Charles Thomas
Executive Director
- Role
- Executive Director at Outward Bound Adventures Oba
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Charles Thomas
Accomplished executive with strong leadership ability and exceptional collaborative…
Experience
Executive Director
Sep 2015 — Present · Pasadena, CA, US
Across-the-board operations and management responsibilities to accomplish a mission of providing nature-based, environmental and cultural education trips for economically disadvantaged urban youth of color and their families• Identify desired program outcomes and facilitate associated logic models• Create staff training regime and annually train up to 40 staff • Facilitate and oversee strategic planning, marketing, and media communications• Develop collaborative partnerships and youth engagement programs with federal land resource agencies, including the BLM, NPS, Fish and Wildlife, Forest Service, private land trusts and community-based organizations• Work with Board of Directors to develop the annual budget and fund plan, including special events and major fundraising campaigns and submit program proposals to grant makers • administer annual operating budgets ranging from to $1.2 million• Advise Board of Directors on regional and national legislative and regulatory initiatives for involving youth in outdoor education programs • Public speaking, workshop facilitation, foundation funding cultivation
Education
University of La Verne
2nd year Doctorate student, Education
Cornell University
Certificate of Completion, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Southern Oregon University
BS, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies & Physical Sciences
California State University, Los Angeles
MA, Environmental Studies/Physical Geography
Southern Oregon University
BS, Physical Geography
Skills
- Environmental Awareness
- Community Outreach
- Community Development
- Nonprofits
- Inner-City Urban Outreach Strategies
- Program Evaluation
- Environmental Education
- Public Speaking
- Event Planning
- Program Management
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Presentations
- Cultural Competency Training
- Youth Development
- Strategic Planning
- Fundraising
- Grants
- Policy
- Leadership Development
- Public Policy
- Research
- Policy Analysis
- Leadership
- Grant Writing
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Cultural Pluralism and Relevancy Program Design
- Program Development
- Management
- Public Relations
- Volunteer Management
- Teaching
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