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Regional Logistics Training Center: Project Development to create a regional logistics career training and industry services center linking community workforce providers, community colleges, and adult education resources to serve extremely low income Oakland residents-Peralta Community College Distruct
Neighborhood Workforce Center: Development of a planning model and supervision of implementation of a neighborhood workforce center as part of the City of San Francisco's new workforce system.
Workforce Services Department Management: Interim supervision of a 3.5 million dollar workforce services department including development of two new career center projects, coaching for senior department staff, and development of a strategic staffing and program plan.
5 year Career and Technical Education Plan: Development of a 5 year plan for Career and Technical Education Programs at the Peralta Community College District for compliance with Perkins VI, part C regulatory requirements.
Expansion Plan: Expansion plan for 8 million dollar Veterans supportive and workforce services organization.
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Workforce Development & Postsecondary
WIA One Stop Centers Operator : $1.2 million
GA & CalWORKs Training Services : $500,000
IDRC Workforce Initiative: $531,000
CTE Teacher Pipeline Initiative : $200,000
Afterschool Career Pathways : $300,000
Education
Tobacco Use Prevention Education: $86,000
Pre-Kindergarten Family Literacy (2): $123,000
School Community Violence Prev: $500,000
School Readiness Initiative: $100,000
Community Development/Capacity Building
Community TA Initiative: $750,000
Comm Dev Financial Intermediary: 2 million |
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Background
& Experience
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Letter Consulting is based on 25 years experience
in human services delivery, management, and consulting. I started
as a youth development worker through the YMCA, operating and
developing youth wilderness, afterschool, and teen leadership
programs.
From
that background, I pursued graduate education in Anthropology
with a Masters in Cultural and Visual Anthropology from Temple
University and Doctoral work in Social Anthropology at the University
of Texas at Austin. My Dissertation topic was the cultural and
social history of childhood and children's institutions in the
United States viewed through the evolution and professionalism
of child work in summer camps, educational reform movements, and
urban child welfare institutions. |
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the Y and other youth serving organizations, I helped develop wilderness
leadership and treatment programs for youth at risk and mentally
Ill adults and youth. In 1997, I was recruited by Gibson and Associates,
a grant development and consulting firm in Oakland. At G&A,
I was a project specialist helping municipal, county agencies, and
non-profit agencies plan and develop initiatives in response to
Federal and State funding opportunities. I worked in numerous areas,
but developed specializations in Welfare to Work, school-linked
services, Housing (HUD) programs, and Education. I helped lead a
number of multi-agency and even multi-county initiatives, mediating
often contrary interests in creating strong, competitive funding
proposals for new sustainable projects. |
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G&A I spent several years working in Community and Economic
Development programs, first with the Spanish Speaking Unity Council
as their director of Workforce Development programs and later as
the Director Neighborhood Economic Development for the East Bay
Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC)-both nationally recognized
Community Development Corporations. With EBALDC I led multiple new
initiatives including the creation of an Employer IDA initiative,
creation of a Family and Self-Sufficiency plan in East Oakland for
a new HOPE VI development, and acted as the Family Economic Success
Coordinator for the Annie E. Casey foundation with the Lower San
Antonio Casey Making Connections Collaborative in Central Oakland.
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the mid 1990's, I have helped dozens of agencies raise millions
of dollars for new projects. While I am a strong grant developer
with a high success rate, I consider my specialization to be planning
and collaborative development-helping guide planning and program
development that is both responsive to the solicitation and
to the communities and population being served. While most
clients initially retain me grant development, they tend to continue
to work with me on a range of projects relating to increasing agency
capacity and developing long-term funding strategies for growth
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