1. EXECUTIVE STATEMENT
I am an accomplished communications and marketing specialist, project manager and trainer with over 25
years experience fortifying institutions and communities with 21st century qualities that assure market presence
and sustainable value. My most rewarding roles include working with leadership in realizing growth goals
through the facilitation of shared vision consortia and strategic plans.
My history in grantsmanship has been vibrant over several decades; yielding over $21 million in community
financial investment, with emphasis on sustainability and energy efficiency. As a humanitarian advocate, I
bring advanced skill in directing projects of significance addressing renewable energy, poverty, cultural
intolerance and minority inequity, drug and alcohol prevention, and human rights. I am driven by a vision for
creating sustainable communities and am privileged to have access to a wide-ranging network of experts,
technology providers and value partners. My complementing careers as a multi-media artist and holistic
practitioner contribute insight into the cultural and human dynamics influencing system success.
HUMANITARIAN CONTRIBUTION
Beacon Community™: A 21st Century Vision for Sustainable Communities.
PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
Raised over $21 million in philanthropic, grants and ROI funding for projects that foster community
preservation, environmental improvement and humanitarian benefit.
Produced over 250 grants with an 85% average success rate of funding and/or continuation.
Directed the largest green footprint municipal grant program in the United States; NOPEC: Powering
Our Communities; $16 million in grants, 333 sustainability projects; 10 counties; 162 cities; 12 months.
Facilitated vision and strategy deployment of collaborating consortia and community system leaders.
Trained over 1,000 leaders and staff in effective ecosystem design and management, conflict
resolution, multigenerational bridging and cultural competence awareness.
Conduct performance and impact auditing; surveys and business assessments; analyze and author
analysis reports and value guided recommendation sessions to executives and board.
Guide leadership in examining goals for legacy making within family-owned corporations.
Since 2004, designed over 7 humanitarian enterprises rooted in integral and Ayurvedic theory.
Research and facilitate innovation partnerships to support business development diversification.
Global Involvement: Romania, Africa, Haiti, U.S.; Empanelment Member, India Redefined.
Provide Sustainability Project Management Expertise: (See Appendix 1, page 5).
Please also see Appendix 2: Resource Development Achievements (pages 6 and 7)
PROFESSIONAL STATUS
Independent Contractor and Founder, LEAD Vision LLC (1997 to present)
Humanitarian rights advocate and motivational speaker (2002 to present)
Artist, playwright, author, holistic energetic practitioner (2002 to present)
(216) 338-7016
20500 Detroit Road, Suite 2
Cleveland, OH 44116
georigareash@gmail.com
georgia.reash11 (Skype)
On-Site and Remote
International Availability
Willing to Relocate
GEORGIA MARIE REASH
25 YEARS PROGRESSIVE EXPERTISE IN ORGANIZATIONAL
IMPROVEMENT, GRANT WRITING, SUSTAINABILITY
DEVELOPMENT, AND COMMUNITY BUILDING.
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2. WRITING EXCELLENCE
Business, Technical, Academic, Promotional, Creative and Ghost Writing
Leadership Legacy Documents
Request for Proposals (RFP)
Sales / Promotional Content
Grants / Grant Reporting
Case Statements
Feasibility and Assessment Studies
Engaged Marketing Documents
Business Plans
Power Point Persuasive Presentations
Curriculum
Web Site Content and Layout
Technical Reports/Manuals
Speeches and Essays
Graphic Layout and Design
Event Invitations and Programs
Newsletters
Brochures
Resumes / Biographies
Press Releases
Newspaper / Magazine Features
Blog Posting Commentary
Plays / Theatrical Scripting
Film / You Tube / Video Scripting
Sampling of Features, Publications and Manuscripts
Our Mother Earth Demands Attention, LinkedIn Feature, February 13, 2015
The Expanding Philanthropy Lens: Survival for 21st Century NGOs and Nonprofit Organizations (2014)
Preparing a Sustainable Proposal: A Guide for Sustainability Driven Grant Writing (2012)
Project LEAD: Leadership Development in Youth for the Reduction of Risk Factors, U.S. Department of
Education Grant for the Westshore Enforcement Bureau (2014).
The Imperial Avenue Vitality Project: Women as Catalysts in Effective Urban Planning and
Neighborhood Renewal (Winter 2012).
Powering Our Communities: Project Managers’ Report on the Largest Municipal Sustainability Grant
Program in the United States (Spring 2011).
Agenda to Create Vital Communities: Leveraging Assets in Poor Urban Communities (Summer 2009).
Creating a Culture of Respect: Diversity and the Opportunity for Excellence (Fall 2007).
Project HOPE: National Demonstration Model, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services.
PROJECT and CORPORATE ADVANCEMENT
15 years organizational development consulting – whole systems / ecosystem design
Vision Alignment and Articulation
Grant Writing / Grants Management
Full Sustainability Financing Strategy
Due Diligence Marketing Documents
Strategic Planning
Project Management
Partnership and Alliance Facilitation
Philanthropy Program Management
Consumer Engagement and Relations
Holistic Leadership Coaching/Team Building
Project Management Strategist: performance outcomes assessment, team development, timeline
planning, financial monitoring, quality assurance, reporting and continuous improvement.
