Emily M Engelhard Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, GA

• Lead the concept development and implementation of the thought leadership and external research partnership strategy to advance the strategic goals of the nation’s network of food banks and the largest domestic hunger.
• Cultivate new partnerships with foundations, academic institutions, and national nonprofits to advance strategic research agenda, develop and monitor movement towards shared goals and oversee legal agreements to.
• Direct the translation and dissemination of organizational learning to support evidence-driven program and policy development and to effectively tell the organization’s story to advocates, board of directors, food.
• Lead a team of five staff and five technical consultants while working to secure funding to grow and expand the external partnerships team.
• Expand and solidify Feeding America’s influence role in strategic forums to position the organization as a leading authority in the field of food insecurity.
• Partner with Government Relations department to ensure the quick turnaround of evidence-based policy analysis to support strong recommendations around policy priorities as they arise.

Sets strategic direction and vision for Feeding America’s research on food insecurity, poverty, and related social and public health policy matters, and the nature and impact of the charitable feeding system’s response. Guides and supports the development of program evaluation capacity for both national programs and other food bank network services.

• Served as the research advisor in developing the first ever performance framework for the network of food banks, based on earlier work completed on local-level food insecurity called Map the Meal Gap.
• Managed and the led the design, execution and dissemination of the quadrennial Hunger in America study, the largest study of charitable food assistance in the U.S., which was based on a representative sample that.

• Managed the development of a county-level measure of food insecurity (Map the Meal Gap), which revolutionized the way that Feeding America measures need, became the primary metric for assessing network success, and has.

• Led studies to determine strategic pathways forward for three major newspapers, beginning with primary and secondary data collection and ending with report presentation.
• Comprehensively analyzed raw data from surveys and focus groups to arrive at actionable recommendations for clients around marketing strategies and strategic planning.
• Designed surveys to assess client and advertiser satisfaction.
• Maintained and updated the internal research and analysis guide for the company, functioning as point person for queries or clarification on data analysis
• Managed multiple client assignments, while exercising extreme attention to detail.
• Presented deliverables to clients at all levels of management alongside company president.

Ma, Social Sciences

Activities and Societies: Focus on sociology

Ba, Sociology