Communications - Grants Management - Event Coordination - Operations
Tasasha Henderson has 15 years of experience working with nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, grassroots collectives, and community-based organizations to support advancement of their mission and vision. By contributing her expertise in fundraising, communications, event coordination, and operations, she has supported grant making, professional development workshops, strategy development, communications campaigns, meetings and convenings,and direct service programming.
She has a passion for helping organizations that are working to uproot injustice and build communities, systems, policies, and practices that lead to a liberated, equitable, and just society. Her experience includes work in the areas of domestic violence prevention, ending the prison industrial complex, supporting people experiencing homelessness, restorative justice capacity building, and public health.
Selected Project Highlights
Managed and coordinated 20-person staff and board learning experiences to East St. Louis, IL and Montgomery and Selma Alabama
Developed and implemented a communications strategy that resulted in expanded brand awareness among targeted audiences as seen through increased social media followers, email subscribers, and website visits
Lead a committee in planning a two-part workshop on dismantling white dominant culture in the social sector
Strengthened board governance through design and implementation of a board management plan
Core Compentencies
Freelance Writer
I've written essays, interviews, reviews and news analysis for a variety of online publications. I am open to opportunities for writing cultural criticism, album reviews and anniversary commemorations, and interviews.
Supporting leadership
I have over five years of experience as an executive assistant and am skilled in calendar and travel management, meeting scheduling, meeting planning, coordinating, and logistics, taking meeting minutes, file and record management, creating and managing systems to improve workflow, nonprofit board management. Contact me if you are seeking part-time, contract support for any of the above responsibilities.
funding the mission
For seven years I worked in the nonprofit sector cultivating and stewarding relationships with foundation and corporate funders, raising over $2 million. Contact me if you are seeking support with implementing your foundation and corporate fundraising strategy.
Bringing People Together for a Cause
I enjoy coordinating small gatherings, meetings, events, learning experiences, and social outings with the purpose of bringing people together for fellowship, community building, growth and learning, and skill-building. Head to my contact page to reach out to me about opportunities to support your event.
Communications and storytelling
I have five years of experience with creating content for digital newsletters, website copy, and social media platforms. I am also an experienced copy editor of reports, proposals, and digital content. If you are seeking support with helping to tell your organization’s story, contact me.
“If I didn’t define myself for myself I would be crunched into other people’s fantasy of me and eaten alive”
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