Kevin Overson, Mpa Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Supporting projects in commercial real estate construction, working hard with great people of principle, humor, work ethic, and a “passion to give back…creating the spaces where people thrive and businesses succeed.”

Minnesota

• Amazing Connection (http://amazing-connection.com/) provides critical support services for small and medium size immigrant owned and led businesses. Immigrant owned and led itself, Amazing Connection leadership knows.
• Adult Day Services
• Child Care and Education
• Home Health Care
• Delivery
• Logistics

Fargo, North Dakota

• Counsel and review the strategy and implementation of Level Up Fargo, to “increase the connections in our community that empower youth to thrive.” Focus on increasing youth and community social capital.
• Impart program, project, strategies, and deliverables review; provide work group input, and needs and stakeholder assessment; and facilitate coalition building. Member of the Data and Evaluation work group.
• Participate in development of a youth social capital assessment tool.
• Originally supported by a federal SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) grant.
• The coalition in represented by all 12 community sectors for coalition building: youth, parents, business community, media, schools, youth serving organizations, law enforcement agencies, religious or fraternal.

University Of Minnesota, St. Paul

• Lead program planning and implementation, and management of the organization; lead grant writing, fundraising, and reporting functions.
• Engage and maintain relationships with current and potential funders and donors; interface with board and board committee leads; research and develop funding and programs and fundraising strategies for nearly $400,000.
• Conceive innovative and useful approaches to reaching culturally diverse populations, such as uniting diverse community experts with teachers to create a new curriculum that is relevant, inclusive, and engaging.

University Of Minnesota

• Governed administrative and programmatic linkages, including quality assurance and documentation, billing, budgeting, resource management, and smooth project operation.
• Crafted, managed, and edited a web-based resource presenting information and emerging research; WordPress.
• Generated, authored, edited, and critiqued technical reports, and described research results in “plain language”.
• Endorsed opportunities to engage stakeholders; established and maintained internal and external communications, and interfaced with corporate executives and civic leaders.CEED@UROC is an outreach center located within.

• Supported as key program team member the $24 million grant portfolio of Early Childhood, Family Economic Success, Fatherhood, Parenting, Youth in Crisis/Homeless Youth, and Youth Out-of-School Time programs through.
• Collaborated with key stakeholders to align federal grants totaling approximately $98 million, and other efforts to accomplish early childhood education program reform, focus on closing academic and access gaps between.
• Involved policy makers and broad-based coalition builders (such as Start Early Funders Coalition, Strive/Generation Next, Minnesota Department of Education) to join and magnify community efforts to improve outcomes for.
• Conferred with and presented to corporate and foundation executives, civic leaders, and board members.
• Ensured a smooth transition as the Foundation moved from broad children and families work to a focus on education.Program Administrator, Children & Families; and Education & Learning (2005 to 2011)
• Acted as key program team member supporting the $24 million grant portfolio of Early Childhood, Family Economic Success, Fatherhood, Parenting, Youth in Crisis/Homeless Youth, and Youth Out-of-School Time programs..

• Program Associate, Research; Communications; and International Programs (2001 to 2005)Program Assistant, Research Programs; and Children, Families, and Community (1999 to 2001)
• Incorporated and maintained effective working relationships with grantees and key stakeholders.
• Benefited administrative support for international programs seeking to increase food security in developing countries, and programs that sustain and improve the livelihoods of the most vulnerable women.
• Reinforced McKnight’s national Neuroscience (research to address Alzheimer’s and other diseases of memory) and international Collaborative Crop (Africa, Southeast Asia, South and Central America) research programs.

Promoted services and developed trusted relationships with client companies to evaluate the necessary candidate qualifications to align with the clients’ business goals and requirements. Worked closely with each individual to identify strengths, goals, professional standards, and “fit” for specific client culture and position.

Masters, Public Affairs

Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs Emphasis on Social Innovation

Practitioners Institute

Mini-Mba, Non-Profit Organizations

Ba, Biology