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Philadelphia, PA, US

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Manage and coordinate with clients and development teams to produce ~30-40 local, state, and federal affordable housing finance applications (City of Philadelphia, LIHTC and other tax credit programs) totaling ~$100.
• Manage multiple deal closings valued at $60 million under difficult timelines through agenda setting, tracking deliverables, and completion of documents on behalf of clients
• Creates and revises development and operating pro forma packages for multiple funding applications, including LIHTC.
• Leads certain aspects of the development effort which can include leading applications for additional funding sources (outside of the PHFA / LIHTC application), closing/due diligence submissions and the like.
• Conducts feasibility studies and draft narratives on local demographic, economic, and real estate trends
• Manage and update team resource documents, including advanced work in Excel for FHLB and other public financing scoresheets for affordable housing developments

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Baltimore, Maryland

Provided research support for the Office of Policy and Partnerships and developed resources for the Mayor's Neighborhood SubCabinet, which facilitates the implementation of joint community development strategies by public agencies, community organizations and civic leaders in the city's designated Impact Investment Areas.

Baltimore, Maryland

• Support senior program officers in managing an efficient and thorough proposal review and due diligence process for 360+ grants across four family foundations and a corporate giving program.
• Process all incoming proposals/reports, and analyzes information related to specific grant requests, including financial information.
• Design and edit electronic newsletters, info-graphics and other communication regarding the impact of funding.
• Drafts proposal summaries and memos for review by program officers.
• Assists in orchestrating board meetings, and creating and distributing board materials.
• Participate in grant monitoring, including reviewing interim reports and requests for payment, and tracking grantee compliance with agreements and requests for information.

Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa

• Produce research and writing for a social justice movement on diverse areas of education policy, including textbook policy, school infrastructure and curriculum reform.
• Create educational materials and articles for members’ newsletter, youth groups, organization events and publications, including a journal article and op-ed on major news web site.
• Monitor and brief department on international and South African education policy developments.
• Prepare external presentations on research issues and EE campaigns for use by senior management.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Prepared 200-300 proposals and budgets quarterly from democracy, governance and civil society organizations for review by senior grantmaking staff.
• Coordinated proposal review process of an annual grant program of $9 million, consisting of internal/external meetings with partner institutions.
• Formatted and analyzed applicants’ project budgets and wrote internal assessments of approved projects.
• Played a critical role in designing a new online application process, website developments and proposal intake forms.
• Managed two interns and coordinated the hiring process for five full-time staff positions.
• Developed improved methods of internal communication, including a team SharePoint site, specialized annual departmental budgets, and templates for proposed internal process changes.

Master Of Urban Planning, City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning, 3.92

Supervised Research Project: "School's Out: Planning Strategies for Surplus School Sites" Coursework: Real Estate and Planning; Urban.

Ba, International Studies And German

Activities and Societies: German Club, Woodrow Wilson Research Fellowship Program, National Student Partnerships.A double major in.

Ba, Social Sciences

Activities and Societies: Volunteered at SOS International center for HIV-related orphans.Studied for the Spring 2009 semester at the.