Anna Straus Email & Phone Number

Burnsville, Nc, Us

Burnsville, Nc, Us

· Assist in the management of staff, relationships, programmatic direction, and working groups.· Collaborate with other PCSC grant administrators to generate solutions around programmatic and administrative challenges.· Manage grant reporting process, carry out process in collaboration with the administrative team· Act as the primary point of contact for the USDA to ensure project successes and challenges are properly communicated.· Work with grant-funded positions and partners to ensure work meets projected deliverables and is compliant with written grant budget & agreement.· Work directly with legal team to interpret uniform guidance, and grant program guidance, ensuring all grant activities remain in compliance.· Work directly with finance director & accounting partners to ensure that all grant operations align with USDA & internal financial requirements.· Oversee procurement processes to ensure contract procurement activities align with federal policy, grant program and deliverables.

· Oversee day-to-day operations, tracking and reporting for Growing GRASS, a $35 million USDA Climate-Smart Commodities grant program.· Responsible for enforcing internal & external protocols, including procurement, onboarding, budget changes and internal communications.· Guide external communications related to administrative support programming and procurement processes with contractors, 10+ subawardees and project supporters.· Participate in leadership team to help steward the evolution of project vision and implementation.· Led grant application submission process, and co-wrote grant application, budget and project plan with project administrator and grant partners.

Remote

Independent contractor specializing in project management, fundraising, writing and research. I organize and carry out complex food and social justice-oriented projects with clear communication and a relationship-centric approach.

Remote

• Draw on research, interviews, and organizational values, to write and edit newsletters, webpages, press releases, social media content, emails, op-eds, and fundraising proposals. • Write blogs that simplify complex political and economic topics, using a narrative-based approach to educate the general public on food system issues and policy. • Collaborate in the creation and implementation of communications and fundraising strategy. • Develop and implement social media campaigns on food system issues and policy.

Remote

• Assist the organizations’ leadership with the development of social media communications plans and write social media content.• Serve as the media contact for the organization and assist with press outreach. Audit and maintain existing press lists to ensure that they are accurate and up to date, and create new press lists. Draft press releases and pitches.• Draft and update web content, and post blogs, articles, stories • Manage the production of photos and videos at events, and maintain the image library.• Lead the development and implementation of a communications strategy formaintaining and growing supporters and donors.• Assist with the development of an email communications plan and write email content.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Engaged in outreach and met with students –international, graduate and undergraduate–regarding mental health, physical health, financial or academic difficulties. • Assessed student health, safety and mental health concerns, calling health and safety checks when appropriate.• Connected students with culturally appropriate campus resources• Utilized electronic database Maxient to maintain case notes, coordinate workflow across university departments, and run analytic reports.• Identified opportunities to collaborate with on campus departments to create individualized student-centered plans for intervention and coordinated these systems of support across campus departments.• Developed policy for university wide food access programs and medical leave.• Organized and implemented initiatives to address food insecurity, such as redistribution of meal swipes, food drives, SNAP/Medicaid sign-ups, and a community dinner for students on campus during holidays.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Managed a team of seven graduate research assistants using literature review and qualitative analysis methods to understand the impacts of companion animals on marginalized populations.• Developed project timelines, trained new team members in qualitative analysis methods, facilitated bi-weekly team meetings, communicated expectations, delivered feedback, and worked collaboratively with team members to identify solutions.• Conducted qualitative interviews using a University of Denver Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved protocol.• Analyzed qualitative interview data using the phenomenological interpretive qualitative analysis method.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Created and implemented social media and marketing campaigns to increase donor involvement.• Designed graphics and curated photos and text to convey mission via social media pages, website, newsletters.• Built relationships with community members and invited input to design culturally relevant workshops.• Collaborated within the organization to launch and communicate new projects and initiatives.• Represented the organization at fundraising and tabling events to promote brand and increase network connections.• Managed donor and donor prospect information to facilitate effective donor stewardship.• Created visual aids for networking and in-house events.• Identified and wrote grants to obtain organizational funding (include amount of funding obtained?).• Lead tours of facilities to increase community and donor involvement.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Developed and implemented small group academic interventions in biological science and literacy• Created lesson plans for 7th grade biology class and for 7th grade health curriculum• Planned, organized and implemented the Compass Academy afterschool program and multiple afterschool events encouraging student literary and artistic expression• Advocated for students by collaborating with school counselor and psychologist to implement behavior plans and interventions for at-risk students• Promoted student behavioral and interpersonal growth as an assistant coach for the Compass Academy girls basketball team

Master Of Social Work - Msw

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology