Barbara Levin, M.Ed.

Experience

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  Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition

  Mar 1997 - May 2001

  Directed all community development programs, including: employment and training programs, outreach programs, senior program, and Children’s Health Insurance Program, for refugee coalition. Budgeting, grant writing, reporting. Advocacy, public speaking. Recruitment, hiring, training, and mentoring of new employees and subcontractors. Provided oversight, monitoring, and technical advise for 9 Mutual Assistance Associations and others representing a diverse, multi-ethnic groups of communities with varying languages, cultures, and needs. (Chinese, Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, Hmong, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Russian, Liberian, Haitian, and others) Show less

  • Director of Community Development Programs

    May 2000 - May 2001

  • Lead Job Developer

    Mar 1997 - May 2000
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  Nationalities Service Center

  May 2001 - Mar 2002

  Executive Director

  Responsible for all programs, services and operations of respected 80 year old, United Way member agency with $2,000,000 budget, serving extremely ethnically diverse clientele. 34 employees, 30 subcontractors, 100+ volunteers. Budgetary and financial oversight; Program development and oversight. Grant writing and development. Public relations.Programmatic oversight for Social Services Department (Employment Programs, Refugee Resettlement Program, Senior Center, Truancy Program, and Multi-lingual Translation Program), Education Department (ESOL, Basic Computer Skills Training, and PA Driver’s Test Preparation), and Legal Department (handling VAWA, asylum, detained youth, family reunification, and citizenship cases.) Show less

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  Barbara Levin, M.Ed. Consulting

  Mar 2002 - Mar 2005

  Owner/Consultant

  Consultant services for local 501(c)(3) non-profit agencies and other service oriented organizations. Program design, launch, maintenance, and evaluation; resource development and grant writing; budgeting; reporting; fundraising; public relations; crises intervention; etc. Clients include The Welcoming Center, New World Association of Emigrants from Eastern Europe, The Greater Philadelphia Asian Social Service Center, African Cultural Alliance of North America, Agape African Senior Center, and The Christian Academy. Show less

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  Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association

  Mar 2003 - Jun 2004

  Director of Economic Development & Special Programs

  Created/managed organizational development plan. Wrote grants. Planned, organized, and managed 20th anniversary celebration, (first organizational major event) with 500+ attendance. Public relations, publicity, and outreach. Co-organizer of Philadelphia Managing Director’s Office bus tour of ethnic Philadelphia for city commissioners. Volunteer/intern management. Extensive advocacy. Program development/oversight. Provided extensive intra-agency and inter-agency technical assistance and mentoring to multi-ethnic partner agencies/staff. Show less

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  Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired

  Mar 2005 - Jul 2008

  Manager, Specialized Services

  Directed all educational, recreational, support, and social service programs. Doubled number of clients served, increased programmatic offerings by 250%, initiated/opened satellite location, instituted drop-in center, launched phone pal program. English and Spanish language programming. Multi-level life skills training, shopping program, multiple support and diabetic groups, special events. Outreach, grant writing, program evaluation, budgeting, documentation, reporting, staff/intern/volunteer oversight. Show less

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  Child and Career Development Center

  Aug 2009 - Jun 2010

  Special Education/Pre-vocational Culinary Arts Teacher

  Oversaw/taught pre-vocational program for 14 - 20 year olds with diagnoses including MR, autism spectrum disorders, emotional disturbances, and learning disabilities. Managed café with student assistants, prepared lesson plans, wrote IEPs, handled behavior management issues. Oversaw all business aspects of café.

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  Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, Inc.

  Jun 2010 - Feb 2016

  Director, Client Services

  Directed and managed client services for the second largest non-governmental Meal on Wheels in America, serving 1500 - 1800 elderly and/or disabled clients daily in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Carroll County, Harford County, Howard County, and parts of Montgomery County. Oversaw programs including signature home delivered meal service, isolation reduction programs, and case management. Managed 50 staff. Ensured excellence in all aspects of service. Program design, grant writing, reporting, public speaking. Managed national accreditation process. Show less

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  Jewish Federation of Broward County

  Feb 2018 - now

  Research and develop solutions to critical communal needs. Develop methods of programmatic and fiscal accountability. Collaborate with community organizations in developing programmatic strategies to achieve goals. Lead professional for Impact Teams, working with strategic funding process. Collect, review, and analyze, data and financial information relating to Federation grant recipients. Coordinate RFP process and local agency allocations. Identify public and private grant opportunities, write foundation and government grants, prepare prospectus for use with potential funders and investors. Match local agencies with funding opportunities. Show less Oversee the funding allocation process for the Jewish Federation of Broward County, working with day schools, preschools, youth groups, camps, individuals with disabilities, senior citizens, holocaust survivors, adoption and foster care, dementia caregiver support, financial assistance programs, Meals on Wheels, food banks, behavioral health programs, domestic abuse, emergency relief, diversity enhancing programs, and more, in Broward County, Israel, and around the world. Work with Jewish communal agencies, and other funded agencies, to strengthen organizations and programs, with the goal of enhancing impact and ensuring long-term viability. Monitor funded agencies ensuring compliance and accountability, and optimizing the impact of donor dollars. Write and monitor governmental and corporate grant proposals in order to raise funds to strengthen critical programming in Broward County and elsewhere. Show less

  • Vice President Strategic Funding Impact

    Jul 2021 - now

  • Planning Associate

    Jul 2016 - now

  • Director of Allocations, Grants and Governance

    Feb 2018 - Jun 2021