Breeze-Martin.com provides consulting services to communities and organizations
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Breeze-Martin Consulting
Description
Rick Breeze-Martin, Breeze-Martin Consulting, provides private and public organizations with technical assistance in strategic planning, economic and community development projects, program evaluation, organizational assessment and development, business planning, employee training, project design and technology projects. Rick has over 25 years of work with, and often for, non-profit organizations, public agencies and commissions, private corporations and cooperatives. He is well versed in federal regulations and grant funding requirements for local government entities as well as Community Development and Community Action programs.
After nine years in the U.S. Navy and then college at U.C. Santa Cruz, Rick first began his career in 1976 with the non-profit self-help housing organization, T.E.C.H.O. operating in the Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley area. Rick moved into Community Action work in 1979 as a Deputy Director of the Santa Cruz CAA.
In 1981 he accepted a public appointment as Executive Director, and first employee, of the Amador-Tuolumne Community Action Agency (www.a-tcaa.org). As Executive Director, Rick was instrumental in the design, development and management of the agencies systems for governance, administration, planning, finance and operations. By the time Rick left 10 years later A-TCAA community service programs included: Housing and Emergency Shelter Assistance, Community Volunteers (500+), Energy Conservation, Head Start, Community Youth Services, Senior Nutrition and Services, and Community Resource Development.
