Emily Blake

About Emily Blake

Emily Blake is a big picture thinker committed to collaboratively envisioning systems of care, compassion, and love. As a forensic social worker, Emily is passionate about transforming the juvenile and criminal legal systems through strength and community-based transformative justice, education, wrap-around services, mental health, career programming, and housing. She received her MSW from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs with a concentration in Social Work with Organizations, Communities, and Policy. She is skilled in nonprofit, social enterprise, restorative justice, and leadership development, as well as policy advocacy and fundraising strategies. While Emily obtained her BA in Psychology with a Minor in Public Policy from UCLA, she attributes her first education to growing up in inner-city communities of the East Bay Area. That experiential education made her intimately familiar with poverty, violence, incarceration, and homelessness; as well as the resilience and beauty of the human spirit. Her conviction to transform injustice and empower communities stems from this foundation. Emily believes that solutions to society\'s most perilous problems are community and strength based. As a result, she has committed her life to a career in social justice, speaking truth to power, and transmuting fear to love.

Experience

1. CEO and Founder

   Change For Justice Consulting - Grants

   Nov 2013 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Our mission is to shift power and resources to underestimated founders to change our world towards collective prosperity and care. This is how we serve as a change for justice in the world.We do all things grants with a focus on 3 clients: nonprofits, for-profits, and businesses/ families that want to start meaningful annual grant programs.Through courses and group programs, we help underestimated founders create repeatable grant revenue systems.GRANTED - For-profit program and courseGRANTITUDE - Nonprofit program and courseWe also help for-profit businesses earning 7+ figures in revenue launch meaningful grant programs as a part of their marketing, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies.GRANTING - Small group cohort to launch and sustain a meaningful grant program with win-win-win strategies for small businesses, corporations, and high net worth families.Other offers:GRANTIFIED Infinite Grant List - Updated weekly grant list to make grant research easyGRANTIFICATION - Monthly newsletter with a list of grants, industry news impacting grants, and best practice tips to secure grants.Finally, we offer FRACTIONAL DEVELOPMENT strategic fundraising services - a one-to-one offer exclusively with nonprofits in youth justice rooted in positive youth development, strength and community based reentry, and organizations advancing justice as care. Our FRACTIONAL DEVELOPMENT work with nonprofits centers diversified fundraising, with a focus on grants, program development, and continuous improvement. We have also worked with foundations and cross-sector collaboratives in custom made and individually tailored consulting packages. Reach out to E••••@Change4Justice.co to inquire about working with us.

Education

• Mt. Eden High School

  High School Diploma, General Education

  1998 — 2002

• UCLA

  Bachelors, Psychology, Public Policy, Social Welfare

  2002 — 2006

• University of California, Los Angeles - Luskin School of Public Affairs

  Master of Social Work (MSW), Social Welfare, Social Policy, Nonprofit Management, Juvenile Justice, Law, Business

  2010 — 2012

• UCLA Extension

  Certificate, Paralegal Studies

  2007 — 2008

Skills

• Public Policy
• Criminal Justice
• Program Evaluation
• Social Impact Bonds
• Group Therapy
• Nonprofits
• Juvenile Justice
• Legal Research
• Non-Profit Administration
• Therapeutic Communication
• Leadership Development
• Social Justice
• Event Planning
• Community Organizing
• Program Development
• Curriculum Design
• Non-Profits
• Personal Development
• Social Innovation
• Social Services
• Community Outreach
• Strategic Planning
• Crisis Intervention
• Public Speaking
• Research
• Prisoner Reentry
• Grants
• Mental Health Counseling
• Youth Development
• Legal Writing
• Social Media Marketing
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Office
• Business Development
• Restorative Justice
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Program Management
• Legal Documents
• Case Management
• Social Policy