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Dr. Jeffrey Perkins, Jr., Ph.D.

800 Jefferson Street, Apartment 1418 Seattle, WA 98104

(206) 293-2126 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) Public and International Affairs March 2002

University of Pittsburgh

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Program: Public Management and Policy

Major: Public Administration

Minor: Financial Management

Pittsburgh, PA

Dissertation: “The Evolution of YouthBuild USA: A Case Study

of Organizational Innovation and Growth in a Changing Social

Policy Environment”

Master of Public Administration April 1991



Pittsburgh, PA

Master's Thesis: "Internship Report of the JOBNET Project"

Bachelor of Science, Public Administration June 1989

Chancellor University

Major: Public Administration

Minor: Business Administration

Cleveland, OH

Cum Laude Graduate

PROFESSIONAL

CERTIFICATES: International Congress Global Conference Certificate May 2002

University of Valladolid, Spain

Texas A&M University, USA

Certificate of Presentation at a conference in Spain: “Beyond Our Borders”

Global Conference: Cultural, Immigration and Marginalization

in an Era of Globalization.

Information Services Management April 1991



Pittsburgh, PA

AREAS OF

CONCENTRATION: Nonprofit management areas of concentration include: strategic planning, financial

management and budgeting, marketing, program design and evaluation, fundraising,

personnel development, community and economic development, employment and

training program development, technical grant writing, and quantitative and qualitative

research methods.

Private sector areas of concentration include: break even analyses profit projections,

financial management, creating a business plan, marketing and advertising, small and

home-based businesses startups, and public relations.

mailto:[email protected]


RECENT GRANT WRITING PROJECTS AT THE LOCAL SEATTLE GRASS ROOTS LEVEL

Grant Writing & Program Design Projects

Since 2013, while consulting to grassroots’ nonprofits in the Central District, I have brought them

grant-awards totaling: $207, 209.00.

In addition to the technical grant writing skills that I brought them, I played a major role in helping

them to conceptualize the design of their programs and projects. My career experiences in program

design and evaluation, etcetera, helped me to increase their grant application’s competitiveness.

Central Area Senior Center

500 30th

Street S. Seattle, WA 98144

I. Since the fall of 2014, I played a leading role in bringing to the Central

Area Senior Center (CASC) local grants totaling $103,954.00. The

CASC is an affiliated program of Senior Services, one of Washington

State’s largest providers’ of services and programs for the elderly in King

County. Working with the director, my grant writing consultancies are as

follows:

II. Co-wrote an application to the Department of Neighborhoods for a Small

Project Grant. This included the conceptualization and design of: Memory

Lane: A Seniors Digital Story 1920—WWII. The project was designed to

create a video film documentary that captures the oral stories by a diversity

of multicultural seniors who grew up in Seattle’s Central Area

neighborhoods—during prohibition, the Great Depression, New Deal, and

World War Two. The project award totaled: $24, 500.

III. Co-wrote an application to the Department of Neighborhoods for a Large

Project Grant. The grant was to conduct a feasibility study to identify and

prioritize options for future redevelopment of the center. This will require

surveying, architecture, parking and traffic analysis, engineering, and

community engagement. Grant total award $49,454.

IV. Co-wrote an application to 4 Culture Building for Culture, a King County

grant making initiative. The award funded was for the renovation of the

Green Dolphin Entertainment Center for seniors. The Grant total award

$27,500.

V. Co-wrote an application to Seattle’s Department of Aging and Disability

Services (ADS) for a technology upgrade grant. The grant was used to

purchase computer and project equipment for the computer. The Grant

total award $2,500

2014-2015


Multimedia Resources and Training Institute Winter 2012-Current

2301 Jackson St. Suite 103 Seattle, WA 98144

Since 2012, working with the Multimedia Resources and Training Institute, my

responsibilities included writing grants to support after-school program training in

multimedia technologies for underserved at-risk immigrant refugee and other minority

youth. As of November 2015, I have successfully brought MMRTI a combination of

grant awards totaling $98,255.00 for the following:

I. 2015: 4 Culture grant. Worked with the Executive Director and designed

a project titled: “Generations through the Lens,” an after-school training

project for at-risk youth to capture the stories as told through the lens of

first, second, and third generations of East Africans in the Pacific

Northwest. The Grant total award $10,000.

