Executive Director, Coalition for a Tobacco Free Arkansas
Sam brought superb technical assistance, training, grant management, strategic planning and negotiation skills to our State Coalition. He was instrumental in helping to mend a fragmented state coalition using his bridge building skills. Under Sam’s keen eye and leadership, Arkansas was successful in implementing its first comprehensive smoke-free legislation at the local level…
Executive Diversity and Inclusion Council’s Marketplace Workgroup American Diabetes Association
Strategy Group continues to play a key role in helping our Mission Delivery field program staff find solutions to addressing diabetes, which has negatively impacted many Americans at epidemic proportions.
I was most impressed by how they came in as consultants to dissect a critical project involving multiple markets in Texas and was creative at designing and evaluating a youth focused community outcomes-based program funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield in Texas. I have no doubt that Strategy Group will use its team of experienced consultants to ensure that any program has the strategic planning and foresight it needs to succeed
Program Coordinator, WV WISEWOMAN
“Sam and his team engaged community members in the process by using Community-Based Participatory Approaches that equitably involved community members, organization representatives, and other professionals in all aspects of program and evaluation activities. Sam Becknel was and is a champion for the communities that were targeted for services via the REACH WV project. His concern for the individuals and communities that he worked with continued beyond the length of the project funding.”
