C06 Session: Digital Barn-Raising

Digital Barn-Raising: Working Together to Make Community Knowledge Accessible and Support Advocacy

Friday, August 4, 2:15pm - 3:45pm

Track:  Technology

Presenters

Description

This session will feature the development and success of the Los Angeles based HealthyCity.org, an internet-based tool that maps community resources, services and needs.

The tool is designed

1. To help nonprofits better serve their clients by making referrals easier;
2. To help nonprofits advocate for increased services to neglected areas;
3. To help local funders get a better handle on the match, or mismatch, between available nonprofit and government services and neighborhood needs; and,
4. To encourage more data-driven decisions by policy makers.

The session will cover how the tool was developed and how other capacity builders can help bring government and nonprofits together to create better data and information for collaboration, advocacy and decision-making.

About the Presenters

Pete Manzo, UCLA Center for Civil Society

Peter Manzo is a Senior Research Fellow with the UCLA Center for Civil Society in the School of Public Affairs.  Previously he was the Executive Director and General Counsel of the Center for Nonprofit Management, which provides information, training and consulting and search and compensation support to nonprofits.  Prior to leading the Center, Mr. Manzo was Directing Attorney of Community Development Programs for Public Counsel, the nation’s largest pro bono law firm and the Los Angeles affiliate of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where he represented nonprofit charitable organizations in a broad range of real property, corporate, tax and other transactional matters.  Before moving into the nonprofit sector, Mr. Manzo practiced real estate and corporate law in the private sector, first at the law firm of Riordan & McKinzie, then at Tuttle & Taylor in Los Angeles. 

Mr. Manzo is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley; he also attended the London School of Economics, where he received a Master's degree in Political Sociology, and the University of Notre Dame, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Government.

He is a member of the boards of directors of: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy; PacAdvantage, a nonprofit alliance whose mission is to enable small employers throughout California to provide excellent, affordable health coverage to their employees; and United Friends of the Children, which provides transitional living assistance and job training to emancipated foster youth in Los Angeles County.

John Kim, Healthy City 

Mr. Kim has been working on social justice and community development issues for the past 8 years in both the San Francisco Bay Area and in Los Angeles. As an organizer for the AYPAL (Asian Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership) Program, he mediated racial tensions among students of color on high school campuses and helped organize a multi-racial coalition to implement an Ethnic Studies requirement in all Oakland Public High Schools. As the Executive Director of the Korean Community Center of the East Bay, John significantly expanded the agency's financial base and programmatic capacity through the development of new programs in the areas of Domestic Abuse and Immigrant Senior Support. John also implemented a groundbreaking, new information infrastructure for the Bay Area Korean American community through a community-based, technology networking and faith-based organizing. Mr. Kim's work in the Bay Area has been recognized by KQED/Channel 9 as the 2001 Local Hero of the Year Award and by Oakland's Mayor Jerry Brown with the proclamation of a "John K. Kim Day" in the City of Oakland.

Since then, Mr. Kim has worked in Los Angeles as an independent consultant with nonprofit organizations around program development/planning and grant writing. Recently, Mr. Kim worked with the Center for Nonprofit Management to oversee and facilitate the market research and planning for the newly established NPower Los Angeles. Mr. Kim currently serves as the Director of the Healthy City Project. The Healthy City site can be seen at www.healthycity.org.