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Strategy consultant to nonprofits, private foundations, and socially-minded businesses with special focus on strategy and growth, dashboard content development and design, and outcomes and performance management. Sample clients include Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (K-12 strategy), Austin College Access Network/E3, Thinkery (Austin's beloved children's museum), Houston Rocks (a strategy for high-quality K-12 seat creation in Houston), Families Empowered, and Mission Capital (formerly Greenlights for Nonprofit Success).

Build and maintain a high-performing, collaborative team culture; responsible for hiring, evaluating, and leading program staff comprised of 5 direct and 4 indirect reports. Manage annual budget process. Advise and manage strategic projects with external partners. Lead knowledge and performance management. Advise CEO and Board on strategy, e.g. how to leverage the organization’s relationships with parents, shared application platforms, data, and knowledge of “what works,” to maximize our impact.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for organization-wide strategic analysis, planning, and trailblazing with respect to regional expansion, performance management and innovation, and operational efficiency.

Safal Partners is a management consulting firm specializing in the social sector. While there, Mina led projects for the Houston Endowment, Educate Texas, and Austin District-Charter Compact. In addition, she authored a white paper on District-Charter collaboration for the National Charter Resource Center.

Led a major initiative with the New York Road Runners to help them define success and develop the tools, systems, and organizational capacity to regularly track performance.

Los Angeles, Ca

Mina's work with Blue Garnet Associates included coaching grantees for a community foundation’s capacity building initiative, evaluating The Bank of America Foundation's scholarship program, and facilitating a strategic business planning process for Camino Nuevo Charter Academy.

Bachelor'S Degree, Comparative Literature

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, Nonprofit Management

Mina has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she majored in finance, and received the “top.

Statistics

Extensive coursework in statistics and program evaluation at the University of Texas, Austin; worked with a team to evaluate nationally.