Laura Treadway Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Greater Seattle Area

• EnviroIssues helps its clients develop and execute public involvement, strategic communications, and outreach plans to accomplish public, infrastructure, and environmental projects.
• Develop and implement communication and public involvement strategies for public sector clients, targeted to neighborhood and community groups, business and key stakeholders, and public officials in jurisdictions.
• Manage all aspects of outreach events, including event planning and staffing, developing key messages and communication materials for print and web, notifications, tracking public input, and evaluation
• From complex and technical sources, create clearly understandable content for project websites and print materials
• Develop technical memo evaluating wastewater design alternatives in collaboration with municipal clients, engineering firm, and other specialists
• Contribute to RFP research and proposal development

Greater Seattle Area

• Researched and analyzed Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA) legislation, revenue and expenditures, and accomplishments; worked with the Department of Ecology to achieve clarity on missing information
• Developed detailed memo on MTCA to increase organizational knowledge on the issues, share with the Environmental Priorities Coalition, and protect the laws during Legislative Session

• Appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire to serve as Board member and consumer representative
• Coordinated with outside consultant and engaged with Board members and consumer advocate partners to advocate for issues of importance to consumers regarding the future of WSHIP, later used as the basis of successful.

Greater Seattle Area

• Rebuilt Public Policy & Advocacy department after a 2 year hiatus, growing department from a staff of 1 to 3 and from a $90K to $196K budget; rebuilt Lifelong’s reputation as a leading policy agency at the city.
• Re-launched AIDS Action and Awareness Lobby Day in 2013 after a 4 year hiatus; collaborated with 5 organizations statewide to recruit 200 consumer and community attendees in 35 out of 49 legislative districts; day also.
• Partnered with community allies and 16 coalitions at state and federal level to combine our efforts towards joint policy and advocacy goals, including leading and staffing 2 coalitions; accomplishments included.
• Public speaker and panel organizer at gatherings of national organizations, including a Seattle visit by the White House’s National Office of AIDS Policy; conference presenter at US Conference on AIDS
• Developed and implemented communication strategy that included social media, legislative updates and action alerts to 750 subscribers, policy papers, position statements, websites, educational materials, and voter.
• Organized and presented at March 2012 forum on healthcare reform with national speakers and over 100 attendees; forum led to the launch of monthly work group made up of various community-based organizations, and led to.

• Successfully grew the insurance program annual budget 730% from $3M to $22M, grew program staff from 2 to 12, and more than quadrupled the number of clients served from 600 to 2500
• Wrote two extensive multi-year government grant proposals that successfully funded the program for 13 years; the resulting contracts awarded over $112M for service delivery
• Designed, managed, and implemented multiple projects to improve and expand the insurance program in response to healthcare reform and negotiations with program funder, the Washington State Department of Health
• Conducted over 50 trainings around Washington State ranging from small groups, conferences, and webinars; routinely updated materials for audiences and to capture new developments and trendsManaged all aspects of.

• Led collaboration of three regional organizations to design and facilitate a public Urban Green Infrastructure Forum; conducted training for 40 attendees on stormwater pollution and green infrastructure solutions
• Community outreach related to natural drainage bioswales built along industrial streets in Georgetown to public and nonprofit sectors and the media; outreach included city planning, community meetings, tours, and.

• Implemented in-house software conversions and upgrades in the Raiser’s Edge database, combined two agencies’ donor databases after merger, oversaw systems analysis and database management, generated fiscal reports.
• Designed and managed website and on-line fundraising programs, cultivated donors

• Collaborated with health care providers, social workers, community services organizations, insurance and government funding agencies, Bailey-Boushay House staff, patients, and families to process new admissions and.

Ma, Environment & Community

Graduate Certificate in Integrated Skills for Sustainable Change Graduate Certificate in Ecological Planning and Design Permaculture.

Certificate In Public Participation

Permaculture Design Certificate

Certificate, Photography

Certificate, Nonprofit Management

Ba, Sociology/Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Earlham Environmental Action Coalition, Women's Center Steering Committee, study abroad in.