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PMI-020-33-06
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22 October 2006
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Seattle, Washington, USA – Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading not-for-profit advocacy association for the project management profession, today announced that Teresa Ann Sherald, PMP, is the recipient of the 2005 Community Advancement Through Project Management Award—Individual Category.
The PMI Community Advancement Through Project Management Award—Individual Category, instituted in 2003, recognizes and honors a PMI member for a particularly significant achievement or a sustained performance that improves the wellbeing of a community by completing a project, multiple projects, or by applying project management principles to the pro-bono delivery of goods and services.
In June 2005, New Salem Missionary Baptist Church—a church with a diverse congregation of over 4,000 in the northeast corridor in central Ohio—and Renaissance Community Development Corporation—a nonprofit organization also located in the northeast corridor bringing revitalization to the lives of residents and other organizations through educational enrichment, affordable housing and employment/business training—set a goal to to provide 400 households in the community with direct services or access to food, housing and employment over a concentrated period of 40 days.
The overall goal of the project was to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life in this distressed urban area by providing a systematic strategic planning and development approach that addressed the three basic human needs: employment, housing and food.
The project was put into action on 25 September 2005 and ended on 6 November 2005. During this period the project provided:
- 14,498 meals
- employment readiness training and resume preparation for 112 participants
- a job fair for 175 people
- homeownership workshops for 111 participants
- over 1,700 canned goods
The Project Core Team consisted of two project managers and subject matter experts. Teresa Sherald, PMP, project manager, lead the efforts for Renaissance Community Development Corporation.
Three sub-projects were created in order to complete the task at hand: employment, feeding the community and homeownership. Ms. Sherald served as project manager for the employment and homeownership sub projects. Additionally, she created the workflow process to execute the feeding the community sub project.
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