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Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA)
Deerfield, MA
Help plan and develop Internet-based community engagement strategy and implementation
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Boston, MA
Grant reviewer for community outreach grant cycle
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New England Rural Health Roundtable
West Lebanon, NH
In conjunction with Board committee, developed a plan for enhancing advocacy capacity for multi-state organization including funding and implementation. Some grantwriting.
“Michael’s background in advocacy and collaborative work was exeactly what we needed to shape our leadership initiative. We have been very pleased with his results”.- Marion Pawlek, Exec. Director
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Shutesbury Elementary School
Shutesbury, MA. – pro-bono
Help develop Joomla-based website and organizational shift to online/Internet-based communications
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SELECTED PREVIOUS CLIENTS:
Partners for a Healthier Community
Springfield, MA
Planned and developed online presence for organization including building Joomla-based website and implementing first-ever online constituent engagement activities.
Michael has guided our organization through a thoughtful and strategic engagement process. We have achieved great success with engaging the early education and care sector, as well as parents through YouTUbe and opportunities to have children share how their life is different because of our community work. We feel confident that we know how to move forward in the next several years to engage our partners in innovative and fun ways.
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Human Service Forum
Springfield, MA
Edit monthly e-bulletin for regional readership in Western Massachusetts. Developed online strategies and tools to enhance impact of annual legislative gathering with regional membership.
“Michael is a passionate and effective advocate with an outstanding ability to make and keep connections and build relationships that ultimately build community. He readily shares information and resources. As a consultant, Michael has delivered us technology support and services, contacts that have proved instrumental in our growth as an organization, and his expertise as a legislative advocate. He has the ability to hone in on specific messages, tools, resources and relationships that will be helpful for non-profit organizations.” - Carolyn Ford, Exec. Director
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Consumers for Affordable Health Care
Augusta, Maine
Provide training and strategic guidance on health care policy
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Franklin Regional Council of Governments &WesternMass Connect
Developed a 4-county regional plan to apply for federal stimulus funds to support community-oriented broadband-based activities. Worked with regional government and multiple community organizations.
WesternMA Connect hired Michael to help write federal application for the expansion of broadband in western Massachusetts. This was a huge effort in a very short timeframe. The process required soliciting, gathering, assessing, and compiling project ideas from organizations and individuals across western Massachusetts. It required understanding the detailed, complex, and, at times, seemingly contradictory grant application instructions. It required communication and facilitation skills though a sensitive and difficult process and working to bring consensus to groups that had a fractured history. All of this had to be accomplished in 3 weeks. Michael was outstanding. He accomplished all of this with leadership and good humor. It was a pleasure to work with him through an extremely difficult and stressful process.
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Mass. League of Community Health Centers
Boston MA
Developed and coordinated a regional, community-based network to advance health access programming.
Michael brought his leadership and expertise to this project, helping us to successfully develop and maintain a community-based regional network of health centers. Michael’s skills, knowledge, and talents allowed him to effectively engage with and motivate the community health workers, collaborate with the state agency liaisons, track policy and program details, and create effective mechanisms for communicating amongst the network. His ability to communicate clearly, his dependability, and his passion for community-building were keys to the project’s success.
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Network Health
Medford, MA
Developed a strategic plan for strengthening partnerships with community-based organizations and field-based personnel serving low-moderate income residents.
Michael’s depth of experience in outreach and the Massachusetts health care community coupled with his ability to closely partner with our team at Network Health, allowed us to develop a strong plan for reaching the community-based organizations in our target. The plan took into consideration the need to connect with specific field-based personnel who directly assisted our members and potential members and the best channels through which to reach them. The result was an integrated plan that allowed us to extend our ability to reach the community through stronger partnerships. –
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Springfield, MA
Conduct an assessment of a neighborhood-based outreach program; provide recommendations for increased effectiveness and community impact.
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