II. 2015: City of Seattle Civil Rights Department: Race and Social Justice

Initiative Three Town Hall Panels to Address: 1) Crime and Public

Safety; 2) Housing; and 3) Equal Employment Opportunities

Commission. The Grant total award $5,000.

III. 2015: City of Seattle: Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative.

Worked with the executive director and designed a project for funding

titled: “The Joy of Soccer, a Documentary about the Seattle Sounders and

Fans”. The project was designed for 10 at-risk youth in the Seattle Youth

Violence Prevention Initiative (SYVPI) to have a summer experience

learning how to use multimedia technology equipment to document a

story about the Seattle Sounders FC2. This included contacting and

partnering with the Sounders organization and the Seattle Public Library

Douglas Truth branch in the Central District. The Grant total award

$21,791.

IV. 2014: The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, University of

Washington. The grant will be used to set up a One Stop Online Health

Care Directory for East African Immigrants in King County The Grant total award $10,000.

V. 2014: City of Seattle Neighborhood Matching Fund Small Project:

“Sense of Place First Ethiopian Summer Festival in the Central

District: The Grant total award $22,464 (total includes private gift

donation of $250.

VI. 2013: Seattle Arts and Culture Work Readiness Project The Seattle

Seahawks: A Video Documentary. Worked with the Executive Director

and designed a project that allowed 15 at risk youth to have a summer

after-school experience learning multimedia technology. The project was

a video documentary about the Seattle Seahawks. This required

partnering with the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Central Public Library, and

Sports Illustrated in New York City N.Y. The film was shown on

Saturday, November 23, 2013 in the Microsoft Auditorium a public event.

The Grant total award $24,000.

2013—2015


CHRONOLOGY OF PROFESSIONAL GRANT WRITING PROJECTS FOR NONPROFIT

AND QUASI PROFIT/NONPROFITS AT THE NATIONAL AND STATE LEVEL

VII. 2013: Seattle Foundation Neighbor-2-Neighbor project Training Youth to

Address Youth Problems in The Community through Workshops and

Public Town Hall Meetings The Grant total award $5,000.

Guiding Academic Motivation for Excellence, Inc. (GAME)

6718 MLK Way S. Seattle 98118 WWW.GAMENW.ORG

Wrote a small grant to The Seattle Foundation’s Neighbor-2-Neighbor

program on behalf of G.A.M.E., Inc. The grant was use to expand their after-

school project by setting up a multimedia digital training component. The

grant was awarded the maximum $5,000.

2013

Federal Level

1) Consultant to Write 1993 First Million Dollar HUD Federal Grant

YouthBuild Pittsburgh, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

Hired to write a Department of Housing and Urban Development request

for proposal grant under the Community Development Act of 1992

“Hope for Youth—YouthBuild.” The purpose of the grant was to train

thirty economically disadvantaged youth in the housing construction

trades, while they receive remedial education for their General

Equivalency Diploma (GED). In a public announcement July 5, 1994,

Henry Cisneros, Secretary of HUD, and Harris Wofford, Senator, (D-

PA), announced that YouthBuild Pittsburgh was the only Pennsylvanian

affiliate to receive the full $1 million grant.

November 1993

2) Consultant to Write 1995 Second Million Dollar HUD Federal Grant

YouthBuild Pittsburgh, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

Hire to write the second YouthBuild HUD proposal to train an additional

thirty youth. This proposal included an evaluation plan of my own

design based upon the principles of a Pert chart (Program Evaluation

Review Technique). The goal was to provide YouthBuild Pittsburgh a

tool to better monitor program events and activities and to allow

immediate feedback of program results. As a result, YouthBuild

Pittsburgh received the second HUD $1 million grant in June 1995.

This totaled $2 million in two consecutive fiscal awards.

May 1995

State Level

Grant Proposal Consultant Bidwell Training Center, Inc.

1815 Metropolitan Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15233

During early fall, I wrote a preliminary grant to the U. S. Department of

Commerce Economic Development Administration. It included research that

supported the need to build “Harbor Gardens Greenhouse,” an innovation in

economic development and training of low-income and unemployed-displaced

workers. Bidwell Training Center was awarded a matching fund grant totaling

$1.8 million.

