     Session: A Delicate Balance: The Relationship Between Funders, Capacity Builders and Nonprofits; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
     Jim Abernathy is executive director of the Environmental Support Center whose mission is to promote the quality of the natural environment, human health and community sustainability by increasing the organizational effectiveness of regional, state and local organizations working on environmental issues and for environmental justice. Under his leadersihp, ESC has grown from an initial concept to an organization with 20 staff that has provided small grants, technical assistance and loans to more than 1,700 organizations in all 50 states.
     Jim has been working in the arena of nonprofit management and philanthropic reform for 30 years. He has consulted with many nonprofit organizations and helped create dozens of others in that time. In addition to serving on GEO's board, he is on the board of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, the National Alliance for Choice in Giving, Earth Share and the Union Community Fund.

Tom Adams

     Session: Executive Transition Management Services: A Promising Capacity-Building Strategy; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
     Tom Adams is the President of his consulting firm, Adams & Associates, and specializes in designing and implementing executive transition support systems and delivery of executive transition and organizational development services to nonprofit organizations. In 2003, he formed a collaborative of transition consultants, TransitionGuides. Through TransitionGuides, Tom and his colleague offer transition services around the country and are leaders in the development and growth of Executive Transition Management as an organizational capacity building strategy.
     He currently is the project manager and lead consultant for a foundation-supported Executive Transition Initiative with the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations and is serving as project manager for the Annie E. Casey Foundation in its efforts to assist its grantees in successfully managing executive transition and expanding the pool of prepared executives. His work with the Annie E. Casey Foundation has included transition case studies, consultative sessions with nonprofit leaders and transition providers, research and writing on founder transitions and transition services. His work with Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations has included management of transition services to thirty Maryland Nonprofit members over the past eighteen months, development of a pool of twelve Interim Executives and placement and referral of Interim Executives with eight organizations. He also provides assistance by coaching executives, mangers and leaders in setting and achieving goals, understanding and achieving desired changes in workplace or personal life, adjusting to new challenges or major change, or reviewing and planning of career options.

Brenda Alford

     Session: Successful Consulting with Faith-Based Organizations; Saturday, 8/14 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     Brenda Alford has 20 years experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors in project management, federal grants and contracts management, program development, research and evaluation, conference planning and interagency public-private partnerships. She currently directs the Institute for Faith-Based Development that seeks to conduct capacity building for church and religious organizations and to increase the impact of these groups on families and communities.  This work has encouraged the growth of social, health, career training, economic development and other community services by religious affiliated organizations across the country.
     Ms. Alford has an extensive background in marketing, fundraising, grants management, government relations, community and business development, and human service program development. Ms. Alford also has served as a Consultant Grant Peer Reviewer for a wide range of government agencies for 15 years and a panel chairperson-facilitator for ten years on grants, contracts and cooperative agreements panels. She has evaluated over 3,000 proposals competing for over $3 billion.

Bruce Astrein

     Session: Moving Towards Long-Term Action on Tax and Budget Issues; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     For more than three decades, Bruce has worked on a wide range of political and social justice issues relating to the healthy development of children and youth, as well as their families and communities. Throughout this time, he has held leadership positions within the public, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors. He currently holds the position of Senior Vice President for Programs at the Arizona Community Foundation.
     Since 1988, he has served in the director's role of four distinct organizations in the public and philanthropic sectors: 1.) Regional Director of the Office for Children in Boston, the primary agency responsible for child and family policy in Massachusetts; 2.) Executive Director of the Rauch Foundation, a family foundation concerned with children and family issues throughout Long Island; 3.) Executive Director of the National Committee for Citizens in Education in Washington, DC, a national non-profit for parent and community groups committed to improving and supporting our nation's public schools; and 4.), Executive Director of the Hasbro Children's Foundation, located in New York City and committed to funding exemplary children's programs throughout the nation.
     A common focus of the work has been on strengthening nonprofit organizations and neighborhood institutions that provide for our children's health, education and welfare. Through a combination of efforts concentrating on organizational development, policy initiatives, new programs, and local capacity-building efforts, Bruce has helped to formulate a wide range of resources, strategies and tools for expanding community awareness and action on child, family and community concerns. In particular, he has maintained a long-standing commitment to enhancing our public schools and local institutions, especially in urban, low-income and multicultural communities.

