
"Sam and his team engaged community members in the process by using Community-Based Participatory Approaches that equitably involved community members, organization representatives, and other professionals in all aspects of program and evaluation activities. Sam Becknel was and is a champion for the communities that were targeted for services via the REACH WV project. His concern for the individuals and communities that he worked with continued beyond the length of the project funding."
Sheryn L. Carey
Program Coordinator, WV WISEWOMAN
"Sam brought superb technical assistance, training, grant management, strategic planning and negotiation skills to our State Coalition. He was instrumental in helping to mend a fragmented state coalition using his bridge building skills. Under Sam’s keen eye and leadership, Arkansas was successful in implementing its first comprehensive smoke-free legislation at the local level..."
Katherine Donald
Executive Director, Coalition for a Tobacco Free Arkansas
"After four months of local organizing, Sam was instrumental in bringing all ethnic groups together in the first Georgia Ethnic Health Summit. The summit accommodated diverse cultures in five different languages. Sam helped organize the services of interpreters and translators to help facilitate the linguistics exchanges at the meeting. In this role, Sam provided strategic planning, group facilitation and logistical direction."
June Deen
VP of Public Affairs for Georgia and South Carolina
American Lung Association, Southeast Region
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