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Nonprofit Executive Management

Allan Shore

41 Hillcrest Ave.

Benicia, CA 94510

916-730-2801

AllanShore@msn.com

DESIRED OPPORTUNITY:

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CURRENT & TRANSFERABLE EXPERTISE

(See also my TransferableSkills):

EMPOWERMENT CONSULTATIONS: With 20 years of experience in the helping sector, I feel honored to be able to actively seek ways to meld my nonprofit expertise with innovative, exciting, impact-oriented models for businesses of the future. I believe that just as the nonprofit sector needs to learn more from the for-profit sector, traditional business processes will benefit by better understanding the kinds of empowerment strategies more commonly found in community-focused initiatives. I am currently involved in projects that strive to accomplish this, including preparing traditional business/marketing plans and investor strategies for a variety of business models that strive to:

CURRENT CLIENTS/ACTIVITIES:

• CURRENT 2006: Organize California and Nevada churches, community groups and politicians on Complex 2030 discussions regarding the upgrading and evolution of strategic nuclear weapons initiatives. (National Religious Partnership).

• ONGOING 2006: Commit progressive and accepting churches in California to be engaged in political and community efforts to better understand issues relating to lesbian and gay members of the faith community. (IMPACT Project, Cal Council Churches).

• 2004: Promote environmental sustainability blending traditional recycling and waste reduction strategies with global and local market, prodnt and consumer involvement initiatives. (Conservatree, San Francisco)

• 2003-2004: Integrate sports and recreational activities with academic achievement and educational enhancement programs that incorporate entrepreneurial and technological tools. (Straight From The Heart, Richmond/Hayward)

• ONGOING: Engage alliance-building strategies for minority, faith-based and youth services to help them and the State of California better understand empowerment ideas for drug and alcohol program enhancement and fundraising. (ONTRACK California)

• ONGOING: Incorporate general empowerment ideas into nonprofit operations (EpowerAudits) and commercializing opportunities (Nickel-a-MealCampaign against childhood obesity; BalanceOfEmpowerment). Inquire to AllanShore@msn.com for more information on these initiatives.

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT:Progressively advanced over 10 consecutive years from fundraising/resource development coordination and general public relations work into positions of executive leadership (Fund Development Director to Assistant Director to Executive Director). Through out these positions I was generally responsible for program and budget planning and implementation ($500,000 to $4,000,000), personnel supervision (2 to 30 staff/volunteers), award-winning public relations, services marketing, client outreach and state and local policy development. In my fundraising capacities I successfully sustained ongoing and new project or emergency funding annually from governmental, foundations, contractual and member/donor efforts.

FORMER EMPLOYERS:

• May ‘01-March ‘04 – Executive Director, California Coalition for Youth & California Youth Crisis Line, Sacramento (statewide), CA.

• February 1998-April ‘01 – Assistant Director, Xanthos, Inc., Alameda, CA. Xanthos, Inc.

• Sept. 1992-Sept. 1995 – Executive Director, Oakland Men’s Project, Oakland, CA.

• 1986-1992 – Development Director, Rubicon Programs, Inc., Richmond, CA. (In 2006, the program components that I helped initiate received special recognition by Fast Company Magazine for outstanding accomplishments in social entrepreneurialship.)

NONPROFIT/COMMUNITY CONSULTING:

In addition to the 10 years noted above in formal leadership roles, I also served as a fund raising and program consultant for approximately 10 years. My major focus was on educational, HIV/AIDS, runaway/homeless, crisis counseling, support and health/wellness advocacy concerns with a wide-range of agencies. I developed comprehensive grant or foundation applications as well as community educational materials for agencies or collaborations.

Representative Past Clients in addition to those noted above:

Arc Ecology, San Francisco, CA.

Environmental justice and empowerment oversight agency, with expertise on military base closure and conversion initiatives. (Arc Ecology).

Montana Alzheimer Project.

Initiative to develop senior-oriented project for persons with brain impacting conditions.

Larkin Street Youth Services, San Francisco.

Runaway/homeless youth empowerment services/shelter and education.

Another Chance/Another Choice, Sacramento, CA. COMPLETED TEMP ASSIGNMENTS

Youth drug and alcohol education and recovery efforts.

Center for Applied Local Research, Richmond, CA. PAST CONSULTANT BROKER

Centralized consulting and evaluation agency that served to farm out my services to projects, with emphasis on the development of government grant and strategic planning projects, including those listed below:

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

International and San Francisco organizing and fundraising project.

EDUCATION:

COMMUNITY IMPACTS: (Sample activities)

• Workshop Facilitator, Empowerment Audits/Organizational Audits, Northern California Chapter, Society of Fundraising Professionals, July 2005.

• Grant Reader for Cal. Dept. Education/Justice School/Police Community Action Grants. 2004-2005.

• Annually represented over 300 members and member agencies before California legislative process on statewide youth services/budgets.

• Representative on wide-range of advisory boards and commissions on subjects such as homelessness, high school empowerment, adolescent health and wellness, children’s and youth services, teen pregnancy prevention, violence prevention, and foster care.

• Initiated the passage of State of California Joint Legislative Resolution on YouthInvolvement and the creation of an annual Day of Recognition of the empowerment of young people.

• Candidate on two occasions for local transit board and Alameda City Council.

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TRANSFERABLE BUSINESS SKILLS:

While the above information provides an overview of my professional work and accomplishments, I have also identified how I have used particular business skills in a variety of circumstances. For more details, see my TransferableSkills.