Cierra Marie David

• Serve as liaison between Board Members and community, partners, and organizations by scheduling, planning, attending, and facilitating meetings, events, and correspondence.
• Create, organize and solidify operational procedures for organizational management, finances and funding, communications, data, and programming.
• Manage the outreach and communications of organization and all projects and interests: from creation of materials to in-person solicitation and digital marketing.
• Connect with community partners to maintain relationships and partnership terms.
• Organized and managed program development from conception through successful execution.
• Capture data from each project or program to continuously optimize and expand our programs and the services rendered.
• Led onboarding activities for volunteers to allow them to have an enjoyable, efficient and impactful volunteer experience.

Accomplishments:

• Expanded the impact of the Mentoring Program to serve the community in addition to connecting our students to 21 highly-qualified facilitators.
• Successfully served as a partner and program manager with the University of Maryland Impact Consulting Fellows which resulted in 34 tasks completed to support program organization.
• Increased the health quality of the Clinical Food Pantry Bags by 13%, as of now the bags are 95% Low Sodium, and 95% No Added Sugars.
• Created and completed a community fundraiser to provide school uniforms to local student refugees from Afghanistan.
• Reintroduced and retained Board Member Committees for further support

• Provide frontline support to the Volunteer Maryland Coordinators at their Service Sites
• Work with Volunteer Maryland staff to meet program objectives
• Duties include: Management and Support - facilitate regional meetings; attend site visits; provide technical assistance, coaching, media content, information and counseling to guide AmeriCorps members
• Training - assist with pre-service and monthly training days; work with VM staff to prepare and facilitate on-site training for site staff as requested, create documents and media for current and future use
• Program Outreach and Marketing - assist with recruitment and selection of future VM Coordinators and Service Sites; write articles for newsletter; create media content for various social media avenues, network with other nonprofits, etc

Accomplishments:

• Overhaul the AmeriCorps History Training from in-person lecture to interactive presentation and video bytes.
• Helped secure a trainer to support cohort training
• Retained 78% of volunteer coordinators amidst the covid transitions.

• Use strategies from No Nonsense Nurturing to create a safe, positive and rigorous environment for learning
• Create a curriculum which differentiates learning for all students which includes engaging visual and audio support.
• Keep students engaged and challenged by using rigorous texts and memorable strategies for understanding so that they show growth in their reading, writing and comprehension according to the state standards of learning for Language Arts
• Create formative and summative assessment to anchor classroom goals and data
• Maintain records of student data in regards to standard and understanding and ensure transparency of data between student, teacher and guardian
• Integrate technology, arts and different programs into the classroom
• Maintain positive informative and open relationships with students and student support such as parent/guardian, coaches, mentors, etc
• Connect curriculum and school to community assets and academic incentives such as field trips, demonstrations and visits from authors, etc
• Maintain teacher training

Accomplishments:

• Able to secure speakers of diverse historical relevance relating to curriculum such as Author Ji-Li Jiang and Holocaust Survivor and author Tomi Reichental
• Piloted the Educational Program Amplify
• Successfully ingrained the process of de-escalation in specific students
• Advocated for a student which allowed for student to remain in school