Virgil Crawford

Responsible for a performing a variety of roles; including managing and coordinating cross-sector collaborations.

Organized and provided leadership to coalitions advocating for broad based community issues.

Provided technical assistance to organizations efforts to grow and expand.

Fostered relationships with the philanthropic community to create funding streams

Interacted with multiple levels of inter- governmental agencies regarding policy reforms

Established and maintained relationships within community sectors including; residents, elected officials, media, faith-based, law-enforcement, and schools to promote organizations mission

Devised strategic plans for the implementation of community organizing initiatives, capital campaign events, and emergency responses including press releases

• Oversee all community organizing initiatives
• Design and develop asset-based community organizing models
• Devise strategic plans used in the implementation of community organizing initiatives
• Organize coalitions and build community issues confronting community
• Recruited and organized citizens leaders on the block level and facilitated community meetings.

• Responsible for organizing collaborations and partnerships among citizens, community organizations, city, and state agencies to develop grassroots plans and strategies for violence prevention
• Assisted in recruiting, hiring and training of team members.
• Spearheaded innovative approaches to resource allocation and strategic planning.
• Developed linkages with other neighborhoods and communities in Chicago
• Worked with community groups on proposal development
• Organized and facilitate community meetings and professional consortiums on violence prevention
• Supervised and trained residents in asset based community organizing models
• Represented organization at collaboration meeting with community partners and conferences.

• Established and maintained relationships with community residents, political leaders, media, and community organizations to aid in the development of the organization’s mission and goals; attended, organized, and facilitated community meetings, represented the executive director in community and other meetings, provided supervision and support for the project coordinators of the violence prevention consortium and asset based organizing initiatives
• Responsible for training staff and community agencies on capacity building organizing
• Also, responsible for providing oversight for grassroot fundraising efforts and membership recruitment
• Wrote and prepared written reports to executive director and funders
• Supervised all staff of organization.

• Coordinated two male service projects; and adolescent prevention project, and an adult advocacy and intervention program
• Maintained ongoing communication with state and city agencies regarding program goals, participation and attrition
• Collaborated with funders, consultants, and advisors to develop program’s goals and objectives, and increase community involvement.

• Managed all crisis intervention, advocacy and emergency assistance programs
• Maintained and compiled statistical data on program’s service population
• Prepared monthly data reports
• Interacted with program monitors regarding program activities, goals, and service population
• Supervised emergency assistance staff and interviewed job applicants
• Collaborated with other agencies and institutions involved in advocacy and crisis intervention.

• Responsible for identifying and recruiting for sponsors alderman’s fundraiser
• Facilitating committee meetings
• Coordinating dates and times of fund raiser, Oversee all logistic of event including presentations, entertainment, and collection of proceeds.

• Responsible for coordinating field operations for campaign in the Proviso Township of cook county which included supervising workers coordination of literature distribution, interacting with poll managers, and get out the vote effort.

• Responsible for ten precincts which involved recruiting field workers for campaign, coordinating voter registration, phone bank, and literature distribution; as well as, transportation assistance, scheduling public appearance for candidate, and get out the vote effort.

• Responsible for overseeing literature distribution prior to election which involved recruiting canvassers
• Assure worker presence at polling places on election day
• Assist in coordinating the get out the vote effort.

• Responsible for all campaign operation in the Austin community prior to election day
• Coordinated the get the vote effort on election day.

• Responsible for organizing a community education coalition to advocate for a new traditional high school in the Austin community
• Developed strategies for a grass-root education campaign
• Organized parents and students
• Established collaborations between different sectors of community
• Interacted with different levels of government including inter-governmental agencies
• Facilitated the strategic planning process
• Supervised and managed community organizing staff and initiatives of agency.

• Responsible for organizing coalitions from among various sectors of the community; e.g
• Business, religious, seniors, youth, etc
• Facilitated a planning process consisting of different groups to initiate community planning and development projects that could improve the quality of life in the municipality.

• Responsible for the installation of all binocular vending systems to the underside of sporting and entertainment facility seats
• Provide customers with assistance in the use of binocular vending systems
• Promoted token sales prior to and during each coliseum event
• Conducted marketing studies within facility and prepared product evaluation and analysis report for use by senior management
• Ensured ongoing product maintenance and quality assurance.

• Developed and implemented concepts in culture fashions in to a manufacturing/retail business
• Managed the day to day business operations including interviewing, hiring, purchasing goods, and maintaining inventory
• Managed labor cost and assured asset management, product quality, profitability, marketing ad advertisement
• Opened and negotiated new accounts
• Supervised the manufacturing of all fashion garments and accessories.

• Promoted health prevention services to state Medicaid participants
• Organized physicians and other community health providers to plan preventive health care strategies
• Case managed and counseled expectant mothers of high-risk infants failing to thrive in their first year of life.

• Responsible for organizing coalitions from among various sectors of the community; e.g
• Business, religious, seniors, youth, etc
• To serve on advisory boards and committees of projects developed by the city.

• Organized and supervised all staff and standard campaign operations including tactics and strategies to organize voters, scheduling engagements, fund raising, and get out the vote efforts.

• Responsible for planning, strategizing, and organizing all field tactic in the 5th Supervisory District of Bolivar County; Mississippi including door-to-door canvassing, literature blitzs, rallies, press conferences, voter registration, and get out the vote efforts.

• Consulted with public administrators of small towns in the Mississippi Delta to develop comprehensive community development plans as a qualifying criteria for funding for federal and state moines for infrastructure development.

• Conducted surveys and evaluations on city’s infrastructure, such as; housing stock, streets, sewer and drainage systems, bridges, and parks
• Collected, compiled, and analyzed demographic data on city’s residential population
• Assisted in developing comprehensive community development plans and completing various components of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) applications
• Organized and facilitated public hearing on the spending of CDBG fund allocation to the city.