Anthony Capece Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

I have worked with clients secure funding from federal grants, national foundations, small foundations, and corporate sponsors. I have also helped organizations in their strategic planning and outreach design. While my expertise lends itself to funding opportunities in food systems, environmental stewardship, community engagement, urban planning, economic.

New Brunswick, NJ, US

• Contribute to a dynamic food based non-profit that uses food and a service based model to empower people in our community.
• Manage the workforce training, social enterprise, workforce development, and youth engagement programming of the agency.
• Responsible for the grant writing and reporting of an agency with a $2.5 Million+ annual budget. Responsibilities included building and maintaining an organized record of grants, reporting, and grant-related files.
• Through my grant writing efforts, Elijah's Promise was one of 26 entities in the nation chosen for a Kresge Foundation planning grant to design a community place centered around food and economic development in the New.
• Received successful planning and implementation grant funding from the USDA Local Food Promotion Program which is helping develop value-added processing social enterprise at the agency.
• Was funded through the Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge through the Aetna Foundation to fund a county-wide food systems fellowship program for high school aged students.

• Grant given by Nicholson Foundation to analyze and create over one-hundred different thematic maps in ArcMap for thirteen predetermined urban areas across New Jersey.
• Managed data for each indicator from a variety of sources while mapped attractively and effectively.
• Created mapping design standards to be used by rest of research team.
• Represent the center in community meetings, events, and forums.

• Responsible for PowerPoint preparation, office hours, and grading for term of Introduction to GIS course.

• Research and insert green building strategies into online green building manual using Dreamweaver.
• Finding key policy and scientific data meant to provide convincing arguments to implement green building techniques in commercial and residential settings as a resource for a variety of stakeholders.
• Review the internal site for any formatting or grammatical errors to prepare site for release alter in the spring of 2011.

• Researched for pedestrian safety initiative of institute looking into various characteristics of roadways where pedestrian accidents occurred throughout the state of New Jersey.
• Analyzed crash sites using Google Earth Street View and noted characteristics for database compilation in Microsoft Access.
• Created newsletter for Bike/Pedestrian and Safe Routes to School news by performing aggregate news search and compiling found web links.

New York, NY, US

• Assisted with review of Nissequogue River Stewardship Action Plan and helped identify changes and edits that could be made to plan.
• Wrote stories, spanning from stormwater management to climate change, connecting local Nissequogue news to RPA initiatives to be posted online to the Nissequogue Stewardship Action Plan site in a blog style format.
• Worked with web designers to help increase presence and began process to streamline the website graphically.
• Engaged multiple shareholders in Nissequogue River watershed and attending multiple meetings on site in the Nissequogue watershed on Long Island.

• Wrote standard manual for towns looking to create a NJSSI and Sustainable Jersey complying website.
• Responsible for website content and contacting stakeholders of New Jersey municipalities, including Princeton, Middlesex, and Hillsborough.
• Attended meetings and worked with Middlesex County officials on their sustainability initiatives and added relevant information to their websites.

New York, NY, US

• Lobbied in Albany, New York for issues voiced within the Syracuse public interests, such as the Bigger, Better Bottle Bill.
• Helped with outreach initiatives for campaigns as well as student recruitment.
• Carried out research for campaign spending reform, including heavy data management and analysis, for final NYPIRG report

Syracuse, NY, US

• Reviewed and revised student work for writing and calculus based courses.
• Conducted workshops for students needing help with professional writing.
• Distributed writing samples at SUNY ESF library for student body usage.

Washington, DC, US

• Assisted the communications department with media relations and strategies including reviewing press releases and strategies for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
• Researched and collected news stories for analytics purposes for the department.
• Helped coordinate media and public events for various departments in WRI.

• Awarded grant for research on heavy metal bioindicators, specifically terrestrial isopods.
• Proposed and conducted original research in laboratory.
• Compiled and analyzed resulting data into larger scientific conclusions and applications and resented research conclusion findings at formal RIT event.

Wappingers Falls, NY, US

• Designed parts with multiple iterations for thermoelectric cooling systems using AutoCAD and Solidworks extensively.
• Explored ways to help optimize packing, shipping, and manufacturing products from plant.
• Wrote manuals for usage of various programs and hardware for new employees.
• Helped run tests on various components for thermoelectric units.

Masters Of City & Regional Planning (Mcrp), Urban Planning And Policy Development; Concentration In Food Systems & Sustainability Planning

B.S., Environmental Studies: Concentration In Communications And Culture

Permaculture Design Certificate, Permaculture Design

Environmental Science/Mechanical Engineering