Full Name
Barbara Sue Hall
Job Title
Principal
Company
Cullasaja Synergy Consulting, LLC
Speaker Bio
Cullasaja Synergy Consulting, LLC offers Strategic Thought Partnership, Outcome-based Program Design and Development, Evaluation, Market Research, and Grant Writing Services. The firm’s Principal and Owner, Barbara Sue Hall, has over 25 years of experience working in the nonprofit community development sector. She has worked as an independent consultant since 2008 after a 15-year career working with leading nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area, Atlanta, and New York City. As a purpose-driven consulting firm committed to building strong networks of community-based organizations, Cullasaja Synergy collaborates with BIPOC-leaders to grow robust, sustainable, and impactful institutions.
The firm currently works with the Asian Economic Development Association and African Immigrant Development Solutions in St. Paul, Minnesota. In recent years, Cullasaja Synergy has worked with the Mary Babcock Reynolds Foundation, Oakland Lacrosse Club, A Black Education Network, the Creative Enterprise Zone, East Palo Alto Community and Neighborhood Development Corporation, American Indian Friendship House, Native American Health Center, the Center for Economic Inclusion, and the Institute for Local Innovations, Inc. Cullasaja Synergy has supported these and dozens of other groups with designing programs and pursuing grants for a wide range of initiatives including racial equity and social justice; public policy research and advocacy; grassroots community organizing; homeowner accessory dwelling unit finance and technical assistance program; creative placemaking; dual-language charter school education; youth sports, leadership, and development; small business assistance and lending; local economic development; veteran transition and employment; criminal justice reform; affordable housing and community facility development; industry-focused workforce development; food security; and urban farming. The firm's Principal and Owner has helped clients across the country secure over $30 million in grant funding from public agencies and foundations over the past 18 years.
The firm currently works with the Asian Economic Development Association and African Immigrant Development Solutions in St. Paul, Minnesota. In recent years, Cullasaja Synergy has worked with the Mary Babcock Reynolds Foundation, Oakland Lacrosse Club, A Black Education Network, the Creative Enterprise Zone, East Palo Alto Community and Neighborhood Development Corporation, American Indian Friendship House, Native American Health Center, the Center for Economic Inclusion, and the Institute for Local Innovations, Inc. Cullasaja Synergy has supported these and dozens of other groups with designing programs and pursuing grants for a wide range of initiatives including racial equity and social justice; public policy research and advocacy; grassroots community organizing; homeowner accessory dwelling unit finance and technical assistance program; creative placemaking; dual-language charter school education; youth sports, leadership, and development; small business assistance and lending; local economic development; veteran transition and employment; criminal justice reform; affordable housing and community facility development; industry-focused workforce development; food security; and urban farming. The firm's Principal and Owner has helped clients across the country secure over $30 million in grant funding from public agencies and foundations over the past 18 years.
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