A Look At Helping Women Entepreneurs with the Polk Institute

Darrell Wayne sits in for Mark Alyn on this episode of Late Night Health. The Guest is Erin Thompson, Chief of Global Partnerships for the Polk Institute Foundation.<br />Thompson enjoys being able to reference skills and relationships developed from her time spent working at:<br />•Inner City Law Center in Los Angeles – where she raised $1 million from one fundraising luncheon, producing the first ever L.A. County-wide Weekend to End Homelessness, and led the team that created <a href="http://www.homeful.la" rel="noopener">www.homeful.la</a> which connects people with opportunities to volunteer, donate or advocate towards ending homelessness.<br />•New Life Covenant Church in Chicago – accomplishments include automating systems for over 60 ministries at this megachurch and successfully managing a $50 million real estate portfolio.<br />•McKissack and McKissack – where she secured multi-million dollar architecture and engineering contracts from The Chicago Housing Authority and the Martin Luther King Memorial in D.C.