STORYTELLING Neuroscientists and poets agree: our brains crave stories. We work collaboratively to brand your organization (or you individually) and share your narrative. Explore new ways to talk about your passions, clients, and impact.STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONSWe take a creative approach to develop communications strategies and offer flexible and budget-conscious options. Whether you're just starting out or looking to pivot or grow, we can help you with your branding, website, social media, digital ads, marketing collateral, and media buys. BRANDING + GRAPHIC DESIGNWe provide creative direction, content development, and rollout for brand design and graphic design projects. Need a logo, annual report, brochure, or other collateral? We'd love to brainstorm with you! See examples of client work we've designed: http://bit.ly/2mzdy8DSOCIAL + DIGITAL MARKETING Digital marketing can be the most cost-effective way to target your audiences. We take the pain out of scheduling daily content, plan and execute social media engagement, design campaigns, boost search results with Google AdWords, navigate Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube ads, and analyze results.CAPACITY BUILDINGWe offer strategic planning, training, coaching and through partnership to build your organization's capacity to achieve even greater impact. We can support nonprofit management, deepen board engagement, strategize fund development and communications, and more!FUND DEVELOPMENTWe’ve successfully raised millions of dollars for nonprofit organizations, from both first-time and renewal grants from community and private foundations; corporations; and government grants of all levels (city, county, state and federal). We’ve supported grant writing for several issue areas, including education, health, advocacy and more. Whether you're looking for development planning or more hands-on grant research, writing, editing, or consulting or even event planning, we've got you covered!

STRATEGIC PLANNING | LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT | GRANT WRITING• Facilitate rigorous Strategic Planning processes that engage nonprofit governing boards, executive management, staff members, and key stakeholders, including conducting a Resource Audit of 9 key functional areas, interviewing key informants, researching industry trends, and developing strategic initiatives• Develop tools to support the implementation of Strategic Plans, including annual operating plans and balanced scorecards • Develop mission-driven business plans to strengthen organizational sustainability• Develop development pipelines to enhance organizational impact and resources • Plan and manage client projects, analyze strategic issues, and provide problem-solving recommendations for a variety of nonprofit organizations, including early childhood development and school readiness providers, mental health agencies, housing, science and technology centers, and foundations.• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research, organizational assessments, program evaluation and fiscal analysis for a variety of nonprofit social service and advocacy agencies. • Develop winning grant proposals to private and public funders.

PPD673, a masters-level online course on Strategic Planning in the Nonprofit Sector through the Sol Price School of Public Policy. Facilitate learning on: the fundamentals of strategic planning; differences in strategic planning processes across sectors; engaging stakeholders in the planning process; analyzing internal (organizational) and external (environmental) data, selecting priority initiatives; successfully implementing strategic plans; and developing and evaluating goals and measurements.

GRANT WRITING | SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIESDevelop grants for private and public funders, focusing on:• Youth • Seniors• HIV/AIDS• Health Education• Domestic Violence• AdvocacySocial Media Strategies• Develop social media strategies appropriate for an organization's capacity, resources, programs, and goals. • Guide organizations in better understanding the social media landscape and choosing appropriate and sustainable social media platforms and strategies. • Increase and refine audience engagement, online fundraising, content management, and social media monitoring and evaluation.

HEALTHY FOOD ACCESS RESEARCH | RECOMMENDATIONS• Provided Support and Recommendations for the Healthy Food Financing Initiative Portal & Urban Agriculture projects; • Researched various healthy food access topics including urban agriculture and grocery stores; • Developed Grocery Store Community Benefit Options report.

POLICY ANALYSIS | HEALTHY CITY POLICYGained a deeper understanding of policy development, implementation, and change in order to bridge the communication and engagement gap with communities of color. Policy area focus: Healthy City | Healthy Food Access | Health & Human Services.

SOCIAL MEDIA• Developed a social media strategy for Greenlining to identify and build relationships with key influencers to increase dissemination of Greenlining research, advocacy, and resources around several issue areas. • Developed a Social Media Toolkit to establish a consistent and effective brand in online engagement.• Created dashboards and metrics to monitor and measure social media engagement. • Leveraged social media as a platform to communicate information to communities of interest.

GRANTS | CONTRACT MANAGEMENT• Secured $500,000 per year from diversified funding sources (foundations, government) through grants for five programs: Youth Development Services, Senior Wellness Program, HIV/AIDS Education & Prevention, Health Education, and Advocacy• Managed contracts for all programs (proposals, contract negotiations, pre- and post-program evaluation, invoices, checks, budgets, reports, communication)• Successful grants allowed for the expansion of the youth program (two new staff, one new school site)PROGRAM MANAGEMENT• Engaged in strategic planning, program design and evaluation (logic models, program goals, survey creation, data collection, etc.)• Coordinated annual events and special projects, such as AIDS Walk, press conferences, and award-winning Silicon Valley Asian American Voices Project (video and website project on local immigrant integration)• Trained and supervised 11 interns

MANAGEMENT | PROGRAM COORDINATION• Managed 5 staff and over 10 volunteers (fostered supportive environment, explained processes, set deadlines)• Developed standardized processes for program coordination, organization development, and office operations (program curriculum, new staff training process, office protocols; created Operations Manual, training workbooks)• Managed the Silent Auction at the annual Awards Dinner • Edited and analyzed evaluations for program improvement Senior Program Coordinator (May-Nov 07), Program Coordinator (Jul 06-May 07)• Managed 26 corporate and community programs nationally in a nine month period• Coordinated LEAP’s first international training program in India for corporate senior managers• Supervised and trained four program coordinators • Launched efficient online registration for programs• Created ads; managed marketing brochure edits; orchestrated mailings