Thomas Backer

Session: The Expanding Universe: Where Capacity Building is Heading; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Thomas E. Backer, PhD is President, Human Interaction Research Institute and Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology, UCLA Medical School. The nonprofit Institute, founded in 1961, uses behavioral science approaches to help funders and nonprofits deal with the challenges of innovation and change. Current projects include the three-year Philanthropic Capacity Building Resources (supported by Knight, Kauffman, Meyer and Bruner Foundations), which is creating a national database of foundation grantmaking and operating programs for capacity building, as well as research for the Alliance on mapping the field of capacity building.

Margo Bailey

Session: Evaluation of Capacity Building: Advanced Practitioners Dialogue; Saturday Morning (Part 1) and Afternoon (Part 2), August 14

Tom Bailey

Session: The Fusion Model of Organizational Development: A Comprehensive Approach to Understanding and Strengthening Organizations; Saturday, 8/14 from 2:30pm - 3:50pm

Lafayette Barnes

     Session: Public Sector Technical Support to Nonprofits: City, County, State and Federal Capacity Building Programs for Nonprofits; Friday, 8/13 from 9:00am - 10:30am
     Lafayette Barnes is director Office of Partnerships and Grants Development (OPGD) in the Executive Office of the Mayor in the District of Columbia where he is responsible for overseeing the planning and execution of major grant and donation applications for District government agencies and their respective partners to federal, foundation, and individual funders. He directs OPGD's capacity building initiatives for local nonprofits and faith-based organization and also serves as a senior policy advisor to Mayor Anthony Williams and his administration.
     Prior to joining the Williams Administration, Lafayette has worked at the Freddie Mac Foundation as director foundation giving, the University of Maryland at College Park as director of external affairs for the School of Public Affairs, and a development officer for corporate and foundation relations at the University's Office of Institutional Advancement.
     Lafayette, a native Washingtonian, has over two decades of expertise advising and working with community, corporate, nonprofit, and government leaders on a variety of community building, development, and public policy initiatives. He is a graduate of Georgetown University's Masters of Science in Foreign Service School, member of Leadership Washington Inc., and Concerned Black Men Inc., and husband of Denise Rolark-Barnes the publisher of the Washington Informer newspaper.

Gary Bass

     Session: Moving Towards Long-Term Action on Tax and Budget Issues; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     Gary D. Bass is the Founder and Executive Director of OMB Watch, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that promotes increased citizen participation in public policy and greater government accountability. Dr. Bass has testified before Congress, appeared on national television, addressed groups across the country, and written extensively on federal budgetary, program management, regulatory and information policy issues.
     Dr. Bass is well known for assisting nonprofit organizations in better understanding federal rules affecting their organizations and constituencies and was recently selected as one of the Nonprofit Times Power and Influence Top 50. He has led campaigns to preserve the advocacy voice of nonprofits, make federal government a more open and accountable operation, and insure meaningful citizen participation in government decision-making. He has been an active supporter of right-to-know initiatives, encouraging the government to make information publicly accessible in order to empower its citizens. He has also undertaken initiatives to insure that, as we move into the information age, we do not create a society of information haves and have nots.

Paul Bauknight

     Session: Capacity Building for Comprehensive Impact; Friday, 8/13 from 9:00am - 10:30am
     Paul D. Bauknight, Jr. President/CEO and founder of Bauknight Associates, Inc. has made a mark on urban communities nationwide. Mr. Bauknight has extensive experience in community sponsored urban development projects and has developed extraordinary design skills. Concentrating on activities that benefit the community at large, Bauknight Associates, Inc. is dedicated to the social art of architecture and design.
     Paul D. Bauknight, Jr. also is the president of NorthWay Community Trust. Mr. Bauknight leads the trust as they recently announced a 10-year partnership to reduce poverty and to create wealth in North Minneapolis. The NorthWay Community Trust mission is to reduce poverty and increase the wealth, health and well-being of the community by creating systems to engage and empower its residents. The Trust has been working to build community in North Minneapolis since 2002 and has significantly raised involvement in the community.

