Replay: Economic Mobility: How to Tap Community Resources; Pools and Tools You Can Use!

“When money flows into the hands of women, who have the authority to use it, everything changes — for women, their families, and their communities,” — Melinda Gates, philanthropist.

This event took place November 4, 2021. This was a  pragmatic and informative session on how to plug into existing economic mobility resources and funding right here in Miami-Dade County. We have invited experts who will guide you and/or your clients to economic mobility tools that you may not have known were there, or how to access.

Your Women’s Fund believes that we will lift women’s economic mobility by achieving wage parity and we must speed up our progress towards that goal. Let’s start by maximizing women’s access to resources for which they and/or their children are eligible. Reducing the cost burden on limited incomes makes for stronger individual economies and local experts will show us how.

Come to your Women’s Fund to find out What You Should Know and What You Can Do = we are most assuredly Stronger Together!

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Joan is a resourceful connector by nature! She is the current Executive Director at Radical Partners, a social impact accelerator based in Miami that invests in leaders, engages locals, grows ventures, and designs innovative solutions to collectively make communities stronger. Some of the initiatives they spearhead are the Strategic Planning Summit, the 10 Days of Connection, and Leadership Lab.
Joan is a Clinical Psychologist, with a master degree in International NGOs, and 14+ years of international work experience in the social impact sector (Guatemala, The Netherlands, Costa Rica, Chile and the United States). She is a true believer that success in life should not be measured with the things you obtain, but with the lives you are able to transform. Always committed to the development of women, she’s uplifted their voces at small organizations based in the rural areas of Central America all the way to UN Women.
To continue pursuing her life mission and many passions, she sits on the Board of the Women’s Fund in Miami, is also one of the co-founders of the F*up Nights movement in Miami, and is an active alumni of the Global Shapers Community.

SPEAKERS

Lindsey Linzer uses her expertise in complex grants and program administration to connect community needs to financial resources.  Lindsey serves as the Managing Director of Community Investments at The Miami Foundation and in this role, she partners with private and family foundations, nonprofit organizations, and community members to advance social change. Lindsey helps donors turn their philanthropic visions into reality by designing and implementing innovative donor collaboratives and grantmaking initiatives.

At The Miami Foundation, Lindsey oversees a diverse portfolio of collective impact initiatives and leads a seven-person programs and grants administration team in managing a $90+ million portfolio of charitable funds. She has created and scaled multi-million dollar local and national grant programs in the areas of disaster and community recovery, nonprofit news, artificial intelligence, and arts education and access. Most recently, Lindsey was the force behind Miami-Dade Counts 2020, a collaborative grantmaking and outreach campaign to encourage participation in the 2020 Census.

Lindsey brings over a decade of experience in nonprofit and foundation management with a deep expertise in program design, donor collaboratives, fiscal sponsorship, and grants management. Prior to joining The Miami Foundation in 2017, Lindsey worked as the grants administration officer at Knight Foundation, where she managed the organization’s grants processes, as well as special projects. She has also served as program manager at the Community Foundation of Broward, overseeing leadership development and capacity building programs.

Originally from South Florida, Lindsey received her bachelor’s degree in business from Emory University and her MBA from Columbia Business School. Lindsey is a recent graduate of the Council on Foundation’s Career Pathways leadership development program, a year-long program focused on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in philanthropy.

When she is not working to build a better Miami, Lindsey is spending time playing games with her two young boys and enjoying the best new restaurants with her husband Ross.

Lindsey Linzer uses her expertise in complex grants and program administration to connect community needs to financial resources.  Lindsey serves as the Managing Director of Community Investments at The Miami Foundation and in this role, she partners with private and family foundations, nonprofit organizations, and community members to advance social change. Lindsey helps donors turn their philanthropic visions into reality by designing and implementing innovative donor collaboratives and grantmaking initiatives.

At The Miami Foundation, Lindsey oversees a diverse portfolio of collective impact initiatives and leads a seven-person programs and grants administration team in managing a $90+ million portfolio of charitable funds. She has created and scaled multi-million dollar local and national grant programs in the areas of disaster and community recovery, nonprofit news, artificial intelligence, and arts education and access. Most recently, Lindsey was the force behind Miami-Dade Counts 2020, a collaborative grantmaking and outreach campaign to encourage participation in the 2020 Census.

Lindsey brings over a decade of experience in nonprofit and foundation management with a deep expertise in program design, donor collaboratives, fiscal sponsorship, and grants management. Prior to joining The Miami Foundation in 2017, Lindsey worked as the grants administration officer at Knight Foundation, where she managed the organization’s grants processes, as well as special projects. She has also served as program manager at the Community Foundation of Broward, overseeing leadership development and capacity building programs.

Originally from South Florida, Lindsey received her bachelor’s degree in business from Emory University and her MBA from Columbia Business School. Lindsey is a recent graduate of the Council on Foundation’s Career Pathways leadership development program, a year-long program focused on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in philanthropy.

When she is not working to build a better Miami, Lindsey is spending time playing games with her two young boys and enjoying the best new restaurants with her husband Ross.

Olivia Brown is the Labor Miami Fellow, Senior Associate at the Miami Foundation.  Labor Miami is Miami’s premier career development resource – providing students, jobseekers, entrepreneurs, and employers with access to the tools, training, and information they need to build successful careers in industries that are powering Miami’s growing economy.  Olivia is a Miami native and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Florida and a Master’s in Public Health from Columbia University.  

Prior to joining the Foundation, Olivia worked on environmental justice campaigns for a national organization while completing her Master’s degree.  Her love for people and community building allowed her to create and lead several nonprofit organizations, travel to Indonesia providing mental health care, and participate in Community Based Participatory Research projects that aided disaster relief in San Juan, Puerto Rico and activated community members in East Harlem around policy changes.

Olivia’s passions for justice, health, and wealth building guide her commitment to Labor Miami and workforce and community development at large.

Natalie Castellanos currently serves as Catalyst Miami’s Director of Community Prosperity. In this role she supports Catalyst Miami’s mission of identifying and collectively solving issues adversely affecting low-wealth communities throughout Miami-Dade County by ensuring that families’ basic needs are met through access to community-centered health and wealth-building services.
Natalie’s past roles include serving as policy director at Health Foundation of South Florida, health care access attorney with FIU College of Law’s Clinical Program, and assistant professor at FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, where she continues to teach medical students inter-professional collaboration and advocacy topics.
Natalie is passionate about advancing health equity and supporting collaboration across non-traditional partners to improve service delivery and advance community justice.