Current Work
Planning and Leadership
 

Family Self-Sufficiency Centers: Analysis of models and potential SF Bay Area target sites for implementation of an integrated center-based family self sufficiency model. Funded by regional intermediaries and foundations
Strategic Funding Business Plan: Assistance for SF Bay Area regional funder for development of a five year strategic funding business plan focusing on long term services that help move working families towards permanent self-sufficiency
CalWORKs Career Path Employment Interim Coordination and implementation of a career path vocational training program targeting CalWORKs participants entrenched in minimum wage employment in medical front office, biotechnology, and as social services paraprofessionals
Immigrant Nurse Reentry: Development of a sector initiative assisting foreign trained RN's to reenter health care workforce in United States as licensed vocational or registered nurses

Grant Development
 

Workforce Development
Immigrant Nursing Planning Grant: $77,000
CalWORKs Post-Employment Svs: $500,000
Education
Tobacco Use Prevention Education: $86,000
Pre-Kindergarten Family Literacy (2): $123,000 California HealthyStart Planning : $50,000
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
Evaluation
 

Evaluation
Rural Technology Distance Learning Project
Tobacco Use Prevention Education
Middle School Safe Schools Initiative
  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:
 

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
  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.
  Strategic Agency Planning & Capacity Building: Often agencies come to me with questions about their capacity to pursue large funding opportunities. I can look at your agency's mission, programs, and financial capacity to access and administer large federal, state, or foundation funding sources, make recommendations on organizational changes, and help lead your efforts toward change and growth.
  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.