Key Leadership Contributions Led foundation team that increased revenue from under $700K in FY2016 to over $10.5M in FY2017 to support food rescue innovations, disaster preparedness initiatives, advocacy, and programs targeting food insecure children, families, and seniors; Designed, secured funding for, and implemented several innovative outreach initiatives to expand services to priority populations including a collaborative initiative providing wrap-around services to system involved youth and a nationally recognized school-based mentoring program. Over 10,000 children have been served as a direct result of these initiatives; Instrumental in the planning and implementation of a statewide initiative to expand, consolidate, and standardize mentoring services resulting in an average annual growth of 20% in matches served; Aggressively pursued high dollar awards from private, local, state, and federal sources; securing over $50M in government and private funds; Secured over $6M in foundation and government funding to support girls and implement STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Math) programming with a focus on undeserved girls; Developed and conducted workshops and trainings at a local, state, and national level on a variety of topics, including program management, collaboration, child safety, strategic planning, children of prisoners, board development and fundraising; Revitalized Bowl for Kid’s Sake Campaign that had declined the previous three years. Increased revenue by 25%. Provided over 1/3 of the agency's annual budget; Recipient of the 2013 Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Robert Skip Walsh Award, given to a BBBS executive who, through excellence in his own agency work, has strengthened BBBS’ mentoring services; Selected as a 2012 Sunflower Foundation Advocacy Fellow. The fellowship provides leaders in health-related nonprofit organizations training and opportunities to become powerful advocates for Kansans.
Listed skills include Fundraising, Grants, Management, Community Outreach, and 23 others.
