About Hank

Hank has significant experience with non-profit projects including strategic planning, funding development, signature events, secondary events, and grant research, writing, and management. He primarily works in the fields of mental health, addiction and recovery, and housing.

Hank also serves as Executive Director of Better Days Harm Reduction, an organization for advocacy and resources for the recovery community and the only harm reduction organization in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Previous experience includes the Triad Health Project, Greensboro, NC, where he developed a meals-to-go program that was distributed through the “buddy system” to combat hunger and malnutrition in the early days of the AIDS crisis. He volunteered at GMHC, NYC, was an activist at ACT-UP, NYC, and protestor for human rights at the March on Washington with the New York contingent, and later as a tutor in the Adult Literacy Program at the New York Public Library. More recently he has worked on Hilton Head Island, SC, with the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry’s The Giving Marketplace and as a blogger for the Volunteer Connections website and served on the Board of Directors at MercyMe Sober Living in Beaufort, SC, and Better Days Harm Reduction.

His workshops have included topics such as Introduction to Grant Writing, Effective Grant Research, Board of Directors Roles and Responsibilities, Creating a Gold Standard Assessment for Non-Profits, and How to Create The Development Plan for Non-Profits.

Personal Development topics have included Harnessing the Power of Gratitude, Giving Back, How to Eat an Elephant, Letting Go, Living Sober, and How to Apply the Twelve Steps to Real Life.

His happiest childhood memories were spent with his family in the great outdoors visiting State and National Parks, camping, hiking, swimming, fishing, and car trips in the mountains. He continues to pursue those interests, travels extensively, and considers bird watching a productive use of time.