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Allan Shore

(916) 730 2801

CONSULTING SKILLS OVERVIEW:

I have over 20 years of grant writing and related fundraising experience, researching, coordinating, implementing and monitoring/evaluating federal and state grants and contracts. This includes researching donors and making numerous successful appeals to foundations and private/membership donors. The vast majority of this experience is with social and community services for the benefit of programs directed toward the critical needs of vulnerable and low-income families, youth, community service providers, local employment training and empowerment projects.

Here is an overview of my experience in staff and directorship positions. Representative samples of my consulting work follow.

PAST EMPLOYERS:

For approximately 10 of my professional years I have served in a management and executive leadership positions for highly respected nonprofit agencies, with a focus on writing and negotiating federal, state and local grant applications, as well as in implementing these projects once funded. These agencies provide direct services coordinated with schools, other CBOs and various governmental departments. The following is a selection of my recent experiences with an emphasis on projects that involved federal and state grant and contract activities. Many of these projects were similar to those I completed as a consultant at other times in my career.

April ’04-Present I am currently serving as nonprofit and for-project consultant doing marketing, management, retail development and promotional writing. I am also conducting part-time fundraising, grant writing and creative writing projects (paid and pro bono) for several agencies and a for-profit business venture. These clients include the National Religous Partnership on the Nuclear Weapons Danger (http://faithfulsecurity.org) the California Council of Churches IMPACT, Sacramento (http://calchurches.org) and the Divine Mercy Eucharistic Society, El Cerrito (http://WestCoastDivineMercy.org) The majority of my work in these capacities involves writing grants, hunting up potential donors, developing donor outreach materials, doing donor solicitation, offering advice on public policy initiatives, organizing local communities, etc. My work for the Eucharistic Society is to develop a $25 million capital fundraising campaign for a major Shrine and Retreat Center. Please feel free to inquire about these recent or ongoing efforts.

• Office of Emergency Services: OES is the service and community preparedness arm for California criminal and juvenile justice services that are directly linked to local and youth prevention, protection and service projects. I secured funding of $90,000 in operational grants for partial funding of the California Youth Crisis Line. The program operates a 24-hour crisis telephone service that maintains a database of all available private and public youth support services for young people with personal, family, legal and subsistence issues (runaway/throwaway/homeless kids). Over 20,000 callers used the telephone service annually. Funding for this grant was secured as part of California’s federal domestic and family violence initiatives. I personally prepared documentation and quarterly project and fiscal reports to state and federal funders regarding grant compliance.
• Office of Criminal Justice Planning: OCJP (no longer in existence) served as the State of California’s principal funding agency for state and federal criminal justice programs for many years (it was absorbed by OES). CCY received and regularly was re-awarded grants of up to $320,000 annually for its Crisis Line and operational needs. The purpose of these grants was to establish and maintain the Crisis Line’s operational system and to develop a statewide youth services database of needs and response resources. These grants also required regular progress reports, and annual competitive application updates. During my tenure I wrote three such grants that were awarded as well as all required monthly reports.
• Health and Human Services, Family and Youth Services Bureau: CCY was a Western Region Technical Assistance and Training grant recipient for California runaway/homeless projects funded by the federal government. We provide training on youth support services to over 50 agencies serving all of California. I was responsible for preparing operation and contract elements and compliance/monitoring reports.
• Workforce Investment Board: Negotiated $25,000 state contract for services for vocational guidance and assistance to young people experiencing severe obstacles to job training and retention. The Crisis Line was used to ensure that some of the hardest to reach young people had access to services prior to attempting job skills training and retention. Personally responsible for writing contract service expectations and regular monitoring and compliance reports.
• Foundations/Donors/Other Contracts: CCY applied for and received approximately 10 separate foundation grants, as well as project-specific operational contracts from a variety of county and local sources, including contracts for mental health services from counties and from the State Department of Mental Health. I wrote these grant requests, including all project narratives, goals and objectives, agency qualification,s agency history and budget narratives and proposed spending plans.
• Community Advisory Projects: Part of my responsibility as executive director was to serve on a variety of continuing and new project advisory boards and committees, many of which provided advice on awarding grants and contract. This included serving on technical advisory bodies for:
• 311 California Alliance for Information and Referral development project (community service model based on 411 program)
• California Health Investment Survey (conducted in association with multiple universities and health projects)
• California Adolescent Health Collaborative, which collaborate community clinic services.
• California Youth Development Collaborative, which seeks to coordinate all major State departments using youth engagement ideas. Representatives of this body were from all major state agencies, including the departments of justice, education, the Governor’s office, drug and alcohol services, etc.

