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Form: Senior Staff MESSGRF Application

Submitted by collin.tomikawa

Fri, 05/05/2017 - 16:30

50.193.35.161

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Name of Staff Applicant Christie Heller de Leon

Name of RD/VP Collin T Tomikawa

Region Pacific

This staff is at least in his/her 5th year Yes

Salary Information

Budgeted Salary Level 10

Actual Salary Level 10

Budgeted Salary in Dollars 56,000

Actual Salary in Dollars 48660

Local Funding Sources and amounts (list Area, Division, or Regional seed money, matching grants, Chapter Planting start-up grants, Jumpstart, in kind gifts, etc.)

$20,000 of Regional money has been given over the past two years ($10K/year)

Grant Criteria

Ethnic Identity (check all that apply) Southeast Asian

Financial Difficulty (check all that apply)

Gender issues, e.g. part-time staff due to parenting life stage, woman from a theologically conservative church background, etc.
High cost of living

Please describe their situation including their ending deficit or surplus for the last three years and any present escrow in their account

Christie is a key senior leader in the region. She will be taking a Associate Regional Director role this summer. Funding is the key to her staying on staff. We have been making progress in growing her networks over the past two years. In addition to the regional support, Christie is expected to bring in $15K more than where she was at two years ago.
2016 $11,546; 2015 $6,680; 2014 $-7,363. She has also provided key leadership to our Filipino staff across the region and is an ATE (older sister) across the country to all staff.

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Strategic Role: The Senior Staff worker plays a critical leadership role regionally and/or nationally to help build healthy, ethnically diverse witnessing chapters or staff teams Yes

Please describe as it relates to their present and future involvement

Christie will be one of three supervisors of staff directors. We have a significantly diverse area director team that she will oversee. She is also a key note speaker at our white student identity conference in addition to being our main quarterback on our Asian Pacific American Identity conference.

What role (if any) does this staff play in chapter building or chapter planting?

Christie has lead her area team to spy out the land to all the remaining campuses in her geography this year. These exercises have caused her area team to starting three new campus groups. Christie is also on the region's chapter growth team that has been leading our regional goal of 72 new small groups.

What plan or strategy is being implemented regionally to assist this applicant in addressing their fundraising difficulties?

Last year the region sponsored her Energize program that has brought in $10K of new on going money. We have promised a two year grant of $10K/year that ends this year.

Additional comments or questions

As the region is losing a valued Associate Regional Director, Christie's new role has become all the more important to the region as we pursue our growth goals and to rebuild part of the Bay Area in the aftermath of the Human Sexuality challenges of this year. In the Bay Area we began the 2016-2017 fiscal year with 40 staff on Bay Area staff teams. We will finish the year with 20 staff on these very same teams. Having stable senior leadership is a needed component to the rebuilding of the work in the Pacific Region.

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Electronic Signature of Staff Completing This Application (name and zip code) Collin Tomikawa 94702

Email Address collin.tomikawa@intervarsity.org