Ede Taylor-Crittle Email and Phone Number

• Provide technical assistance and capacity building support to grassroots community- and faith-based organizations.• Facilitate the design of culturally relevant programming, including benchmarks and evaluation metrics; Draft edit and review grants, proposals and other binding agreements.• Foster sustainable federal, civic and community partnerships

• Oversaw program operations for GirlSpace, the Council’s community outreach program for 5,000 girls (more than 80 troop sites) in marginalized communities across Chicago, Joliet, Proviso and Northwest Indiana.• Incorporated standard operating procedures and employed best practices to stabilize defunct program and create a professional culture of teamwork and accountability. • Leveraged sound managerial skills to manage $1.3m budget, 7 direct and 30 indirect reports • Improved staff performance and increased team’s skills through the creation of a professional development and training series. • Established, nurtured and developed partnerships with corporations, programs sites, parents and volunteers to exceed program deliverables and promote youth leadership. • Cultivated relationships with key partners to strategically design new initiatives (e.g., community health interventions, academic and personal development initiatives) that mutually benefitted and engaged employee volunteers and girls.• Ensured grant processes were efficiently managed from inception to completion, including the support of proposal development, reporting and compliance management, and preparation of post-award compliance monitoring and evaluation reports.

• Ensured efficient operation of the organization by providing assistance to the chief executive officer, including advisement on special projects.• Successfully served as liaison to board members, volunteers, partners and donors.

• Promoted equitable health and wellness in marginalized communities by facilitating relationships between community partners and physicians, principal investigators and/or researchers. • Utilized a sound knowledge of train-the-trainer model to teach CPR skills to 1,000+ lay persons across 20+ community-based sites.• Engaged faith-based communities in the creation of a sustainable intervention that utilized faith tenants to teach participants the importance of diet and nutrition. • Empowered community of cosmetologists and salon owners to recognize, relate and refer domestic abuse victims to resources by managing the first annual Safe in the Salon health symposium.• Created sustainable health interventions in communities surrounding Johns Hopkins Hospital; consulted or partnered with faculty and staff on the creation of equitable and sustainable interventions. • Strengthened hospital-university-community relations by coordinating the inaugural 44-stories exhibit for the East Baltimore Historical Library. • Increased access to healthy food by expanding a community garden and fortifying partnerships among faith-based and immigrant communities; developed program to foster cooperative learning. • Conceived and managed Good Health Matters, the first annual health symposium focused on prevention and the absence of disease.

• Co-authored The State of Belair-Edison: Assets & Issues Report, a chronicle outlining a needs-assessment conducted by 400+ community residents.• Secured over $1 million in funding to support youth programs that emphasized service learning, youth leadership and workforce development. • Maintained the integrity of program services, ensured compliance and utilized evaluation measures to restructure services and activities as needed.• Provided technical and capacity-building assistance to local churches, activists, residents and community-based organizations; oversaw fiscal sponsorship program• Improved public safety and promoted healthy communities through the renovation of a dilapidated basketball court and the construction of an adjacent playground.• Guided youth leaders to practice acquired skills and knowledge by planning an annual back to school camp out in collaboration with local police, military and community partners • Engaged 200 youth to conduct 1200 service-learning hours in the delivery of impactful community initiatives • Maintained 94% attendance rate in out-of- and after-school programs; 97% program satisfaction rate.* Provided technical and other capacity-building assistance for community-based/community-serving organizations. Services have included grant writing, program design and evaluation, sustainability, etc. * Oversaw fiscal sponsorship program, including financial and program management of local initiatives