Albert Graupmann Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Awarded Illinois Humanities Grant with Family Resource Center on Disabilities to research and report on access to humanities programs and barriers of policy and design encountered by community members and potential and actual attendees of events.Providing consulting services to not for profits seeking accounting, budget, communication or grant and program management support.Leading workshops to evaluate policies and procedures identifying and discussing vulnerabilities, information asymmetry, knowledge gaps, organizational capacity or external constraints. Designing innovative solutions to increase community engagement, develop governmental and participatory efforts that provide direct and convenient service or information delivery.

Chicago

Albert led CROSO through its post-founder transition he oversaw the recommendation, nomination and successful campaign to elect two former scholars to the CROSO Board of Directors, and built connections between diaspora communities (two strategic plan goals) . Albert conducted scholar and alumni workshops in Kampala, Uganda in fall 2023 and spring 2024 focusing on career counseling, professional development (budgeting, project management, cyber hygiene), and directed formalizing the network of active scholars and CROSO alumni to work together for mutual aid and support. Albert cultivated relationships with other international organizations and institutions of higher learning through face to face and ICT facilitated events focusing on equity for girls and women, asset-based community development and economic/financial growth with local impact, peace and justice initiatives involving increasing access to justice and access to healthcare. CROSO awarded over $70,000 in grants in the last fiscal year, supporting over 16 active scholars.

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Oak Park, Illinois

Conducted compliance reviews for Older Americans Act programs and fiscal monitoring reviews of grantees.

South Suburban Chicago Pop. 70,000+

Assisted the Village Finance Director to gain professional experience and participate in the Village budget and audit processes, learned MSI a municipal accounting software package.

Performed outreach and engaged with the community and elected leaders, to support community health programs and collect data.

Carbondale, Il

Chicago Board Of Trade

Conducting market research for Managed Futures group, in agricultural and energy sectors with the aim of improving risk adjusted performance goals of a typical traditional portfolio. Proposed trade recommendations, to buy or sell commodity futures contracts and options on commodity futures contracts. Designing and editing content for educational information, investor kits, and trading resources to help you make informed decisions about trading the commodity Futures and Options markets

Daily maintenance & operations, supporting provision of client services to participants to pension plans for large organizations.Monitored transactions, responded to participants' inquiries regarding their benefits or pension funds.Responded to third party inquiries by and reported on finding related to taxes or other concerns.

Managed a field staff of CATI (computer assisted telephone interviewing) interviewers, ensuring appointments are called, spearheaded the field center's data collection efforts on regional and national research projects for National Institute of Health, Regional Transportation Authority and other institutionsMonitored quality of CATI and face to face interviewer's data collection on a weekly basis; encouraged interviewers to continue effective tactics and modified ineffective interviewing techniques to improve quality of data collectedTrained field staff on new research projects, led debriefing meetings and discussed current and future research and data collection assignments with Project Coordinators and interviewing staffAssisted Principle Researcher and Project Coordinator and Director in the pretest process, including editing and proofreading computerized and paper based survey instrument

Bachelors Of Arts, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce

Activities and Societies: Survey Research Laboratory B.A. in Communication; specifically interpersonal, organizational and rhetoric.

M.A. Applied Professional Studies, Communication, General

Activities and Societies: LAS Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Conference (Presenter on Budget Policy and Participatory.

Graduate Study, Economics

Activities and Societies: Paul Simon Public Policy Institute

Graduate Fellowship, Public Health

Activities and Societies: Graduate Research Fair - Examining self reported impact of PTSD on Iraq War Veterans job retention upon return.