September 2000


Information Technology Grant Research UPMC Health System

Information Services Division,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260

Researched funding support for internal training of medical staff and physicians in

informatics technology and wrote the grant application for the UPMC Medical

Center’s Information Services Division. The state economic development grant

totaling $250,000. Also develop a template-training manual to help IT

professionals’ cross-train IT professionals using clinical software programs.

February-August 2001

CHRONOLOGY OF EMPLOYMENT CONSULTANCIES & RESEARCH

Central Area Senior Center 500 30th

Street S. Seattle, WA 98144 Spring 2013-Winter 2014

Strategic Planning Consultant

Hired to write a strategic plan; research and write memo to IRS that helped reinstate 501 (c)(3) tax

exemption status; wrote a Technology Matching Fund Grant to the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods;

and facilitated a presentation to the Board of Directors during their retreat.

Multimedia Resources and Training Institute Seattle, WA 98144 Winter 2012—2015

Social Media Instructor and Strategic Planning Consultant

Hired in the winter of 2012 to teach a group of residential East African immigrants’ the basic fundamentals

of online social media networks for best optimal use including marketing and advertising. In the summer of

2012, I received another contract to do an organizational strategic plan that included an audit of the

organization’s operating capacity and assessment of its program performance. The findings of this six

month research uncovered many impacts in the underserved refugee immigrant youth and adults in Seattle

and King County.

Young Urban Authors, Seattle, Washington Spring 2011-Fall 2014

Program Development Consultant

Hired to conduct a program profile and assessment of Young Urban Authors, a program funded as part of

Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative. The findings showed that the program had a major impact in

the behaviors of fifteen youth who achieved a goal to become published authors by attending a series of

book writing workshops. Their books are currently sold on Amazon.Com.

Chancellor University; 3921 Chester Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44114 Fall 2009-Winter 2010

Community Outreach Consultant Set up a special recruitment project for non-traditional students. They were defined as staff members of

nonprofit and government organizations; and the unemployed homeless. The project was innovative

because it required faculty members leave the sanctuary of the university and visit local city homeless

shelters, half-way houses, and a major state correctional facility to discuss college degreed programs. The

project lasted for approximately 90 days and netted the recruitment of several nontraditional students. Also,

it was written about in Bloomberg Business Week magazine in May 5, 2010.


Primary Research Investigator Spring 2007—August 2007

The Call & Post

11800 Shaker Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44120-1396

Researched archived documents and microfilm editions of the Call and Post newspaper from 1916-2000.

The Call and Post is Ohio’s oldest and largest African American free press founded in 1920 by

inventor/publisher Garrett Morgan. The research goal was to uncover historical evidence of the history,

origins, and more that could be used to help celebrate the newspaper’s 90th

anniversary. The findings led to

the Call and Post being digitalized as an online African American historical newspaper. The digitalization

was in a partnership with Pro Quest, a company that digitalizes newspapers and other documents for online

databases. The database of Call and Post archived collections are on websites of the Cleveland Public

Library and other libraries throughout the United States.

Contributing Writer September 2007—January 2008

The Call & Post

11800 Shaker Blvd.

Cleveland, Ohio 44120-1396

Researched and authored a three part series on the growing presence and problems involving persons with

mental health problems in the downtown areas of the Cleveland business district. This special research

project involved nearly twenty hours of interviews with top mental health policy makers, managers of

mental health and homeless shelters, former public safety director, a municipal judge, and onsite interviews

with clients of a demonstration public housing project for persons with mental health problems. The article

was used as part of a fundraising campaign package to support a demonstration housing project for persons

with mental disabilities.

Planning & Program Development Consultant June 2005—January 2007

The Salvation Army Harbor Light Complex of Greater Cleveland

1710 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2376222

Researched the feasibility for setting up the “Harbor Light Food Service Employment & Job Training

Program: Targeting Employment & Job Training Unmet Needs of Ex-Offenders.” The research included

an examination of “best practices” in job training programs that target at-risk groups. D C Central Kitchen,

in Washington, D.C., was examined for its success at job training substance abusers, ex-offenders, and the

homeless. Thus, I organized a delegation from Ohio to visit DC Central Kitchen. Our three day fact-

finding visit received special recognition on Capitol Hill by (the late) Congresswoman, Stephanie Tubbs

Jones; 21st Congressional District, Ohio.

