Here's a sampling of the impact we have made over the years:

MCGaw YMCA

  • Oversee grant writing, reporting, tracking outcomes, monitoring progress, and coordinating interdepartmental grants activities, improving efficiencies

  • Provide special reports and research on topics ranging from STEM/STEAM, youth development, supportive housing, wellness programming

  • Collaborated with Fifth Star Collective to conduct an Evaluation Capacity Assessment and Audit to enhance program evaluation activities and training across multiple program areas

YOGACARE

  • Assembled a team of co-founders, board members, and volunteers to co-found YogaCare as a non-profit organization in 2012-2014 and grew initial revenue by 600% in the first three fiscal years

  • As Executive Director, co-coordinated strategy, development, human resources, internships, finance, impact evaluation, fundraising, programs, strategic partnerships, and Spanish and English teacher training/scholarships

  • Co-founded the Socially Engaged Yoga Network to bring together yoga teachers, wellness practitioners, organizers, and community organizations to focus on healing justice and racial justice

MAPSCorps

  • Managed grant writing activities and conducted targeted STEM/STEAM youth development prospecting, securing new funders and growing revenue

  • Prepared budgets and vouchering systems and aligned program and finance documents for newly awarded City of Chicago grants

  • Developed training tools for executive leadership, Board of Directors, and Fundraising Committee on grants management

Other Clients

  •  ALAS Wings - grant bolierplate refresh and strategic writing to update and enhance proposal seeking

  • American Association of Diabetes Educators – proposal development, editing

  • America Cares Too – grant proposal development to help serve veterans in need

  • Better Future Forward – grant proposal development, funder prospecting analysis

  • The Center for Natural and Traditional Knowledge – grant proposal development

  • Circle Family HealthCare Network - proposal and program development for Ryan White HIV care grants

  • Community Health & Education, Inc. – grant proposal writing

  • ConTextos - federal grant writing and review for prison reform and restorative programming in the US and El Salvador

  • Hektoen Institute – proposal and program development for HIV prevention and care grants funded by the Chicago and Illinois Departments of Public Health, curriculum development and evaluation, best practices development, editing

  • Here Comes the Sun – board development and donor advising for cancer care awareness and survivor support in Rogers Park, Chicago

  • High Jump - grants management, grant writing, prospecting, competitive funder analysis, reporting

  • Housing Opportunities & Maintenance for the Elderly (H.O.M.E.) - grants management, grant writing, prospecting, reporting, evaluation advising

  • Integrative Health Project – mind-body professional training to health and social service professionals serving Humboldt Park

  • MAPSCorps – grant prospect research, proposal writing, strategic advising, government grant proposals to support program expansion

  • Mindful Practices – federal research grant development, foundation program grant proposal writing, project management, editing, strategic advising

  • Medicare NewsGroup – grant prospect research and grant-seeking training

  • Project VIDA - Designed wellness programming and evaluation for HIV/AIDS Ryan White & CDC health education and prevention programs, managed grants and organizational budgets, developed social enterprise arm

  • Stroger Hospital Division of Adolescent Medicine – curriculum development and evaluation for a prevention with positives program

  • Training Resources Network – food pantry services grant review panel for the Baltimore County Health Department

  • Youth Service Project – grant prospect research, grant calendar development for urban agriculture research and education

  • YMCA of Metro Chicago – proposal development, editing, and project management for multiple City of Chicago grant proposals organization-wide

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