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C05 Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Opening Plenary and Keynote Address

Thursday, July 14,
4:30pm – 5:30pm

Luncheon Keynote Address

Saturday, July 16,
12:45pm – 2:00pm

Peggy Saika, Executive Director,
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy

Beyond the Technical: Excellence in Capacity Building for the Communities We Serve

Peggy Saika, President and Executive Director of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, will offer a provocative perspective that could radically change relationships between capacity builders, organizations and the communities they serve. Peggy has been serving communities in the nonprofit sector for more than 30 years in a variety of roles, including co-founder of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and currently serves on the Board the California Wellness Foundation.

Michael Quinn Patton, Organizational Development and Evaluation Consultant, Utilization-Focused Evaluation

Building Capacity for Evaluative Thinking

The capacity to conduct an evaluation and the capacity to think evaluatively are very different skill sets. Knowing the difference has implications for every aspect of working with communities. The capacity to think evaluatively is harder to build, but longer lasting with more sustainable impact. Michael Quinn Patton, an organizational development and evaluation consultant and author, will deliver a practical and inspiring keynote address that motivates capacity builders to think differently about sustainable community impact.

About the Keynote Speakers

Peggy Saika, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy

Peggy Saika is the President/Executive Director of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP). AAPIP is a national membership association of foundations, staff and trustees of grantmaking institutions, and representatives of non-profit organizations who are dedicated to building bridges between philanthropy and Asian Pacific American communities. Founded in 1990, AAPIP's mission is to help transform U.S. philanthropy to increase the participation of Asian Pacific Americans (APA) and the availability of philanthropic resources to immigrant and refugee communities.

From 1993 to 2000 she was the founding executive director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and from 1983 to 1991 the executive director of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, California. Prior to that she helped to create and directed nonprofit organizations in Sacramento, California and New York City.

Spanning a 30-year period of community involvement, Ms. Saika is a co-founder of the Asian Women's Shelter, Asians/Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health, the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium and the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. She has served on the board of numerous organizations including: Equal Rights Advocates, Progressive Assets Management and the Charles Bannerman National Fellowship Program. She is the current chair of the Buena Vista United Methodist Church and the Asian Law Caucus and a board member of Choice USA.

Her involvement in philanthropy has also been extensive. She is the past chairperson of the New World Foundation Board of Directors and has served as a board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, United Way of the Bay Area, Public Interest Law Foundation of New York University, National Network of Grantmakers and the Council on Foundations. More recently, she was elected to the Board of Directors of The California Wellness Foundation and the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.

In 1986, Ms. Saika was the first Asian American appointed to the Alameda County Commission on the Status of Women. In 1994, she was appointed to the Advisory Council of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and appointed by President Clinton to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) where she chaired the Sub-committee on Public Participation and Accountability. In 1995, she was selected as a fellow for the prestigious Kellogg International Leadership Program.

Michael Quinn Patton, Utilization-Focused Evaluation

Michael Quinn Patton is an organizational development and evaluation consultant. Mr. Patton is former President of the American Evaluation Association. He is the only recipient of both the Alva and Gunner Myrdal Award from the Evaluation Research Society for "outstanding contributions to evaluation use and practice" and the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for lifetime contributions to evaluation theory from the American Evaluation Association. The Society for Applied Sociology honored him with the 2001 Lester F. Ward Award for Outstanding Contributions to Applied Sociology.

After receiving his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, he spent 18 years on the faculty of the University of Minnesota (1973-1991), including five years as Director of the Minnesota Center for Social Research and ten years with the Minnesota Extension Service. He received the University's Morse Amoco Award for outstanding teaching.

Mr. Patton has worked with organizations and programs at the international, national, state, and local levels, and with philanthropic, not-for-profit, private sector, and government programs. He is a generalist working across the full range of efforts at improving human effectiveness and results, including programs in leadership development, education, human services, the environment, public health, employment, agricultural extension, arts, criminal justice, poverty programs, transportation, diversity, managing for results, performance indicators, effective governance, and futuring.

Mr. Patton's focus includes: Supporting strategic thinking about mission, initiatives, and programs; Organizational learning, development, and effectiveness; Mission level assessment (beyond program evaluation); Working with staffs and boards to increase effectiveness; Innovative and creative approaches to programming and evaluation; Designing useful evaluations that actually get used; and, Facilitating clarity about interventions and their potential impact using logic modeling, systems thinking, complexity theory, and concept mapping.

He is the author of five evaluation books including a new edition of "Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods" (2002, 3rd edition) and "Utilization-Focused Evaluation: The New Century Text," 3rd ed (1997). The two previous editions of that book have been used in over 300 universities. He is also author of "Creative Evaluation" (1987); “Practical Evaluation” (1982); and "Culture and Evaluation" (1985). He is currently working on a book that draws on complexity theory and systems thinking as frameworks for evaluation.