Liz Baumgarten

Session: Turning the Extraordinary into the Ordinary: Nonprofits and Public Policy Advocacy; Friday, 8/13 from 9:00am - 10:30am
Liz Baumgarten is the President of Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest (“CLPI”). CLPI is a national nonprofit organization that promotes, supports and protects nonprofit advocacy and lobbying as a means of achieving an organization’s charitable mission. Liz is a national speaker and writer on nonprofit participation in the public policy process. From 2001-2004, she served as CLPI’s Program Director and Counsel, where she led development of the group’s new training initiative. She has also provided extensive legal counsel on nonprofit lobbying laws and has greatly expanded CLPI’s work to encourage and support integration of lobbying into the curriculum of academic nonprofit management centers. Liz is a graduate of Mary Washington College and Temple University School of Law. Her experience includes lobbying at the state and federal levels, including on behalf of Independent Sector, in the passage of the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1994 and on domestic violence issues in Delaware. She was Executive Director of the Virginia Campus Outreach Opportunity League (VA COOL) and a litigator for the international law firm, Jones Day. Liz is the author of "Building Public Policy Advocacy Capacity" in Enhance, the newsletter of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management (July 2004) and “Lobbying and Election-Related Activities - Opportunities and Limitations,” a two part series published in Our Children, the National PTA magazine (October, November/December 2001).

Peter Berns

Session: Utilizing the Standards for Excellence to Strengthen Nonprofits: An Extended Workshop for Capacity Builders; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
Peter Berns, Executive Director, Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations. Under Peter's leadership since 1992, Maryland Nonprofits has grown to become one of the largest state associations of nonprofit organizations in the country, with over 1,400 members statewide and offices in both the central Maryland and Metropolitan Washington DC areas. Peter also has been instrumental in building associations of nonprofits all over the country, and served on the Board of Directors of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations. In 2002, Peter was awarded an Innovator of the Year Award by the Baltimore Daily Record for his leadership in creating the Standards for Excellence Replication Program. Additionally, in 2000, 2002, and 2003 Peter was named to the Nonprofit Times list of the Nonprofit Times Power and Influence Top 50. He also teaches a nonprofit management course at the Johns Hopkins University. Peter supervises the programs and national replication of the Standards for Excellence. Peter is an attorney with a long history of community service and has most recently led the creation of Business Volunteers Unlimited, Maryland, a collaboration between Maryland Nonprofits and Volunteer Central of Maryland to replicate Business Volunteers Unlimited Cleveland.

David Birdsell

Session: The Next Leaders: Developing Tomorrow's Nonprofit Executives; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
David Birdsell is Professor and Executive Director of Academic Programs at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College. His research and publications center on the nexus of communication, media, and information technology in politics, government, and nonprofit administration. He advises the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Congressional Management Foundation, the Markle Foundation, the Clark Foundation and other organizations on their communication and technology programming. He has worked with the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the United Way of New York City to better understand member organizations' professional development needs and uses of consultants in the nonprofit community. As Executive Director of Academic Programs in the School of Public Affairs, he oversees the School's credit and non-credit curricula and develops special programs in conjunction with community partners. He received BA and MA degrees from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in Public Communication from the University of Maryland.

B.J. Bischoff

Session: Successful Consulting with Faith-Based Organizations; Saturday, 8/14 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
Dr. B. J. Bischoff is an Executive for Crowe Chizek in the Public Sector Services practice. She currently manages FaithWorks Indiana, one of the nation's top-ranked faith-based initiatives. She specializes in developing performance improvement strategies and implementing training and other performance improvement processes for government agencies, nonprofit organizations, professional associations, businesses, and universities. She has conducted strategic planning and process improvement initiatives for over 25 years. Dr. Bischoff is completing a study examining the State of Philanthropic Giving in Northwest Indiana. Prior to joining Crowe Chizek, she owned White River Training & Consulting, Inc. for ten years. She is the former Director of Ball State University's Center for Entrepreneurial Resources. Prior to that, she was Manager of Extended Services for Ivy Tech State College and Associate Director for Credit Programs in Continuing Studies at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis. Dr. Bischoff served as the executive director of the nonprofit Indiana Training Exports, where she conducted over 50 US Agency for International Development and World Bank training programs for participants from 15 countries.

Jane Ellen Bleeg

Session: The Expanding Universe: Where Capacity Building is Heading; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Jane Ellen Bleeg helps funders, researchers, nonprofits, capacity builders and others achieve excellence with special projects. She has more than 25 years of experience conducting research on the nonprofit sector, determining program feasibility, developing new initiatives, facilitating planning, starting new collaborations, designing educational activities, managing technology projects, designing and conducting in-depth interviews as a core research strategy, and more. Her current work includes: (1) helping the Human Interaction Research Institute (HIRI) develop and enhance Philanthropic Capacity-Building Resources, a national database and educational resource on foundation work that strengthens nonprofits; (2) directing development of the Upstate Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence, and (3) co-authoring The Expanding Universe: New Directions in Nonprofit Capacity-Building with Thomas Backer and Kate Groves on behalf of HIRI and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. Prior to starting her own business in 2001 (Strategic Results), Jane was executive director of the Rochester Grantmakers Forum/Funders Alliance of Upstate New York for 13 years.

