Chad Trivette

Service, Projects & Impact

My work has focused on public service, nonprofit impact, community outreach, fundraising, youth development, environmental sustainability, emergency preparedness, wellness, and cross sector collaboration. Across these efforts, I have been guided by a belief in expanding opportunity and helping communities become more connected, more responsive, and more effective in how they serve people.

I have organized and supported initiatives that brought together schools, local organizations, businesses, volunteers, students, families, health partners, and community leaders around shared goals. These efforts have included fundraising events, awareness campaigns, community programs, policy advocacy, youth engagement, sustainability projects, and local service efforts.

A consistent theme runs through my work: seeing a community need, listening to the people closest to it, bringing the right partners together, and helping turn an idea into practical action. I care about work that does more than talk about impact. I care about work that organizes people, builds trust, creates momentum, and produces visible results for the community.

Community Fundraising and Nonprofit Support

I organized and coordinated two community based half marathon fundraising events focused on helping people facing serious health and financial challenges. One event raised financial support for a family facing pediatric cancer without health insurance. Another helped generate funding for free mammograms and resources connected to a cancer support resource room. These events required planning, outreach, volunteer coordination, logistics, promotion, relationship building, and mission driven fundraising. More importantly, they reflected the kind of work I care deeply about: bringing people together around a real community need and turning compassion into practical support.

I also helped launch the inaugural Pink Games fundraising event, which raised $7,000 for cancer research and awareness in its first year and became a recurring annual initiative. This effort combined student engagement, school spirit, fundraising, event coordination, and community awareness around a cause that affected many families. It showed how a simple idea, when organized well, can create lasting momentum and become part of a community’s yearly tradition.

I directed a multi stakeholder fundraising initiative that helped establish a dedicated cancer support resource room within a local hospital and supported funding for free mammograms for underserved individuals.

This work helped expand access to support services for patients and families while reducing financial barriers to early detection. It also reflected the power of local partnerships, community generosity, and organized action to meet a real need.

I also coordinated a community 5K within a two week timeframe to raise funds for hurricane recovery efforts. That effort required rapid planning, outreach, volunteer coordination, and community mobilization in response to an urgent need.

Together, these projects reflect a central part of my work: identifying a need, bringing people together quickly, and helping turn concern into practical support for people and communities.

Public Service, Outreach, and Community Engagement

I have contributed to public service oriented work through community outreach, stakeholder engagement, partnership building, and program support.

In a public health internship role, I helped build relationships with community partners, supported outreach events, and assisted with communicating important information to the public. This experience strengthened my understanding of how effective public service depends on trust, clear communication, and consistent follow through.

I also contributed to an obesity prevention initiative, where I helped organize materials, support project documents, and contribute to outreach and promotional efforts for participants, stakeholders, and partners.

These experiences helped shape my approach to community work: listen carefully, support the mission, communicate clearly, and help organizations connect with the people they are trying to serve.

My experience includes service on eleven committees, including chairing two of them.

This committee work included public health, wellness, policy, student health, and community fundraising efforts. These experiences gave me opportunities to collaborate with different stakeholders, contribute to planning and decision making, support shared goals, and help move projects from discussion into action.

Serving on committees also strengthened my ability to listen, organize ideas, build consensus, follow through, and contribute in group settings where progress depends on coordination, trust, and clear communication.

Youth, Schools, and Community Wellness

I have helped design and support projects that encouraged youth engagement, physical activity, wellness, and stronger school community connections.

I planned and executed a large scale high school health fair serving more than 600 students, staff, and faculty. The event included health screenings and wellness services and required outreach strategy, budgeting, expense tracking, vendor coordination, and careful planning. This project reflected my ability to bring partners together around a practical effort that served an entire school community.

I also initiated a district wide school wellness program by marking walking distances in school hallways and distributing activity logbooks to encourage staff members to track physical activity. The goal was simple: make wellness more visible, accessible, and easier to build into the everyday school environment.

In addition, I collaborated with a high school to improve concession stand offerings by introducing three healthy snack alternatives and making bottled water more affordable than soft drinks. This effort showed how small, practical changes can support healthier choices without creating a complicated program.

I have also coached cross country at the high school level and track and field at both the high school and middle school levels. Through coaching, I emphasized teamwork, discipline, mentorship, physical fitness, confidence, and long term development.

Together, these experiences reflect my commitment to helping young people, schools, and communities create environments where participation, health, leadership, and personal growth are easier to support.

