Jaime Saunders, M.P.A. Associate Director
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Expertise
Human service management, government management, program evaluation, strategic planning and facilitation, organizational development, cost-benefit analysis

Sample Projects

• Assistance to a veterans outreach center in the development of a replicable blueprint for creating center-based supportive services for veterans and their families
• Exploration of the feasibility of a regional high school model for a NY county
• Assessment of the impact of budget cuts to a county’s youth board and development of cost-savings and service retention strategies
• Analysis of consolidation opportunities for villages and towns in NY
• Facilitation of dissolution studies and plans for villages in NY
• Analysis of shared service / consolidation opportunities for a municipality’s equipment services division
• Development of status report on children to inform a NY community’s investment strategies for quality early learning, after-school and home visitation programs
• Assistance with a strategic planning process for a public housing authority
• Facilitation of newly created community advisory group tasked by a county legislature with providing input for social service and child protective service operations
• Development of an allocation model to inform city leaders responsible for allocating more than $1 million in federal special needs housing funding to community agencies
• Creation of a strategy paper identifying key strategies and promising programs to help a United Way provide more effective crisis and financial stability services
• Study of veterans' reintegration needs for an upstate NY community
• Identification of benefits of creating a central business office serving multiple school districts
• Creation of a web-based community indicators projects to increase public access to data and inform decision-makers
• Evaluation of 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 2008 with more than 10 years of 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