Barbara Blumenthal

     Session: Advanced Consulting Techniques that Help Clients Change; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     Session: Structuring Your Management Support Organizations to Improve Impact; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
     Barbara Blumenthal?s work in the nonprofit sector has included research, teaching and consulting. She has a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Michigan and has been a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University since 1999, teaching management of government and nonprofit organizations at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. For the past four years, Dr. Blumenthal has conducted extensive research on the design and implementation of capacity building programs, culminating in a book, to be released in October 2003 from the Foundation Center, "Investing in Capacity Building: A Guide to High-Impact Approaches." Dr. Blumenthal has advised a number of foundations on the design and implementation of capacity building programs.
     She is currently working with Community Resource Exchange in New York City to design and implement an evaluation of its own capacity building work with grantees. CRE will begin collecting data in mid-2003 on up to 200 clients each year at key points before and after their consulting relationships. CRE expects to have information on 400 completed projects within three years, and long-term data on 400 clients within five years. This study is the first of its kind to investigate the immediate and long-term impact of a capacity building program on nonprofit organizations, based upon empirical data.

Courtney Bourns

     Session: Facilitating Change Initives: Designing Collaborative Action for Organizations and Communities; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
     Session: The Masterful Trainer: Principles and Strategies for Delivering High Impact Training; Saturday, 8/14 from 2:30pm - 3:50pm
     Courtney Bourns is a Senior Associate at the Interaction Institute for Social Change in Cambridge, MA, where she delivers training, consulting and facilitation services to nonprofit and social change organizations, helping them to build their capacity in the skills and processes of collaboration. Courtney is a trained mediator and she brings to her work at IISC a background in conflict resolution and training in alternatives to violence. She has delivered training and performed mediations for such varied groups as clergy, high school students, community leaders and maximum security prison inmates. She currently serves on the Board of the New England regional Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
     A selection of Courtney's current and recent clients includes: Cherish Every Child: A Blueprint for Springfield's Future, Springfield Massachusetts; Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution; The Women's Sector, Dublin Ireland. Courtney received a Master of Ethics from Union Theological Seminary and her Bachelors degree from Brown University.

Sheri Brady

Session: Turning the Extraordinary into the Ordinary: Nonprofits and Public Policy Advocacy; Friday, 8/13 from 9:00am - 10:30am
Sheri Brady joined the National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA) as Public Policy Project Director in September 2000 and was promoted to Director of Public Policy in 2001. She is responsible for policy development and research at NCNA. Prior to joining NCNA she worked at the Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) where she was responsible for program development and policy research and development. At CPA she was responsible for coordinating regional issue forums, state policy roundtables and strategic planning sessions for state legislators and grassroots activists. Prior to joining CPA, she worked for a national child advocacy organization focusing on welfare reform research and policy development. During her tenure at the National Association of Child Advocates, Sheri provided technical assistance to local and state based child advocacy organizations on a variety of policy issues. She volunteers in her community by serving as the President of the Mount Pleasant Friends of the Library and working with the Washington Area Women’s Foundation where she helps provide capacity building grants and helps with grantee development. Sheri received her Juris Doctor (JD) from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and her Bachelor of Arts in political science from Wheaton College.

Alan Brickman

Session: Field-Specific Capacity Building Organizations: Empowering Nonprofit Fields From the Inside; Friday, 8/13 from 2:15pm - 3:45pm
Alan Brickman has been a consultant to non-profit, public sector, and philanthropic organizations for over 15 years. He has worked with hundreds of organizations that represent a comprehensive array of service delivery fields and organizational settings. His services include strategic planning, program evaluation, fundraising, and organizational development; and he has provided extensive research and process design assistance. He has conducted training in evaluation and outcome measurement, partnerships and collaboration, strategic planning, and grantseeking. Mr. Brickman has been a school volunteer director, community organizer, high school and college math teacher, and member of numerous Boards, community collaboratives, and professional advisory committees. Over the last several years, Mr. Brickman has worked directly with a number field-specific capacity building entities that reflect a diversity of programmatic approaches, organizational structures, and sustainability strategies. This work is the basis of his presentation.

