Lara Rook Email & Phone Number

Morrisville, Nc, Us

Texas City, Texas, Us

Non-profit Grant Management; $13M Annual Operating BudgetGalveston County Food Bank, Texas City, Texas, 2018–Present• Write foundation and corporate grants and proposals. Researched potentialfunding opportunities with a 99% successful funding rate. Increased first quarter revenue 35% over last year. Built new collaborations and partnerships to raise revenue• Collaboration with the Executive Director and department managers to revamp marketing plan to meet organization design and needs. Assisted in designing marketing materials including brochures, push cards, direct mailers, and presentations• Development of strategies to optimize fundraising• Cultivated community relationships to increase awareness and third partyevents• Development of program/project budgets and allocations• Analysis of financial trends and preparation of detailed reports to funders andthe board of directors• Implementation of deliverables tracking system in order to advisedepartment managers and other relevant staff of upcoming deadlinesensuring meeting or exceeding benchmarks• Provide training to the new staff on grants management and reportingrequirements• Development of data management systems to better measure and reportmetrics pertaining to funders, donors, volunteers, and dollars• Member of the Finance Committee and the External (Marketing, Fundraising,and Public Relations) Committee

Galveston, Texas, Us

Texas General Land Office, Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Multifamily Housing Program; Galveston, Texas; $55M Construction BudgetSLSCO, LTD., Galveston, Texas, 2015–Present• Assessment, recovery, and normalization of administrative operations of two multifamily housing projects following the replacement of displaced project management• Subcontract management• Oversight of Section 3/Davis Bacon Act compliance• Management of submittal, RFI, and change order processes• Development of construction QC process and team management• Contractor and subcontractor/vendor pay request processing, financialreporting, budget tracking, and variance analysis• Management of project close-out and turnover• Management of field office

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Texas General Land Office, Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Housing and Rental Housing and Slum and Blight Programs in the City of Galveston, South East Texas and Lower Rio Grande Valley; Combined $254M Construction Budget• Grant Administration (City of Galveston)• Development of city-wide needs assessment which identified areas of overlapping concentrations of ethnic/minority populations, concentrations of poverty, and FEMA high hazard areas• Development of program guidelines• Labor Standards Compliance• Outreach planning• Applicant management, intake/eligibility reviews, contract signings• Contractor awards and pay request processing• Application and project closeout

Galveston, Texas, Us

• Development, implementation, and administration of SharePoint intranet and extranet platform utilized by three co-counsel firms to map plaintiff allegations to discovery responses to medical and ancillary records• Analysis of all case, client, plaintiff, co-counsel, and opposing counsel data• Preparation of Discovery and E-Discovery including dynamic categorization, filtering, reviews, production, data analysis and reporting• Litigation support including research of factual and legal issues, preparation of notebooks, drafting pleadings, motions, orders, and correspondence• Support attorneys in trial, mediation, and meetings with fact and expert witnesses

Certifed Paralegal, Valedictorian, Legal Studies, General

Business Administration And Management, General

Graphic Design