Tabitha Lewis Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Pennsylvania, United States

• Skyrocketed a music education nonprofit by revamping the business model (marketing, donor programs, board relations) and helping them apply for grants generating a 25% increase in child involvement and a 30% increase.
• Created a GOTV event reaching 7000 people through social media to motivate African American faith-based communities in central PA to speak up about their rights and vote in the presidential election.
• Consulted and advised the Rukundo Foundation of Rwanda CEO, helping scale the organization's impact by creating a new academy for parents to develop life and parenting skills and obtaining grants in the United States..
• Presented to social entrepreneurs on how to increase revenues through product development and pain-point-focused marketing.
• Empowered entrepreneurial women in Rwanda with leadership development and strategies.
• Motivated faith-based community organizers in Rwanda as a speaker on woman’s rights entitled “The Power of Women’s Voices.”

Steelton, PA

• Revived a closed church transforming it into a vibrant community. Significantly contributed to overcoming grief and past trauma by promoting lectures, opportunities for counseling, and motivating the church to find a.
• Raised through grants, loans, and general offerings a budget of $420,000 for a comprehensive capital campaign, “The Way Forward,” which included a phased rehabilitation of the physical building.
• Established a vision and 5-year plan that enhanced operational performance effectiveness and increased the church's impact within the community.
• Innovated by adapting organizational strategies during the pandemic. Ideated and promoted 3 6-week speaker series to prepare the church for the new reality; themes included social justice, social outreach, and adapting.
• Attracted 300+ weekly worship participants by creating a successful social media presence during the COVID-19 pandemic while developing interpersonal relationships online.
• Fostered solid partnerships with local, State, ecumenical, and interfaith groups, schools, and nonprofits through networking to support families.

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States

• Established, mobilized, and fomented two faith-based groups (faith-based social activists) to foster anti-racism work within Dauphin and Lebanon Counties.
• Formulated modules and trained 800 POWER leaders and community members in 15 faith-based organizations, highlighting principles and strategies for faith-based community organization and anti-racism work.
• Mapped legislative profiles to engage with State legislators around campaigns.
• Orchestrated, in partnership with various community and faith-based partners, 7 events in Central and Eastern PA, reaching about 3000 people, to generate community awareness on public education funding, minimum wage.
• Conferred with Municipal and State legislative officials and staff to implement policy change in public education, criminal justice, health reform, and minimum wage increase and mobilized the community to obtain 2000.
• Authored editorial articles for newspapers on public education funding and presented as an expert in panel discussions, rallies, and other public events.

Annville, Pennsylvania, United States

• Taught the disciplines Religion in the Public Space and History of Christianity, applying best practices and promoting exciting discussions and debates in class with enthusiastic participation and insightful conclusions.
• Engaged students by utilizing technological resources like videos, PowerPoint presentations, recent facts from newspapers and magazines, and group strategies to attract and capture students’ attention and maintain.
• Participated as an expert in interfaith and vocational panels discussing social justice and religion in the public sphere.

Lebanon, Pennsylvania

• Supervised all church ministries, programming, outreach, spiritual development, and weekly worship services.
• Established and managed the church's financial goals and other operational, administrative, and organizational needs.
• Counseled, comforted, and offered practical support and service to families in crisis.
• Engaged in community and ecumenical work.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Cooperated as a full-time pastoral staff member, performing duties assigned by the Senior Pastor.
• Designed curriculum and instructed class in theology for future ordinands for the denominational institute.
• Provided fundraising and strategic support to expand outreach and administrative goals.
• Visited and counseled members in need of pastoral care.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Managed 1300 grants totaling $25 million dollars, and offered technical assistance to grantees to ascertain compliance with federal regulations.Oversaw programmatic, financial, and administrative requirements, including funds allotted to states and tribal entities. Cooperated with several federal agencies to support and oversee grant processes. Took part.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• PROGRAM ASSISTANT - OFFICE OF CONTRACTS AND GRANTS, October 2004 – November 2005
• Processed and wrote National Trust income and procurement contracts and amendments.
• Updated grants and contracts system to track grant funded staff time charged to federal grants, and completed necessary financial procedures.GRANTS COORDINATOR – CENTER FOR PRESERVATION LEADERSHIP, April 2003 – October.
• Governed a $10 million annual endowment budget.
• Produced a procedural manual for the grants program, and trained Regional Office staff, offering both in-house and satellite training.

M.Div., Theology/Theological Studies, Biblical Studies

Historic Preservation

B.S., History - African Concentration