Youth Opportunities Unlimited Winter 2009-Summer 2010

United Way Agency; 1361 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44115

Program Design & Development Consultant Designed a demonstration pilot summer youth employment program for low-income high school-age youth.

The goal was to teach them the principles of starting a small entrepreneurial retail business while they

received hands-on training making custom-ordered and designer T-Shirts for sale. Designed three training

manuals: 1) Small business retail training manual; 2) T-Shirt production training manual using digital

campers, computers, and a 200 lbs. heat press; and 3) Safety policy manual for operating equipment and

rules for appropriate behavior. Evaluation results show that the project was a huge success with the

potential to be a self-sustaining fundraiser to support youth programs.


Planning Consultant July 2001—March 2002

Allegheny County Housing Authority

341 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15222

Conducted a feasibility study for building a “One-Stop: Workforce Development Center” for public

housing tenants in the Mon Valley of Allegheny County. The study uncovered a need for a workforce

development center due to chronic unemployment and poverty in the Mon Valley.

Marketing Consultant May 2000—August 2000

Adam, Filippo & Associates, Inc. (AF&A)

Pittsburgh, PA 1206 5th

Ave. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A brand identity and marketing firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA 1206 5th

Ave. Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania. Hired as independent consultant to market operating room technology to local hospitals

(University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, West Penn Hospital, Allegheny General Hospital, and Mercy

Hospital) for the purpose of setting up interviews with client manufacturers of the technology, i.e., a group

of doctors/engineers.

Research Consultant December 2000—February 2001

Slippery Rock University

Academic Services, Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Designed and implemented a qualitative research study to assess retention problems within the minority

student population.

Graduate Student Researcher September 1999—April 2000

University Center for Social and Urban Research

121 University Place, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Researched and compiled a literature review on performance measurements that are currently used in human

service agencies.

Planning Consultant September 1998—June 1999

Bidwell Training Center, Inc.


Conducted a market survey of local businesses along the North Shore Chateau Commercial Industrial area

of Pittsburgh, the goal was to determine whether businesses would utilize the services offered in the New

Harbor Gardens Office Complex.

Survey Consultant May 1998—August 1998

Manchester/Bidwell Development Trust


Designed and administered a survey to twenty-one intermediary organizations funded by the Ford

Foundation to provide local Community Development Corporations (CDCs) funding support. The goal

was to gather information about the needs of local CDCs such as technical assistance, loans, and other

support.

Project Coordinator February 1997—August 1997

The SANTAA Study

The Graduate School of Public Health

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Recruited graduate and undergraduate students for employment as interviewers in the Substance Abuse

Needs Treatment Among Arrestees (SANTAA) study in the Allegheny County Jail. The study was a joint

venture by the Graduate School of Public Health and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.


Strategic Planning and

Organizational Development Consultant May 1994—October 1994

Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development

Pittsburgh, PA

Hire to provide technical assistance to ten Community Development Corporations (CDCs) that were funded

by the Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development, a neighborhood grant making neighborhood

program of the Pittsburgh and Hinez Foundation. My duties included examining and flowcharting the

CDCs organizational decision-making processes, profile the organization, and chart its organization and

program structures.

Job Development Specialist January 1991—April 1991

The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Hire to work on the JOBNET (Joint Oakland Based Neighborhood Employment Team) demonstration

project that introduces neighborhood residents to free computer access—in public libraries—with

employment services; recruited employers and clients to participate in the new pilot project that led to

hiring JOBNET clients. An evaluation of the JOBNET project was my Master's thesis, in which library

administrators used all recommendations to help secure future funding totaling $150,000.

Program Evaluation Project January 1990—April 1990

Evaluation of the “Cleveland: Now”

Awarded permission to do a program evaluation of a popular city economic development project

“Cleveland: Now” of the late 1960s. Permission was granted by the first African American Mayor of a

major metropolitan city The Honorable Carl B. Stokes, Cleveland Municipal Court and Former Mayor of

Cleveland. The project involve data collection and analysis that went back to the days when the Mayor was

in office and launch the program; in addition, I was given special permission to interview Mr. Stokes in his

municipal court office. The project was for: PIA 202C Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation; Graduate

School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, and The Honorable Carl B. Stokes,

Cleveland Municipal Court April 1990.

APPOINTMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Chancellor University 3921 Chester Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44114

Adjunct Faculty Public Administration Courses

January 2003—2010

John Carroll University Adjunct Faculty for Summer Graduate Seminar in:

The Nonprofit Management Program

20700 North Park Boulevard, University Heights, Ohio 44118

May 2009

Lander University 320 Stanley Avenue, Greenwood, SC 29649

Visiting full-time professor teaching public administration

and political science

August 2003—June 2004

Midwestern State University

Health and Public Administration Graduate School

3410 Taft Boulevard, Wichita Fall, TX 76308

Assistant Professor (ABD)

August 2001—June 2002


College of General Studies, Pittsburgh, PA

Public Administration Undergraduate Adjunct Faculty

Summer 1997—Fall 1999


ACADEMIC TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses in Public Administration, Public Policy, and Nonprofit Management

SO 232 Structure of State and Local Government; PL 332 Public Administration; PL 230 American Constitutional

Government; PL 350 Business and Government PA 1165 Administration of Nonprofit Organizations; PA 8155

Minority Perspectives in Public Administration; PA 0030 Introduction to Public Policy Analysis; PA 1130

Administrative Theory. POLS 101 Sections 3 & 5 American National Government; POLS 317 Introduction to Public

Administration; POLS 372 From New Deal to New Federalism; POLS 373 Administration of Nonprofit

Organizations; POLS 375 Strategic Planning in Government & Nonprofit Organizations; POLS 201 Citizen Action

Graduate Courses in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management

NP 570-1 Organizational Assessment, Evaluation, and Design; PUAD 5023 Quantitative Methods; PUAD 5933

Human Resource Management: PUAD 5723 Non-Profit Management; HSAD 5113 Health Care Finance/Economics

APPOINTMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION CONTINUING EDUCATION

Antioch University

2326 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121

Continuing Education Contract Instructor

Nonprofit Management

Spring 2011- Winter 2012

Seattle Central Community College Continuing Education 1701 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122

Continuing Education Contract Instructor

Community Programs Home-Based Businesses Series

Summer 2011-Winter 2012

Cuyahoga Community College Corporate College

Continuing Education Gerontology Department, Highland Heights, Ohio

September 2005—April 2006

Continuing Education in Nonprofit Management and Business Management

Designed and taught the following continuing education non-credit courses.

Corporate Gifts: How to Obtain In-Kind and Financial Support for Your Non-Profit Organization

Grassroots Fundraising for Non-Profits: How to Make and Sell Merchandise to Support Your Organization

Social Media Networking for Non-Profits: Tools and Techniques to Raise Awareness and Money for Your

Organization

Starting a Nonprofit Organization to Address the Needs of Seniors

Fundraising Strategies and Technical Grant Writing II

Home-Based Businesses Start Up Guide

Home-Based Retail/Service Business

Marketing a Home-Based Business via Social Media Networks

Business Plans for Small Business Development

Financial Statements for Small Business Development


COMMUNITY SERVICE SPECIAL EVENTS

Seattle Public Library April—October 2014

Organized a special Podcast author reading event at the Douglas Truth Library, the

first of its kind in its 100 year history. The event open to the public featured a

recording and book signing of Co-Author Dr. Joseph W. Scott reading from his new

book: “Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest.” As part of the event, I mobilized

partnership sponsors that included the Seattle Public Library; Urban Forum

Northwest Talk Radio; City of Seattle Office of Race and Social Justice Initiative.

