Executive Director

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Executive Director	Mr. Ryan LaSuer
E-mail	rclasuer@gmail.com
Term Start	June 2017
Ryan's Experience: Ryan is a proven servant leader and marketing professional with years of experience in creating grassroots promotion, client engagement and building stakeholder relations. He graduated from Trevecca Nazarene University in 2013 with a Masters in Organizational Leadership and comes from a strong business background with more than 15 years of leadership experience improving non-profit organizations. He spent 9 of those years with St. Luke's Community House managing a $1.6 million budget. During his time at St. Luke's he was responsible for or secured over $1 million dollars in grants and partnerships with the United Way, Community Foundation, Nashville Public Schools and local churches. He was an integral leader on a shared services team granted $1 million to create statewide model for the Department of Human Services. Through his nonprofit work he was able to serve the working poor community of West Nashville by providing for their immediate needs and teaching self-sufficiency skills to help break the poverty cycle. Ryan also previously worked on 10 film campaigns with a combined box office of over $108 Million. This list includes faith-based films such as "War Room", "Woodlawn", "God's Not Dead 2" and "The Case for Christ". He has built partnerships with over 1300 church networks across the country. Through this experience he learned how to support local churches and ministries by providing tools in line with their vision to effectively impact their communities.

Senior Staff

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Name	Title
Ryan LaSuer	Executive Director
Tyle Peterson

Staff

Full Time Staff	19
Part Time Staff	25
Volunteers	125
Contractors	2
Retention Rate	95%

Plans & Policies

Does your organization have a Fundraising Plan?	Yes
Does your organization have a Strategic Plan?	Yes
Years Strategic Plan Considers	3
When was the Strategic Plan adopted?	March 2023
Does your organization have a Management Succession Plan?	No
Does your organization have a Policy and Procedure Plan?	Yes
Does the organization have a Nondiscrimination Policy?	Yes
Does the organization have a Whistle Blower Policy?	No
Does the organization have a Document Destruction Policy?	No

Evaluation

Is there a formal evaluation for...		Frequency (if applicable)
CEO/Executive Director	Yes	Annually
Senior Management	Yes	Annually
Non-Management	Yes	Annually

Affiliations

Affiliation	Year
Center for Nonprofit Management Excellence Network	2001

CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments

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In 2018 we provided the following services to our guests: 30,113 meals; 7,321 showers; 4,368 loads of laundry; 35,292 hygiene item; 350 pastoral counseling sessions and 5,420 volunteer hours. In addition, we provided part time employment and job training through our partnership with UNLOCKED, a social enterprise.; we enrolled 8 pre-k aged children in our Dare to Dream full time licensed child development program and 2 students enrolled in college from our Starfish program.