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C05 Pre-Conference: Empowering Community

Empowering Community: Using boardnetUSA to Expand Nonprofit Leadership

Thursday 1:30pm - 4:00pm

Price: $50 Members; $90 Non-members

Track: Governance and Leadership

Presenters

Brooke Mahoney, boardnetUSA; Karen Beavor, Georgia Center for Nonprofits; Jan Masaoka, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services; Susan Katz Froning, Nonprofit Enterprise at Work, Inc.

Description

Learn how MSOs and State Associations are expanding their impact using www.boardnetUSA.org: a community based tool that connects local nonprofit boards needing leadership with individuals who wish to serve as board members. boardnetUSA offers exclusive assets: transparency of and direct communication to community civic leadership; a channel to offer board education and best governance practices; as well as a way to increase the visibility of your brand and overall organizational services. Join Jan Masaoka (CompassPoint Nonprofit Services), Karen Beavor (Georgia Center for Nonprofits), Susan Katz Froning (Nonprofit Enterprise at Work, Inc) and Brooke Mahoney (Volunteer Consulting Group) as they discuss how they have integrated boardnetUSA into their local business strategy.

About the Presenters

Karen Beavor, Georgia Center for Nonprofits

For the past six years Karen has served as executive director of the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, an organization whose mission it is to serve, strengthen and support Georgia’s nonprofit community. Under Karen’s leadership the Center has grown its revenues by 80%, expanded its operations to include two satellite offices in Augusta and Columbus, and developed a nationally recognized and replicated consulting practice. With Karen’s guidance, the Center has grown to become one of the most successful and active nonprofit associations in the country. As its central goal, the Georgia Center for Nonprofits works to improve the way nonprofits do business so they can, in turn, have a greater impact on our communities. Karen also serves as a board member, ex officio board member, or advisory board member on a variety of civic and nonprofit organizations. She is constantly called upon to lend her guidance and support to board members, volunteers and others working to improve our community. Karen’s current commitments include the National Nonprofit Risk Management Center, Family Connections Partnership, the Foundation Center-Atlanta, The Nonprofit Quarterly, American Humanics at Kennesaw State University, The State Bar of Georgia’s ABC Committee, the Atlanta Mexican Center, and Techbridge. Additionally, Beavor is active on a variety of national committees including Independent Sector and the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, among others. An Atlanta native, Karen is a graduate of Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia. She has received the Martin Luther King Leadership award and the Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta’s Community Leader Award. She is a graduate of the 2000 class of Leadership Atlanta and the 2003 Coca-Cola Diversity Leadership Academy.

Susan Katz Froning, Nonprofit Enterprise at Work, Inc.

Susan Katz Froning is the President and CEO of Nonprofit Enterprise at Work, Inc (NEW). NEW is a nonprofit management support organization located in Ann Arbor, Michigan that provides support services and resources to nonprofits in southeast Michigan (including the operation of the NEW Center, an office facility housing over 20 nonprofit organizations). Susan joined NEW in 2000 as an executive intern from Ford Motor Company. During her internship she designed and launched BoardConnect, a popular board recruitment, training, and matching program for nonprofits. Prior to joining NEW, Susan spent fourteen years representing Ford Motor Company as a business attorney and Assistant General Counsel. Susan received her law degree from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Brooke Mahoney, Volunteer Consulting Group, Inc.

Brooke Mahoney has been the Executive Director of the Volunteer Consulting Group since its founding in 1969, building it from a program developed in conjunction with the Harvard Business School Club of New York into a nationally prominent organization focused on strengthening nonprofit boards of directors. Among many accomplishments, she led the creation of www.boardnetUSA.org, dedicated to bringing transparency and interactive access between nonprofit boards needing leadership and individuals wishing to serve as trustees. She is a Director of the Rauch Foundation and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. Ms. Mahoney is also a member of the Economic Club of New York and the International Women's Forum. In 1993, she was chosen to be a Fellow at the Salzburg Institute. She is a former Director of the American Center for International Leadership, the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York and Executive Women In Human Services. She has served on the Executive Council of the Harvard Business School and as a panelist with the National Endowment for the Arts.

Jan Masaoka, CompassPoint Nonprofit Solutions

Jan Masaoka, Executive Director, is a nationally recognized nonprofit leader as well as a familiar face to local, grassroots nonprofits. One of CompassPoint’s principal consultants, Jan’s consulting work focuses on boards of directors, nonprofit finance, and the development of strategic business and fundraising plans. Editor of Board Café, a national newsletter for nonprofit board members with 24,000 subscribers, her latest publication is Best of the Board Café, a must-have handbook for all nonprofit board members. From 1999 - 2003 she was named one of the “Fifty Most Influential People” in the nonprofit sector nationwide, and in January of 2004 was named “Nonprofit Executive of the Year” by NonProfit Times.