Katherine (Sargent) Barr Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA

Founding staff member working to build a strong nonprofit to close the opportunity gap for girls and scholars of color.- Provides leadership in evolving and implementing SPINs organizational and strategic priorities. Builds the framework to cultivate, expand and make the best use of SPIN's board.- Expands the financial base of SPIN, pursuing philanthropic.

Seattle, WA

• Founding staff member responsible for building a new broad-based Coalition across diverse communities and constituents.
• Community Partnerships and Collaboration: Developed entrepreneurial community engagement; built multi-faceted coalition to welcome diverse populations; empowered communities toward success.
• Administration and Management: Grew the Coalition to 70 partners and counting; led and support all aspects of SESEC program; worked with multiple partners to coordinate all aspects of the work to achieve mission.
• Advocacy and Events: Led research and development of position papers for community-driven priorities; developed and staffed action committees working to achieve our advocacy campaign.
• Communication, fund development, and outreach: Successfully secured more than $2 million of grants, built and maintained website; developed all collateral content; maintained communications between funders, partners.

Greater Seattle Area

- Worked to re-launch a coalition of over 100 organizations to increase the availability and impact of global education programs in the state of Washington- Honed mission and vision of the Coalition to more effectively achieve growth of international education- Developed a new, improved website (www.internationaledwa.org) including content and strategy, as.

- Headed Global Washington’s internal and external learning processes- Developed the organization’s theory of change and logic model - Led research efforts to better define and respond to the needs of the international development sector, shaping Global Washington’s outreach programming- Designed, wrote, edited and distributed communications materials.

- Worked successfully with cross sector, multi-organizational team to build international development network- Conducted needs analysis of the international development sector in Washington - Surveyed and analyzed the sector to produce a series of in-depth reports on poverty, the environment, health and education- Planned and executed four major events.

- Designed and conducted evaluation project for CARE based on the democracy and political participation programs of CARE Ecuador, including development of local town councils and other civic engagement programs- Delivered process evaluation and recommendations for improvement for CARE Ecuador, case study for CARE USA, and degree project for the University.

- Held responsibility for all aspects of apheresis donor recruitment leading to a measurable increase in donations- Developed and implemented community marketing campaigns - Averaged 3 business meetings and presentations per week in community- Developed tracking systems for donors used for analysis and increased efficiency

- Worked with 28 grassroots HIV/AIDS prevention NGOs to increase collaboration- Collaborated with NGO leaders to develop targeted goals and measurable indicators- Participated in direct in-the-field surveys of high-risk target populations

- Managed cross-functional teams in the development of multimedia learning courses- Collaborated with team on scope and design, development, implementation and assessment - Managed budget, expense, and resource allocations for multi-million dollar projects - Managed client relationships and third-party vendor relationships with Fortune 500 clients - Drove.

Mpa, Non-Profit Management And International Affairs

Degree Project: Strengthening Participation: Constituency Building and Social Mobilization in the Programming of CARE USA. Presented at.

B.A., English Literature And Spanish