Sheri Brown

     Session: Evaluation of Capacity Building: Getting Started; Friday Morning, August 13
     Sheri S. Brown has worked in the nonprofit sector for several years serving in various roles that include consultant, trainer, program developer, community affairs coordinator and educator with Broward Public Schools. Sheri has developed curriculum and facilitated training on a range of topics from leadership development to self improvement & empowerment to nonprofits, corporations, and religious groups around the State of Florida, in addition to serving as a trainer for the State of Florida's Office of the Attorney General.
     She is currently director of the Nonprofit Resource Center (NRC) of the Community Foundation of Broward, where she plans and implements a variety of technical assistance programs and services to nonprofits in the Broward area. Under her direction, the NRC has increased its visibility and broadened it reach in the community and focused its programs more on outcome attainment for the NRC and for the nonprofits it serves. Sheri led the Foundation?s team in implementing the first impact evaluation of the NRC and is delighted to share with her fellow colleagues the trials and triumphs of that process.

Angela Carter

Session: Interim Executive Directors: A Special Corps of Nonprofit Capacity Builders; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
For the past 11 years, Angela R. Carter has been principal consultant at Core Concepts, a nonprofit-specialist consulting firm which provides skills development, technical assistance, organizational and program development, and fundraising services that are essential to an organization's viability and growth. Core Concepts, founded by Ms. Carter, reflects her activist philosophy, support of grassroots-level programs, and commitment to social change. Her prior professional experiences in progressive grassroots organizations have given her a unique understanding of the needs of nonprofits as well as expertise in building their capacity. In addition to her work with Core Concepts, Ms. Carter continues to be an active community presence through her training and workshop facilitations and through her volunteer activities.

Viveka Chen

Session: Executive Transition Management Services: A Promising Capacity-Building Strategy; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm

Amy Coates Madsen

Session: Utilizing the Standards for Excellence to Strengthen Nonprofits: An Extended Workshop for Capacity Builders; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
Amy Coates Madsen is the Program Director of the Standards for Excellence Institute, a program of the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations. Amy is responsible for coordinating all aspects of the association's comprehensive ethics and accountability program and efforts to replicate the program nationally. She serves as a trainer in the areas of board conduct, program evaluation, fundraising ethics, and nonprofit management. She has held positions at the Trenton lobbying firm of the Princeton Public Affairs Group, and the Public Policy Liaison Unit at the world headquarters of Catholic Relief Services. Amy received her Masters degree from the Johns Hopkins University - Institute for Policy Studies; and her Bachelors degree from the Virginia Tech. Amy is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and teaches a nonprofit ethics course at the Johns Hopkins Certificate Program on Nonprofit Management. Amy volunteers with several Baltimore area nonprofits.

Rick Cohen

     Session: Federal Capacity-Building Programs and Pending Legislation: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for Action; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
     Session: Doing it 'Right': The Public Policy Grantmaking of Conservative Foundations; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     Rick Cohen joined the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) in 1999, after nearly seven years at the national office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) as vice president of strategic planning. NCRP has existed for more than a quarter century as the leading organization advocating for institutional philanthropy in all of its forms--foundations, corporations, workplace fund-raising, etc.--to provide increased access and resources to disadvantaged populations including low-income groups, racial/ethnic groups, and segments of the population facing discrimination. In 2002, Rick was named to the "NPT Power and Influence 50", the NonProfit Times' list of the 50 most influential people in the U.S. nonprofit sector.
     Prior to working for LISC, Rick did private consulting with public agencies, foundations, and nonprofit community development organizations, including serving as the expert witness for the U.S. Justice Department in the Yonkers desegregation case. Among his teaching experiences are adjunct faculty positions at Rutgers University in New Brunswick (city and regional planning), St. Peter's College (city management and public policy), and Columbia University (city planning). Rick is the author or co-author of two books and many journal articles and monographs. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Boston University and a Master's in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Alice Collier Cochran

     Roberta's Rules of Order - Session: An Empowering Sea Change -- Who Was Robert and Why Do We Still Follow His Rules Anyway; Saturday, 8/14 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     Alice Collier Cochran, M.Ed. has been an organizational effectiveness consultant for over 18 years. She is an affiliate consultant of The Management Center for nonprofits in San Francisco, Interaction Associates and the Institute for Social Change an international consulting firm specializing in facilitating collaborative planning in corporations and nonprofits.
     Alice specializes in board structure and meeting revitalization. She has been interviewed in two issues of the BoardSource publication "The Board Member". Alice recently completed a book for nonprofit board leaders published by Jossey-Bass called Roberta's Rules of Order.

