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Canada

Making the Shift is a Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab with a mandate to contribute to the transformation of how we respond to youth homelessness through research and knowledge mobilization specific to youth homelessness prevention and housing stabilization. Making the Shift is also designated as a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

Toronto, Canada Area

A Way Home Canada is a national coalition reimagining solutions to youth homelessness through transformations in policy, planning and practice.We work with all orders of government, communities, services providers and philanthropy to create a policy, investment and service environment that enables a shift away from simply “managing” the problem of youth.

Toronto, Canada Area

www.rainbowplate.comOUR VISIONOur vision is a future where all Canadian kids have access to healthy food and can make the choices that nourish their bodies well for life. OUR MISSIONTo provide education, resources, and support to children, families, teachers and health professionals in order to inspire and enable the development of lifelong healthy eating.

Toronto, ON

Eva's works locally and nationally to prevent, reduce and end youth homelessness in Canada.

Toronto, Canada Area

The National Learning Community on Youth Homelessness is a pan-Canadian network of leading youth serving organizations across the country who work collaboratively on key issues, share promising practices and develop strategies and tools to strengthen our sector and work towards preventing, reducing and ending youth homelessness in Canada.

Toronto, Canada Area

The Mobilizing Local Capacity to End Youth Homelessness Program works with local communities to develop and implement plans to end youth homelessness. The MLC Program also includes collaborative action across various networks in a comprehensive movement to change public policy to prevent, reduce and end youth homelessness in Canada.

Toronto, ON

The Heritage Toronto Awards celebrate outstanding contributions in the promotion and conservation of Toronto’s history and heritage landmarks by professionals and volunteers.

Intercordia Canada is a non-profit organization that partners with Canadian universities in order to offer students a unique, university accredited, engaged-learning experience. The goal of this innovative learning program is to encourage moral responsiveness, develop respect for diversity and a valuing of other cultures, religions and socio-economic.

Project Canoe uses the outdoors, including wilderness canoeing, to create a transformative environment in which youth develop life skills, social competencies and resiliency, thereby fostering their own personal success.

Toronto, Canada Area

Fellows is a one-year leadership development and network-building program that aims to harness the potential of a diverse cross-section of leaders so that they can address the challenges that lie ahead for the greater Toronto region.

We're a handful of regular folks who get together once a month and hand over a paper bag full of our cash to someone with an awesome idea.

Provide strategy and focus to a team dedicated to thoughtfully engaging community around environmental concerns. Campaign is actualized through a dedicated Web channel, online contest and TVO television series to identify and celebrate environmental heroes (www.GreenHeroes.tv).

Political campaign blog moderation and technology product research for clients of Community Bandwidth.

Consultant on monthly retainer for Intercordia Canada, which offers a unique model of service/experiential learning in the international context for Canadian university students. Consulted in the areas of online strategy, funding strategy development, board development, program evaluation and partnership development. In addition, led the organization and.

Researched and wrote a critical report to imagine a comprehensive, cross-sectoral strategy in support of family literacy programs and services in Ontario. Researched models of inter-generational family literacy programs in 3 communities across the province. Report showcases these models and makes critical recommendations moving forward. Additional.

Core committee member for a pan-Canadian, multiple-pronged project that seeks to address isolation and loneliness in the disability and newcomer communities. Project included regular contribution to the project blog and additional writing for Abilities Magazine. The project is housed in the Plan Institute for Caring Citizenship in Vancouver, Canada.

Technology Consultant and Project Manager for the Community Learning Network - a pilot project in 3 rural communities to provide pre-employment programming to job-seekers, age 16-29, in remote communities. Researched and recommended an open-source learning management system and managed the tool implementation team. Immediately following, acted as project.

Board member and chair of fund development committee.

Management consulting for collaborative project linking the Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation, Ashoka and the Centre for Social Innovation. Conducted research, analysis, resource identification, process facilitation, stakeholder management and overall project coordination for undertaking that maps, analyzes and celebrates innovative social mission.

Engaged in fund development (crafted successful proposals, developed public-private funding partnerships, as well as creative fund-raising events), advocacy network building, lobbying at state and federal levels and online learning initiatives. Created and taught courses in epilepsy care and management to health care workers and families in community.

Helped build the Independent Media Center from the ground up. Supported national media reform initiatives. Traveled to new independent media sites throughout U.S. to provide training and support. Created intake and orientation program to develop core group of 40 volunteers and to distribute throughout the Independent Media Center network. Coordinated.

Managed community living program for people impacted by developmental disabilities and chronic mental illness. Managed staff, oversaw budgets, conducted training, interfaced with health care practitioners, and acted as an advocate on behalf of clients.Acquired Washington State Mental Health Specialty Certification

Masters, Management, Social Policy And Change

Activities and Societies: Internships: Grassroots International (international Board development intern) American Red Cross (community.

B.A., Speech Communication

B.A., Literary Criticism