Abigail Sarmac Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Advisory for philanthropic organizations in the areas of strategy, equity, facilitation and leadership/governance. Current and past clients include The Smith Charitable Trust, Avery Dennison Foundation, The Collins Foundation and The Kelley Family Foundation, the Meyer Memorial Trust, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lemelson Foundation and the.

San Jose, CA

Invited to serve as a mentor-at-large and subject matter expert on grants and impact investing for the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) in-residence program to provide philanthropic and grants advice and perspective to the current cohort of social enterprise leaders and B-corps, non-non profit, for-profit and hybrid enterprises. Serve on five panels.

Portland, Oregon Area

Partner providing transition leadership and organizational development support to mission-oriented for-profit and non-profit organizations, including interim leadership, executive searches and organizational mergers.

Portland, Oregon Area

The VertueLab Climate Impact Fund I invests in innovations and early-stage companies in the US Pacific Northwest and British Columbia that have the potential for scalable climate impact resulting from their commercial success.

Portland, Oregon

Teaching graduate-level courses in the Social Entrepreneurship Certificate within the School of Business on “Storytelling and Impact Measurement” and “Field Course on Social Entrepreneurship in Colombia.”

Portland, Oregon Area

• Contract grant reviewer responsible for analysis and preparation of due diligence reports on grant requests. Tasks include:
• Review of written grant requests, organizational financials and supplemental materials.
• Conduct site visits and additional due diligence with partners, funders, regulators, or consumers.
• Provide recommendation, reviews of organizational background, goals, approach, outcomes, impact, risks, opportunities and a brief equity assessment.

Loja, Ecuador

• Selected Projects
• SimuSolar (Tanzania): Provided proposal review and advisory on approaching Swiss Re Foundation for a growing social enterprise providing renewable energy access, in particular solar-powered products such as lanterns.
• Universidad Politecnica Salesiana - Integrar (Cuenca, Ecuador): Invited to serve as mentor to student-led companies during the UPS rEthos Bootcamp. Presented to raise awareness of impact investing globally, B Corps.
• Government of Uruguay, Agencia Nacional de Investigacion e Innovacion - ANII (Montevideo, Uruguay): Invited to develop and run a series of workshops on promoting innovation, entrepreneurship and investment for small.
• USAID Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge Grant Application Technical Reviewer: Invited by USAID to take part as a technical reviewer of its first round of 2015 Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenges applicants..
• Mentor Capital Network Reviewer and Mentor: Invited to review business plans and advise 2015 and 2016 round of for-profit (e.g. B-Corps) and non-profit social enterprise applicants.

Portland, Oregon Area

Co-lead the development of internal systems - such as impact and learning, human resources, finance and governance - to enhance the organizational resilience and sustainability of CDE.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Contract grant reviewer responsible for analysis and preparation of due diligence reports on grant requests. Tasks include:
• Review written grant requests, organizational financials and supplemental materials.
• Conduct site visits and additional due diligence with partners, funders, regulators, or consumers.
• Provide recommendation, reviews of organizational background, goals, approach, outcomes, impact, and equity assessment, impact, risks and opportunities.

Quito, Ecuador

*Curated HABITAT+Social Good event on social enterprise and cities*Mentor specialist on philanthropy & impact investing for IMPAQTO incubated companies; *Supported development of IMPAQTO’s monitoring, evaluation and feedback system; *Interviewed over sixty early-stage (under$500k) funders, impact investors of impact entrepreneurs and published, “The Second.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Impact investing grant portfolio management. Developed, monitored, evaluated and managed grants and investments of ~$8M annually in partnerships for science, tech, innovation and entrepreneurship to improve lives of.
• Strategy development. Collaboratively developed five-year strategy, in consultation with thought leaders.
• Monitoring, evaluation and learning systems. Collaboratively developed, led and facilitated activities to monitor, evaluate, create and promote communities of practice and learning. Engaged in staff interviews.
• Partnership development. Initiated and cultivated high-leverage partnerships with U.S., Canadian, British governments and philanthropic leaders, e.g. Rockefeller, Avina, Halloran.
• Emerging thought leader. Routinely invited to speak on seed stage, small and growing social enterprise/impact investment fora. Most recent speaking engagements detailed below. Regularly mentor impact enterprises.
• Human resources / consultant management. Developed and managed contracts with a global team of consultants based in the Foundation’s most active markets: India, Indonesia and Peru.

Portland Y Alrededores, Oregón, Estados Unidos

• Program administration. Responsible for administration of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska research program on topics such as wildlife response to forest fires, Arctic oil development impact on breeding birds, Sudden.
• Program development. Initiated new conservation program aimed at effecting land management and policy change by bringing results of science to key land managers and natural resources policymakers, including federal and.
• Program outreach and communications. Developed the programs’ communications plan including a strong outreach component, aimed at key land managers named above, using multi-stakeholder consultations, tactical.
• Program operations and office management. Supported establishment of the WCS office in Portland, Oregon; including establishment of all office processes and procedures. Developed both research and conservation program.

New York, NY

• Established and managed global policy network. Initiated and facilitated global network of civil society focal points to increase coordinated civil society participation in global policy-making on forest conservation.
• Successfully increased overall participation from just two civil society groups in 2002 to eight in 2003, including coordinated dialogue between trade unions, business, women, youth, indigenous peoples, small forest.

Rome, Italy

• Research analyst. Provided technical support, research and analysis on data availability and application of criteria & indicators required by international law on monitoring, assessment and reporting for a sustainable.

New Haven, CT

• Led discussion sections for courses, “Global Environmental Agenda”, “Coastal Development: Science & Policy.”

Anilao, Philippines

• Undertook qualitative and quantitative research to assess sustainability of the tourism sector in Anilao, Philippines.

New Haven, CT

• Managed staff responsible for publishing an academic journal on tropical forest science and management
• Established editing and peer-review guidelines, solicited articles, oversaw publication and distribution

Quito, Ecuador

• Managed goal setting, strategic and cost planning, distribution and donor reporting of a joint IUCN-IC conservation project aimed at facilitating dialogue between businesses, governments, NGOs and donor agencies on.

Belmopan, Belize

• Assisted in National Science Foundation-supported soil research project aimed at increasing knowledge of Mayan agricultural techniques to support modern sustainable agriculture

Área Metropolitana De Washington D.C., Estados Unidos

• Coordinated biannual international Global Environment Facility NGO Consultation meetings
• Established GEF-NGO Network & Database, Published and distributed monthly GEF-NGO newsletter;

Dakar, Senegal

• Produced weekly column in French on US perceptions of Senegalese culture in Senegal’s third most distributed newspaper

Dakar, Senegal

• Designed and implemented environmental awareness modules in nine Dakar high schools for the "Réseau d’Éducation Relative á l’Environnement."

Woodbridge, VA

• Co-launched, managed and performed with professional stringed instrument ensemble

Master'S Degree, Environmental Science & Industrial Environmental Management

Activities and Societies: Tropical Resources Institute• Masters Thesis: Private Sector Partnerships for Environmentally & Socially.

Year Course, International Environmental Law & African Studies

Studied basics of international law and West African culture.

College Of The Bahamas Summer Course, Field Biology

• Field Biology, Project: Mangrove Forest Morphology in High – Low Energy Coastal Systems, Summer 1995

Bachelor'S Degree, Science, Technology And International Affairs & African Studies, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Black Movements Dance TheatreStudied international environmental affairs; minored in Science and Technology and.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Chamber and Symphony Orchestra, Gymnastics Team, Cheerleading Squad, Model United NationsStudied chamber.