JMA Group

Specialties

As a multiethnic, multiracial and multigenerational collective, The JMA Group is uniquely qualified to

provide services that ensure that diverse organizations close learning, opportunity, career, and organizational

capacity gaps. We apply our collective expertise to assist organizations in marketing; fundraising, donor

research and grant writing; organizational, educational program, and technology systems development;

program assessment and evaluation; event and conference planning and coordination; training program

development and management; and production and promotion of the arts.

History

Established in 2006.

As a multiethnic, multiracial and multigenerational collective, The JMA Group is uniquely qualified to

provide services that ensure that diverse organizations close learning, opportunity, career, and organizational

capacity gaps. We apply our collective expertise to assist organizations in marketing; fundraising, donor

research and grant writing; organizational, educational program, and technology systems development;

program assessment and evaluation; event and conference planning and coordination; training program

development and management; and production and promotion of the arts.

Meet the Business Owner

Johnnie M.

Business Owner

Dr. Johnnie McKinley is President of

and Principal Consultant in The JMA Group. McKinley has more than 30 years experience in state and district

educational administration; providing staff supervision, mentoring and executive coaching, program development,

grants management and program evaluation for nonprofits and school throughout the U.S., Europe, Mexico,

Canada, and Singapore.

As Grant Writer, Program/​Project Manager, and Program Evaluator in Puyallup School District, developing

curricula, program plans, and submitting competitive funding proposals to state and federal funders, she procured

repeated project awards for, and evaluated school district programs with budgets totaling over $ 4.7

million. As Program Manager for Western Washington for the WA State Office of the Superintendent of Public

Instructions Asst. Supt. for Teacher Certification and Community Outreach, she co-​managed a project to develop

a coherent state system for recruiting and maintaining a diverse teacher corps