About Us

Grace C. Weltman, Founder

Grace Welt­man, Founder of Com­mu­ni­ties in Motion has over 20 years of pub­lic pol­i­cy, non­profit lead­er­ship and com­mu­nity devel­op­ment expe­ri­ence.  She has led many col­lab­o­ra­tive efforts focused on improv­ing social and human ser­vices. Lever­ag­ing her expe­ri­ences and exper­tise in pub­lic pol­icy and non­profit man­age­ment, Grace has been pro­vid­ing non­profit capac­ity build­ing, train­ing, and tech­ni­cal assis­tance to non­prof­it and gov­ern­ment orga­ni­za­tions, with plan­ning spe­cial­ties in orga­ni­za­tion, strate­gic plan­ning, pol­i­cy and advo­ca­cy lead­er­ship,  data plan­ning and man­age­ment and com­mu­ni­ca­tions.  Grace has exten­sive com­mu­nity plan­ning, group facil­i­ta­tion, and com­mu­nity engage­ment expe­ri­ence, which spans across her pro­fes­sional and vol­un­teer expe­ri­ence.  She has worked across a vari­ety of sec­tors that includes ear­ly child­hood edu­ca­tion, social ser­vices, home­less­ness, and youth devel­op­ment.

Grace received her Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Pub­lic Pol­icy & Man­age­ment and her Master’s in Pub­lic Pol­icy degree from the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Price School of Pub­lic Pol­icy. Grace also par­tic­i­pates in var­i­ous efforts impact­ing the pub­lic and non­prof­it indus­try.   Grace is cur­rent­ly an instruc­tor for the USC Safe Com­mu­ni­ties Insti­tute in which her are of focus is on Home­lessnes

We work with a team of con­sul­tants and con­trac­tors depend­ing on projects or pro­grams.