Experience

Helping Hand Home for Children

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

• Director of Strategy and Planning

  • Jan 2015 - Present

  Provides leadership and planning expertise for strategic initiatives, including the capital plan for expansion. Identify new program opportunities and work closely with program directors to develop goals and plans for implementation. Recruit potential collaborators in the community, and lead accreditation process with the Council on Accreditation. Manage the grant process including research, writing, and reporting. In the past four years have doubled the grant portfolio and developed excellent relationships with large and small foundation funders. Have also developed agency measurements, program indicators, and program data tracking systems. Show less

• Grant and Program Research Manager

  • Jan 2011 - Jan 2015

  Research potential funders, draft grant requests and reports, and manage grant process. Develop and cultivate relationships with funders. Develop and monitor measurements, program indicators, and program data tracking systems.



CARITAS

• Non-profit Organizations
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Grants and Contracts Manager

  • Dec 2006 - Sep 2010

  Researched potential funders, drafted grant requests and reports, and managed the grant process. Grew grants portfolio from $400,000 to $725,000 in foundation grants and to 5.5. million in government contracts. Developed and cultivated excellent relationships with foundation and government funders. Researched potential funders, drafted grant requests and reports, and managed the grant process. Grew grants portfolio from $400,000 to $725,000 in foundation grants and to 5.5. million in government contracts. Developed and cultivated excellent relationships with foundation and government funders.



State Bar of Texas

• United States
• Legal Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Program Manager

  • 1995 - 2002

  Managed initiatives to increase the involvement of minority and women attorneys in the bar, developed programs to enhance employment and economic opportunities for minorities in the legal profession, and served as liaison to minority and women bar associations state and nationwide. Managed initiatives to increase the involvement of minority and women attorneys in the bar, developed programs to enhance employment and economic opportunities for minorities in the legal profession, and served as liaison to minority and women bar associations state and nationwide.