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* Identified, developed, and managed grants to secure funding for current senior services, as well as program expansions. * Coordinated with program director to construct more concise monitoring and evaluation tools to better track program success to advertise to potential funders. * Prepared grant proposals and agency budgets. * Established new relationships with prospective funders in the Bay Area. * Crafted and maintained database to pinpoint funders’ scopes of work to identify future grant opportunities.

Established fundraising plan to promote HIV/AIDS educational awareness and medical assistance for HIV-positive individuals living in South Central Los Angeles. - Updated database to reflect HIV/AIDS infection rate throughout the city to determine where to expand services. - Managed a team of 10 interns responsible for contacting donors to secure $1 million in funding for current and future programs.

Advocated for equitable client access to social and health services, and ensure multicultural and Native families are provided with the support they need to navigate social systems. - Conducted needs assessments for families to determine appropriate action plans and complete accompanying service referrals. - Engaged with youth (ages 0-21) to coordinate long-term intervention plans that align with personal goals and stabilize health, economic and social foundations. - Compiled case data to assess increases and decreases in services offered, and suggest resource reallocation when appropriate to benefit families.

Worked with Dr. Ed Weston in his 20-person Thursday morning Reporting lab, teaching the mechanics of storytelling, editing students’ stories for content and style, as well as issuing preliminary grades so students could see where to improve their writing.

* Assign stories to 15 student reporters. * Evaluate story pitches for newsworthy content. * Monitor wire and NPR feeds to pull and expand stories for the 18-county coverage area. * Review story headlines and cutlines, tweaking them as necessary. * Review radio scripts for "All Things Considered" and print/web stories for accuracy and coherence before airing on Florida's 89.1 and being published to wuft.org.

* Localized the 57th presidential inauguration as it chronicled the development of community mobilization. * Reported health stories that analyzed rising cost of health services; available training programs for new caregivers; low-cost health centers established to strengthen support networks within Alachua County. * Produced entertainment advances and profiles that highlighted local individuals and groups creating performances to benefit school arts programs. * Daily circulation: 125,000

* Spearheaded online presence for the Health Science Center, updating the main website daily as well as producing SEO-style tweets and Facebook statuses about upcoming events and stories to generate traffic to the Health Science Center website. * Wrote about events and features related to the medical/health field at Shands at UF. * Produced radio scripts relating to national findings. * Wrote four radio scripts and two stories a week.

* Focused on concerns and features mainly related to the education beat, ranging from special education to collegiate features, like a Florida State University student who joined the circus. * Wrote police briefs, obituaries and radio scripts upon request. * Averaged five stories a week for the daily paper. * All coverage included photography. * Daily circulation: 17,000

Researched, produced and edited stories for radio broadcast three times a week. - Stories ranged from campus events like the no-smoking policy to national events, like reactions to the Affordable Care Act.

* Covered Pasco and Pinellas counties. * Stories ranged from the education beat, like local day cares, to the health beat, overviewing how a hospital expansion would benefit the area. * Overviewed the effects of the 2010 BP oil spill on Tarpon Springs. * Optimized photos for the Web. * West Pasco semiweekly circulation: 89,928. * Pinellas semiweekly circulation: 25,477.

* Alternated between handling the teleprompter and camera shots for the live morning and evening * newscasts three times a week. * Covered the news, sports and weather cameras on a rotational basis.

* Developed family finance and income-generating activities (IGA) training for women's affairs office to provide women with the skills necessary to manage household budgets and start businesses. * Developed nutrition trainings for community religious leaders, mothers and health professionals to address the link between pre-natal health, nutrition and childhood cognitive development. * Designed women’s reproductive health training for health professionals to educate women in sexual health. * Created and introduced reproductive health lessons into local middle school and high school curricula to educate youth about HIV and STD transmission and prevention strategies. * Conducted water sanitation trainings to educate community leaders about the link between water storage and purification, and improved health status. * Coordinated sanitation trainings with World Vision to combat open defecation within the area.

Activities and Societies: Journalism and Communications Ambassadors, WUFT-TV production, Florida Alternative Breaks