James White

• Consulting services tailored to fit social entrepreneurs, small businesses, and nonprofits to advance community economic development.
• Facilitated virtual workshops on various business topics including leadership development, customer service excellence, fund raising, and team building.
• Conducted in-depth market research to identify opportunities for expansion and growth.
• Identified grants and funding opportunities for nonprofits and small businesses, and assisted with fund raising activities, and loan applications as needed.

• Assisted clients in identifying and setting goals to promote positive behavior development.
• Facilitated group sessions to teach clients positive coping strategies.
• Documented interventions, assessments and progress reports on database to enable tracking history and maintain consistent records.
• Provided one-on-one support to clients with autism spectrum disorders, addressing unique behavioral needs.

In 2008, I advocated for the successful expansion of the City’s Housing Trust Fund resulted in $15 million ($3 million per year over the next five years) resources from the City’s General Fund

In 2010, I advocated for a the passage of bill introduced by council members that expanded dedicated funding for the Philadelphia Housing Trust Fund by 40%, which would yield an additional $3.5-$5.5 million per year to build new affordable homes.

·In 2011, I partnered with city council members to expand and improve the Philadelphia CDC Tax Credit Program, to provide $30 million in flexible funding support to 30 community development corporations.

In 2008, I collaborated with environmental activists to plan a workshop, “Advancing Green Building in Philadelphia,” to educate local stakeholders on green building benefits and challenges, and to discuss how to advance this work at the policy and implementation levels.

• Created budget and managed a state-funded annual program grant in the amount of $150,000 for 10 years for a community-based nonprofit organization for the Boston Area Tobacco Control Coalition (BATCC), a public health program of Health Resources in Action.
• Planned successful marketing and advertising strategies (print and radio media) to educate public about health risks associated with smoking and secondhand indoor smoking.
• Collaborated with Mississippi health educator Brenda Bell Caffee, who created a community outreach and health education workshop called “Not in Mamma’s Kitchen” to educate women about the health risks related to secondhand indoor smoking and to encourage women to ban smoking in their households In Boston, MA.
• Organized and developed the state-funded grassroots coalition that raised local awareness and catalyzed local policy changes that increased local tobacco control policies, promoted local adult smoking cessation services and prevented youth smoking, and the successful passage of indoor smoking bans in workplaces, bars and restaurants in the cities of Agawam, Chicopee, Munson, Springfield and Wilbraham in Hampden County, MA.
• Planned successful marketing and advertising strategies (print and radio media) to educate the public about health risks associated with secondhand indoor smoking: Doctors against Secondhand Smoke,” a local anti-smoking print media signature advertising campaign that featured local physicians, who wanted to educate the public about health risks related to secondhand indoor smoking; the “Do It for the Ones You Love,” a local print and radio media advertising campaign that used testimonies from former adult smokers, who successfully quit smoking by taking part in local smoking cessation programs; and the publicized the toll-free telephone hotline: the Massachusetts Quitline (1-800-TRY-TO-STOP).
• Planned successful marketing and advertising strategies (print and radio media) to educate the public about health risks associated with secondhand indoor smoking: Doctors against Secondhand Smoke,” a local anti-smoking print media signature advertising campaign that featured local physicians, who wanted to educate the public about health risks related to secondhand indoor smoking; the “Do It for the Ones You Love,” a local print and radio media advertising campaign that used testimonies from former adult smokers, who successfully quit smoking by taking part in local smoking cessation programs; and the publicized the toll-free telephone hotline: the Massachusetts Quitline (1-800-TRY-TO-STOP).