About David
David Steven Rappoport is a non-profit professional with more than 30 years of experience.
He has served as the Director of Development in an urban community health center system, and consulted with non-profits and philanthropies in health care, economic development, and other mission areas as an affiliate of the Chicago firm, Millennia Consulting.
He was the Senior Program Officer of Maine's largest health care foundation, the Maine Health Access Foundation. There, his responsibilities included design of the initial grant making processes for the Foundation, and subsequent management of grant making for more than 288 awards totaling $21,198,000. He also managed a number of evaluation efforts.
His work also involved significant health care systems change work. For example, he partnered with the Maine Primary Care Association to develop a technical assistance intervention to improve the quality of community health center applications for funding to the Federal government. The Foundation's investment of about $150,000 resulted in four new or expanded community health centers in Maine with approximately $2,172,000 in new Federal funding.
Earlier in his professional life, as a principal of Development Solutions Group, he worked with clients in thirteen states to develop programs, and wrote applications to HUD, HRSA, and other federal agencies, as well as state agencies.
As an administrator of community-based AIDS clinical trials in Philadelphia, he managed multi-million dollar private and public research contracts, provided overall day-to-day administration of the host organization, and navigated approval processes through Institutional Review Boards. In a less senior position and with more of a fundraising focus, he was also engaged in similar work in a New York City public hospital.
As a member of a number of non-profit Boards, he has engaged in other forms of fundraising, such as capital campaigns, direct mail, planned giving, and annual appeals. He also has extensive experience as a trainer and facilitator. He developed and taught workshops in change management, grant writing, fundraising for more than ten years. He holds two Master's degrees – one a M.S. in Management from Antioch New England Graduate School, and the other a M.A. in writing and literature from Goddard College.
David frequently collaborates with Chris Shrum.
Chris Shrum provides proposal writing and organization development assistance. Over the last ten years he has assisted governments, health systems, and nonprofit organizations advance their missions by creating lasting partnerships, fostering civic engagement, building community and organizational capacity, and securing more than $100 million in philanthropic resources from a wide range of public and private sources.
Chris served as Director of Government Affairs and Planning for Pen Bay Healthcare, a community healthcare system featuring a 100-bed acute care facility, outpatient physician practices, mental health services, long term care, home health, and a vertically integrated retirement community. During his tenure, Chris secured more than $5M in public and private foundation grant funds for the expansion of a surgical suite, design and implementation of an innovative mental health delivery model that increased access to care and reduced costs, introduction of telemedicine equipment for home health, and creation of a workforce development initiative based on a career ladder program. In addition to funding, Chris led an effort to transform healthcare quality through information technology, conducted a system-wide strategic planning process, and conducted a series of feasibility studies related to thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, outpatient urgent care, and opiate addiction services.
Chris holds an M.P.A. from New York University and is currently completing his Ph.D. in human and organizational development from Fielding Graduate University.