Beth Beard Email & Phone Number

Medford, MA

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Greater Boston Area

• Put MA Kids First Coalition A group of 45+ organizations focused on improving outcomes for children by stabilizing and strengthening the early education and care and out-of-school time (EEC-OST) workforce. SUMMARY.
• COMMUNICATIONS and PUBLIC RELATIONS Maintain the website and blog, conducting original research, adding/writing news articles, new member information and coalition materials. Draft and secure placement of articles.
• SOCIAL MEDIA Build and coordinate social media outreach (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+) with Coalition partners and supporters to heighten awareness about the importance of EEC-OST in Massachusetts.

Natick, MA

• SUMMARY Managed school’s internal and external marketing, communications, advertising and public relations.
• COMMUNICATIONS Designed and launched first weekly e-newsletter, Around the Bend. Grew audience from staff, board members, donors and families to include prospective families, partners and alumni. Write weekly articles.
• WRITING, EDITING, DESIGN and PHOTOGRAPHY Wrote, designed and produced print, online, direct mail, collateral, signage and advertising products. Created/updated admissions brochures and guides. Served as the principle.
• WEBSITE and SOCIAL MEDIA Upgraded/enhanced website architecture, adding multiple content areas and functional capabilities. Created over 50 pages of new content. Created marketing campaign to drive website traffic and.
• RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT Co-designed and launched parent satisfaction and communications survey to drive planning efforts. Analyzed results across functional areas and wrote report. Conducted peer and competitor market.

Built the communications department from the ground up managing budget, strategic planning, hiring and supervision of staff and contractors. Senior leadership member overseeing communications, public education, PR, marketing, and outreach for BFS and network of 15 medical center partners in the US, India, Iran and Japan.

Impact Brokers is a cooperative of consultant, nonprofits, investors, and community partners working to improve our collective capacity to tackle complex social challenges through individual and shared development and peer learning. I am the founder and co-director with Janice Epstein of JME Consulting. *Provide organizational development with teams of.

*Knowledge projects manager for a 3-year $8 million dollar Wallace Foundation initiative to support struggling students in 15 Boston Public Schools (BPS). Conducted qualitative and quantitative analyses of 120 schools with over 50,000 students to map complex support systems, identify supply-demand gaps and create synthesis reports. Advised Market Street.

• Played a leading role in strategic planning, project design and leadership, assessment, organizational development (OD), knowledge management (KM), and communication work. Created and implemented a portfolio of tools.
• Worked with a knowledge management team of diverse stakeholders and partners to design knowledge strategy, tools and processes for all Boston Beyond initiatives.
• Reviewed empirical research, applied standards of evidence, and synthesized knowledge around a broad set of topics. Collected prevailing practices and codified, tested, and disseminated learnings. Compiled data from.

*Conducted in-depth policy analyses, developed public education campaigns and advised national education litigators and scholars on testing reform. Created multiple reports, fact sheets and articles on standardized testing, assessment and evaluation including GMAT and the MBA Pipeline for Women and the MAT Fact Sheet. *Organized and facilitated a FairTest.

*Designed strategic change, leadership, global cultural competencies, and professional development products and conducted market research for multiple international consulting engagements. Sample publications include: K-12 Classrooms and the Enneagram and Time Management and the Enneagram.*Designed and managed Actions for Results’ 4-day international.

ActivitiesManaged after school and intensive home-based Department of Mental Health programs for high-risk adolescents, teens and families. Provided clinical therapy, crisis intervention, staff supervision and training, grant writing and program administration.

M.Ed., Counseling Psychology, Marriage And Family Therapy

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B.A., Philosophy And Psychology

Activities and Societies: CoFounder, Students United for Racial Equality (SURE)Graduated Suma Cum Laude

Philosophy And Psychology

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