February 1998-April ‘01 – Assistant Director, Xanthos, Inc., Alameda, CA. www.Xanthos.org. Responsible for grant and contract writing, marketing of projects and related policy and community outreach efforts. Funding for $4 million agency operations (as well as for $2 million capital purchase and renovation project) came from a variety of governmental and private sources. I wrote grant applications for:

• Health and Human Services, Family and Youth Services Bureau, Runaway/Homeless Basic Shelter and Street Outreach program grants: Grants average in excess of $250,000 annually and have been renewed through competitive bids for more than five years. I was responsible for writing and development of initial grant and subsequent re-application proposals.
• Health and Human Services, Head Start annual operations grants: Responsible for securing ongoing funding in excess of $500,000 for City of Alameda Head Start programs and operations. Also responsible for preparing special request capital funding for Alameda Naval Air Station project funding to establish special early education projects for children of homeless women and families, as part of Alameda’s homeless collaboration and the base conversion initiatives.
• Foundations/Corporations: Researched and wrote hundreds of applications, letters of intent, full proposals and personalized donor letters and associated materials for more than $200,000 in new and continuing grant operational funds. Also helped secure approximately $1 million in special project funding through grants from private funders (and governmental agencies) for the purchase and renovation of new program facilities.

Sept. 1992-Sept. 1995 – Executive Director, Oakland Men’s Project, Oakland, CA. I provided overall operational governance and fundraising expertise, where we secured a variety of grants and contracts with private foundations and governmental agencies representing the State of California, the State of Ohio and the District of Columbia. The agency also served as a technical advisor to the Clinton administration on issues relating to the role of men in violence against women.

NONPROFIT/COMMUNITY CONSULTING:

Prior to serving in the above capacities, I served as a fund raising and program consultant for approximately 10 years working in conjunction with a grant broker. I wrote major grant application packages for numerous agencies, including collaborations of between 10 and 20 agencies. My major focus during this time was on educational, juvenile justice, HIV/AIDS, runaway/homeless, crisis counseling, and personal support and health/wellness advocacy. I helped develop comprehensive grant or foundation applications as well as community educational materials for a range of agencies, several of which are listed below.

Representative Clients:

• Arc Ecology, San Francisco, CA. Environmental justice and empowerment oversight agency, with expertise on military base closure and conversion initiatives. Applied for State and Local government grants. (2004)

• Montana Alzheimer Project, Initiative to develop senior-oriented project for persons with brain impacting conditions. (2004)

• Larkin Street Youth Services, San Francisco. Runaway/homeless youth empowerment services/shelter and education. (2005)

• Another Chance/Another Choice, Sacramento, CA. Youth drug and alcohol education and recovery efforts. (2004) (Applied for State and Federal Grants)

• Center for Applied Local Research, Richmond, CA. CONSULTANT BROKER (Mid 1980s until early 1990s). Centralized consulting and evaluation agency that farmed out my services to projects, with emphasis on the development of large federal and state government grant and strategic planning projects. The projects I worked on included program services for:

• Bi-Bett Corporation, Concord/Oakland, CA. Broad-based drug and alcohol recovery and substance abuse services provider throughout East Bay.
• Alameda County Office Education, Oakland, CA. Health & wellness proposal.
• Asian American Drug Abuse Program, Los Angeles, CA. Vietnamese gang violence reduction.
• Berkeley Unified School District, Berkeley, CA. Desegregation proposal package.
• Filipino AIDS Task Force, San Francisco, CA. Foundation/corporate solicitations.
• Kings County Office of Education, CA. Mentoring/business program for rural youth.
• La Chiem Schools, Inc., San Pablo, CA. Alternative school and mental health programs.
• Mobilization Against AIDS/International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, San Francisco, CA.

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