Consulting 

Heather Valdez, LCSW has been a consultant to nonprofit agencies since 2014. She primarily focuses on providing consultation to nonprofits working on mental health, community health, and those focusing on LGBTQIA+ populations. She specifically provides consultation including fund development in the form of grant writing to obtain foundation, county, state and federal contracts, in addition to program development, committee development, strategic planning, training and other special projects. She has had a superior success rate on small to multi-million dollar grants and contracts. She is also a co-founder of Sage Institute, an Oakland-based nonprofit agency that offers various programming including mental health, training and education, and research.

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Current consulting clients include:

- Bay Area Community Services, county-wide in Alameda County (East Bay)

- Gender Health Center, Sacramento, CA

- Sage Institute, Oakland, CA (Co-founder)

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Prior consulting clients:

- Health Access, Sacramento, CA

- Speech Therapy Cambodia, Berkeley, CA (International focus)

- Harm Reduction Services, Sacramento, CA

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Prior full-time grant writer for:

- Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA

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Special Projects:

- Electronic Health Record development

- Cultural Responsiveness Committee development

- Training curriculum development

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Awarded grants from:

- Orange County

- Alameda County

- CARES Foundation, Sacramento

- Sierra Health Foundation

- State of California Health and Human Services Agency

- California Department of Public Health Office of Health Equity

- Dignity Health

- Kaiser Community Benefit

- The California Endowment

- Arbonne Foundation

- CalOptima

- Disney VoluntEARS Community Fund

- Healthcare Foundation of Orange County - Gold Fund for Health

- Susan G. Komen

- Marisla Foundation

- Marguerite Casey Foundation

- Orange County Community Foundation

- Pacific Life Foundation

- St. Joseph Health Community Partnership

- UCLA

- Union Bank

- United Healthcare

- United Way

- Wellpoint Foundation

- Carl & Roberta Duetsch Foundation

- Bank of America Housing Community Development

- Dell Foundation

- Hoag Community Benefit

- Kresge Foundation

- Ronald McDonald House Charities

- Weingart Foundation

- Sutter Health System