Seattle Public Library January 2011-May 2011

Organized a special author reading event that was held Wednesday 5/18/2011 at the

Seattle Central Public Library Microsoft Auditorium. The event featured University

of Minnesota’s Assistant Professor Dr. Teresa Gowan, who read from her new book:

“Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco” (Fall 2010). I

introduced Dr. Gowan to the city and you can hear a Podcast download of the entire

event by visiting the SPL website: http://www.spl.org/library-collection/podcasts

http://www.spl.org/library-collection/podcasts


IN CYBERSPACE EVIDENCE OF CAREER IMPACTS

Internet Archive - Official Site https://www.archive.org

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books,

movies & music, as well as 456 billion archived web pages.

https://archive.org/details/scm-204462-aspecialpresentationaboutmart

A special presentation about "Martin Luther King Jr. and OBAMA Inauguration"

No. 226 by Assaye Abunie

In this program Ethio Youth Media TV hosted a special guest presentation about Martin

Luther King Jr. Day and President Barak Obama’s Second Inauguration. Consultant and

Social Media Network Instructor to the Multimedia Resources and Training Institute

(MMRTI) Dr. Jeffrey Perkins Jr. and University of Washington graduate and founder of

"The Dream Project" presented about the importance of this historic moment. President

Obama’s 2013 speech is also presented. More information about this show is available at:

Seattle Community Media Topic: Community

2013

The link below takes you to Seattle Community Media (SCM TV) public access television.

It shows the complete documentary titled: Road to Super Bowl 48: A documentary about

the Seattle Seahawks and shown in the Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Central Public

Library. The documentary was made possible from the program design and a city funding

grant that I authored for a summer job project for East African immigrant/refugee youth in

the Multimedia Resources and Training Institute (MMRTI)

http://seattlecommunitymedia.org/node/388391 Interview footage includes: Doug Baldwin;

Sandy Gregory; John Nordstrom just to name a few.

2013—2014

The Seattle Public Library • 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104-1109

Author Readings & Library Events Podcasts

http://www.spl.org/library-collection/podcasts/2011-podcasts


Organized the Dr. Teresa Gowan, May 18th, event in partnership with the Seattle Public

Library and the Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness. Dr. Gowan presented an

illustrated talk about her five years of field work with homeless men in the most liberal city

in America. She vividly depicts the lives of homeless men in San Francisco in her book

"Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders," where she analyzes the influence of the homelessness

industry on the streets, in the shelters, and public policy. Download Audio (mp3) [file size:

30 MB]

Teresa_Gowan_2011.mp3

2011

https://www.archive.org/



http://seattlecommunitymedia.org/node/388391



http://www.spl.org/Audio/Teresa_Gowan_2011.mp3


IN CYBERSPACE EVIDENCE OF CAREER IMPACTS


Organized the Seattle Public Library Author Reading Podcast event “Little Ethiopia of

the Pacific Northwest.” Here is where Dr. Joseph W. Scott did a public reading of his

2013 book “Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest.” Dr. Joseph W. Scott reads from

and discusses "Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest," a fascinating modern day

ethnographic analysis which tells the untold story of the Ethiopian community here in

Seattle. Download Audio (mp3) [file size: 32.7 MB]

10-12-2014 Little Ethiopia Aired Version.mp3

2013

Organized the Young Urban Authors, July 8, 2012 author reading Podcast event at the

Seattle Public Library. Here is where teen authors share stories and poetry depicting

teen life, love, emotions and street experiences growing up in the multicultural

Southwest neighborhoods of Seattle. The teens were in the program Seattle Youth

Violence Prevention Initiative (SYVPI) that funded a new innovative program to train

at-risk youth to become published authors. The event was co-sponsored by

Amazon.com/Create Space and the Seattle Public Library.

Download Audio (mp3) [file

7_8_12_Young_Urban_Authors.mp3

https://archive.org/details/scm-77434-youngurbanauthorsandyouthmedia

Published July 19, 2012

Usage Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

Topics Educational

Young Urban Authors and Yesler Redeveleopment Project.

More information about this show available at: Seattle Community Media

Run time 00:58:02

Producer Assaye Abunie

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http://www.spl.org/Audio/14_10_12_Joseph_Scott.mp3

http://www.spl.org/Audio/Teens/7_8_12_Young_Urban_Authors.mp3

https://archive.org/details/scm-77434-youngurbanauthorsandyouthmedia

https://archive.org/search.php?query=date:2012-07-19

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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http://seattlecommunitymedia.org/node/77434


PROFESSIONAL DESIGNS

Created a matrices tool which records behavioral information during an interview survey for continued

funding of NeighborhLine, an online database of economic and community development, job training,

grants, etc. via state and national mainframes. This copyrighted social research tool, while originally

designed to record levels of defensiveness in a specific population being introduced to the computer,

has wider application in social research: submitted to the Administration of Subsidies and Grants at the

State Library of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA January 31, 1991.