Leadership Training: Provider of individual coaching curricula, Wealth Within, designed to facilitate
understanding of 21st Century leadership characteristic.
Staff Performance Improvement Training: evaluation of “internal-human” dynamics impacting
company productivity and performance; target topic team building training and coaching (cultural
competence, communication, conflict management, leadership building, growth or downsizing culture
transition support).
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3. Training-Workshop Facilitation: Fifteen (15) years experience developing leadership competency in
executives and teams; trained over 2,000 individuals and team groups; proven track record developing
curriculum, learning guides and self-paced learning content.
Training Curriculum Design: Develop and provide world class trainings specific to executive and team
training standards; customize team building training; experiential, guided and online training delivery;
develop curriculum and course descriptions aligned to standard protocol in-house professional
development programs.
PHILANTHROPY and GRANTSMASHIP
25 years hands on experience
• Social Responsibility Program Planning
• Community-Consumer Messaging Campaigns
• Crowdfunding Campaigns
• Grants Department Management
• Grant Writing
• Donor Cultivation Strategist
• Membership Programming
• Nonprofit Micro-Enterprising
• Special Events Coordination
Grant Performance Highlights
Over 250 grants written and co-designed; 85% success rate; sample available.
100% institutional value return rate
7 Model Demonstration Initiatives (still operational): Holistic Urban Afterschool Program Design Model
(since 1980), Intergenerational Learning Center and School (1999), Therapeutic Community Model
Design for Addictive-Duel Diagnosis Recovering (2002). Civic-Centered Public School Management
Design Model (2002), Sustainable Community Model (2000), 6 City-6 School Youth Drug Intervention
Partnership (2006), Third Party Energy Distributor Municipal Give Back Program: Powering Our
Communities (2010).
WORK HISTORY
Independent Corporate and Community Improvement Consultant, September 1997 to Present
Recent Assignments -
- Project Manager, Writing and Resource Development Staff Trainer, Proton Foundation, London, UK,
1/2015 to March 2015.
- Global Business Advisor, Humanitarian Project Strategist, Global Partnerships, NuEnergy Technologies,
Clearwater FL; 2/2014 through January 2015.
- Sustainability Planning/Leadership Training Specialist, Lutheran Family Services, Cleveland, OH; 11/2013
through 2/2014.
- Sustainable Business Planning, Leadership Coaching, Marketing Materials Development, Wise Choices in
Healing, North Ridgeville, OH; 1/2012 and ongoing.
- Sustainable Community Development Planning / Agriculture and Energy Support Strategy, Cleveland, OH;
9/2011 and ongoing.
- Corporate Culture Transition Management Facilitation and Training; Leadership Coaching and Team
Development, Marketing Specialist, Conference Trainer, Institute for Creative Leadership, Cleveland, OH;
7/2007 through 12/2012.
- Horizon Energy Market Advisor/Grants and Client Proposal Development, Humanity’s Loom-Energy
Avenue, Westlake, OH; 1/2009 through 9/2011.
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4. - Grant Writer / Best Practice Regional Advisor, Westshore Enforcement Bureau, Bay Village, OH; April
2013-July 2013 / March 2012 – June 2014 intermittent assignments.
- Grants Manager, Sustainability Educator, Sustainability Grant Advisor and Trainer, 162 NE Ohio municipal
grant recipients yielding the largest civic sustainability grant initiative in the country; NOPEC, Solon, OH,
3/2010 through 9/2011.
EDUCATION
MA Community Health, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio (1989-90 partial completion).
Bachelors of Science Social Work (1984), Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Reiki II Practitioner (2010), Ohio Ministers License (2003)
Continuing Education: Transformative Community Development, Humanitarian Enterprising, Social
Benefit Economics, Micro Financing, Integral Theory, Chakra System Studies, Universal Energetic
Dynamics.
CLIENTS FROM 1997 – 2015
About Face International
Advance Life Services
Advance Northeast Ohio
The Access Program
The AIDS Collaborative
The Arch Gallery
Bridgeway
Center for Leadership in
Education
Classics International Choir
(France)
Cleveland Christian Home
Cleveland School District
Cleveland Art Museum (ICL)
COCINA (Haiti)
Coffinberry School
Community Care Network
Cuy Metro Housing Authority
Cuyahog Mental Health Board
Fairhill Center on Aging
Fairview Park Board of
Education
Fairview Fine Arts Association
First Merit Bank (ICL)
Hattie Larlham
Healthy Expressions Education
HEALx
Humanity's Loom
I Can Schools
Inner Connections
Innovative Pathways
The Intergenerational School
The Institute for Community
Kenyatta University (Kenya)
Lakewood Hospital
Lakewood Recreation Center
Lakewood Human Services
Lakewood PTA
Leadership Cleveland (ICL)
Lorain Distance Learning
Lorain County Schools (15
Districts)
Lorain Community College
Lorain Tech Prep Program
Lutheran Family Services
Lutheran Metro Association
Messengers Training
Myers University
Neighborhood Leadership (ICL)
NE Ohio Citizens League
NOPEC
Nordson Corporation (ICL)
NuEnergy Technologies
Parma Early Childhood Center
Pathways Medical Advocates
Poise Entertainment
Proton Foundation
Red Bird Center
Soweto Center for Women
(Kenya)
St. John West Shore Hospital
Stella Maris
Strongsville Psychological
Technology Management Inc.
