POC Affinity Group Annual Gathering

Date:  Tuesday, July 18, 11:00am - 6:00pm
Price:  FREE - Alliance Members ONLY

Facilitators: Monika Moss, MKM Management Consulting; Gita Gulati-Partee, Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest; Barbara Sugland, CARTA, Inc.; Diana Lee, National Community Development Institute

Success is about making connections. Ready to raise your profile, sharpen your skills, increase the solidarity, and ramp up the resources? The Annual People of Color Gathering is the place to be! This year, the POC uses an “open space” design concept to bring focused discussion to hot topics—such as cultivating nonprofit sector talent across generations, advancing social change through capacity building, and change agents in the American South. Bring your ideas and generate action-oriented peer exchange. Newcomer orientation at 11 am. Regular session starts at 12 noon.

About the Facilitators

Monika Moss, MKM Management Consulting
For over 20 years, master mapper and business consultant, Monika K. Moss has dedicated her talents to helping organizations and individuals create powerful road maps to make their vision real.  As founder and president of MKM Management Consulting (http://www.mkmmanagement.com), she and her staff bring the kind of outstanding process design that is required to successfully facilitate and support meaningful change in individuals, organizations and communities.  Monika has been supporting, coaching and helping leaders and friends to make their visions real on a personal level and is now sharing this personal development process based on her new book, Life Mapping, with Alliance members.  She is regular presenter and trainer at regional and national conferences on issues of nonprofit management, strategic planning, Gestalt Organizational Systems Development Theory, Cultural Competency & Diversity.  Monika holds a Masters from Columbia University and is currently on the faculty of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland's Organizational Systems Development. She currently hosts an internet radio show that highlights ways individuals and organizations utilize consultants to support their vision, 'Mapping Your Future' with Monika K. Moss on VoiceAmerica and television talk show, 'The Bottom Line: Empowering Communities of Color in a Global Economy' on Village TV in Cleveland, Ohio.

Gita Gulati-Partee, Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest
Gita is founder of OpenSource Leadership Strategies, Inc., a national consulting practice based in Durham, North Carolina.  Gita has extensive experience in asset-based methods of inquiry, engagement, and change with a range of social change agents – from grassroots groups to national networks, infrastructure organizations, and foundations, as well as individuals and communities – around the country and abroad. 

As senior consultant to CLPI, Gita works with the CLPI staff to weave the CLPI Action Network by developing Strategic Partnerships with national infrastructure groups and networks; Training Fellows who extend CLPI’s capacity to deliver trainings to nonprofits across the country; the annual Network Retreat for strategizing and relationship building; and an interactive curriculum accessible through CLPI’s online Training Resource Center.

Gita brings a strong and diverse portfolio of experience and training to OpenSource and CLPI.  She co-directs Duke University’s annual Institute in Nonprofit Leadership and co-manages the NC Peoples' Coalition for Giving, a multicultural statewide network that highlights and celebrates the wealth of giving from people and communities of color.  Gita has published books and articles on advocacy, grantmaking, service-learning, and internships.

Gita was recently the program director for public policy at the NC Center for Nonprofits – the statewide network, resource center, and advocate for nonprofits in NC – and editor of the Center’s bimonthly Common Ground.  Previously, Gita served as a program officer with The Cleveland Foundation, where she conducted strategic grantmaking in arts and education and directed a technology capacity-building project.  Earlier, Gita managed special projects for the National Society for Experiential Education and educational programs for the Duke University Talent Identification Program.

Gita holds an MBA with concentrations in entrepreneurship and organizational behavior as well as a Certificate in Public Policy from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.  Gita received her B.A. and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University.  She is a 2001-2003 William C. Friday Fellow for Human Relations through the Wildacres Leadership Initiative.

Barbara Sugland, CARTA, Inc.
As a respected voice for positive youth development in communities of color across the country, Barbara Sugland is committed to creating more supportive environments for young people by building the capacity of those that serve them and ensuring that youth are active participants in that process.
Sugland is the cofounder and executive director of the Center for Applied Research and Technical Assistance (CARTA), Inc. and articulates the national nonprofit’s vision and programmatic agenda to address a diverse and ambitious series of issues. These issues include structural racism and privilege, disparities in youth outcomes, cultural competence, community engagement, and youth leadership.

Under Sugland’s leadership, CARTA is currently implementing a place-based capacity building process that is consumer and data driven and engages a host of community stakeholders —including young people — to address racial/ethnic disparities in adolescent health and youth development.  In addition, Sugland has also worked to shape CARTA’s emerging leader’s model, an internal process that focuses on nurturing young professionals to assume leadership roles within CARTA and within the youth development field.

Sugland holds a Doctor of Science degree in social demography from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Public Health; a Master of Public Health degree in behavioral science and health education from the University of California, Los Angeles; and a Bachelor of Arts degree is in social psychology from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Arts and Sciences. To learn more about Sugland and CARTA visit: www.cartainc.org.

Diana Lee, National Community Development Institute
A native of Oklahoma, Diana has worked for equal access to health, education, social and legal services for youth and adults living with sickle cell and other special health care needs for over fifteen years. One of California's first state-certified sickle cell counselors, Diana served as the co-founder and past Executive Director of the Sickle Cell Community Health Network of Northern California. Prior to joining NCDI, she was an active advocate on behalf of children and adults with a broad range of disabilities and special health care needs, serving as a consultant-trainer for the California Department of Education, assisting parent groups, schools, and professionals around California to build effective partnerships through trainings, one-on-one consultation, technical assistance, and publications. An alumnus of the LeaderSpring (formerly Eureka Communities) Fellowship for non profit directors, Diana holds a B.S. in Health Science with an emphasis in Community Health Education from San Francisco State University.  Since joining NCDI in 2003, Diana has served on many projects, including coordinating the training programs for consultants and organizational leaders serving in communities of color both in California and North Carolina.