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+ and BIPOC populations. She specifically provides consultation including organizational development including program development, fund development (grant & contracts), committee development, board development, strategic planning, diversity and inclusion, 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 & Board Officer of Sage Institute, an Oakland-based nonprofit agency that offers various programming including mental health, training and education, and research.
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 & Board Officer)
Previous consulting clients:
- Health Access, Sacramento, CA (statewide initiative with various other organizations)
- Speech Therapy Cambodia, Berkeley, CA (International focus)
- Harm Reduction Services, Sacramento, CA
Prior full-time grant writer for:
- Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA
Special Projects:
- Electronic Health Record development
- Cultural Responsiveness Committee development
- Training curriculum development
- Administrative systems development
- Quality Assurance protocols
Awarded grants from:
- Dr. Bronner's Family Foundation
- 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