C06 Session: Enhance Your Power

Enhance Your Power: Leadership Development for Nonprofit Leaders Working in Underserved Urban Communities

Thursday, August 3, 11:00am - 12:30pm

Track:  Leadership and Governance

Presenters

Description

Urban communities face many challenges, and it is essential to address the leadership development needs of community-based nonprofits working to create change in such communities. This session will address strategies to strengthen nonprofit leadership in underserved urban communities, including focus on board development, peer networks, time management and transition planning.  Presenters will provide an overview of leadership models, and ways to strengthen leadership, and will facilitate discussion on case studies that incorporate the leadership concepts discussed.

About the Presenters

Rachael Coleman-Gibson, Fair Chance

Rachael Coleman-Gibson is a Program Manager for Fair Chance, a capacity building organization in Washington, DC. Her work focuses on strengthening youth and family organizations in Washington D.C.'s most underserved communities. She provides comprehensive support to out of school time programs in the areas of leadership development, monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, fundraising, board development, fiscal management, and communications and outreach. Prior to joining Fair Chance, she worked in the areas of youth development, community development, and research and evaluation. She received a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from the University of North Florida and a Master of Community Planning degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Amanda Marshall, Fair Chance

Amanda Marshall is the Founder and Executive Director of Fair Chance, a capacity building organization in Washington, DC focused on strengthening youth serving organizations. She has worked extensively in the nonprofit and grantmaking arenas. Her experience includes positions as a grantmaker at the Robin Hood Foundation, a nonprofit consultant at Jumpstart New York, a marketing and sales manager at K-World UK, a health care consultant at Ernst and Young, Founder and President of a chapter of the nonprofit organization Operation Smile, and most recently, Founder and Executive Director of Fair Chance. Amanda has worked with over a hundred nonprofit organizations including after school, early childhood, job training, education, and survival programs. Amanda received a BA in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.