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Published on: 1/1/2007
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Froswa' Booker-Drew is currently Regional Director for the Innovation Groups, a national non-profit that provides consultation, training, and research for local governments.In this role, Froswa' works with over 50 city managers and their staff in the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.This includes marketing, learning event coordination, hiring consultants, recruitment and retention of member cities.Prior to this role, she served as Director of Communications/Assistant to the Headmaster at St. Philip's School and Community Center.
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Froswa' solicited and received funding from United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, Dell Foundation, Microsoft, and many others during her tenure.As a result of her leadership, participation increased especially in targeted zip code areas as well as a stronger relationship was established with the media publicizing programming.In addition to her role as Director of the Community Center, she was also the 5th grade Social Studies Instructor.
She is also part-time Development Coordinator for The ChildCareGroup.She is responsible for assisting in raising $825,000 for this organization which has a budget of over $12 million dollars.Over $500,000 has already been raised toward this effort.She is the owner of Soulstice Consultancy, an agency of four that provides capacity building services such as special event/tour coordination, promotions/community based marketing, fundraising (grant research, proposal writing and donor cultivation), program development assistance, board training, strategic planning/visioning, consultations/coaching for businesses and non profit agencies.
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In addition, Booker-Drew has created "Beyond Sunday Morning" in conjunction with Cornerstone Baptist Church and trains churches in East Texas, Houston, Dallas and North Louisiana with capacity building issues including leadership development.
Past Clients of Soulstice have included the following:
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Froswa' has been selected to serve as a delegate in Non Profit Congress in Washington DC and also reviews grants for a number of Federal agencies and foundations:
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Mrs. Booker-Drew is a graduate from Oklahoma City University with a Master of Liberal Arts in Humanities.She received a scholarship and an assistantship to attend OCU.Booker-Drew worked full-time as an Educational Consultant for two non-profit agencies in Oklahoma City while attending classes full-time.She received her undergraduate degree from The University of Texas at Arlington in History, a minor in English, and an emphasis in Women's Studies/Sociology.As a student, she was extremely involved in campus and community activities.As President of the NAACP at UTA, the chapter under her leadership received second place in the nation as Outstanding College Chapter.The chapter was responsible for the discussion of many of the changes for inclusion on the campus of UTA.She was also the first African American female President of the Student Activities Board and a member of the UT System Regents Advisory committee Froswa' s work experience is broad.
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Booker-Drew has presented a number of workshops and seminars at conferences including the University of Notre Dame, Texas A& M University, The Minority Student Today Conference, The University of Oklahoma, and the University of Texas at Arlington.She was selected to serve as a presenter for the 1999 Mobil African American Women on Tour in Atlanta, Georgia.This year, she was featured on the video ‘Extraordinary Women' by Dallas Community Television and has been on a guest on a number of television and radio programs.
She has been an instructor of Writing for St. Anthony's Catholic School, a contributor to Devo' Zine, a supplement to the Upper Room Devotionals for teens, and has provided commentaries to KERA/National Public Radio.She was an editorial writer for www.dallasblack.com and has written articles for Today's Black Woman, United School Education Agency, Minority Opportunity News, Ink Spill, and Raising Today's Teens on family and adolescent issues.She is also a columnist for Fort Worth Black News.Currently, Froswa' serves as Texas Board Member for Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth, Girls Inc—Tarrant County, Cooper Institute Oak Cliff Center Advisory Board, Dallas American Red Cross Diversity Leadership Team and as a Boardography Advisory Board member.Other activities have included working with the inmates of the Seagoville Federal Prison; former Board member of Old City Park; former Board member of the Latino Arts and Letters Cultural Center; former Board member of the Urban Scholarship Committee for Young Life and the Partnership for Arts, Culture, and Education and was also appointed to serve as a member of the Irving Youth Council.Froswa' completed 40 hours of Basic Mediation Training through Dispute Mediation Services of Dallas and has been asked to serve as a Consultant for the Non-Profit Management Center providing Board Training.
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