Nadia Gomes

Education: BComm: University of Toronto, MBA: Yale School of Management
Service Expertise: strategic planning and program planning
TCC Practice Areas:  Philanthropy and International

Nadia Gomes has a background in strategic planning, program planning, and marketing with domestic and international non-profit organizations. At TCC, Gomes has worked on several long-term capacity-building initiatives including The Irvine Foundation's Arts Regional Initiative and The Ford Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, and McCormick Tribune Foundation's Challenge Fund for Journalism. These are multi-year capacity-building initiatives for arts and culture and journalism organizations respectively. Gomes has also worked on the Pfizer Foundation's Global Health Partnerships program, an oncology and tobacco control initiative supporting local and regional NGOs in over 20 countries. Gomes has provided support for the selection, evaluation, and convening of grantees; and long-term coaching in strategy, fundraising, and planning. Other client projects in which Gomes has been involved range from strategic planning to grants management and include the Pfizer Foundation's Mobilize Against Malaria initiative, the Wallace Foundation, and the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists at Stanford University.

At the Yale School of Management, Gomes was a Co-Leader of the Global Social Enterprise Club, orchestrating pro bono consulting projects for organizations with social impact in developing countries, specifically, Madagascar and Brazil. Gomes performed additional pro bono consulting work for nonprofit organizations in New Haven and New Britain, Connecticut, conducting financial viability studies and market demographic overviews. As well, Gomes completed an internship at CARE, working with Internal Audit in Sri Lanka to evaluate the planning processes and programs for tsunami relief efforts. She was also selected as a teaching assistant for a study trip to India, exposing business students to various industries and the social sector in a developing country.

Prior to her graduate work, Gomes worked with nonprofit institutions in Canada and Hong Kong, specifically the University of Toronto and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, where she created marketing plans and program strategies. She developed extensive experience in creating partnerships between corporate and social sector stakeholders by involving corporations in students' career development programs and attracting multi-national companies to foster and fund cross-cultural networks.

Gomes sits on the board of Border Crossers, a program that engages New York City elementary school students in social action to stop racism and understand cultural and racial differences. Gomes was also an inaugural advisory board member of the Toronto Board of Trade's Community Action Program, for which she received a Leadership in Action Award. Prior to completing her M.B.A. at Yale, Gomes earned her Bachelor of Commerce degree with distinction at the University of Toronto.

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