C06 Affinity Group: Young and Emerging Professionals

Young and Emerging Professionals Affinity Group (YEP) Joint Meeting with Emerging Professionals in Philanthropy (EPIP)

Wednesday, August 2, 1:00pm - 3:30pm

Price:  No additional charge for Alliance members.  Advance sign-up required.  No additional charge for EPIP members who register for full conference.  $50 for EPIP members who do not register for full conference.

Facilitators

Kia Levey, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven; Alison De Lucca, Los Angeles Immigrant Funders' Collaborative

Description

Young and Emerging Professionals (YEP) and Emerging Professionals in Philanthropy (EPIP) will hold a joint meeting for networking and sharing among those who are under 35 years of age or are new to capacity building and grantmaking.  The meeting will cover ways to broaden career growth in capacity building to also include philanthropy, to strengthen the YEP professional development activities.  The meeting will also feature presentations and sharing among YEP and EPIP.

About the Facilitator

Kia Levey, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

Kia Levey began her tenure at the Community Foundation in January of 2003 in the role of Associate Program Officer and was subsequently promoted to Philanthropic Officer. In that role Kia played an important role in supporting an initiative that provided training and development to the leadership of non-profits who served children between the ages of 6 and 10 years old. Kia also managed a project that created the development of Board Development and Management programs, Fund Development strategies, Strategic Planning, and Organization Branding to Non-Profit organizations in the Greater New Haven Area. As a member of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, Kia is a part of the People or Color Affinity group, leads the Young & Emerging Professional Affinity Group and participated in the Alliance's New England Meeting on Cultural Competency. Currently, as a Philanthropic Officer, Kia manages an initiative called "Communities of Color." Part of her work in this initiative involves working with African American Executive Directors to identify disparities and fill the gaps that African American executives may face in the Non Profit sector. Mrs. Levey was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut where she currently lives with her husband.