Colleen Smeekens

Background, Credentials and Deliverables
20+ years of professional program design, collaboration and negotiation,
Federal and State Regulatory Operations
Successful RFP's with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Medicaid and
Medicare, Foundation filings for not-for-profit organizations.

Bachelors in Business and Economics;
Quantitative techniques and
Marketing/Communications

Masters in Education;
Human and Organizational Development;
Organizational Change and Leadership;
Human capital and training; Human Grief and Loss;

Tools

• Financial and statistical modeling;
• Identifying, collaborating and filing for funding alternatives
• Federal, state and Foundation filings to assure operational standards and secure financial support for program development;
• Mining and writing RFP's and Grants;
  
• Strategic planning: short and longer term identification of organizational strengths,goals and opportunities for growth;
• Market development: identifying/clarifying position in market and sophisticating
  responses: collaterals, website development, campaigns