Services
Following is a listing of services provided by Susan K. Flinn Consulting. Click any of these four headings to jump to that section: Project Management, Materials Production, or Meeting Management.
Susan K. Flinn Consulting
Following is a listing of services provided by Susan K. Flinn Consulting. Click any of these four headings to jump to that section: Project Management, Materials Production, or Meeting Management.
Susan K. Flinn provides staffing for short- and long-term projects. These services are particularly useful for organizations that have a specific activity to complete, but do not want to bring a staff person in-house for reasons such as cost or the strain on the company infrastructure.
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Ms. Flinn provides program oversight services for a variety of non-profit clients who need help in multiple areas. Imagine something between a Girl Friday and an eminence gris, and you’re on the right track. It’s hard to characterize these activities, but a few examples are provided below:
Metro TeenAIDS
Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) is a small, DC-based organization that works to prevent adolescent HIV/AIDS in a city with the highest rates of infection in the country. Susan Flinn provides a number of development- and communications-related services for the organization to help support its programs. Primarily, she helps raise the organization’s $2 million budget by coordinating grant writing and reporting activities. Susan manages a stable of six consultants who research funding opportunities, create grant proposals, and draft reports for foundations and governmental agencies. She also edits the organization’s newsletter, Outreach, and manages the writers and graphic designers who work on this publication. Susan helps plan and host MTA’s fundraising events and works with the organization’s event staff to ensure that each occasion reaches its goals. These activities raise critical funds to support the organization; communicate MTA’s successes to donors; and comply with government regulations. In fiscal year 2011, MTA raised 100% of its operating budget by the second quarter of the year; in FY12, MTA is 60% funded at the end of the first quarter.
Gay and Lesbian Victory Institute
The Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute works to achieve full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people by building, supporting, and advancing a diverse network of LGBT public leaders. The Institute sought to increase its foundation funding to expand the reach of current programs and implement new ones. Susan Flinn coordinated a project to identify potential funders from an online database of over 100,000 U.S. foundations. She identified over 300 potential foundations and prepared 30 fact sheets on the most likely funders. Susan created new proposals for the Institute to use in applying for both general operating and specific program areas. Some of these foundation prospects have already funded the Victory Institute as a result of this project.
American Academy of Pediatrics
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is a professional membership organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical sub-specialists, and pediatric surgical specialists. The AAP’s mission is to attain optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Susan Flinn has worked with the AAP on a number of documents, including clinical practice guidelines and technical reports. This work involves attending task force and other AAP meetings and capturing content; coordinating writing activities by AAP volunteers and staff; drafting and editing text for review by committee members, outside reviewers, and AAP leadership; and ensuring all timelines and deliverables are met. From 2008—2011, Susan worked with the AAP’s National Center for Medical Home Implementation on a new clinical report providing professional guidance on transitioning adolescents to an adult medical home. The Clinical Report appeared in the July 2011 issue of Pediatrics, and is available here.
Other projects include providing writing and editing services for a clinical practice guideline and technical report on treating adolescents newly diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, a technical report on male circumcision, and on the Board-directed Visions of Pediatrics 2020 strategic planning project.
Susan K. Flinn writes and edits materials for readers of all backgrounds. As a writer, she drafts documents for general audiences, public health practitioners, and policymakers. Her work has been published by Federal agencies, advocacy organizations, and public health associations. As an editor, Ms. Flinn works with authors to make their work as good as it can be, respecting their creation, but providing any suggestions or additions to make the final product more perfect. She has edited documents for both national and international non-profit and advocacy organizations.
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Susan K. Flinn helps organizations hold effective meetings, and ensure that meeting outcomes are not lost after the fact. She plans meeting agendas and coordinates logistics; provides reports and summaries of conference proceedings; and acts as a Review Administrator and recorder for Federal Objective Grant Reviews.
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