Senior Social Impact & Sustainability Specialist for Wells Fargo’s Corporate Philanthropy and Community Relations Group, responsible for implementing the company’s community and economic development programs for San Diego and Imperial counties in Southern California.

GrantLinkX is a team of seasoned grant writers and fundraising experts with backgrounds in non-profit business development strategy, donor relations, business development and corporate fundraising strategy.At GrantLinkX, we follow a simple business philosophy: to dedicate our knowledge and talent to creating a more valuable service that contributes to the betterment of the non-profit and business industry.We create value for our clients by working with you to view funding opportunities and implement a successful strategy. By working in close partnership with you and your management team, we insure your involvement and total commitment to implementing the plans and strategies developed to achieve results.GrantLinkX exists because we saw a problem in the market. We believed the world of grant writing and fundraising had become too transactional. The Non-Profit industry was relying on staff and other grant writing professionals to increase funds but were seeing poor results because they viewed fundraising as a one-time sale. Thus GrantLinkX was created, by implementing the relational development model to fundraising, we create and sustain meaningful relationships with a diverse group of donors so we can successfully achieve the long-term financial objectives of our clients.Contracting our highly skilled team of professional development strategist and professional grant writers is an intelligent investment for your organization. We tailor our business around building rapport with your donors to secure funding well into the future.

Develop and implement a successful development strategy to build sustainable, unrestricted revenue streams to support growth and innovation. I am familiar with venture capital, new philanthropy, social venture funding and crowd-sourcing. I also lead the organization's communication and marketing strategy, build awareness and strengthen our foundation's brand.

My responsibilities as the CDO include developing and implementing a strategy to build sustainable, unrestricted revenue streams to support growth and innovation. I am familiar with venture capital, new philanthropy, social venture funding and crowd-sourcing. I also lead the organization's communication and marketing strategy, build awareness and strengthen our foundation's brand.Through Social Media, content marketing and other strategies I responsibly integrate communication and fundraising.As the Program Officer for our foundation I am responsible for managing grants and donations received, creating appropriate budgets and executing them properly in a transparent manner. It is my responsibility to manage grants effectively and create a year end report to our donors and board members. I manage and oversee the staff for the programs that we execute.Program Specific Responsibilities:* Develop organization-wide fund development strategy, facilitate execution of the strategy across departments* Direct all internal and external communications and campaigns* Manage the Development Department, set and meet fundraising goals* Collaborate with program staff and provide guidance for the development and marketing of new enterprises and fee-for-service endeavors and implement innovative funding and investment plans to support Foundation innovation*Act as the staff representative for the Development Committee-- Collaborate with Board Directors*Develop and oversee an integrated media strategy including traditional media, new media and social media*Develop and implement sustained individual donor, corporate and foundation development programs*Brand management