Equity of Opportunity and Community Connection

A recurring theme in my work has been creating more accessible opportunities for people to participate, connect, and benefit from community resources.

I designed and implemented a one year intergenerational program that strengthened relationships between high school students and older adults. The program promoted mutual understanding, collaboration, shared learning, and problem solving across generations. It reflected my belief that communities are stronger when people of different ages and life experiences have meaningful ways to learn from one another.

I also contributed to the development of five walking trails across a county, supporting safer and more practical opportunities for physical activity, active living, and community use. This work helped make healthy choices more accessible by connecting residents with simple, visible, and usable community resources.

In addition, I collaborated with community organizations to design and implement a community garden initiative that strengthened neighborhood collaboration and created a sustainable source of fresh produce for local residents.

Together, these projects reflect my commitment to building practical community solutions that bring people together, expand access, and help residents connect with resources that improve everyday life.

Policy, Data, and Systems Improvement

I have experience connecting outreach, data collection, partnership building, and practical policy goals.

I spearheaded a successful initiative to establish a tobacco free policy at a community college. The effort required building support across students, faculty, staff, and administrative stakeholders, communicating the purpose of the policy, listening to concerns, and helping move the idea from discussion to adoption.

This initiative strengthened the campus environment, supported prevention efforts, and showed my ability to organize people around a shared public interest goal. It also reinforced an important lesson in my work: meaningful change often requires patience, communication, persistence, and the ability to bring different voices into the process.

I also conducted a countywide business survey to assess tobacco free workplace policies. The survey collected and analyzed data from 115 businesses, including 91 organizations with tobacco free policies and 24 without such policies.

The findings helped provide insight into local policy adoption and supported planning, awareness, and prevention efforts. This work connected research, outreach, and practical action by helping turn community level information into something that could inform decisions and support healthier workplace environments.

Environmental Sustainability and Local Collaboration

I have helped advance sustainability through collaboration, resource sharing, and practical problem solving.

I facilitated cross organizational collaboration by bringing stakeholders together, sharing resources, and connecting organizations with best practices to support environmental sustainability initiatives. This work helped partners identify practical strategies, improve long term sustainability efforts, and generate measurable financial savings for local businesses.

I also founded a county bicycle committee to promote cycling as a healthy, sustainable, and practical mode of transportation. The committee supported awareness around infrastructure, safety, active transportation, and the role that biking can play in building healthier and more connected communities.

This work reflects my belief that sustainability is not only about environmental goals. It is also about coordination, education, cost savings, public awareness, and helping communities make practical changes that benefit people, organizations, and the places they call home.

Communications and Public Awareness

I conceptualized, produced, and edited a promotional video for a local farmers market, using multimedia storytelling to highlight the market’s mission, offerings, and community value.

The project supported public awareness, community engagement, and participation in a local food access initiative. It also gave me the opportunity to use communication, creativity, and storytelling to help connect residents with a local resource.

This work reflects my interest in making community programs more visible, accessible, and engaging. Sometimes impact depends not only on having a good program, but on helping people understand why it matters and how they can take part.

Emergency Preparedness and Public Safety Training

I have completed multiple emergency management certifications focused on incident command, emergency response coordination, and national preparedness systems.

These trainings strengthened my understanding of how public agencies, health systems, emergency response partners, and government organizations coordinate during emergencies, disasters, and large scale public safety events.

They also helped shape my appreciation for preparation, clear roles, communication, and coordination. In moments of crisis, communities need systems that are organized, responsive, and able to bring the right people together quickly. This training reinforced my interest in public service work that helps communities plan ahead, respond effectively, and protect the people they serve.

Recognition

I received a community service award from a local civic organization in recognition of my countywide community initiatives.

The recognition highlighted how those efforts contributed to helping a major community fundraising campaign exceed its annual fundraising goal during a difficult economic period.

This award means a lot to me because it reflects the kind of work I value most: bringing people together, supporting a meaningful cause, and helping community efforts succeed even when resources are limited and challenges are significant.

Professional Focus

Together, these projects reflect my commitment to service, collaboration, and expanding opportunity.

My work has involved organizing people, coordinating partners, supporting nonprofit and public service missions, improving access to resources, and helping communities respond to real needs. Across these efforts, I have tried to bring a practical, people centered approach: listen to the need, build relationships, organize action, and help turn good intentions into visible results.

At the heart of my work is a belief that communities become stronger when people are connected, resources are easier to access, and organizations work together with purpose.