Doris
Boeckman |
Suzanne
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Jane
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Pam
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Vicki Beck Ford |
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Patty
Gaffke |
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Melissa Koch |
Tim Taylor |
Christina
Stafford Freeman |
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Doris
Boeckman
Prior to founding Community Asset Builders, Doris served as Community Interventions Consultant for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Community Health Assistance Resource Team (CHART). Her primary role was implementation and sustainability of the Missouri Community Interventions Initiative, a $2 million grant from the state hospital association. Her expertise includes community coalition development; skill development, facilitation and training; and governance and leadership. She provides technical assistance to communities in researching and implementing interventions and monitoring and evaluating outcomes. |
Doris also has extensive Association experience. Prior to working at the Department of Health and Senior Services, was the director of community health services for the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) from 1996 through 1999. In this capacity she was responsible for engaging hospital leadership in shifting from traditionally defined health care to focus on community and population health, providing technical assistance to more than 150 member hospitals. She served as liaison with other state hospital association leaders for community health initiatives. She was also Grant Administrator from 1994 through 1996 of a statewide initiative for the Missouri Family Health Council, the statewide association for family planning.
Doris received a degree in Business Administration from Lincoln University, graduating Magna Cum Laude, Jefferson City, Missouri.
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Suzanne
Stafford-Alewine
Prior to forming Community Asset Builders, Suzanne Alewine was the Director the Community Health Assistance Resource Team for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. She was responsible for providing leadership, consultation and technical assistance to Missouri communities in all aspects of health and quality of life improvement, and for developing strategic alliances to address key state level issues. The team supported over 100 community initiatives statewide. |
Prior to joining CHART, Suzanne worked in the budget office at the state health department, conducting fiscal and policy analysis and developing operating, capital improvements and leased facilities budgets.
Suzanne completed an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and a Masters in Public Administration at the University of Missouri – Columbia. She is a founding member of the Association for Community Health Improvement - currently serving as an Advisor for Membership development and Conference planning and as a member of the ad-hoc committee on community health assessment; is a past co-chair of the national Healthy Communities Network; and is a graduate of the Health Forum’s Creating Healthier Communities Fellowship.
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Jane Albert
Jane came on board in January 2007 as Administrative Assistant for Doris and Suzanne. She helps with the supportive duties related to tracking memberships, working on member directories, managing calendars, and helping with conferences and other events. She also handles the travel itineraries for CAB and clients as needed, including the completion of registrations, arranging for travel and lodging accommodations, and any other travel needs. Jane retired from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and worked with Suzanne and Doris previously. She will be working part time, primarily on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Katelyn “Katie” Boeckman
Katie Boeckman is the newest addition to Community Asset Builders, as of April 1, 2008. She is a full-time student at Lincoln University, her major yet undecided. She was most recently employed by Modern Litho Print, as a desktop publishing assistant. Katie will be supporting Patty Gaffke in preparing newsletters, publications, conference and promotional materials for printing and will be providing general office support on a part-time basis.
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Pam Buschjost
Pam came on board November 1, 2006 as CAB's Finance Director. As such, she is handling all of the financial recordkeeping for several client accounts, including the Missouri Public Transit Association and Missouri Association of School Librarians. Pam's background is in bookkeeping. She has more than 20 years of experience in bookkeeping, working at Jefferson Bank for many years and for Schrimpf Management, a large properties management firm in Jefferson City, the last ten years. Currently, she is managing accounts receivables and payables, bank deposits, and financial recordkeeping for multiple clients.
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Vicki Beck Ford
Vicki joined the Community Asset Builders team in September 2007 as an Association Executive, with her primary responsibilities associated with the Missouri Association of School Librarians. She is responsible for member services, the Reading Incentive program, and conference coordination, among a host of other duties. Vicki retired in June 2006 from Osage County R-3 School district after 21 years as the Elementary Library Media Specialist. She received her Masters of Librarianship from Western Michigan University and a B.S. in Education from Central Missouri State University.
