Volunteerism and community building are important to me, and non-profit management is incredibly rewarding.

Volunteer Experience & NonProfit Management

Colorado Canyons Association - Educator

• Supported the organization's 2023 Nature Knowledge Days.

• Educated students on tamarisk threat to native cotton wood trees at Devils Canyon.

Fruita Middle School Parent Teacher Organization - Web Content Developer

• Designed a website and all web copy from scratch to market a Parent Teacher Organization's programs and events. 

• Created the organization’s motto (Giving, so they can grow).

Newark Parks Foundation - Executive Director | Marcom Writer | Bookkeeper | Program Developer | Grant Writer

“Teamed up” with a group of neighbors to advocate for more recreational opportunities in our community. Having achieved its goals, the organization dissolved in November 2017:

• Mobilized community support, with great results, to deliver recreational opportunities (2 new parks) and 1.2M in park impact fee revenue to residents in a small town. 

• Managed all volunteer coordination, partnerships, and reported to the Board.

• Developed all capital project datasheets and programs.

• Delivered marketing communications, branding, press articles, outreach and event planning, social media campaigns, & web content. 

• Filed all necessary state and federal paperwork for nonprofit status, incorporation, and dissolution. 

• Performed all bookkeeping, tax reporting/filing, recruitment, grant proposal writing, and strategic planning.

• Delivered community presentation before large audiences.

• Spearheaded two partnerships:

  1. Partnered with Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge (federal) on a watershed event. Federal agency provided the trees and native plants. I recruited the volunteers to plant trees and pick up trash that infiltrated Plummer's Creek and created the event's educational banner.

  2. Partnered with Safe Routes To School on a Bike NOW program that distributed helmets to school kids and repaired bikes. 

Parents And Schilling Staff (PASS) - Web Content Developer | Program Manager

• Supported this new PTO organization through its startup phase. 

• Delivered the org’s first website and content and managed social media campaigns and branding.

• Participated in event planning, fundraising, and volunteer recruitment. 

• Deployed two native plant gardens for elementary school, and coordinated applied science in the classrooms. 

SF National Wildlife Refuge, US Fish & Wildlife Service - Field Assistant

• Assisted Biologist Rachel Tertes in a 2-week, 2007-2012 population comparison survey of a federally endangered salt marsh harvest mouse situated in New Chicago Marsh in Alviso, CA.

• Set traps and released mice, after having identified species and recorded measurements.

Feral Cat Foundation - TNR Specialist 

• Trapped, fixed, and released (TNR) 20 feral cats in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

• Fostered and placed 15 non-feral cats. 

Freedom From Hunger - Program Impact Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

• Assisted an NGO in its initiative to provide micro-lending to improve nutrition in developing countries.

• Recorded loan repayments and members’ income-generating activities within agriculture/animal production, food/non-agricultural commerce, and craft industries.

• Recorded child nutrition data to evaluate correlations between rise in women’s income and child nutrition, resulting in support for  program's effectiveness.

• Generated reports to monitor program development; compared lending program's performance between countries.

CA EPA, Integrated Waste Management Board - Compliance Assistant

• Explained environmental mandates and certification requirements to state purchasing agents; worked primarily with AB 4, 11, and 939. Analyzed procurement plans and reports for accuracy and compliance.

• Provided recommendations on how to meet procurement goals given procurement processes, limited resources, and technological constraints. Delivered expenditure reporting to the CA Legislature.

CA NOW - Legislative Assistant

• Supported the legislative lobbyist, Robert White Battle, attending CA Legislature subcommittee hearings.

• Researched key issues and drafted position letters based on the lobbyist’s pre-defined arguments; retrieved bill information; delivered packages and position letters to legislators.

Children NOW - Community Outreach Coordinator

• Ran the org’s 1992 Earned Income Tax Credit campaign on college campus to reach low income population.

• Spearheaded grassroots outreach to a parent club, increasing the disposable income of several student families.