Dara Burwell Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Co, Us

- Conduct anti-oppression workshops and social justice based trainings.- Facilitate hands-on, highly interactive workshops and trainings using Theater of the Oppressed, Community Counseling, and popular education methods. Provide a constructive, practical, and solutions-oriented environment for participants.- Devise and implement training curriculums pertaining to issues of race, gender, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, age, and nationality.- Work with staff and board members of organizations as well as participants of a broad range of ages. Ensure that materials are specific and relevant to participants' demographics.- Generate comprehensive written curricula pertaining to anti-oppression and equity issues for ongoing use by contracting organizations.- Provide comprehensive individual and group coaching through an anti-oppression lens.- Carry out organizational anti-oppression and equity assessments; produce a written evaluation of organizational strengths and weaknesses regarding anti-oppression work and social justice.- Assist participants in planning post-training work that can be conducted internally. Create worksheets and handouts to assist participants with post-training development.- Assume responsibility for all management aspects required to run a small business including the incorporation of Transformative Alliances, drafting contracts for work with clients, maintaining filings with the Secretary of State, maintaining and submitting tax documents to the IRS, financial management of business accounts, etc.- Engage in ongoing business planning and development via continuing education courses, small business coaching, and self-education work.- Devise, create, and update website for Transformative Alliances LLC in WordPress. Oversee technology development and maintenance.- Develop all written marketing materials including leaflets, business cards, and all proposals and scopes of work for prospective clients.

- Coordinate Chinook Fund grantmaking cycle administration & activities- Help maintain congruence between social justice values and grantmaking processes- Provide support to prospective grantees and applicants- Conduct outreach around new funding guidelines & application - Facilitate grant application workshop from social justice and social justice philanthropy lens- Design and produce online grant application workshop series- Help facilitate & administer grantmaking committee meetings & site visits- Support grantmaking committee volunteer recruitment- Facilitate volunteer orientation & anti-oppression training- Data entry, correspondence & review of all grants

- Serve as one of two co-directors for a small, social justice nonprofit. Be responsible for the survival, development, and success of the organization.- Support the mission of the organization to address and end domestic human trafficking using anti-oppression and harm reduction based precepts. Take every opportunity to educate people about domestic human trafficking, its root causes, and each person’s individual responsibility to dismantle it.- Lead organizational development work, including the creation of organizational goals and strategic planning, board and staff development, program evaluation, and the implementation of best practices. - Assume primary responsibility for all organizational fundraising including: grant writing, individual and business donor development, and faith & community based giving.- Review all financial and accounting information produced by Prax(us)’s fiscal sponsor. Assume primary responsibility for financial oversight and planning, serve as the liaison between Prax(us) and the fiscal sponsor.- Recruit and train volunteers, match their individual skills and tasks to the needs of the organization. Direct volunteer efforts and manage volunteers on an ongoing basis. - Conduct workshops pertaining to the intersections of gender, race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, immigration status, and domestic human trafficking for volunteers and community members.- Build and maintain relationships with community members invested in Prax(us) and anti-human trafficking work.- Maintain all databases and organizational documents. Develop and implement succession planning for all positions.- Oversee website development and ongoing website maintenance. Develop and produce all electronic messages distributed to community members, donors, fellow organizations, and funders, including newsletters, donation request letters, event announcements, etc.

- Demonstrate ability to organize and prioritize work, motivate others, establish networks, and adapt to a wide assortment of roles and expectations.- Organize around a number of local and national level policy issues including: Parental Involvement in School Activities; the Asset Test; renewal of the Voting Rights Act; welfare reform; as well as issues regarding the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; etc.- Empower people to contact legislators, share their stories, and testify before the legislature and/or media in favor of family supporting and economically just policy.- Outreach to low-income Denver communities, establish dialogue regarding initiation of social change.- Direct minimum wage canvassing for 9to5: develop canvass training procedures; recruit and train volunteers; cut and map walk areas; sort and develop campaign materials.- Register over 300 people to vote, and train all Colorado staff and volunteers in state voter registration procedures.- Supervise and manage over 35 individuals, including volunteers, interns, as well as temporary employees.- Represent 9to5 in community and ally coalitions, establish and re-establish connections with fellow organizations. - Provide job fairness counseling and trouble-shooting through 9to5’s Job Problem Hotline.- Conduct over 30 workshops regarding employment, employment rights, and/or civic engagement for participants of ten different organizations.- Develop and co-lead anti-oppression trainings for all 9to5 staff members, the national board, and 9to5 leadership conference participants.- Participate in organizational assessments and planning.