THE TEAM
The Heart Behind the Restoration
We bring decades of professional expertise in law, finance, development, communications, and community organizing. But more than credentials, we bring personal legacy. Many of us have family stories intertwined with the very blocks we're restoring. This isn't just a job—it's our responsibility to the ancestors who came before and the generations who will inherit what we build today.
Joy Dickinson
Chief Development Officer
Joy Dickinson, Executive Consultant: Joy guides nonprofits to solve organizational problems, plan for the future, and improve their financial sustainability. With decades of experience, Joy’s consulting work has helped nonprofits to expand services for vulnerable populations, build new buildings, develop staff capacity, improve donor relations, maneuver executive transitions, increase grant revenue, merge, explore new service models, set strategic goals, and more. Joy’s work is founded in her belief that better nonprofits make a better world.
Joy has 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, primarily serving health and human services related organizations. Joy holds a bachelor’s degree in Health Science from Sacramento State University.
Through Joy's work, non-profits have been gifted and granted millions of dollars from a wide variety of sources, including family foundations, corporations, government agencies and individual donors. During Joy's time as the Grants and Contracts Officer at CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse), CORA ranked #1 in the number of foundation grant awards, and #6 in total foundation amount received when compared to 200 related nonprofits in California. Additionally, Joy has conducted evaluation projects for community gardens, tobacco cessation and healthy weight programs, and domestic violence agencies. Joy co-authored “Community Gardens: Lessons Learned from California Healthy Cities and Communities” article evaluating the impact of community gardens, published by the American Journal of Public Health.