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Lisa Huff
Lisa has been with CAB since early 2004. She manages the office and serves as grants administrator for the Missouri Association of County Developmental Disabilities Services’ Emergency Housing Assistance Program grant. Effective January 2007, she began providing additional support to clients in the area of conference planning. Lisa also serves as the primary Association Executive for MOANCOR. Lisa previously worked for Central Bank in Jefferson City and has significant human resource and merchant account experience.
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Patty Gaffke
Patty joined CAB on June 1, 2006. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Avila in Kansas City. She does all the graphic design work for CAB clients, including newsletters, business cards, conference programs, promotional materials, annual reports, etc. Her creative talents and skills turn ordinary documents into eye-catching tools for our clients. Patty also functions as our photographer when needed or requested. Before coming to CAB, she was employed by Jeff City Printing.
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Melissa Koch
Melissa Koch joined Community Asset Builders as a subcontractor in July 2007. Melissa’s company, MAK Consulting, is located in St. Joseph, Missouri. Melissa provides a host of services to Community Asset Builders including capital campaign and resource development services, strategic planning, and conference management, among other things. Prior to forming MAK Consulting, Melissa spent five years as the Campaign Director for the United Way of Greater St. Joseph before moving to the Heartland Foundation as the Development Director. She is very active in the St. Joseph Community, having served on numerous community boards over the past 15 years. Melissa has a BSW from the University of Missouri-Columbia and is currently working toward a Fundraising Certificate from the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, on the campus of UMKC.
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Christina Stafford Freeman
Christina has been with CAB since February 2005. Christina works with clients on web-development and management and she maintains the websites of nearly all of CAB’s association clients. She assists clients with strategic planning, organizational assessments, project evaluations, conference planning and management, and resource development. Community assessment projects, which include research, data analysis, and report development, also fall into her scope of expertise. Christina previously worked in Information Technology for the Missouri Veterans Commission and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. She received her Masters Degree in Business Administration from William Woods University.
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Tim Taylor
Community Asset Builders subcontracts with Tim Taylor, with Taylor Media EventTek, for a variety of supports for clients, including information systems and network development and/or maintenance, development of audio/visual productions, community assessment data collection, and web-hosting. Prior to forming Taylor Medica EventTek, Tim was employed by the Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Primary Care. He has more than 30 years of experience in information systems and technology.
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Truffles and Smokey
Research has proven that pets improve quality of life, reduce stress and have a positive impact on health. People with pets have been found to have lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels when compared to people who did not have pets, even when matched for weight, diet, and smoking habits. Stockbrokers who had dogs or cats in their offices when they had to carry out stressful tasks had smaller increases in blood pressure than those who did not have a pet present (source: www.peteducation.com). Due to the nature of our work, we often work under stressful conditions and at odd hours or for extended periods. The office can be a lonely place after regular working hours. One of the advantages of having a veterinarian as our landlord, is his encouragement to share our office with kindred spirits. Therefore, after leasing for more than 18 months, we finally made the decision to rescue two kittens from the local shelter.
Meet Truffles and Smokey.
Truffles, a one-year old mother of eight kittens, is the oldest of our pet family. Her eight kittens were adopted by families throughout the community via the shelter before CAB adopted her. She was named by CAB owners for her dark chocolate coloring and “sweet” temperament (and our partiality for dark chocolate!). Truffles is very mild mannered, loves to lounge in the office windows and has a fondness for Pam, but is willing to seek tummy rubs from anyone who will provide them.
Smokey, also named for his coloring as he is the color of smoke (blue-gray), is nearing six months in age. He is a kitten to the core! He loves to play, is ornery as can be (toilet paper is a favorite), and tends to spend his time in the front office wreaking havoc with the cat toys. He is also a cuddler and can be found on someone’s lap at any given time during the day.
It is difficult not to take a few moments out of every day to enjoy the easy, quiet nature of these two very individual personalities, keeping all of us focused on what is really important – life.
We realize, however, that some people have allergies to pets and, therefore, wanted to share information about Truffles and Smokey in the event you wish to use our office for meetings. We keep the kittens out of the conference room; however, we encourage anyone with allergies to participate in meetings by conference call or that meeting hosts consider alternate locations if any attendees indicate an allergy to pets.
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Community Asset Builders, LLC is a women-owned business offering equal opportunity employment and prides itself in providing quality services in a family and pet friendly environment.
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