappointed love to its tragic conclusion.” –Terry Grimwood, Reviewer.
• Echoes in Exile, Sheema Kalbasi, 2006