About Me
Polly Riddims is currently the Managing Partner of Fusion Partnerships, Inc, a nonprofit organization in Baltimore. In that position, she oversees all financial, administrative and program functions. Fusion provides incubation and fiscal sponsorship services to over twenty grassroots community based emerging nonprofits. Polly brings over 15 years of administrative and human resources experience with both nonprofit organizations and in the business world. She also has worked with organizations and clients on fundraising, conference organizing, program implementation, client development, marketing, project management, community outreach, project facilitation, and event planning. Polly also helped to design and facilitate a variety of educational programs on diversity and community building. Her community involvement includes serving on the Steering Committee of Maryland Juvenile Justice Coalition, as Board President for Reclaiming Our Children and Community Project and a Member of Peace with Justice Committee of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Friends Service Committee. In 1995, she founded and is the current editor of Reggae Runnins (www.reggaerunnins.com) a music and cultural website and publication that serves to build community through the positive message of reggae music and the arts.
NCDD Involvement
I have served as the Logistics Coordinator for all three NCDD conferences, and I'm filling this role again for the 2008 conference in Austin.
This group was formed to help NCDDers from the Mid-Atlantic states to network and share region-specific information. The Mid-Atlantic region includes Washington D.C. and parts of its surrounding states (DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV).
We wanted to create one group that every NCDD member is a part of, so we can provide a space where all members can take part in discussions here in the members network.
