Silvana Vanessa Carrasco Denney Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

• Manage a $30M grant by managing the project budget, creating annual donor reports, and compiling monthly, quarterly, and yearly internal reports to organizational leadership. • Create and track strategy and project workplans on Smartsheet for 13 sub-projects included in the program grant setting deadlines and milestones, prioritize deliverables, clear obstacles, and allocate resources to help the team deliver results. Developed a project dashboard summarizing key project metrics and deliverables, high-level budget, recent success, challenges, and milestones. • Manage operational processes for a team of 16 people including contracts management, budget management, time and expense reporting, recruitment and onboarding, document management, and set up tracking systems for contracts, publications, media, partners, and science impact. • Led a project to develop a Human Rights Screening Tool for natural climate solutions. Collaborated with a large team including a human rights consultant, an editor, web developers, 10 field teams, and coordinated with several global teams to write, edit, review, incorporate feedback, and workshop the tool. Additionally, held two in-person deep-dive workshops to apply the tool with 1 team in Latin America. • Project manage the development of fundraising proposals. • Supervise an administrative assistant to ensure the delivery of core operational functions.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

• Coordinated the work of 3 natural climate solutions country assessments and associated marginal abatement cost curves which included Colombia, Indonesia, and China. Collaborated with field teams to assess the natural climate solutions opportunity in each country prioritizing high mitigation potential strategies such as avoided deforestation, reforestation, and silvopasture. • Coordinated the development of a best practice manual for reduced impact logging for climate mitigation for Gabon. • Organized and facilitated 6 organizational science webinars to disseminate the team's research. • Managed the global natural climate solutions science team's contract process including drafting contracts, and liaising with legal and finance teams to review and approve contracts, track deliverables and payments, conduct trainings, and develop a contracts tracking system using Smartsheet. • Supported coordination and management of 2 grants: a multi-million dollar public grant and a private grant. Responsibilities included budget and financial tracking, creating and editing donor reports, creating and tracking workplans, and other administrative duties. • Supported the development of the Natural Climate Solutions Handbook through contract and editing support, and wrote the climate justice appendix. • Supported a project focused on quantifying the extent to which different forms of Indigenous and community land tenure in Latin America result in climate mitigation. • As Co-lead of the Multicultural Employee Resource Group managed and led a team of 10 people to implement programs aimed at leveraging the power of cultural differences and increase global representation and cultural competency. Developed a 3-year strategic plan, led recruiting efforts for new members, and managed the team's storytelling strategy. Led the development of a virtual book, Humans of TNC: A Collection of Stories from the Humans of TNC 2017-2022.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Support fundraising staff by providing gift planning information to prospective donors, drafting correspondence and acknowledgments, and performing financial calculations.• Collaborate with staff, donors, financial advisors, and legal professionals to ensure timely transfer of assets. • Process closed planned gifts including bequests, life-income gifts, and gifts of real estate.• Manage fundraising database (Blackbaud CRM) to record gifts, produce reports, conduct research, and track donors.

Boynton Beach, Fl

Was part of a small team that passionately strives to produce high-quality specialty produce with the lowest environmental impact. - Assisted in the production/growing, transportation, and sale of our products that include dozens of microgreens and specialty vegetables. - Operated a weekly farmer's market to sell our product and educate the public on sustainable agriculture and the benefits of a local and nutritious diet.- Managed and maintained a school garden for an early childhood center. In addition, conducted a weekly garden class with over 40 children on the importance of growing food and sustainable agriculture.

Worcester, Ma

-Provided administrative support to both staff and undergraduate students including managing the office email, guiding students through academic policies (course selection, advisor changes, withdrawals, special petitions, and transfer credits).-Managed student records, confidential files and databases

Worcester

-Participated in donor outreach and engagement for University Advancement at Clark University. -Developed excellent communication skills in order to build and maintain alumni and donor engagement with the institution. -Communicated and developed relationships with high-level donors to secure funding for university advancement projects such as scholarships, infrastructure, and various departamental projects.

Greater Seattle Area

- Ran a bacterial safety screening assessing product safety for macroalgae raised in an intensive land-based system aimed for human consumption. The study was part of NOAA’s Aquaculture group to develop an intensive land-based macroalgal culturing system. - Presented the findings at a national aquaculture conference. - Wrote and published a magazine article on the methods and findings of the study.

Worcester, Massachusetts

-Cultured fungi for a mycoremediation project aimed to clean water in the Blackstone river. Fungi were part of a living machine with different ecosystems each of which would clean water. -Additionally ran DNA extractions, PCR and sequencing reactions for other laboratory projects.

Worcester

- Created 5 agricultural workshops for teachers and educators to use in the school garden curriculum for local schools in Worcester, MA. - Researched educational resources and created a database for teachers to use in their garden curriculum.

Master’S Degree, Biology, General

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology, General