Joseph Connor

     Session: Capacity Building for Comprehensive Impact; Friday, 8/13 from 9:00am - 10:30am
     Joseph A. 'Jay' Connor, JD/MBA, is the Founder/CEO of The Collaboratory for Community Support and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan. He has extensive leadership experience in the business, nonprofit, and public policy arenas. This gives Jay a unique scholar / consultant / activist perspective to the evolving need and nature of a new leadership model for our communities. From his work with leaders of diverse constituencies in communities across North America, Jay has seen that in order to be effective and to achieve community solutions' our emerging community leaders must be comfortable at the intersection not only of organizations and cultures but also at the intersection of the nonprofit, business and governmental sectors. This is a key message of his new book, published this Spring by Wilder Press, Community Visions, Community Solutions: Grantmaking for Comprehensive Impact. It is the most extensive discussion available on the leadership art of linking sectors, initiatives, technologies and systems in implementing community solutions.
     Before founding The Collaboratory, Jay was President/CEO of Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW), a nonprofit management support organization in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has written for the National Civic Review, Foundation News and Commentary, Board Member, PNNOnline, NonProfit World, as well as, various academic journals. Jay also has more than 20 years of experience in senior business management at the multi-billion dollar corporate level. In addition to his professional commitments, Jay has been an active volunteer and community leader. He currently serves as Board Chair of Greenhills School in Ann Arbor, the steering committee for the quasi-governmental Sustainable Washtenaw, and the advisory board for Crain's Nonprofit News. He is also a member of the McAdam Book Award Committee to recognize the best book published in the nonprofit field each year.

Marla Cornelius

     Session: How to Get Funding for Your Training Program; Friday, 8/13 from 2:15pm - 3:45pm
     Marla Cornelius is the Training Director at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, a nonprofit consulting, research and training organization. As director of the training program, Marla produces over 700 workshops a year and six annual conferences throughout the Bay Area. Before joining CompassPoint, she worked at Kaiser Permanente's Environmental, Health and Safety department developing employee programs and providing training for their California region. She is active in her community and currently serves on the board of the National Radio Project, a nonprofit independent media organization.
     CompassPoint Nonprofit Services is a nonprofit training, consulting and research organization with offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The organization serves nonprofit clients by providing a broad range of services, management tools, concepts and strategies necessary to shape change in their communities. For more information, visit www.compasspoint.org.

Ana Cortez

Session: Evaluating for Community Change; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Ana Cortez formerly managed the Family Support Program for the National Economic Development and Law Center (NEDLC) and in this role she was responsible for the management and technical assistance provided to community building efforts and family support agencies. Ms. Cortez has close to fifteen years of experience working with public and non-profit organizations. Her involvement with family focused agencies include tenure at the Mentoring Center, a technical assistance provider, policy work at the San Francisco City and County Board of Supervisors, and grants management work for the County of San Francisco's Department of Social Services Children, Youth and Families Division. In this latter appointment, Ms. Cortez was a member of the team that conceptualized the Family Resource Center concept for San Francisco as part of the Family Preservation and Reunification effort. Ms. Cortez holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Washington and a B.A. from the University of California Berkeley.

Patrick Corvington

Session: Evaluation Training of Trainers; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
Patrick has extensive experience providing nonprofit organizations with capacity building assistance in Russia and the United States. He has been an Executive Director and currently manages the Consulting and Training Department at Innovation Network.

Todd Day

Session: Strategically Connecting Nonprofit Boards and the Business Board Members They Need; Thursday, 8/12 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Todd Day leads Volunteer Consulting Group's www.boardnetUSA.org, with responsibilities that include website development, strategic planning, finance and community partnership development. He began his professional career as a Senior Policy Analyst in the New York State Assembly, focused on issues of equity & access in education, urban revitalization and workforce development. Prior to joining VCG, he served as the Director of Fellow Support for the Echoing Green Foundation, a philanthropic organization supporting an international network of social entrepreneurs. Mr. Day has volunteered his time with a variety of nonprofit and community organizations including: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, the Urban League, NAACP, 100 Black Men, the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society. He began work at VCG in April, 2000, as Technical Director focusing on finalizing the initial prototype of boardnetUSA.org. He has presented on the use of technology in the nonprofit sector at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, E-Philanthropy and Points of Light Foundation national conferences.

