Thomas L Hark Email & Phone Number

A builder of people, programs, and organizations. I have been given two professional gifts in my career. The first was the opportunity to found and build the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, and the second was to research and develop the new Civilian Conservation Corps, USA model.In essence, I combined the best practices and principles from the private and public sectors for both organizations and built VYCC into one of our nation’s leading training and education nonprofit organizations.Both have a vision of a more civil society. Both build core values such as personal and civic responsibility, self-reliance, education, and service. These critical values turn today's youth into tomorrow's leaders.VYCC started with an idea and one dollar. That dollar was leveraged over $50 million, a 400-acre campus, 28 full-time staff, 300 seasonal employees, and 8,000 alumni, with operations in four states. When I left VYCC, investors wanted to know if the model could scale as a private enterprise and enroll a million young adults annually without annual public appropriations. CCCUSA was created and funded to research, develop, and demonstrate such a model.► Organizational Development and Capacity Building: Assist local, state, and federal partners in maximizing their funds and other resources. By understanding our partners’ goals and helping them make every dollar invested achieve multiple objectives, we build long-term and productive partnerships.► Fundraising Strategies: Every organization is unique and builds its foundation based on private, state, and federal grants, Fees for Services, Capital Campaigns, and major donor events/solicitation. Public and private sector philanthropic relationships must be carefully cultivated, maintained, and built upon. ► Advocacy Work and Constituency Building: Excellent communication across the organization is often easier said than done but critical. Clear articulation of complex issues and management of diverse constituencies, including board, staff, committees, volunteers, and external audiences. ► Governance: Critical, dynamic, enormously challenging, rewarding, and key to organizational success.► Vision, Mission, and Strategy: Having a shared vision, mission, and strategy is the why, how, and what, and helping organizations focus here has been my most rewarding work. I have a proven track record of translating vision and mission into operating plans with clear benchmarks and annual objectives. I would love to share my CCCUSA vision and plan, which could reunite all Americans.

Listed skills include Fundraising, Nonprofits, Leadership, Program Development, and 45 others.