Amy Boucher Email & Phone Number

Auburn, Washington, United States

Buckley, Washington, United States

BDA is a new non-profit 503 (C) organization in Buckley. We are a part of the Washington Main Street Program, which helps communities revitalize the economy, appearance, the image of downtown's. The program is managed (under contract) by the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation. We have a board made up of 5 members, and a part-time executive director. We have four growing committees to accomplish our mission: *Economic Vitality:Partner with local businesses & provide guidance and support to them. Make downtown appealing for new businesses. Strategically plan for sustainable growth. *Outreach:Intentional engagement with the community in ways that meets needs, & connect to downtown. Establish effective communication processes that serve the community & businesses.*Promotion: Implement a marketing strategy that communicates our values and positions itself as a hub of economic activity for downtown revitalization. *Design: Create an inviting, inclusive environment that celebrates history and culture. Fosters accessibility, and make downtown an experience...not just a place.We cannot do it alone though. Our list of volunteers is growing, along with our partnerships, however, we are in need of funds to help us bring our visions alive. Your financial support will help us carry out this mission and accomplish these big goals. If you want to become a member visit our website: https://buckleydowntown.com/membership/

Tacoma

Tacoma

Create strategies to identify and generate new opportunities for volunteer engagement and involvement. Manage and maintain a volunteer database. Evaluate volunteer programs and conduct needs assessments. Compile data, prepare reports and recommend changes to improve programs. Maintain volunteer information to include: volunteer personnel files, evaluations, hours donated, and program assignments. Monitor the use and placement of volunteers. Develops a recognition plan for volunteers; coordinates recognition events. Foster partnerships with special interest groups, committees, community groups and others. Represent Metro Parks Tacoma at public meetings and hearings and make presentations about volunteer programs.

Oversee operations of the garden, recruit student participation, schedule events and supervise volunteers and coordinate space use between faculty and staff. -Responsible for informing and teaching students about issues of socially and environmentally sustainable food productions through providing opportunities to engage with hands-on learning experiences. -Address food insecurity and promote nutritional health on campus and provide local food security programs with fresh produce. -Build community partnerships, hold work-shops and cooking demos.

Re-establishing a student organization that was not active due to member’s graduating. This included recruiting officers and members. Currently working on increasing our member participation and grow our membership. Have reached out the our campus community as well as local Tacoma community looking for opportunities to collaborate on projects or participate in events that promote responsible land stewardship, environmental awareness, engage the community to find ways to fight local food insecurities, and advocated for green development. Managed RSO meetings, organized Project Earths activities such as: UWT Involvement Fair, MKL 2016 work party at Titlow Park, table at Earth Week 2017, and Earth Day at UWT 2017.

Responsible for supervising 11 tribal youth, and co-supervised 20 other youth on the 2 other crews in a variety of projects including riparian enhancement, eradicate invasive & noxious weeds, maintaining roads and ditches, repair & rebuild campsites, and improve wildlife habitat. Our time was spent mostly in the forest learning about Forest engineering, Forestry practices and principles, wildlife habitats and the systems they live in, traditional food networks and their cultural and medicinal significance. Projects entailed educating the importance of preserving MFC lands, and environment. Had to be quick to resolve conflicts in high stress situations. Overseen the safety and transportation of crew.

Responsible for a variety of realty and trust land duties in support of Trust Services operations pertaining to leasing, conveyances and exchanges, land sales, and assist with probates; and providing technical and procedural support. Provided specialized and technical program information that required interpretation of established tribal and federal policies, procedures and other relevant sources to internal and external customer and clients over the phone, in writing and in person and normally would deal with sensitive, private and occasionally volatile situations in the course of providing incumbent services. Consulted statutes, ordinances, contracts, regulations and other sources involving complex subjects and specialized terminology. Summarize information and prepares reports based on analyses of data collected during a specified report period. Prepare legal documents such as leases and conveyance documents. Prepares and maintains data spread sheet for the realty department to show actions pending and processing time for each application. Negotiate leases and right-of-way contracts that involved multiple landowners, oversee and manage lease contracts and renewals. Develop and maintain positive professional relationships with Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Special Trustee, and Office of Hearing and Appeals. Coordinated and facilitated landowner meetings that included 5-40 people. At times these meetings could get volatile and I was responsible for keeping the meeting on task so that we could accomplish our goals of the meeting.

Managed daily office activities of A/R, A/P, and customer service calls. Answered phones, managed accounts, created highly effective organizational filing systems. Directed and monitored Washington and Oregon Medicaid files. At times determined eligibility and educated clients about medical documents needed for proper billing. Created ideas and tools for marketing our products to prospective clients.

Master Of Science Geoapatial Technologies, Currently A Student

Bachelor'S Degree, Sustainability Studies

Activities and Societies: + President of Project Earth Student Registered Organization + Committee Member and Volunteer at the UWT Giving.

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Associates In Arts - General Ed