Organizations I have helped (a sampling)
Strategic Planning
Missouri Jobs with Justice
Designed and led statewide planning to set 5-year goals and strategies to expand workers' rights and improve working conditions for Missourians.
Missouri Association for Community Action
Provided training and tools to help community action agencies set poverty impact goals, and integrate best practices into their work.
Mary's Pence
Led strategic plan. Results: new focus to
seed women's community lending pools.
Missouri Foundation for Health
Led annual policy reform planning
sessions for health advocacy grantees.
David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Led strategic review of $8.5 million grant
program, assisted with new strategy.
USAction
Led process for creating a 5-year strategic
plan for national organization.
The Fund for State Coalitions
Facilitated priority setting session for
progressive funders' collaborative.
Confluence Greenway Project
Helped partner agencies create governing
structure for regional conservation initiative.
Research
David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Interviewed journalists, pollsters, policy
makers, and advocates in 5 Western states
to identify health policy opportunities.
The Piper Fund
Interviewed 25 campaign finance reform
experts to identify better ways to tell
the money in politics story.
Fundraising & Marketing
NARAL Pro-Choice America
Coached 12 state directors in major
donor fund raising: all increased income.
New Hampshire Citizens Alliance
Created major donor campaign, coached
director, wrote materials, exceeded goal.
Mary’s Pence
Created major donor campaign, coached
director on solicitations, client met goal,
key donors increased giving.
USAction
Coached New Jersey & Rhode Island
state directors through successful major
donor campaigns: both exceeded goal.
Discount Foundation
Produced and co-wrote award winning
publication outlining the foundation's
strategy to increase wages in the U.S.
Program Design & Evaluation
JusticeWorks Community
Created national campaign to involve
faith communities in criminal justice;
trained organizers to mobilize activists
for policy reforms in 10 states.
Turner Foundation
Helped manage and evaluate $6 million
family planning voter education project
implemented in 11 states.
More Groups I've Helped
ACLU of Eastern Missouri
ACLU of New Jersey
Center for Women in Transition
Citizens for Missouri's Children
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Let's Start
Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition
PROMO
St. Louis Earth Day
Voices from Inside, MA
West County Democrats
Women and Criminal Justice, CA
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ACLU of Eastern Missouri
ACLU of New Jersey
Center for Women in Transition
Citizens for Missouri's Children
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Let's Start
Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition
PROMO
St. Louis Earth Day
Voices from Inside, MA
West County Democrats
Women and Criminal Justice, CA
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