Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline

C Synamon Baldwin

Morrow,GA

Summary

Objective – Seeking opportunity to utilize expertise acquired in the areas of civic engagement, voter education/registration, community organizing and capacity building in non-profit organizations. Dedicated Community Organizer with 40 years of empowering underserved cultures and interests by communicating with local and state governments. Skilled at connecting organizations with powerful allies to solicit real change and effective action. Known for bringing diverse groups together to achieve universally beneficial goals.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Field Organizer

Bloomberg
  • Regularly reaching out to active volunteers, and continually working to identify new volunteers through phone calls, texting, and other practices
  • Build relationships with local volunteers and host both 1:1 meetings and neighborhood meetings to create community
  • Hosting events in each neighborhood to identify new volunteers
  • Training volunteers to conduct voter contact through canvassing, phone calls, texting
  • Personally executing voter contact by canvassing events, doors, making phone calls to voters
  • Daily data entry of organizing and voter contact data
  • Daily reporting of qualitative and quantitative information
  • Fulfilling other campaign duties as assigned

Georgia State Director

Prison Fellowship Ministries
Washington DC
01.2003
  • Establish Safe Centers for children of Incarcerated Parents
  • Build Community
  • Volunteer Team to mentor and support children
  • Engage the Faith Community in providing space, volunteers and funds to establish safe centers
  • Organize yearly “Angel Tree” project for children.

President

The Smith Group of Metropolitan Atlanta
06.2015 - Current
  • Charged with identifying, vetting, training and managing local and state Millennial candidates
  • Organize Voter Registration Drives, Voter Education forums, town hall meetings and workshops that encourage Civic Engagement while building capacity with diverse and intergenerational groups.

President

NAACP Clayton County GA
01.2010 - Current
  • Manage Executive Team, provide leadership for branch members with focus on addressing issues including; voter registration/education, public education, equality justice, economic development, and inter-generational leadership
  • Develop and implement year-round voter education and voter registration initiatives
  • Build collaborations and relationships with other non-profit community-based organizations and groups
  • Plan and execute fundraising initiatives and events that to enhance and support the advancement and growth of the organization
  • Spokesperson for NAACP Branch.

Prison Project Regional Director

NAACP Southeast Region
Atlanta, Georgia
06.2000 - 12.2002
  • Responsible for setting up NAACP Chapters in State and Federal
  • Prisons, conducting voter registration drives in penal facilities and building a bridge between incarcerated persons, their families and their communities
  • Provided training in voter education/registration for NAACP
  • Branches throughout the Southeast.

Executive Director

Concerned Black Clergy of Metropolitan Atlanta
09.1994 - 05.2000
  • Responsible for Weekly Agenda, provide executive and administrative support to
  • Board of Directors, develop and execute Annual Fundraiser, manage membership base and organize weekly meetings
  • Set-up voter immunization workshops and immunization drives.

Education

Bachelor of General Studies - Liberal Arts And General Studies

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
12.1988

Skills

  • Employee Orientation
  • Procedure Compliance
  • New Hire Onboarding
  • Candidate Searching
  • Policy Interpretation
  • Knowledge of campaign strategies
  • Knowledge of candidates
  • Crisis management experience
  • Public speaking skills
  • Remote learning
  • Policy implementation

Timeline

President - The Smith Group of Metropolitan Atlanta
06.2015 - Current
President - NAACP Clayton County GA
01.2010 - Current
Georgia State Director - Prison Fellowship Ministries
01.2003
Prison Project Regional Director - NAACP Southeast Region
06.2000 - 12.2002
Executive Director - Concerned Black Clergy of Metropolitan Atlanta
09.1994 - 05.2000
Field Organizer - Bloomberg
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - Bachelor of General Studies, Liberal Arts And General Studies
C Synamon Baldwin