1. Twenty years of hands-on leadership to promote service, advocacy and nonprofit business models that return human and professional profits to our community.

2. An unquestioned commitment to ensuring that vulnerable and disvalued groups (youth, women, persons of color, lesbians/gays) have a voice in the decisions that impact their lives.

3. Strong belief in the power and potential of employees and organizations working cooperatively with their financial and policy supporters.

4. An impassioned commitment to social justice and to the skills for promoting change.

5. A management style that allows employees and clients to have a voice in the decisions that guide their workplace contributions.

1. Successfully worked in many ways with and for large and small boards of directors.

2. Served for 10 years as chief or assistant project director.

3. Directly supervised staff (from 3 to about 20 plus volunteers) on many program and advocacy levels.

4. Recruited, developed, authorized and implemented a wide-range of performance and financial contracts.

5. Represented agencies in numerous professional and public forums and before the media.

1. Provided daily supervision and active use of financial management systems in compliance with standard operating expectations.

2. Poses comprehensive knowledge of and respect for fund- and project-based accounting policies and expectations.

3. Oversaw numerous successful fiscal and program audits with few or no criticisms (no management letters).

4. Created new vender and contract monitoring policies and procedures for nonprofit organizations (as well as other personnel systems).

1. Developed and monitored complex fiscal and multi-year expense and revenue plans.

2. Regularly presented, explained and defended expenditure decisions and strategies.

3. Wrote and detailed ongoing, long-term and crisis funding strategies.

4. Successfully achieved 25% to 100% revenue increases for the benefit of client agencies.

5. Personally developed and utilized performance proposals and reports of success.

1. Wrote/assembled hundreds of project proposals, contract service components, and all related programming goals and objective elements.

2. Generated effective timelines and task requirement plans.

3. Contracted for (and monitored) staffing and consultant/vender coordination to achieve required outcomes.

4. Prepared on-line and conventional board and public documents to verify successful completion of required goals and objectives.

1. Developed and updated personnel and organizational manuals and forms.

2. Oversaw and participated directly in hiring/firing processes.

3. Maintained staff/consultant files in compliance with generally accepted business and legal requirements.

4. Fought for and sustained competent staffing levels even during difficult financial challenges.

1. Wrote numerous printed and electronic promotional pieces.

2. Edited and laid out formats and content for newsletters, fliers, brochures and wide-range of public policy materials.

3. Conducted statewide and locally targeted radio, television and print media campaigns resulting in broadcast of hundreds of free public service announcements and news stories.

4. Supervised and guided production of award-winning (Bronze and Silver) television public service announcement video.