* Successfully submitted and managed grants and applications entailing: family services, education, child welfare, early intervention, mental health, addictions, education, HIV prevention, familial violence, community safety, adolescent pregnancy, arts and culture, day care, television (we operated a low power television station), senior housing. Am routinely involved in needs assessment/analyses, program planning/development; contract renewal, budget preparation, negotiation and administration Have compiled policy, procedure and program practice manuals, encompassing: child welfare (6 in all), employment, mental health, addictions, child and youth development, community safety, agency personnel, family preservation, case management to those with mental retardation/developmental disabilities, and others. .

* In association with members from a local church, I organized, led and wrote a successful, two year collaborative neighborhood effort to establish a 500 student, K-8 elementary charter school within Buffalo’s impoverished central city; As designed, there was substantial involvement by surrounding community based providers

* Was instrumental in the creation and operation of a child/adolescent mental health treatment center, compiling: initial policies and procedures, job descriptions and performance evaluations, prepared service renewals and negotiated contracts. Within that clinic were two additional specialty programs: 925 STOP – an HIV/AIDS peer education prevention effort and: Channeling Aggression Positively - a 2 part alternatives to violence community intervention – Alternatives to Violence Training and KISS – Kids In the Street Safety (ages 5-7). Again, I had responsibility for initial grant application and operations, contract negotiations and reports. It should be noted as well that there were plans, under my direction, to expand this mental health clinic to incorporate those substance affected.

* Directed a dislocated worker program and followed with two collaborative endeavors: Project STRIVE (a national replication) and the Transition To Work Initiative – the latter a cooperative venture with six related agencies. As well, and with the Director of Youth Services, re-oriented our youth development program to encompass: education and pre-employment readiness training, job shadowing, photographs and essays, internships and placement.

Skills and Competencies:

Strategic planning, administrative policy and
program practice, quality assurance
Program/budget preparation, management;
contract negotiation
Information production and dissemination;
community and governmental relations
Resource identification, cultivation and
grantsmanship

Professional Experience:

Director of Mentoring: Baltimore Rising, Inc.
3939 Reisterstown Road, Baltimore, MD 21215 2010

Administered, supervised a cluster of four (4) interrelated initiatives all offering mentoring services to children within and from urban community, faith-based and educational settings: Children of Prisoners, Community Based and Work Place Mentoring, Young Women in Action. Developed plans of service and delivery, prepared and monitor budgets and expenditure; grants and applications, reports.

Grants: United Way of Central Maryland
100 S. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 2009

In association with President/CPO, Vice President, Impact Strategies and others, scanned internal and external environments for appropriate opportunities in the advance of organizational and community needs. Researched and identified potential funding opportunities originating from a variety of sources. Developed, submitted proposals, grants, applications, inquiries. Compiled secondary data sets around social service issues and concerns on national, State, regional and local levels. Prepared and issued subject matter briefs and reports.

Vice President of Program: St. Augustine’s Center, Inc., 1437 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14209 1997-2004
Vice President, Research and Evaluation: Friendship House of WNY, 90 Dona Street, Lackawanna, New York 14218 1992-1997
Assistant for Program: Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers, Inc.,97 Lemon Street, Buffalo, New York 14204 1990-1992

A cluster of senior management positions, all reporting to Executive Directors, and all within urban, multi-site, multi-program not-for-profit corporations. Agency-wide responsibilities incorporated: compilation and dissemination of administrative policy, procedure and program practice manuals; quality assurance, technical assistance and support functions to/for senior administrative and supervisory personnel. Routinely provided for program development and supervision, grantsmanship, community/agency needs analyses, budget preparation and contract negotiation. Liaison to and extensive interface with political, educational, community institutions and organizations.

Related and Additional Experience

Consultant: Prepared community/agency needs assessments, grants and proposals; reports, administrative policy, procedure and program practice manuals, agency personnel policies, HIV Information Management, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, speeches on an independent, contractual basis. 2004-2008

Lecturer: State University College of New York at Buffalo, Department of Social Work
1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14222 2001

Taught upper-level social policy and methods courses; particularly around group and community interventions. Construct curricula, prepare and deliver lectures, assign texts and readings, evaluate student performances. Held postings with SUNY at Buffalo as Instructor, College of Health and Human Services, 1984, 1985, 1987. Continued to serve as agency liaison/field instructor to both institutions for undergraduate and graduate social work student internships.

Education:

State University of New York at Buffalo; Graduate School of Social Work
Master’s of Social Work
Special Merit Graduate Fellowship; Member of Curriculum Committee

State University of New York at Buffalo
B.A.: Political Science
New York State Regent’s Scholarship
Letter of Commendation - National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests

References and writing samples furnished upon request

PROGRAM ADMINISTRATIVE AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES:


The following represents areas and initiatives in which service was delivered and grants and proposals, prepared and submitted. While not all received funding of course, they were technically superior products, responsive to respective announcements and capable of accomplishing missions and objectives.

Employment
Education
Mental health
Child welfare – foster care and adoption
Foster care prevention
Office of Mental Retardation/DD….Family support and Respite programs
Alcohol/Substance Abuse
HIV/AIDS prevention
Family Service Center
School aged child care
Domestic violence
Community safety, youth anti-violence
Youth delinquency prevention
Adolescent pregnancy prevention
Alternatives to Incarceration
Head Start
Television ….a low power TV station…TV58
Nutrition
Arts and culture
And others

Alongside, I have compiled and disseminated appropriate administrative, program policy and procedure manuals, agency personnel policies, HIV Information management, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, and routinely handled contract negotiations and renewals, budgets, reports, correspondence, speeches.