What I can do for you​

The works below are a composite of real client engagements and fictionalized scenarios built for FreshLink, a composite produce-prescription program. Together they're meant to show four things: that I can make a funder care in the first paragraph, that I can sharpen a vague draft into one built around measurable outcomes, that I can translate a budget into language a reviewer trusts, and that I can produce the kind of clean visual summary that usually gets outsourced separately.

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A Produce Prescription Pilot — Writing Samples
Illustrative program design created for portfolio purposes. Program, partner clinic, and figures are composite examples, not an active or funded initiative.
 

SAMPLE 1 · PERSUASION EXCERPT
Need Statement & Program Description
 

In East Oakland, a doctor can write a prescription for fresh vegetables, but it dies on the page. Not because the patient refuses to fill it, but because he cannot fill it. Here, more than a quarter of residents live with a diet-related chronic condition, yet fewer than half can reach fresh produce within a ten-minute walk. For a parent balancing shift work while managing diabetes or hypertension, "eat better" isn't actionable medical advice—it is an exhausting, multi-bus journey to buy the basic ingredients for the sort of healthy meal the rest of us take for granted.

 

FreshLink closes the gap exactly where it opens: in the exam room, at the moment a clinician and a patient are already talking about food. Partnering with [Root & Reach Health Initiative], we integrate food insecurity screening directly into routine chronic-disease visits. When a patient screens positive, we skip the ineffective informational pamphlet. Instead, we issue a monthly produce prescription redeemable at a weekly mobile market positioned directly in the clinic parking lot—complemented by nutrition coaching from a bilingual community health worker who shares the patient's language, culture, and lived experience.

 

This is not a food bank wearing a lab coat. It is a clinical intervention delivered in nutritious, fresh food. Serving 150 high-need households in Year 1, FreshLink measures success by clinical metrics rather than simple volume: tracking tangible movement in blood pressure, A1C, and food security scores, then routing that data directly back to the prescribing physician.

 

SAMPLE 2 · BEFORE / AFTER EDIT
Editing for Outcomes, Not Just Activity
 

BEFORE

Program Implementation & Scope

• Target Cohort & Capacity: FreshLink will execute fresh produce distribution to 150 identified food-insecure household units annually.

• Service Model: Operations consist of weekly stationary distribution events paired with standardized educational nutrition modules.

• Projected Outcome: The intervention seeks to increment dietary intake compliance and improve general participant health indicators across the target population.

AFTER
FreshLink will integrate fresh food directly into chronic disease care for 150 local families struggling with diabetes and hypertension. At routine clinic visits, patients screened for food insecurity will receive monthly produce prescriptions, redeemable at an on-site mobile market, alongside individually-tailored nutrition coaching. By treating food as medicine, FreshLink directly targets clinical outcomes—aiming to lower A1C levels, reduce blood pressure, and measurably improve household food health and security within a period as short as six months.

SAMPLE 3 · BUDGET NARRATIVE
Budget Narrative (Excerpt)
This request of $85,250 supports a 12-month pilot serving 150 households.

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Personnel ($35,000) funds a 0.5 FTE Community Health Worker / Produce Navigator, who conducts food-insecurity screening at clinic visits, coordinates the weekly mobile market, and leads brief nutrition education sessions — the connective tissue between clinical care and food access.

Produce vouchers and mobile market operations ($30,000) cover the direct cost of fresh produce distributed through the weekly market, along with vendor and transportation costs for the market itself.

Nutrition education materials and bilingual signage ($3,000) fund printed recipe cards, portion-guide materials, and market signage in English and Spanish, ensuring the program is accessible to the clinic’s primary patient populations.

Data collection and evaluation ($9,500) covers licensing for a validated food-insecurity screening tool, staff time to track blood pressure and A1C outcomes in partnership with clinic staff, and basic analysis to produce the program’s first-year outcomes report.

Indirect costs (10% of direct costs, $7,750) support the finance, HR, and administrative infrastructure required to operate the program responsibly.

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SAMPLE 4 · DESIGNATED OUTCOMES

Tracking the Success

An illustrative breakdown of FreshLink's program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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