E-mail: jmaatman@wmich.edu

Past experience:

• Redesigned Fund Distribution Process to fund emerging needs and best practices.
  Designed and supervised a Community Assessment that gives volunteers an understanding of services available, statistics about the need, and the publics' perception of the social problems.
  Supervise three staff and eighty volunteers as they allocate $5 million annually from the Greater Kalamazoo United Way (GKUW) Campaign.
• Administer and/or acquire over $1 million in grants and contracts annually.
• Trained hundreds of Southwest Michigan non-profit staffs in how to continuously improve their programs through Outcome Evaluation.
• Initiated GKUW Mini-Venture Grants so community volunteers willing to give their time could obtain funding to implement their plans.
• Wrote grants, hired coordinator, and supervise Kalamazoo Youth Development Network, which works with the High/Scope Research Foundation to train youth service workers in how to bring out the best in teens.
• Collaborate on Strong Families/Safe Children, a program of Michigan's Family Independence Agency, to reduce out-of-home placements, increase immunizations, support grandparents raising grandchildren, and increase adoptions.
• Staff Kalamazoo's Multi-Purpose Collaborative Body, working on a single-family plan of service for courts, mental health, and schools, and toward community conferencing for both juvenile offenders and foster care placements.
• Worked with others to increase immunization of 2-year-olds in Kalamazoo County by 42%.