As an Association Management Professional for this association management firm, I serve as Executive Director for three groups: the Kentucky Medical Group Management Association and the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, and the American Society for the Alexander Technique, a national trade association that sets professional standards for teachers of the AT. The Alexander Technique is a whole-body approach to discomfort, based on the principles developed by Frederick Mathias Alexander. It is an educational method for improved mobility, posture, performance, alertness, and relief of chronic stiffness, tension, and stress.

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Consulting services primarily to government agencies and nonprofit / faith-based organizations – focusing on oversight responsibilities, compliance, governance, accountability, structured communications with focus on imaging/branding and management of multiple sub-grantees and/or departments (including partnering government agencies, divisions, and independent contractors); grant proposal development, program development and budgeting, Board training, SWOT analysis; goal and objective planning, outcome development and tracking, vendor negotiation, design, maintenance of budgets and financial analysis, development of long-term fund development strategies, crisis & non-crisis public relations, accounting systems integration.• Served as consultant/evaluator on large-scale grant application at request of the U.S. Department of Justice both inside Dayton area and other cities – specifically reviewed Weed and Seed 5-year Crime reduction strategies and helped them realize the need for a full-year development process along with a well-populated steering committee• Successfully developed more than $12 million dollars in new federal and state grant/contract funding in the last 7 years alone.• Grant administration and operational management of highly successful multi-year Family Employment Support Network demonstration program requiring coordination and compliance management of five faith-based sub-grantees as well as training them in compliance protocols• Developed geo-mapping and statistical advancement for use in “painting a better picture” resulting in higher success rates in actual grant awards