Carrie Thielen, Mph, Rd Email & Phone Number

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Greater Denver Area

• Secured over $1.9 million in grant funding to support programming aimed at increasing participation in and access to federal and state child nutrition programs as part of the Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger.
• Oversee Unit initiatives to ensure full-year access to nutrition programs with an emphasis on the Summer Food Service Program and programming in priority communities (e.g. 4-day school weeks, rural).
• Serve as internal program evaluator to foster culture of quality improvement and learning; lead evaluator on Colorado Health Foundation grant funding projects.
• Chair of the Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger Maximizing Child Nutrition workgroup
• Oversee statewide needs assessment process to inform unit strategic plan and implementation plan for child hunger programming.
• Serve on leadership team, supervise and motivate staff, conduct performance evaluations, hire and onboard new employees and conduct team trainings.

Denver, Colorado

• Managed coordination and dissemination of the 9 Ways to Grow Healthy Colorado Kids, a statewide communication campaign to reduce early childhood obesity.
• Supported Maternal and Child Health (MCH), Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and WIC work plans by providing expertise on strategies that strengthen systems to promote breastfeeding, healthy eating and physical.
• Coordinated and wrote grant proposals to enhance existing initiatives with evidence-based programming and funding.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

• Assisted in the planning, implementation and evaluation of programs that increase participation in child nutrition programs in partnership with the Share Our Strength, No Kid Hungry Campaign.
• Administered the Summer Weekend Food Bag Program, which included monitoring grantees to ensure program compliance with grant guidelines and providing technical assistance. The program reached 2,400 food insecure.
• Developed and implemented organizational communication plan including oversight of press relations, marketing materials, event planning, website, education materials and social media. Developed advertising campaign.
• Coordinated fundraising activities, which includes grant writing and reporting for foundation, corporate and government funding sources.Closed operations in 2013

Denver, CO, Boulder, CO And Santa Fe, NM

Fundraising/Grant Writing, Marketing & Public Relations, Media Planning, Project Management, Budgeting & Operations, Event Planning, Strategy

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Community And Behavorial Health

University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S), Nutrition & Dietetics

Dietetic Internship