Brandon Combs
Empowering schools and youth around mental health.
- Role
- Executive Director at Erika\'s Lighthouse
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brandon Combs
A Passionate Executive • Highly motivated and successful professional with over 15…
Experience
Executive Director
May 2019 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Join Erika\'s Lighthouse. Get Depression Out of the Dark.Every student deserves good mental health. We’re a nonprofit on a mission to provide free mental health programs for any school, anywhere.• Quadrupled operating budget from to over $2 million.• Oversaw program expansion from students to over 1M impacted annually.• Increased efficiency and scalability to allow each education staff to effectively support almost 4x as many school partners• Embraced and implemented technological improvements to provide transparency and automation to finances, programming and fundraising initiatives• Drove the formalization of 8 new programs to add to the suite of resources provided to schools• Diversified revenue streams by dramatically increasing support from foundations, corporations and earned revenue.
Education
Indiana University Bloomington
BA, Political Science, Fundraising & Resource Development, Sociology
2000 — 2004
North Park University
Masters of Nonprofit Administration, Fundraising & Development
2008 — 2009
Skills
- Outcome Measures
- Program Revenue
- Organizational Development
- Program Development
- Fee-for-Service
- Community Outreach
- Web Design
- Problem Solving
- Strategic Planning
- Performance Management
- Social Services
- Non-Profit Marketing
- Nonprofits
- Operational Process Analysis
- Human Resources
- Philanthropy
- Event Management
- Board Development
- Non-Profit Administration
- Executive Financial Management
- Project Planning
- Volunteer Management
- Training
- Crisis Intervention
- Non-Profits
- Staff Development
- Grants
- Turnaround Strategy
- Fundraising
- Event Planning
- Grant Writing
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