Recent Work:
- GivingCity Austin Contributing Writer
- Strategic Plan & Annual Reports
- SafePlace Strategic Plan & Annual Reports 2006-2009 (The Strategic Plan has pockets that the Annual Reports are slipped into as the agency goes through the lifespan of the Plan. In the end, it tells the story of the agency and is intended to be one package at the end through the Plan.):
- Press Releases
- Homelessness and Domestic Violence (November 2009)
- New Look & New Website, Same Goal to End Sexual & Domestic Violence (July 2009)
- The House was Rockin’ for the SafePlace Celebration (October 2008)
- Recent Op-eds
- Austin-American Statesman (April 2011): Sanchez- How long does an East Austin school need to fail our kids before we demand change (by-lined by Juan Sanchez)
- Austin-American Statesman (February 2011): Austin’s school district should explore other uses for under-utilized facilities (by-lined by David Dunn and Janie Castillo-Flores)
- Austin-American Statesman (August 2010): Spann- We all have a responsibility to stop sexual abuse (by-lined by Julia Spann)
- Newsletters
- Blog Posts
- Capital Area Food Bank Blog – Before even a pound of food goes out, so much is given The Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) has a remarkable mission. In order to feed hungry people and be a leader in our community in ending hunger, CAFB receives, sorts, and distributes more than 24 million pounds of food every year…
- Southwest Key Blog – sample of some of the blog posts written during 2010-2011.
- Summer Break is Here… In a recent post “Schools out — now what? ” on The GreatSchools Blog, author Connie Matthiessen raises questions about what really happens as a result of children having a full two and a half months off of school. …
- Public Charter & Traditional Public Schools – The Basics As I mentioned in an earlier post, Community Meetings Open Dialogue About Education in East Austin, some of the misconceptions about charter schools are arising in some of the conversations about East Austin Prep’s plan to build a full service community school for the East Austin community in the Govalle/Johnston Terrace neighborhood. These misconceptions feed the idea that public charter…
- Is Life without Parole Fair to Children? An article in yesterday’s paper had the headline: “Life without parole OK for juveniles, Texas court rules” The story is about a 16-year old convicted of killing two other teens. Here at Southwest Key we run community-based programs…
- Email Campaign
- SAHELI’s Silk Road – The annual fundraiser is an opportunity to reach out to their existing database of supporters to invite them to an fun and festive event. These three emails were written to reach out to those who were in the database and had not yet attended the wine and food event, those who had attended last year and a reminder of the upcoming event.
About Me:
- GivingCity Austin (May 2009): Unscripted Collaboration: Behind the Scenes with Nonprofit Rock Stars
- GivingCity Austin (May 2011): Featuring Austin’s 30 New Philanthropists of 2011
