Experience

Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Aug 2022 - Present



TCF Collaborative, LLC

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal & Managing Member

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  The TCF Collaborative, LLC is a nonprofit sustainability practice of seasoned interim executive transition consultants and former chief executives who have spent more than three decades helping nonprofits survive and thrive through organizational challenges and executive change. We are executive transition management consultants dedicated to helping nonprofits stabilize, build and bridge one executive leadership era to the next. We work in partnership with the search firms to ensure the needed organizational development work and the executive search process dovetails. Our observations can provide data points to the search process. With decades of proven success, our approach is guided by our commitment to building equitable leadership, growing respectful organizational cultures, and strengthening the nonprofit’s agility and ability to meet its mission.Clients include: Nuestra Comunidad, Co-Interim Executive DirectorCity Mission Boston, Interim Executive DirectorMARCH, Inc, Interim Chief Operating OfficerNuestra Comunidad Development Corporation, Co-Interim Executive Director



TonThat Consulting

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Principal

  • Dec 2005 - Present

  Specializing in Interim Executive Management, Strategy, and Coaching.Clients include: Kennedy Donovan Center, Inc., Interim Chief Executive OfficerSoutheastern Connecticut Council of Governments, Project Manager for IES, LLCCoalition for Occupied Homes in Foreclosure, Interim Executive DirectorMetroWest Nonprofit Network, Strategy ConsultantNew Sector Alliance, Interim Executive DirectorStep to Success Brookline, Interim Executive DirectorMetro West Collaborative Development and Can-Do, Strategy ConsultantBrain Tumor Society, Interim Executive DirectorAlzheimer's Association Connecticut Chapter, Interim Executive DirectorNational Network of Forest Practitioners, Interim Executive Director



National Brain Tumor Society

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Jul 2008 - Aug 2014

  Developed and implemented short- and long-term strategies to leverage assets from each of the merger partners. Drove revenue by building relationships with current and prospective donors and by promoting the Society to become “top of mind” as the primary driver of brain cancer related policy. Ensured programs were effectively delivered while balancing resources to drive maximum benefit into the cause. Liaised with Board, aligned partner organizations, community, staff, and volunteers to optimize collaboration and new ideas. • Orchestrated successful merger of 3 brain tumor organizations over the course of 2 years, creating the largest national brain tumor organization with a budget of >$10M• Engaged in permanent capacity post-merger to foster innovation, manage growth, and ensure positioning as the ‘go to’ organization in the brain tumor community at the national level• Established a game-changing, multi-partner, multi-institution GBM (most deadly brain cancer) research program with a goal to double life expectancy for GBM patients within 5 years (launched in 2013)• Launched public/private collaborative with FDA, a coalition of nonprofit organizations, and leaders in the medical/academic community and industry to define new endpoints for phase III clinical trials, accelerating the investment in drug development



Vietnamese American Initiative For Development

• Interim Executive Director

  • Apr 2004 - Dec 2005

  Retained to identify and rectify funding compliance irregularities and to restructure $4M debt from a community center, allowing for long term operational viability.• Brought property management services in-house to increase the residential portfolio from 9 to 21; began development on a transit-oriented mixed use project yielding 43 units of affordable housing plus 8K sq ft of commercial space• Restructured 4 program divisions and administrative structure toward greater effectiveness and efficiency• Joined a coalition and partnered with U.S. Department of Justice to enforce Help America Vote Actcompliance by the City of Boston• Addressed organization's misuse of ~$500K of programmatic grant monies from 2 national foundations by refinancing capital assets and by renegotiating the effective grant period so that all the funded programs could be implemented



FBC Property Management Corporation

• Executive Director

  • May 2000 - Apr 2004

  Spearheaded all property management, accounting and budgeting, contract auditing and risk management, and insurance purchase for all 7 program subsidiaries. Reported to 7 distinct boards and church committees. Supervised and directed staff in site management, financial services, facilities, and personal care and homemaking.• Refinanced HUD 202s (120 units); maintained compliance for LIHTC project (35 units)• Developed a 5-year capital plan for the properties owned by the First Baptist Church• Built an unique continuum of supportive housing by connecting 3 different elder housing projects. Maximized a newly-created 501c3 Home Health Aide organization to provide services and staffing. Costs were mitigated through contracts with the State Department of Elders Affairs



Bay Cove Human Services

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Director of Operations (1999 to 2000)

  • Oct 1992 - May 2000

  Promoted to take over operational leadership within the agency during a period of expansion of privatized human services in the Commonwealth. Oversaw the Property and Housing Department, the Information Technology (IT) Department, and the Business Resource Manager.• Directed start-up of the first residential program in the country designed to service Asians who are homeless and have chronic major mental illness• Following rapid post-privatization growth, oversaw the development and maintenance of 55 residential and commercial sites, including >250 supported apartment units across Metro Boston