Strengthen relationships with local media, community leaders, and corporate members to share program information and upcoming events. Led a team of up to 12 employees and manage annual budget. Oversee youth programming to foster student success, retention, and inclusivity throughout the academic year. Maintain a close relationship with local school systems to recruit students and provide matching with licensed Teachers to deliver educational tutoring. Collaborate with faculty, staff, and administrative professionals. • Developed and rolled out corporate fundraising initiative. • Organize, market and lead the annual reporting event, Civic Breakfast, to include over 350 people in attendance.• Allocate monies received from community grants towards social services programs to serve over 34,000 community members. • Provide individual/family counseling and service program referrals to enhance health and wellness. • Write press releases to highlight fundraising events and volunteer opportunities. • Lead student groups to provide mentorship through a holistic approach to enhance student success through academic persistence and completion.• Serve as a mandatory reporter and provide community referrals to assist with mental health, substance abuse and domestic violence resources for immediate care / intervention.• Contributed to the college scholarship initiative to offer educational funding for participants with 3 years of program enrollment.• Recruit and train 10% of program graduates for volunteer roles as student tutors.• Promote inclusive programming opportunities for students regardless of race, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation and socio-economic status.• Contribute to the development of Summer Zone for students to increase experiential learning opportunities and prevent summer learning loss.• Built relationships with key stakeholders to include the Board of Directors, senior executives, and community leaders to promote after school program.