Jaffe Management Welcomes Program Manager

Jaffe Management welcomes Program Manager Kristin Darga to its staff.

Kristin Darga serves as a Program Manager for Jaffe Management's clients. In this position she manages the day-to-day affairs of client committees and Boards of Directors to support the implementation of their work. She brings extensive experience in fundraising and event planning for non-profits and small business marketing to Jaffe Management. 

Prior to joining Jaffe Management, Kristin owned a Marketing firm in Ann Arbor, MI, specializing in face-to-face marketing for small businesses and non-profit organizations. In this role she restructured, organized and executed an annual non-profit fundraising event which exceeded its monetary goal by 17%; organized grand opening events and promotions for Food Network award winner, Courtney Clark from Cake Nouveau, and liaised with media for the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Further non-profit experience includes the Ann Arbor Summer Festival where as a Development Associate she raised over $65,000 in event, corporate and individual donations and managed a 48-person volunteer committee. She also acted as Development Chair of the 2007 Governing Board of Growing Hope, a non-profit dedicated to helping people improve their lives through gardening. Her professional background also includes publicity with Columbia Pictures Marketing where she managed talent at press screenings, press junkets and red carpet premiere events and interfaced daily with publicists, journalists, producers, directors and agents. Kristin holds a BA in Communications, Arts and Sciences with a concentration in Journalism from Michigan State University.