Transforming Life Center
The Transition Foundation
TrueNorth
Cleveland VA (ICL)
West Side Mental Health Cnt
Westshore Enforcement Center
Wise Choices in Healing
YWCA of Cleveland
162 Northeast Ohio Cities (POC)
REFERENCES
Available Upon Request
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6. Appendix 2
EXAMPLES OF RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ACHIEVEMENTS
Georgia M. Reash
INVESTOR / SALES PRESENTATIONS
PRICELESS INRASTRUCTURE FOR MAXIMIZING PROFIT
$20 BILLION AND RISING
Authored documents, organized systems and created strategies for investor and sales related presentations
requiring a tailored and comprehensive communications approach. Created presentations have been praised
by client-global leaders, have reached over 20 countries worldwide and have been involved in project sales
totaling over $20 billion dollars. My full spectrum approach to sustaining champion relationships includes
complementing consulting services encompassing:
Cultivation Meetings, Emails and Letters
Market Research and Analysis
Business Plan Submission tailored to Interest
Video and/or in Person Meetings
Support Document Development and Submission
Training of Support Teams and Departments
Ongoing Investor Relations
SMALL BUSINESS / GOOD BUSINESS DEVELOPMNET
PRICELESS INRASTRUCTURE FOR CAPTURING COST SAVINGS
Readiness: assisting with all aspects of core management including documents creation, organization
and team building; leadership coaching
Capacity: logo design, marketing materials, grants, loans exploration, community relations
Team Training (4C’s): Cohesiveness Culture, Communications Mediation, Change Management, and
Culture Appreciation
Corporate Legacy Planning
FEDERAL AND FOUNDATION GRANTS
$ 21 MILLION AND RISING
Over 250 grants written and co-designed through an institutional value lens
100% institutional value return rate; shelf value 3 years; 85% financing success rate
7 Model Demonstration Initiatives (still operational): Holistic Urban Afterschool Program Design Model
(since 1980), Intergenerational Learning Center and School (1999), Therapeutic Community Model
Design for Addictive-Duel Diagnosis Recovering (2002). Civic-Centered Public School Management
Design Model (2002), Sustainable Community Model (2000), 6 City-6 School Youth Drug Intervention
Partnership (2006), Third Party Energy Distributor Municipal Give Back Program: Powering Our
Communities (2010).
Grant Success Examples
Authored proposals resulting in $2 million for mental health and workforce development activities.
Secured over $100,000 in support of a model regional project, the Westshore Leaders Network;
Ohio’s first Drug Task collaborative engaging partners from six (6) Westshore communities.
Developed and managed comprehensive opportunity research and prospect cultivation efforts.
Secured over $350,000 from local foundations to support continuous improvement in15 school districts.
Raised over $500,000 for health care initiatives reaching underinsured populations.
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7. Wrote grants that won over $2.5 million in capital campaign funding for a model, residential
alcohol/drug treatment facility integrating holistic therapies.
Wrote an awarded $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a
nationally recognized treatment center based workforce development initiative, Project Hope.
Developed a $4.5 million grant from Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services
for the implementation of a child service management collaborative.
Secured $400,000 in private foundation grant to support the implementation of merger between two
organizations and assisted in development of a public vision.
Assisted in the development of a model 5-county collaborative grant for an Interactive Video Distance
Learning (IVDL) project connecting 19 middle schools.
Raised $2.75 million in federal, county and private foundation funding for drug prevention,
intervention and treatment efforts within the social service sector.
Facilitated / authored 22 grant applications for Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration grant;
$1,365,000 secured comprising 37% of all Ohio grants awarded.
Cultivated over $50,000 for music therapy program targeting children with severe mental health
problems.
Secured over $150,000 in state and county funding for and a holistic after-school drug prevention
program; demonstration model still operational; replicated in two additional satellite centers.
Facilitated and authored proposals yielding over $250,000 in technology educational initiatives
inclusive of technology-based careers tracks for students and global community learning networks.
RETURNED WEALTH
$ 195 MILLION AND RISING
Northeast Ohio: responsible for the management of the largest municipal energy efficiency give back
program in the United States (2011 and ongoing). A $16 million dollar grant allocation program distributed
over 10 months to 162 communities across 10 counties in Northeast Ohio, representing the collaborative
creation of 333 energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives. The energy cost savings (returned wealth) to
cities, local business, and residents resulting from this project continue to rise.
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