Brandi Yee, Consultant to Grow, is also currently the Program Director for ACT for Alexandria, a community foundation. Brandi oversees ACT’s philanthropic and community investment initiatives and coordinates events and activities designed to raise the level and effectiveness of giving and engagement in Alexandria, Virginia. She recently coordinated Spring2ACTion, an innovative online community-wide giving event engaging 1,265 individual donors and raising $104,156 in 3 days for Alexandria nonprofits. Brandi also launched and manages all organizational and event planning aspects of ACT’s social philanthropic network, Give Back Alexandria, engaging over 500 young professionals in charitable giving. She is passionate about advising donors on strategic and effective philanthropic giving and engaging them in the work of local nonprofits.
Prior to ACT, she worked in a dual role as the Service Program Manager for Workforce Organizations for Regional Collaboration (WORC) and as the Manager of Training and Employment for its parent organization, Goodwill of Greater Washington. Brandi was responsible for opening the Arlington Career Campus of Goodwill and starting up the bank skills, hospitality skills, ESL and GED courses on-site. Prior to working in the nonprofit sector, Brandi worked with undergraduate students as a Career Consultant at George Mason University School of Management and a College and Technical Recruiter with User Technology Associates, Inc., a government contractor.
A native of California, Brandi has an M.S. in Organizational Learning from George Mason University and a B.A. in Rhetoric & Communication and Sociology-Organizational Studies from the University of California, Davis. Brandi serves on the Board of Directors for Girls on the Run – DC and is a member of the Diaconate of Grace Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC.
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