Hello everyone, this is my first blog. YES!
I am running for City Council Ward #3
I am running for City Council Ward #3
Donna Smith
Passion for People, Connecting ...Communities.
Kick-Off February 17th
7:00 pm
934 West Little Creek Rd
Norfolk, VA
Accomplishments:
3rd year Stay Focus Photography Workshop Coleman Place Elementary School 30students! GANG PREVENTION! Thanks to Canon, ITS and Coleman Place
Southeastern Virginia Arts Association (SEVAA)
Executive Director
Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia
Long Term Care Supervisor, Ombudsman Supervisor, Elder Abuse Prevention Specialist
Sentara Life Care
Director of Activities
EDUCATION
· Leadership Hampton Roads Graduate Class of 2007
· Understanding and Controlling Your Arts Organization’s Finances
· 2005 Academy for Nonprofit Management, Certificate, Tidewater Community College,
Norfolk (1st Graduate 2005)
· Continued Studies in Masters of Severe Disabilities/ Rehab Counseling; Norfolk State
University; Norfolk, Virginia
· Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia
· Family Mediation, Critical Thinking, Computer Training, Elder Abuse, Substance Abuse
· Geriatrics, Ombudsman Training
· Competent Toastmaster
· Fund Raising and Marketing
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
Parade of Lights 2009
Kwanzaa Celebration Huntersville Community
MLK Walk 2010
Historical Celebration Abraham Lincoln 2001 Birthday, Carter G. Woodson 96th annual Celebration
LHR 2007 "Sleep in the Park" for the Homeless Project
Homerama Broad Creek Norfolk, VA (CEO Donna Sample Smith Interior Design
Designer Second Hand Savvy House)
Board Member, Cultural Alliance Greater Hampton Roads
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Public Speaker/ Aging and Arts
Signature Artist “Donna Sample”
Board Experience
Southeastern Virginia Arts Association Board Chair
Cultural Alliance Of Greater Hampton Roads
Norfolk State University Athletic Foundation
Virginia Literacy Association
Mayors Committee on Aging, Chesapeake
Norfolk Task Force on Aging
Hampton Roads Activity Director Association
Jewish Family Services
Botanical Gardens Cultural Diversity
Making a Commitment to the Arts, our Culture and our Community
Southeastern Virginia Arts Association (SEVAA)
Hired as the Executive Director for the organization in 2002.
SEVAA got a website, http://www.sevaa.org/.
Largest project Afr’Am Fest is Internationally noted as one of the largest African American Festival on the East Coast. In 2008 attendance estimated over 250,000 thousand.
Together, Afr’Am Fest 2008-09 sponsors, SEVAA members and member organizations, “we provided over 43 art programs in the Southeastern Virginia Area, Including Afr’Am Fest, Summer Arts Workshop @ Norfolk State University, public libraries and its latest after school program for gang prevention, a photography workshop “Stay Focus”. Canon, Cits; Chesapeake is the sponsor, classes are for ages 8year old to 12 year old.
SEVAA’s 6th year Juried Art Show in Virginia Beach " My Sister, My Friend". Celebrating Women in the Arts Nationally. Minds Wide Open March 19th, Bishop Sullivan's Gallery
Va. Beach, VA
Passion for People, Connecting ...Communities.
Kick-Off February 17th
7:00 pm
934 West Little Creek Rd
Norfolk, VA
Accomplishments:
3rd year Stay Focus Photography Workshop Coleman Place Elementary School 30students! GANG PREVENTION! Thanks to Canon, ITS and Coleman Place
Southeastern Virginia Arts Association (SEVAA)
Executive Director
Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia
Long Term Care Supervisor, Ombudsman Supervisor, Elder Abuse Prevention Specialist
Sentara Life Care
Director of Activities
EDUCATION
· Leadership Hampton Roads Graduate Class of 2007
· Understanding and Controlling Your Arts Organization’s Finances
· 2005 Academy for Nonprofit Management, Certificate, Tidewater Community College,
Norfolk (1st Graduate 2005)
· Continued Studies in Masters of Severe Disabilities/ Rehab Counseling; Norfolk State
University; Norfolk, Virginia
· Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia
· Family Mediation, Critical Thinking, Computer Training, Elder Abuse, Substance Abuse
· Geriatrics, Ombudsman Training
· Competent Toastmaster
· Fund Raising and Marketing
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
Parade of Lights 2009
Kwanzaa Celebration Huntersville Community
MLK Walk 2010
Historical Celebration Abraham Lincoln 2001 Birthday, Carter G. Woodson 96th annual Celebration
LHR 2007 "Sleep in the Park" for the Homeless Project
Homerama Broad Creek Norfolk, VA (CEO Donna Sample Smith Interior Design
Designer Second Hand Savvy House)
Board Member, Cultural Alliance Greater Hampton Roads
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Public Speaker/ Aging and Arts
Signature Artist “Donna Sample”
Board Experience
Southeastern Virginia Arts Association Board Chair
Cultural Alliance Of Greater Hampton Roads
Norfolk State University Athletic Foundation
Virginia Literacy Association
Mayors Committee on Aging, Chesapeake
Norfolk Task Force on Aging
Hampton Roads Activity Director Association
Jewish Family Services
Botanical Gardens Cultural Diversity
Making a Commitment to the Arts, our Culture and our Community
Southeastern Virginia Arts Association (SEVAA)
Hired as the Executive Director for the organization in 2002.
SEVAA got a website, http://www.sevaa.org/.
Largest project Afr’Am Fest is Internationally noted as one of the largest African American Festival on the East Coast. In 2008 attendance estimated over 250,000 thousand.
Together, Afr’Am Fest 2008-09 sponsors, SEVAA members and member organizations, “we provided over 43 art programs in the Southeastern Virginia Area, Including Afr’Am Fest, Summer Arts Workshop @ Norfolk State University, public libraries and its latest after school program for gang prevention, a photography workshop “Stay Focus”. Canon, Cits; Chesapeake is the sponsor, classes are for ages 8year old to 12 year old.
SEVAA’s 6th year Juried Art Show in Virginia Beach " My Sister, My Friend". Celebrating Women in the Arts Nationally. Minds Wide Open March 19th, Bishop Sullivan's Gallery
Va. Beach, VA