Patricia Deinhart

     Session: Capacity Building for Comprehensive Impact; Friday, 8/13 from 9:00am - 10:30am
     Patricia Deinhart currently is Community Liaison for Northwest Area Foundation in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Northwest Area Foundation's mission is to help communities reduce poverty. The Community Liaison functions as team leader in the Foundation's Community Ventures Program working to develop and maintain long-term partnerships between the Foundation and Venture communities across an 8 state region. She is team lead for the North Minneapolis team, Urban Indian Communities team, and co-lead for the Miner County, South Dakota team.
     Prior to joining the Foundation, Ms. Deinhart served as executive director of the Whittier Housing Corporation and Whittier Alliance, a nonprofit citizen participation neighborhood organization in South Minneapolis. Before coming to Minneapolis, Patricia developed and operated a management assistance organization serving community-based organizations throughout Chicago for ten years. She has also had her own nonprofit organizational management consulting business for many years.

Freddi Donner

Session: Strategically Connecting Nonprofit Boards and the Business Board Members They Need; Thursday, 8/12 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Freddi Donner joined Raffa as VP of Communication in 2001. Freddi is responsible for the promotion of the all service lines and for internal communications. She has more than 20 years experience in direct sales and marketing. She has worked exclusively with business-to-business service firms in developing strategy, developing budgets, implementing plans, managing the team involved and managing the vendors. Prior to joining Raffa, Freddi had her own business, Marketing 101, Inc. She serviced technology providers, professional service firms, and several “dot coms” in developing and executing marketing plans.

Margaret Donohoe

     Session: Advanced Consulting Techniques that Help Clients Change; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     Margaret Donohoe has focused her experience, insight, and energy on helping the new generation of nonprofit leaders navigate the many opportunities and challenges of this career choice. Her insight is not just academic or theoretical; it comes from her own 20 years of experience in the sector.
     In her work, Margaret guides both large and small nonprofit organizations through the opportunities and challenges of leadership, staff, Board and organizational transitions. Her active participation on a variety of nonprofit boards and task forces, an MBA from Santa Clara University, and professional development in areas of critical importance to the sector have provided her with a broad foundation to help agencies survive and prosper in these changing times.
     Margaret has co-authored the recently published "Executive Director's Guide, Thriving as a Nonprofit Leader" by Jossey-Bass. ( www.EDSurvivalGuide.org) She is a contributing author and frequent trainer with management support organizations on the topic of executive transitions, Board/ED partnerships, leadership/succession planning, and founder transitions.

Jacqui Ebanks

Session: The Next Leaders: Developing Tomorrow's Nonprofit Executives; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
Jacqui Ebanks is Senior Director at the United Way of New York City with primary responsibility for the organization's $2,000,000 Management Assistance Program. MAP provides nonprofits with free, expert consulting services to help strengthen management, financial, technological, and leadership capacity. She has worked at several citywide and community-based organizations in a fifteen-year career in the nonprofit sector, including positions at the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the United Neighborhood Houses, and the Harlem United Community AIDS Center. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at Hunter College in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning and a Lecturer on Social Work at New York University's Ehrenkranz School of Social Work. She serves on the board of the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers and chairs its Increasing and Diversifying Philanthropy Committee. She received her MS in Policy Analysis from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her BA in Government from Anderson University.

Susan Egmont

Session: Executive Transition Management Services: A Promising Capacity-Building Strategy; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
Susan Egmont is principal of Egmont Associates, an executive search firm for nonprofit organizations and for corporations, foundations and academic centers with nonprofit interests. She offers the experience of 25 years in youth development, education, workforce development, healthcare, children's issues, the arts, and in organizations fighting hunger and poverty. Ms. Egmont's passion is excellence in nonprofit management. Her client work includes leadership transition planning, board and search committee development, recruiting and coaching. Ms. Egmont was formerly Deputy Director, Boston Private Industry Council, and Director of the Boston Local School-to-Career Partnership. In this position she coordinated 60 staff in 41 sites and directed the recruitment and involvement of 1,600 employers. She was Executive Director of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts' foundation and spent 11 years in management at the Atlanta Community Food Bank. She holds an MBA from Emory University and is a Certified Association Executive and Certified Fund Raising Executive. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, as a volunteer for Eureka Communities Boston and The Rhode Island Foundation, and on the Patriots' Trail Girl Scouts Council's Leading Women advisory committee.

