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Selected Clients and Projects
Selected Clients and Projects

Social Services

  • Casa Pacifica, Ventura, CA—Strategic planning for new facility and program development for a residential program for youth
  • Children's Center of the Stanford Community, Stanford University Campus—Multi-year strategic planning and board development for an on-campus pre-school.
  • Homeless Shelter Services,Santa Cruz, CA—Executive coaching, strategic planning and board development
  • Mountain Resource Center, Felton, CA—Executive Director coaching, strategic planning with staff and board for a community resource/referral center
  • Night Ministry, San Francisco, CA—Fund development planning and board/executive director coaching
  • Skills Center, Live Oak, CA—Strategic planning, board retreat
  • Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center, Santa Cruz County, CA—Strategic planning and executive coaching
  • United Way of Santa Cruz, Capitola, CA—Developed and conducted outcome evaluation training series for 50 local nonprofit organizations

Arts

  • KUSP, Santa Cruz, CA—Capital Campaign for facility improvement and upgraded transmitter equipment for this nonprofit radio station
  • Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville CA—Strategic planning and board development
  • Kids on Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA—Executive director coaching and board strategic planning
  • McPherson Art Museum, Santa Cruz, CA—Board development

Government

  • Aptos/La Selva Fire Prevention District, Aptos, CA —Strategic planning and board retreat facilitation
  • County of Santa Cruz, Social Welfare Department—Grant writer for Primeros Pasos, a $2M grant to assist pregnant, drug abusing Latinas from Watsonville, California.
  • Intensive Family Preservation Services, New York, New York—Redesign of national association's business model and membership services including market analysis and strategic plan
  • Visitors and Convention Bureau, Santa Cruz, CA—Board development and retreat planning and facilitation

Education

  • Aromas/San Juan Unified School, Aromas, CA—Proposal writing for an innovative ecology project
  • Friends of Long's Marine Lab, University of California at Santa Cruz—Long range planning, board retreats facilitation
  • Head Start, Watsonville, CA—Team-building and strategic planning
  • Kern County Office of Education, Bakersfield, CA—Program development and proposal to State Department of Education for online interdisciplinary education
  • San Lorenzo Unified School District, Felton, CA—Program planning and proposal development for Healthy Start program
  • University of California at Santa Cruz—Instructor in alcohol program management courses
  • University of California/Berkeley, Development of UCB's Americorps program and its initial fund development planning through Vice Chancellor's of Student Affairs Office

Advocacy

  • California Food Policy Advocates, San Francisco, CA—Multi-year strategic planning for improving State's policies to overcome hunger and children's malnutrition
  • National Council of Nonprofit Associations, Washington, D.C.—Survey and analysis of market for new products and services for national association of state-wide associations
  • Nonprofit Risk Management Center, Washington DC—Program design for a national center on nonprofit risk and insurance issues
  • Roots of Peace, San Rafael, CA—Business planning and board development for an international nonprofit that clears landmines and agricultural lands

Health/Mental Health

  • Mental Health Clients Action Network, Santa Cruz, CA—Board development and preparation for IRS 501C (3) incorporation
  • Monterey Bay Psychiatric Associates, Capitola, CA—Business planning for group of Psychiatrists providing hospital services in two counties
  • Pacific Vascular Research Foundation, San Francisco, CA—Board retreat planning and facilitation
  • Western Consortium for Public Health, San Francisco, CA—Program planning and orientation sessions for international health project managers