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Thrive Resource Room ~ Local Media Impacts with Michelle Iracheta, Editor & Reporter of the Redwood City Pulse

November 17th, 2022 @ 10:00am - 11:00am

Welcome to Thrive Resource Room, where you will hear about Thrive updates and learn about free and affordable community resources to help your organization! This session will feature opportunities for launching a successful strategic planning process for your nonprofit, a presentation on how media directly impacts our community and how you can get more involved, as well as an overview of Thrive member benefits and how to get more involved in our cross-sector network.

What to expect during this session:

  • Launching a successful strategic planning process for your nonprofit: David Rhode, Deputy Director of PennPAC will discuss the key steps and considerations that will enable your organization to carry out an effective strategic planning process. David Rhode is the Deputy Director of PennPAC, an organization that utilizes University of Pennsylvania alumni to provide pro bono consulting to the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining PennPAC, David founded and scaled a global nonprofit organization for 14 years. He has his MBA from The Wharton School and teaches Nonprofit Branding at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Local media impacts: Michelle Iracheta, Editor & Reporter, Redwood City Pulse, will speak about Redwood City Pulse’s mission, and how it intersects with both the nonprofit sector and the community at large. Michelle will also discuss the impact of local media on the community and how you can spotlight your organization on the Redwood City Pulse website. In her career spanning nearly a decade, Michelle has covered mental health, public safety, disability rights, education, and city government. Her work has also appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Seattle Times, and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. She is the recipient of a first-place Blethen Award from the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association and has earned recognition from nonprofit Investigative Reporters and Editors. Prior to joining the Pulse, Michelle worked at the Houston Chronicle.

If you have services or information that you would like to share at our next Thrive Resource Room meeting, please email Keirstan. These sessions occur on a regular basis. We encourage you to send staff members and volunteers (especially new ones!) to one of our sessions to ensure that they are taking advantage of Thrive’s resources and opportunities.

*Zoom information will be sent to registered attendees.

Michelle Iracheta

“Michelle Iracheta helped launch the Redwood City Pulse in 2021 with the goal of bringing community news back to Redwood City. In her career spanning nearly a decade, Michelle has covered mental health, public safety, disability rights, education and city government.

Prior to joining the Pulse, Michelle worked at the Houston Chronicle, where she spent mornings writing about overnight mayhem and temperamental weather. Her work has also appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Seattle Times and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

Aside from numerous newsroom awards, Michelle’s reporting earned her a first-place Blethen Award from the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association for her story about an ammonia leak that prompted hundreds of evacuations in a city outside Yakima, Washington.

She was also part of the team who earned recognition from the nonprofit Investigative Reporters and Editors for its work on a story about a fatal chemical leak in Houston that killed four people.

Michelle, a Houston native, holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Houston. She is married and has two dogs.”

Phone
650-223-6523
Email
miracheta@rwcpulse.com