Qualifications

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• Twenty-eight (28) years consulting with a broad range of organizations and providing a variety of miscellaneous management and administrative services under the name RMK Management Support.
• Heavy emphasis in program evaluation, grant writing, writing, project management, and program development.
• Past President of Michigan Association for Evaluation (MAE) and a board member for 13 years
• Founder and President of the Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Endowment Fund for Calhoun County in 1996 with the vision of having a secure and reliable source of funds for local prevention programs that work with at risk families. Successfully wrote an application for the Fund to become a 501©3, fund balance at $104,000 and distributed $39,500 in grants to date.
• Six years working in clinical mental health, seven years working for a variety of nonprofits, and volunteering in over 15 different organizations, during which I worked with economically, developmentally and racially diverse people.​

University of Michigan: 

Master of Social Work, Interpersonal Practice
Michigan State University: 

Bachelor of Arts with Honor

Dual Major: Social Work/Psychology

Member of:  

Michigan Association for Evaluation
American Evaluation Association

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING (full list upon request)

• Clinical and Macro Licensed Social Worker, State of Michigan, 1981- present
• Data Visualization, East Lansing, MI, September 2016
• Core Capacity Assessment Tool Certified Facilitator, On-line Webinar, TCC Group 2013​
• Organizational Assessment Consultant Training, Nonprofit Alliance, Battle Creek, MI, May 2008
• Collaborative Assessment Consultant Training, Nonprofit Alliance, Battle Creek, MI, May 2008
• Strategic Restructuring, Training for Consultants, Phases I and II, Battle Creek, MI, 2007
• Financial Management for Nonprofits, Nonprofit Alliance, Kellogg Community College 2008
• Strategic Planning, Nonprofit Alliance, Kellogg Community College, 2005
• Michigan Association for Evaluation Annual Conferences and Workshops since 1996
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation Youth Development Seminars III, Calhoun County, 1993-95
• Battle Creek Community Leadership Academy Graduate, 1993

 "Rita is a truly professional evaluator and grant writer with a social work background. I've known her for several years but have worked with her recently as a sub-contractor during an organizational review/management support engagement for a local nonprofit. After six months of working closely with her - I have come to greatly appreciate Rita's style as well as her substance.  Rita’s strengths include: being thorough, incredible integrity, solid writing that is more practical than academic, being direct - although pleasant, conducting one-to-one interviews and meetings, and finding useful and relevant research. She's great at creating charts/graphs, determining current and potential client pathways, is comfortable with diverse people, doesn't miss deadlines, asks questions, is communicative and actually cares about her clients. She shares her process and is always inclusive of input from others.  Rita has a rounded presence in the nonprofit sector as a professional, a leader (Founder and President, Child Abuse Prevention Endowment Fund for Calhoun County) and a community volunteer, so she understands a variety of settings from different perspectives. She's a multiple-term Board Member of the Michigan Association for Evaluation and clearly maintains her professional development.  I like her a lot, and was pleased to work with her, and would do so again. She definitely goes beyond if she thinks the situation calls for it. I can highly recommend Rita's work, not just refer her. 

Michelle Frank, Entrepreneur, CEO of Experience Count and CEO of The Mermaid Affair

"Our organization, Muskegon Volunteer for Dental Care, hired Rita to evaluate our program methodology and data collection as required by a large grant we had received. Rita provided us with a very thorough report through her ability to interview and collect the important information we needed. She was able to evaluate the program fairly and give us the insight we needed to move forward! I highly recommend Rita to anyone needing an independent evaluator!”

Jackie Balcom Lindrup RDH, MEd, Director MVDC

"Rita seems to have a natural ability to understand an organization and its inner workings. To problem solve root causes and simplify the solutions. She can find relevant information even in chaos. Our organization is very grassroots from staff to structure and not typical. Rita found evaluation tools and processes that not only worked well with our programming but was also very easy for staff to work with.”  

Teresa Momenee-Young, Executive Director of Woman’s Co-op, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

"Rita has extensive experience working with nonprofit organizations in the area of evaluation. Evidence of her abilities is found in the fact that many of her clients ask her to work with them again. I have found that she is always learning new things in her area of expertise. I would not hesitate for one moment to recommend her."

Victor Sanchez, Senior Philanthropy Advisor at EARTH University Foundation 

The Advocates, St. Philip Church (Battle Creek, MI)
Albion Volunteer Service Organization (MI)
Arc of Calhoun County (MI)
Boy Scouts Camperall Committee (Calhoun Co MI)
Calhoun Conservation District (MI)
Child Abuse Prevention Endowment Fund (CAP) for Calhoun County (MI)
Children’s Charter of the Courts, Inc., Michigan State Bar Children’s Task Force
Children’s Summit, Oakland Schools (MI)
Circle of Parents (National)
Community Fatherhood (Battle Creek, MI)
Community Integrated Recreation (Battle Creek, MI)
Coordinated Community Child Care Resources, (Battle Creek, MI)
School-Age Child Care Project
   Child Development Associate (CDA) Advisor
   Childhood Accreditation Project
Court Kids Project Committee, (Calhoun Co, MI)
Early Childhood Collaborative (Post Franklin, Battle Creek, MI) ​
Early On of Oakland Schools Intermediate School District (MI)
Families for the Future, Waterford Schools (MI)
(The) First Tee, City of Battle Creek (MI)
Girl Scouts of Glowing Embers Council (Kalamazoo, MI)
Gracious Homes, Battle Creek
Holistic Environmental Life Skills Parenting Education Program (Battle Creek, MI)
(The) Impact Academy, Michigan State University, 2015
Lighthouse Emergency Services (LES) (Pontiac, MI)
Kambly Living Center (Battle Creek, MI)
Mark A. Lelle, Consultant in Evaluation and Planning (Albion, MI)
Michigan Agritourism
Michigan Barn Preservation Network (Calhoun County)
Michigan Children’s Trust Fund
Muskegon Community Volunteer Dental Care, Muskegon Community Health Project
Neighborhoods of Battle Creek, Inc.
Network of Young Children, Calhoun Intermediate School District (MI)
Nonprofit Alliance (Battle Creek, MI)
Oakland County Child Care Council (O4C) Joining Forces Project (MI)
Post/Franklin Early Childhood Collaborative (PFECC)
Social Program Evaluators & Consultants, Inc. (SPEC) (Detroit, MI)
Substance Abuse Prevention Services and the Kids at Hope Youth Development Center,
Title V Planning Grant and OJJDP Model Programs Grant (Albion, MI)
  Healthy People
  Drug Free Community Evaluation Survey
United Way of Oakland County (MI)
    Early Childhood Care and Education Initiative
   Success By Six and Community Impact Evaluation, Pontiac
VIP Mentoring (Detroit, MI)