Joan Twiss
Executive Director
Phone: (916) 646-8680
E-mail: jtwiss@civicpartnerships.org |
Joan M. Twiss is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Civic Partnerships, based in Sacramento, CA. She has over 30 years of experience working in both the public and private sectors at the local, state and national levels. Ms. Twiss has extensive expertise in program planning, implementation, technical support, training, policy development and evaluation. She has conceptualized and launched several successful programs and initiated and managed an Office on Youth in county government.
Joan is responsible for the Center's strategic direction, research and development, and overall program management and evaluation. She designed and continues to direct California Healthy Cities and Communities, the first and largest program of its kind in the United States. Joan serves on several state and national committees. She has authored articles for peer-reviewed journals and practitioner-oriented publications. She also has been involved in the study and development of community indicators. She applied her experience with cities and quality of life issues to develop the Community Compass©, a community-driven vision, assessment and action planning process.
She directs the Center's Organizational Development Services and Organizational Learning and Evaluation programs. These programs provide customized support and educational programs for executive directors of non-profit organizations that are grantees of The California Wellness Foundation. Joan has developed and lead multiple technical support programs, often as part of comprehensive community health improvement initiatives, which have assisted organizations and collaboratives, throughout all regions of the state. Joan was also at the forefront of engaging new partners in the implementation of California’s hospital community benefits legislation.
Ms. Twiss has a Master's Degree in Health Education from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Jennifer Evans
Project Assistant
Phone: (916) 646-8680
jevans@civicpartnerships.org |
Jennifer Evans joined the Center in September 2011 as Project Assistant. She provides administrative support to the Executive and Assistant Directors as well as to program staff in the California Healthy Cities and Communities (CHCC) program, the Organizational Learning and Evaluation (OLE) program and the organizational development area. Jennifer has 10 years of administrative assistant experience supporting high-level management, including 7 years experience in the healthcare and non-profit sectors. |
Tanya Kleinman
Assistant Director
Phone: (916) 646-8696
E-mail: tkleinman@civicpartnerships.org |
Tanya Kleinman, Assistant Director, is responsible for leading the Center’s administrative functions as well as the Center’s Organizational Development team and programmatic activities. Tanya’s responsibilities also include fiscal management, human resources, operations and resource development. Tanya joined the Center as Senior Program Associate in August, 2006. In that capacity, Tanya worked with the Organizational Development team providing technical support and consultation to nonprofit organizations and also worked on Center-wide special projects. Tanya was formerly with the Center from 2001-2004 as the Program Administrator, providing fiscal management, resource development, and project evaluation and reporting. Before returning to the Center in 2006, Tanya served as the Development Director at the Water Education Foundation where she was responsible for resource development including grant writing and overseeing the Foundation’s grants and contracts.
Prior to joining the Center in 2001, Tanya served as Program Officer for the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. At the Foundation, she worked on donor services development and implementation of their competitive grant processes. She also oversaw the Foundation’s school dropout prevention initiative. Tanya was also Executive Director of the Partnership of Community Resources, a community-based coalition in rural Nevada focused on youth development. Tanya has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of California, Davis.
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