Sara Furlong: Selected Work Samples

Over the course of my career, I’ve created and led communications work across organizations, platforms, and formats, much of which has evolved, moved offline, or simply wasn’t mine to keep. The samples below offer a snapshot of work that remains accessible, spanning scientific and impact storytelling, video, digital content, publications, campaigns, and design.

While not a comprehensive portfolio, they provide a sense of how I approach different audiences, subjects, and communications challenges.

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Winn Awards Overview Book
Concept, content and design
Produced on an accelerated timeline to meet an urgent organizational need, this overview translates a complex national clinical research program into an accessible, visually engaging introduction.

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Cohort 5 Scholar Bio Book
Content development and design
A collection of profiles introducing a national cohort of medical students and highlighting their backgrounds, research interests and experiences.

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Funder Impact Updates
Content development and design
Informal, customized documents created to share impact with our pharmaceutical funding partners on the scholars they have supported.

Video

I am extremely proud to have led advancement communications during the launch of a selective liberal arts university’s historic $1 billion capital campaign, The Campaign for the Third Century.

The COVID-19 pandemic represented the need for a major strategic pivot at the selective liberal arts university I worked for at the time. We were able to turn unprecedented challenges into opportunities to engage our alumni and educate key audiences on the importance of unrestricted giving, leading to subsequent records for our annual fund.

I worked for 7 years at a liberal arts university, specifically focused on fundraising and development marketing and communications, as well as alumni engagement.

News & Blog Articles

Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award Program Announces Third Cohort of Physician-Researchers for the Clinical Investigator Leadership Award: Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation is proud to support Conquer Cancer’s EveryGrant and the American Heart Association to Advance Clinical Trials Leadership in Oncology and Cardiovascular Research

National Coalition of Pharmaceutical Industry, Academic, and Nonprofit Partners Launches Fifth Winn CIPP Cohort

AstraZeneca Joins Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award Program as Funding Partner

Winn Career Development Award (Winn CDA) Announces Cohort 5 Awardees

A Recap: Inside the 2025 Winn Clinical Investigator Pathway Program Symposium

Impact Reports

I’ve created many impact, endowment, and annual reports. You can see a few complete reports here:

2017 Presidents’ Club Impact Report

2018 Presidents’ Club Impact Report

2019 Presidents’ Club Impact Report

Science & Research

I’ve always had an inner science nerd, and I’m grateful for every opportunity to feed it. I especially enjoy the challenge of taking complex research and translating it into stories that are accurate, accessible, and genuinely interesting to people outside the field. The goal is never to dumb down the science. It’s to find the story within it and help more people understand why it matters.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/ Surveying, Mapping, and Geodesy

xyHt: “Inspecting Over the Line”: One of British Columbia’s first aerial inspection firms takes on a challenging maritime mission using a UAV.

“Microdrones Succeeds at Unexpected Corridor Mapping Request”

“Too Dam Dangerous”:

SUNY Polytechnic Institute

“New Research Shows a Frictionless State Can Be Achieved at Macroscale”

“$40M Investment in SUNY Poly Paves Way for Semiconductors”

Social Media

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Selected Outcomes

I’m proud to have contributed to the outcomes below. Each reflects the kind of collaborative work I value most, bringing teams, departments, and partners together around a shared goal and using strategic communications and marketing to help move it forward.

RECORD FUNDRAISING RESULTS & OTHER MILESTONES

Colgate Launches Historic $1 Billion Capital Campaign

Colgate University Sets New Giving Record

The Colgate Fund Challenge Raises More Than $4M

Colgate Receives More Than $40M in New Gifts

NEW PARTNERSHIPS

AstraZeneca Joins Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award Program as Funding Partner

Mohawk Valley colleges drive growth with new programs, partnerships, and investments

IMPROVED PATIENT EXPERIENCE

Cortland Regional Ranked Number One NY Hospital in New Federal Health Care Ranking

RECORD APPLICATIONS & ENROLLMENT

SUNY Poly welcomes largest new undergraduate class in school history

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