Katrina Watson
Senior Vice President of Community Impact @United Way of Central Alabama
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Vice President of Community Impact @United Way of Central Alabama
Birmingham, AL, US
Oversee the distribution of approximately $30 million annually to impactful organizations across United Way’s six-county footprint. Established lens, guidelines, and processes of competitive grantmaking processes of approximately $1 million annually.Awarded $3.5 million in federal grants for United Way\'s place-based work. Designed, developed and implemented LEARN United, Leadership Education, and Readiness for Nonprofits, United Way\'s professional development and training program to increase the capacity, sustainability, and skillsets of nonprofit partners.Engage UWCA\'s 52-member Board of Directors on implementation of UWCA\'s strategic, place-based initiatives.Lead United Way\'s collective impact strategy known as Bold Goals.Convene community leaders, elected officials, industry leaders, nonprofit leaders, and residents to collectively identify goals and create measurable solutions to meet community\'s needs.Lead a high-performing team to achieve established goals; increased department staff by 60% from 10 to 16.
EDUCATION
Regent University
Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.), Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management
Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Education Studies and Social Thought & Analysis
Harvard Business School
Young American Leaders Program
ABOUT KATRINA WATSON
Katrina Watson is an award-winning executive. She is a community-minded, people-focused leader who is energetic, results-driven, and highly motivated. Katrina focuses on empowering people to build community and build organizations. Katrina has recognized strengths in leading teams to reach common goals and strategically invest in communities. Other strengths include building and maintaining relationships, fundraising, community engagement, program management, fiscal management, strategic planning, public speaking, grantmaking and strategic philanthropic investments.
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