HYPKI CONSULTING

Core Competencies:
• Experienced working with national and local foundations, including Annie E. Casey Foundation, St. Paul Companies Foundation, Baltimore Community Foundation and the Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative;
• Designed and implemented program evaluation processes, community engagement and participatory evaluation;
• Experienced teacher and trainer, for audiences of 4-40, including community groups, professional foundation staff, educators, and in academic settings;
• Coached organizations in times of transition, during executive transition, new program development, and organizational start-up;
• 8 years of administrative management experience;
• Demonstrated success in designing and implementing strategic planning processes that are participatory and propel the organization forward;
• Designed and implemented more than a dozen community arts projects, with a special focus on using arts to engage youth in community revitalization

Current Employment:
1992 – Present Principal, Hypki Consulting
The focus in my consultancy is on serving both the nonprofit and foundation communities, in program design, implementation, and evaluation for community engagement; areas of expertise include community development, organizational development, and community arts projects. Since 1992, I have worked with over 40 nonprofits, charitable foundations and public agencies to accomplish their community development goals.

Spring 2005 – Present Adjunct faculty, Masters of Art in Community Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art; Specific areas of teaching include community development, fundraising and grant writing, program development, diversity and cultural competency.

Prior Employment:
• 1988-1993 Founding Director of the LIFT adult literacy program, South East Community Org
• 1985-1986 Research Assistant for cross-cultural training project, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• 1981-1984 Environmental Education Specialist, National Park Service of Costa Rica

Languages: Fluent in Spanish

Education:
M.S. in Environmental Education, School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.S. in Non-formal Education and Communication, The University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Community Development
• Annie E. Casey Foundation, Family Economic Success / Making Connections project, Consultant, diarist and technical writer, 2000-2002
• Mt. Vernon Cultural District, on using art as a community building tool between youth-serving organizations and Baltimore’s major cultural institutions, 2001-2002
• St. Paul Companies Foundation, Baltimore grant-making consultant, 1998–2002
• Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute, Community Fellow, 1998-2000
• Center for Economic and Environmental Development, Allegheny College, PA, on using art as a tool for community revitalization, 2000
• Southeast Teen Center, Inc. / South East Youth and Family Coalition, project developer 1997

Evaluation
• Maryland Institute College of Art, designed participatory evaluation models for graduate program in community arts, 2005-2006
• Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative, training on participatory evaluation methods, 1998
• Maryland State Department of Education, Labor Education and Achievement Program, evaluation consulting for video and manual on portfolio assessment, 1996-1997
• Parks & People Foundation, Kids Grow program, program evaluator, 1996-1997
• Mayor’s Coordinating Council on Criminal Justice, Comprehensive Communities Program – Baltimore, program evaluator in collaboration with The Urban Institute, 1997-1998
• Essex Community College, Department of Business and Industry Training, developed portfolio assessment manual for adult education and literacy programs, 1994

Training and Coaching
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Masters of Art in Community Arts program, train and mentor graduate students in community arts residencies, 2005-present
• Patterson Park Public Charter School; coached new director on issues of diversity and bilingualism, designed participatory processes for community engagement, 2005
• Friends of Patterson Park, coach during executive transition and for operational planning, 2004
• Univ. Wisconsin, Green Bay, Instructor, Summer Art Studios, 2003
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Teacher Art Training, Project developer, 2002
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Fine Arts Instructor, 2001
• Maryland State Department of Education, trainer, adult education and ESL programs 1993-1998

Nonprofit Management and Administration
• Associate Director, Office of Community Arts Partnerships (CAP), Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), 2002-2004
• Project Developer, South East Teen Center, Inc. / South East Youth and Family Coalition, staffed the creation of a new non profit organization, 1997
• Founding Director, Learning is For Tomorrow (LIFT) Adult Literacy Program, Southeast Community Organization, 1988-1993

Organizational Development
(Meeting planning and facilitation; Strategic planning; Fund development; Retreat design)
• Tree Baltimore, 2007
• Adelante Familia, St. Vincent DePaul, 2007
• Artists Housing, Inc., 2006-2007
• Connect to Protect: Baltimore, University of Maryland, 2006
• Civil Justice, Inc., 2005
• Patterson Park Public Charter School, 2005
• Baltimore American Indian Center, 2001
• Baltimore Community Foundation Youth as Resources, 1998
• Trust for Public Land, 1997
• Parks and People Foundation, 1997
• Herring Run Watershed Association, 1997
• Gwynn Falls Trail Management Committee, 1997
• Citizens Planning & Housing Association, 1994
• Baltimore Coalition Against Substance Abuse, 1995
• Southeast Senior Housing Initiative, 1994

Community Arts Projects
• Marian House, 2006-2007
• Mt. Washington Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization, 2005-2006
• Kids on the Hill, 2004, 2000
• Johns Hopkins University Interfaith and Community Service Center, 2004
• Julie Community Center, 2002, 2001
• Banner Neighborhoods, 2002
• American Visionary Art Museum, 2002
• Urban Arts Institute, 2001
• Tench Tilghman Elementary School, 2000
• General Wolfe Elementary School, 1999
• South East Youth Academy, 1998

Technical Writing
(Note: The list below does not include some 30grant proposals written for numerous nonprofit organizations.)

You Can Only Hear if You Really Listen: A Youth-Centered Community Arts Project Emerges in Urban Baltimore. Co-authored with Ken Krafchek in Art / Vision / Voice: Cultural Conversations in Community, a Book of Cases from Community Arts Partnerships. Columbia College Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art, Chicago. 2005.

Art in Every Direction: Expanding the Scope of Cultural Programming for Children in the Mount Vernon Cultural District. Report for the Mount Vernon Cultural District, Baltimore, Maryland. February, 2003.

Workshop for the Baltimore Community Affairs Committee: Reviewing Funding Proposals, Conducting a Site Visit and Understanding Financials. Cinder Hypki and Mike Newman. The St. Paul Companies. Baltimore, Maryland. January, 2002.

Sustaining Technology in Low-Income Neighborhoods: Thematic Summary of a Consultative Session Convened by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The Brookings Institution. January, 2002.

The Family Economic Success Strategy Institute: Thematic Summary and Full Report of the Proceedings. The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland. March, 2002.

Collective Wisdom and Great Ideas for Using Art in the Classroom. A handbook for elementary school teachers prepared in collaboration with participants in the Teachers’ Fine Arts Workshop at Eutaw Marshburn Elementary School, Fall semester, 2001. The Child First Authority and the Community Arts Partnership program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland 2001

The Corner Revisited: The Implementation of Baltimore’s Comprehensive Communities Program.
An evaluation report for the Mayor’s Office on Criminal Justice. Awaiting publication.

Jobs and Economic Development: Strategies and Practice. Robert Giloth, editor. Sage Publications. 1998. Assisted in editing this document.

Thinking About Learning and Learning About Thinking: Using portfolio assessment in adult education. Dept. of Business and Industry Training, Essex Community College. Essex, Maryland 1994. (Note: Also published in the Educational Resources Information Center (E.R.I.C.) database.)

"Holding Landlords Accountable", Shelterforce, The Journal of Affordable Housing Strategies. May, 1994.

By Our Own Hands: A collection of writing by adult learners in LIFT. LIFT Literacy Program, Southeast Community Organization in association with Passager. Baltimore: University Of Baltimore, 1992.