Current Work
Planning and Leadership
 

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.

Grant Development
 

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
 
 



  Red Letter Services
Red Letter Services are as diverse as the agencies and clients who come to me with needs to improve their services and create a sustainable funding base for growth and sustainability. However, the bulk of services I provide fall into one of four general categories:
  Strategic Agency Planning & Capacity Building: I can produce strategic growth and staffing plans for your agency, including an assessment of your agency's ability to pursue and administer large state and Federally funded projects. I have produced strategic plans for regional funders, intermediaries, colleges, and large non-profit agencies.
  Project Planning and Implementation : I have led the planning and implementation of dozens of large, multi-agency workforce development and educational projects. Many of these are multi-million dollar initiatives with stakeholders that include regional funders, colleges, workforce agencies, public agencies, school districts, community organizations, and community residents.
  Community & Collaborative Planning: I have extensive experience building and helping lead community and service collaboratives around comprehensive community initiatives. In fact much of my grant work involves specifically this kind of community and collaborative building and integration. I specialize in bringing together diverse stakeholders around key community needs to help them craft common solutions for funding and further development.
 

Grant Planning and Development: Over the last 10 years, I have worked with educational, county, municipal, and non-profit to agencies produce dozens of Federal, State, and Foundation funding proposals. With a success rate around 80% on proposal development, I have the capacity to completely lead the planning and development of your initiative as well as lead the writing and packaging of the final grant. Funding Sources & Policy Experience
  Evaluation: As a small firm, Red Letter does not do large evaluation projects, however I do assist clients with evaluation of Red Letter led projects, including development of data collection instruments, evaluation protocols, and preparation of reports for Federal and State funded projects. I also assist clients in grant projects with the creation of evaluation plans and can help find an appropriate evaluation partner for substantial projects.