Becky is a private consultant with an emphasis in group facilitation, strategic planning, issue resolution, and policy development. Drawing upon multiple disciplines, Becky has designed and facilitated a wide range of meetings, retreats and strategic planning processes for both the public and non-profit sectors, and has over 25 years experience in non-profit management, coalition building, and policy change.
During her career, Becky has previously held positions with the WV School-Based Health Assembly and the Governor’s Cabinet on Children and Families, and has served as a government relation’s specialist at Tonkin Management Group to advance public health and child welfare policy issues.
In addition to facilitation and consultation, Becky serves as co-coordinator of Our Babies: Safe and Sound, a statewide educational campaign on infant safety sponsored by TEAM for West Virginia Children. In this position, she is responsible for research, program design, implementation, technical assistance, and facilitation. Most recently, Say YES To Safe Sleep for Babies, an infant safe sleep parent educational program, has been implemented with 16 birthing hospitals and 20 home visitation programs across West Virginia.
Becky is a certified trainer in the Standards of Excellence for the Non-Profit Sector, is a member of the International Association of Facilitators, and has served on numerous non-profit boards. She is a graduate of West Virginia University and Marshall University College of Graduate Studies, and holds a master’s degree in counseling and guidance, with an emphasis in community organization.
Collective Impact worked with one of its long-term partners (Indiana County Department of Human Services and Green County Human Services Find Out) to revamp and modernize their interactive websites which provides an interactive directory of resources for the communities. Both organizations have been long-standing clients of Collective Impact, utilizing many of our capacity building services and for over 15 years, have had use of Collective Impact’s user-friendly Venue Website services. Venue is an innovative content management system that helps organizations and communities operate more efficiently and effectively, strengthen operational infrastructure, and develop social capital. It is user-friendly with development driven by its users; giving users the ability to update their website content without technical knowledge or expertise.
LifeBridge AmeriCorps Program contracted with Collective Impact to conduct a program evaluation for their sponsored AmeriCorps Program. LifeBridge AmeriCorps is a statewide AmeriCorps program that seeks to improve school readiness, academic achievement, job readiness assistance, financial literacy services, long term hunger alleviation, and community service projects in sites throughout West Virginia. The evaluation included two phases. Phase 1 consisted of a review of the program logic model and the various measures and tools used and data currently being collected by the AmeriCorps Program with recommendations for improvement being provided. Phase 2 of the project consisted of a one-year review of data, including the analysis of data and development of an evaluation report to be submitted to the organization upon completion of the project. Overall, the evaluation helped the organization meet the federal requirements for impact evaluation and also demonstrated the impact made by the program to help LifeBridge make necessary changes to its program for future implementation.
“Bruce, on behalf of our team at Go Global NC, thank you for your terrific facilitation in Chapel Hill for our staff retreat. It was very informative and enjoyable, and your kind and supportive approach received many compliments from our team. It was a very valuable day and provided a forum to focus our discussions. Thank you again for the opportunity to work with us on our first steps to building a better team.” ~ Go Global NC (formerly The Center for International Understanding), Research Triangle Park, NC