Designed a Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) Chart for the evaluation and

monitoring of the YouthBuild Pittsburgh HUD grant in 1995. Praeger Publications published the PERT

chart in Public Administration: Balancing Power and Accountability; Jerome B. McKinney and

Lawrence C. Howard (1998).

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

“The Social Dislocation of Spanish Harlem Youth and Innovations in Youth Employment Training and

Leadership Development: The Case of YouthBuild USA,” published by the University of Valladolid,

Spain (2002).

Researched and authored a three part series “Coping With Mental Illness—Future Shock. The series

were sponsored by the Call and Post, Ohio’s oldest African American free press.

Part I: Downtown’s highly visible homeless – who are they, really?

Part II: Where are the mentally challenged and homeless downtown?

Part Three: What are we doing to help?

Researched and authored a two part series for City News: “I Survived” on the third anniversary and

plight of the survivors of Hurricane Katrina who relocated to public housing in the City of Cleveland.

Part I. I Survived: On the Eve of Hurricane Katrina’s 3rd Anniversary, Residents of

Arbor Park Village Discuss How They Survive MAY 29 - JUNE 4, 2008 |

www.CityNews-USA. Part II. I Survived: How Cleveland Helped the Survivors of Hurricane Katrina? And

How City Residents are Preparing for an Emergency?

Seattle Times November 23, 2013, acknowledged for writing city grant to train a group of at-risk youth

in multimedia technologies. Summer project: The Seattle Seahawks, a Video Documentary.

PROFESSIONAL CITATIONS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, PUBLIC MEDIA & FORUMS

Applied Journal of Developmental Science, 2002, Vol. 6, No. 4, 221–226: “The Role of Youth

Programming in the Development of Civic Engagement,” Dorothy Stoneman, President and Founder

of YouthBuild USA, Somerville, Massachusetts.

Boomberg Business Week interview May 5, 2010. Quoted for community outreach program to recruit

the economically disadvantaged homeless women as nontraditional college students.

Special acknowledgement in “Turf Disputes Within Federal Systems: Leadership Amidst Enforceable

Checks and Balances,” Dr. Kenneth D. Mackenzie, Administrative Science Quarter 2010.

http://www.citynews-usa/


Research presentation at the Ohio Adult Parole Authority, February 6, 2009: Topic: “Digital

Information Resource of Historical Newspapers and More: Innovation in Economic Development &

Technical Workforce Training, State of Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction.”

Research presentation at Cleveland State University, The Levin College of Urban Affairs, October 9,

2009. Topic: “Your Health and Alcohol-Related Disorders in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.”

HONORS AND AWARDS

The Provost Development Fund Fellowship Award (University of Pittsburgh, September 1992 &1994).

The Owens Fellowship Award (University of Pittsburgh, April, 1990).

Academic Fellowship Award (Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, January, 1990--

September, 1991).

Art work awarded placement in the African American Cultural Center, Cleveland, Ohio (Cleveland

State University, 1975 to present).

Received commendation letter (April 2006) from Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, University of

Pittsburgh, due to a random survey of students naming me as an individual who had made a significant

and positive impact in their lives.

Guest speaker and recipient of an appreciation award certificate at the annual volunteer awards banquet

sponsored by The Salvation Army Harbor Light Complex, April 2006.

Certificate of Appreciation from the Multimedia Resources and Training Institute (MMRTI) and the

City of Seattle’s Mayor’s office for outstanding work on their projects, March 2014.

COMMUNITY BOARD SERVICE

Local Advisory Board member, National Student Partnerships, University of Pittsburgh (2000-2001).

Board member, Three Rivers Center for Independent Living (1998-2000).

Principle Advisor for “Kincaid’s Kindred Spirits: Citizens for Healthy Living: Sickle Cell Anemia

Adult Community Outreach, Support & Youth Mentoring Group,” Cleveland, Ohio, (2004)

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