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Jaime Saunders, M.P.A.
Senior Research Associate |
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Expertise
Program evaluation, human service management, government management, strategic planning and facilitation, organizational development, community profiles
Current Projects
- Facilitating dissolution process for the Village of Candor, NY
- Update of a 7-county community indicators project to help drive a strategic planning process for stimulating community solutions to critical challenges
- Assistance with a strategic planning process for a public housing authority
Completed Projects
- Developed status report on children to inform a NY community’s investment strategies for quality early learning, after-school and home visitation programs
- Facilitated newly created community advisory group tasked by a county legislature with providing input for social service and child protective service operations
- Developed an allocation model to inform city leaders responsible for allocating more than $1 million in federal special needs housing funding to community agencies
- Developed a strategy paper identifying key strategies and promising programs to help a United Way provide more effective crisis and financial stability services
- Conducted a study of veterans' reintegration needs for an upstate NY community
- Assessed benefits of creating a central business office serving multiple school districts
- Created web-based community indicators projects to increase public access to data and inform decision-makers
- Evaluated options to provide planning services in order to manage current and future land use and development in a town
Education
B.A. in Business Administration and Sociology from Whittier College; M.A. in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University; graduate course work at Milano the New School for Management and Urban Policy in New York City
Background
Ms. Saunders joined CGR in April 2008 with more than 10 years experience in nonprofit management, program development and evaluation, organizational development, marketing and community relations. Prior to joining CGR she was principal of Praxis Point Consulting and provided contract services to New York-based nonprofits in the areas of organizational development and marketing
Previously Ms. Saunders was Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Operations for an America’s Second Harvest food bank serving 550 human service agencies in a 10-county region |
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