Stacey Knight

Stacey joins the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute with significant experience in grants management, program operations, and cross-functional project coordination within the nonprofit sector. She has a strong background in managing complex initiatives, with a focus on compliance, reporting, and aligning programmatic work with funding requirements. Prior to joining the Meadows Institute, Stacey served as a senior program director at the YMCA of Greater Houston, where she managed multiple government-funded grants, including federal, state, and county funding streams. In this role, she led reporting and compliance efforts, coordinated with internal teams and external partners, and supported grant-funded program implementation.

In her Meadows Institute role, Stacey supports revenue-generating efforts by coordinating proposal development, submission, reporting, and stewardship activities across program teams and major gift officers. She serves as a liaison across teams to keep funding-related work organized, on track, and aligned with funder expectations.

Stacey has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Public Relations from the University of St. Thomas. She currently resides in Houston, Texas, with her husband, two sons, and two dogs.