Iliriana Kacaniku

Consult mission-driven organizations on social impact strategies, programs, execution, and brand. • Designed a mentoring program, for early-stage social entrepreneurs that leverages corporate citizenship programs to build the mentors’ corps and support early-stage social enterprises. • Directed a documentary film 11 Years in 11 Minutes to communicate the $13M multi-party investment on capacity building for social impact.

Managed online communities of 560+ social entrepreneurs developing proposals to compete in open innovation challenges. • Developed design-thinking learning materials, webinars, and mentorship that helped 65% of 560 challenge participants apply design-thinking methods and refine their proposals. • Developed an assessment framework to evaluate 560+ proposals against client’s funding strategy that generated 18 grant winners across 2 innovation challenges. • Analyzed online platform’s performance data.

Led growth of a leading advocate of social impact through improved public service. Developed and led execution of multi-annual program strategies that directed design and implementation of operational and grant projects and led to 7-fold growth of annual program budget from $200K – to $1.5M and activities from ~20 to 130+ in 11 years. Launched 5 multi-annual strategic projects that developed capacities of nonprofit leaders, government officials, and media to research, monitor, and advocate social impact.

Managed implementation of program strategies that fostered positive social impact through improved policy-making and advocacy. • Developed a grants database with integrated key performance indicators (KPIs), that streamlined impact measurement across projects and identified opportunities to enhance operations and optimize philanthropic investments. • Directed NGOs' transformation from service providers to advocacy organizations, 10 of which developed international thought leadership and recognition.

Supported implementation of US Gov't’s reconstruction strategy in post-war Kosovo through community development. • Organized 50+ community groups to build consensus on community priorities. • Oversaw execution of 50+ small infrastructure projects (power grid upgrades, health clinics’ and school’s reconstruction, clean-ups, etc.) that improved lives of 100,000+ beneficiaries.

Business strategy, design thinking, new product development, social impact assessment.

Managing International Non-Governmental Organizations; International Organizations, Democratic Transition and Consolidation, International Negotiation Processes; Development Economics, Peacekeeping Operations, Sustainable Development, Crisis Management.

Peace Studies, Conflict Resolution,International Politics and Security Studies, Regional Security Studies, Research methods,

English Language: Grammar, Morphology, Syntax, Phonetics, Theory of Literature, Medieval Literature, Modern Literature, Teaching Methodology.