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New consulting group offers grant-writing and community needs assessments to mayors
Summary
Positive Pathways Consulting representative outlined grant-writing experience and proposed culturally resonant needs assessments to help villages access foundation and federal grants.
Lonnie Carrillo of Positive Pathways Consulting presented a proposal to mayors to help villages complete culturally resonant community needs assessments and pursue foundation and federal grants.
Carrillo said her firm has experience in Hawaii and nationally with grant-writing and building evidence-based programs in juvenile justice, youth workforce and wraparound services. She described past grant wins (examples cited from her prior work) and said Guam lacks up-to-date published data (post-typhoon) necessary to support larger grant applications.
She offered to partner with village governments, collect local data, and prepare grant applications to fund community programs, citing private foundations (Kellogg, Kaiser, Microsoft-style funders) and some federal opportunities (including language and ANA grants) as potential sources. Carrillo invited mayors to identify village contacts and data and to work with her firm to complete needs assessments that can support multi-million-dollar proposals.
Mayoral comments were brief; Carrillo asked villages to appoint trusted local contacts who could work with consultants to gather data and define program priorities.
Ending
Carrillo requested mayors and staff contact Positive Pathways Consulting to arrange needs-assessment work and said her team will help villages build programs from the assessment findings.
