Manuel ALONSO-MARTINEZ
Experience
2013 - Present
Executive Director
Earth Team – Sustainable Youth Internship Program
Managed $7 million in contracts with federal, state, county, and municipal agencies. Managing seven full-time staff and 100 paid interns each year. Experience with federal audits, nonprofit policy, procedures.
2015 - Present
Nonprofit Consultant
The Watershed Project
Sustainable Contra Costa
2019-21
Senior Business Analyst
Open Issue LLC
Business processes, information systems (Salesforce) for the Lawrence Berkeley Labs and the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
2010-2013
Transition Manager
La Peña Cultural Center
Organizational process improvement, restructuring staff, financial controls, information system (Salesforce).
2001-10
Executive Director
Social European Fund, Colmenar, Spain
Directed ESF projects for seven years managing $8 million in contracts with several municipalities in southern Spain.
2001-2010
Director
Museum of Ethnography and Rural Architecture
Cataloged the rural architecture of the mountain wineries of the XVII and XVIII centuries in the Montes de Malaga.
1999-2002
Consultant
Ethnobiology Conservation Team
Field work in the Colombian Amazon, with indigenous groups (Ingano, Kofan), projects related to primary healthcare, cultural preservation, forest conservation, co-management of protected areas.
1989-2000
Founder, Executive Director
TUVA Foundation
Tierras Unidas Vecinales por el Ambiente
United Lands of Neighbors for the Environment
Work with the government of Costa Rica the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United States international development agency (USAID), the US national Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), and 70 other organizations to support projects for community collaborative conservation in 5,000 acres of southern Costa Rica’s Pacific rain forests, including the participation of the Ngabe indigenous people. Sponsors included artists such as Julia Roberts, Woody Harrelson, River Phoenix, Bob Weir.
1987-1989
Liaison, Latin American Campaign
Greenpeace
Consulted with Greenpeace as a liaison with the Latin American campaign in ocean and fisheries issues.
1978-1983
Professor
Caribbean University College
University of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Junior College
Humanities and Social Sciences
Other
- CASPRC and Peter Roe University of Delaware, archaeological excavations, pre-Columbian cultures.
- Archaeological research, indigenous bronze age Tartessian cultures 1.000 BC in south west Spain with the University of Madrid.
- Director of the Microtechnology Unit in Citibank San Juan Puerto Rico and New York.
- Institute of Ecotecnics, Biosphere II project, rain forest biome in El Verde Puerto Rico.
- Invited lecturer at the Linnean Society in London.
GRADUATE Education
1984
Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean (CASPR). University of Valladolid, Valladolid
1982
University of Puerto Rico, San Juan
1977
University Autonoma, Madrid
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About Me
Experienced nonprofit executive with a demonstrated history of working in the environmental services industry. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Rural Development, International Relations, Environmental Anthropology, Fundraising, and Leadership.