About Lisa Pote
At 46 years old, Lisa values the importance of making a difference. After an extensive career in business, government and serving the nonprofit community, Lisa has grown to love her community and understand the importance of having a voice for Nashville's residents. This commitment to the community has resulted in her run for the District 34 Metro Council seat.
In 1994, she and her family moved to Nashville from the Washington, DC area. While finishing graduate school, Lisa started working for Nashville Career Advancement Center (NCAC), a division of the Mayor's Office. As the lead advocate for high-risk job seekers within the workforce development system, Lisa designed and implemented employment support programs for job seekers facing barriers to employment.
Those job seekers with barriers included individuals moving off welfare, people with disabilities, the working poor and disadvantaged youth. Throughout her 9 years at NCAC, Lisa wrote, received and managed up to 6 million dollars of federal grants. She also coordinated an initiative to improve the capacity of workforce development for nonprofit agencies.
In 2005, Lisa accepted a new challenge as director of consulting for Center for Nonprofit Management (CNM). She is now responsible for "making the match" between the CNM consultant pool and nonprofit and government organizations to improve their capacity to meet and exceed performance. Services include strategic planning, board development, resource development planning, team-building, human resources and performance management. Also, she is responsible for delivering facilitation, program design and performance improvement services to these nonprofits as appropriate.
Lisa is actively involved in her community as member of West End Synagogue, Nashville CABLE, Nashville Women's Political Caucus, League of Women Voters and serves on the Boards of Hands on Nashville and National Association of Social Workers Tennessee Chapter.
Married for 22 years to Michael Pote, she and her husband have 2 children. Ben, age 20, attends Washington University in St. Louis and Max, 17, is a junior at Hillsboro High School.
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Skills and abilities:
- Lisa is an optimist and a pragmatist.
- Believes in partnerships for the purpose of improving the quality of life
- A solution focused individual
- Been in Nashville long enough to know the right people in order to get things done.
- Has worked for Metro government in order to know how things work from the inside.
- Lisa has the ability to handle conflicting priorities.
- She has performance management skills such as strategic planning, partner identification, program design, outcome measurement and process review for continuous improvement.
Qualifications include:
- Knowledge of Nashville's nonprofit community across a wide range of human service concerns such as: domestic violence, substance abuse, homelessness and family poverty issues
- Technical support experience for faith and community agencies that seek an understanding of how to access workforce programs, funding and services
- While with Nashville Career Advancement Center, Lisa served the Welfare to Work as a Lead advocate for high-risk job seekers within the workforce development system.
- Designed and implemented employment support programs for job seekers facing barriers to employment such as individuals moving off welfare, individuals with disabilities, the working poor and disadvantaged youth.
- Wrote, received and managed up to 6 million dollars of federal grants.
- Coordinated Nashville's role for a Rockefeller Foundation funded capacity building initiative to improve the capacity of workforce development nonprofit agencies.
- For 8 years, she balanced her life between raising children, working as an HR assistant, pre-school teacher and graduate student.
Leadership experience:
- National speaker for Department of Labor's Employment and Training Office
- Member, Core Staffing Team, Mayor's Task Force to End Chronic Homelessness
- Member, Tennessee Conference Social Welfare
- Member, United Way Council Supporting Work and Independence
- Resource Chair, Board Member, Hands On Nashville
- Member, Nashville Women's Political Caucus
- Legislative Chair, National Association of Social Workers, Tennessee Chapter
- Past Policy Chair, Nashville Area Association for the Education of Young Children
Leadership Honors:
- YWCA Nell McKerley Partner Award
- NCAC award recipient for "Exemplifies How We Should Treat Our Partners" 2001
- Alpha Delta Mu, Social Work Honorary for Scholastic Achievement
- Eta Pi Upsilon, Syracuse University Women's Honorary
- Student Class Marshall, Syracuse University College for Human Development
- Family and Community Services Award, Syracuse University College for Human Development
Education:
- Masters of Science in Social Work (MSSW) from University of Tennessee
- Bachelors of Science from Syracuse University
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