New England Public Radio has hired A. Rima Dael as the interim executive director of development and major gifts. Rima will supervise the station's ten person development team, including its underwriting and major gifts teams. She will officially assume her role at the station on December 18, 2017.
"We are delighted to welcome Rima to the NEPR team," said CEO and General Manager, Martin Miller. "She brings 20 years of development, marketing, and teaching experience to NEPR, and arrives at a critical time in NEPR's history as we begin to develop plans to execute a very ambitious strategic plan and raise the resources to provide even greater service to our region."
I am passionate about the transformational power of the arts and how they create community, and thrilled to continue this work with New England Public Radio. - A. Rima Dael
Prior to joining NEPR, Rima was the executive director of institutional advancement & foundation at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) and the executive director at Dance & Song Society, an international arts service organization for North American traditional dance, music and song. She was also a founding faculty member of the Nonprofit Management & Philanthropy graduate program at Bay Path University. She continues as an adjunct professor in the program.
"I am passionate about the transformational power of the arts and how they create community, and thrilled to continue this work with New England Public Radio," said Rima.
Rima received her bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Theatre Arts from Mount Holyoke College. She attended Mount Holyoke as an international student and got her first job in the nonprofit arts sector on campus at Summer Theatre at Mount Holyoke College. Rima's master's degree is in Nonprofit Management from the Milano School of Management & Urban Policy at the New School University where she was a Community Development Finance Fellow. Originally from the Philippines, Rima spent her childhood in several Southeast Asian countries, but home is here in the Pioneer Valley.
New England Public Radio plans to open a search to fill the permanent position in spring 2018.