meredith nastasi

chief of staff

About

I am an enthusiastic leader in the education and service arena who has successfully demonstrated high level results by establishing an effective atmosphere and disciplined environment necessary for gaining the highest outcomes from students, employees and peers. I have experience in creating organization and delivering feedback to mobilize teams on a daily basis. My passion is developing and impacting organizations that are uniquely situated to lift communities and cities.

Country

united states

City

philadelphia

Industry

program development

Skill

leadership, management, event planning, research, microsoft excel, spanish speaking, organization, microsoft word, powerpoint, teaching, workshop facilitation, employee training, operations management, project management, hospitality management, teaching english as a second language, microsoft office, classroom, food and beverage, hospitality industry, tutoring, youth mentoring

Experience

program officer

ember at spring point

2017-1 - Present · 9 yrs 9 mos

Ember at Spring Point is exploring ways to advance innovations in lifelong learning.

restaurant and catering manager

white manor country club

2008-6 - 2010-6 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Served as Restaurant and Catering Manager for a four-dining room restaurant that also included special events. Completed hiring, training, performance reviews, discipline, and terminations for a 50 member staff. Controlled payroll and other operational expenses to consistently come in under budget while delivering high quality services.

research assistant

libertad y desarrollo

2006-6 - 2006-8 · 3 mos

Translated professional documents on characteristics of functioning justice systems from Spanish to English. Researched, collected, and analyzed data for 12 countries’ judicial systems and created individual databases of statistics to present to senior analysts in order to make official recommendations to the Chilean government as it sought to restructure its national judicial system.

spanish teacher

mastery charter schools

2010-7 - 2014-7 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Planned, taught, and assessed 11th grade students in the Spanish language while also serving as Grade Team Lead, Professional Development Facilitator, Spanish Content Team Lead, and ELL Coordinator for entire student population.

family and public policy intern

united states senate

2005-5 - 2005-8 · 4 mos

Supported team by researching and compiling information, writing briefs, and attending hearings and voting sessions. Assisted Legislative Director with research, composed, and edited all White Paper submissions throughout the congressional session, and developed presentations for the Senator based on research.

project manager

berwind corporation

2014-7 - 2017-1 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Developing new and existing philanthropic and impact investing initiatives, as well as next generation projects, to directly assist in strategy planning and execution. Integrating and creating synergy of programmatic systems and investments, as well as maintaining long-term relationships with external partners and grantees to enhance organizational sustainability and impact of their work. Maintaining a high level of personal expertise for program and critical community topic issue areas and new ventures.

chief of staff

spring point partners llc

2017-1 - Present · 9 yrs 9 mos

Spring Point Partners LLC — a Berwind initiative — is a social impact venture committed to accelerating progress in areas of longstanding interest and support, including positive youth development, animal welfare, sustainable water, and learning innovations. We apply the best tools to solve each problem, selecting from our core suite of strategies: grant making, impact investing and program operations.