Kathleen Enright

     Session: A Delicate Balance: The Relationship Between Funders, Capacity Builders and Nonprofits; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
          Kathleen P. Enright is executive director of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO). As national coalition of grantmakers, GEO’s mission is to maximize philanthropy's impact by advancing the effectiveness of grantmakers and their grantees. The organization does this by commissioning and contributing to research, developing programs and products, and building a community of practice that expands the resources available on nonprofit effectiveness.
     Previously, Kathleen served as the group director, marketing and communications for BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards), where she was responsible for developing and implementing an organization-wide marketing and communications strategy, building and maintaining a consistent and recognizable brand, supervising the promotion of all products and services, and building public awareness of the importance of strong nonprofit boards.
     Prior to joining the BoardSource, Kathleen was a project manager for the National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation where she directed a Ford Foundation funded project to encourage collaboration between nonprofits and local governments.
     Kathleen serves on the board of directors of Global Education Partnership and on the advisory board of The Center for Effective Philanthropy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s of public administration from The George Washington University.

Amy Eugene

Session: Knowledge Practices - Building Adaptive Capacity for Nonprofit Survival; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
Amy C. Eugene has over six years of experience in the field of Knowledge Management. She has created knowledge-sharing cultures, captured and transferred best practices, and developed communities of practice at Ernst & Young and Cuyahoga Community College. She is considered a national thought leader on the topic of knowledge management in higher education. Ms. Eugene has filled the roles of consultant, board member, advisory committee member, and volunteer to a number of Cleveland-area nonprofit organizations. She holds a Masters of Science in Organizational Development and Analysis from Case Western Reserve University.

Lynne Filderman

Session: Strategically Connecting Nonprofit Boards and the Business Board Members They Need; Thursday, 8/12 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Sue Fisher

     Session: Opening the Space for Nonprofit Advocacy; Friday, 8/13 from 2:15pm - 3:45pm
     Since 1998, Sue Fisher has been executive director of Nonprofit Services Consortium, a collaboration of representatives from higher education institutions, grant makers, and nonprofit service providers. The mission of NSC is to strengthen leadership of the nonprofit sector and build better communities through collaborative vision and action. Additionally, over the past 16 years, she has combined research with practical application as adjunct faculty in Health Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
     Sue has worked as consultant and/or volunteer with several statewide initiatives: ParentLink, Children’s Trust Fund, Missouri Department of Mental Health-Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (student assistance program), University of Missouri-St. Louis (Distance Learning for strengthening rural nonprofits) and the Missouri Family Health Council (Title X distribution agency for reproductive health). In 1991, she led a state-wide task force to develop a student assistance program model which involved major departments within the State of Missouri and six alcohol/drug abuse regional centers throughout the state. In 1992 she served on a DEA/DHHS task force to develop strategies to reduce teen smoking, and to increase police and community interaction to reduce drug demand and supply.
     Sue has presented at local, state, and national conferences on university-nonprofit partnerships, collaboration, grant writing, program development, evaluation, management tracking systems, and strategic planning.

Chester France

     Session: Capacity-Building with African American Faith-Based Organizations; Friday, 8/13 from 2:15pm - 3:45pm
     Rev. Chester France, M.Div., MSW, is president of The C. Whitney Group, LLC, established to provide fundraising resource development and organizational capacity building strategies for institutional and community-based organizations. Mr. France has over 30 years of professional experience in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. His business experience covers a wide range from sales and marketing to establishing several nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporations. He has served as Fund Development Officer for the University of Maryland School of Social Work Community Outreach Service, focused primarily in Special Events and Annual Giving.
     Mr. France has served as the Executive Director of several community-based nonprofits in Baltimore City and as Senior Vice President of a nonprofit to develop faith-based economic development initiatives in the Baltimore region. He has co-faciliated workshops on Fundraising from Foundations and Grantwriting Techniques to Win Sucessful Grants. He has provided workshops on "Valuing Diversity," for Maryland Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, Baltimore City Police Department, University of Maryland School of Social Work, and the Maryland Department of Human Services Office on Child and Family Services. Mr. France has provided services to nonprofits who serve both HIV/AIDS and ex-offender communities.

Doug Franklin

Session: Meeting the Collaboration Challenge: How to Help Nonprofits Identify Partnerships with Businesses; Wednesday, 8/11 from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Brian Fraser

     Session: The Power of Coaching in Capacity Building: Jazzing Up Your Practice; Saturday, 8/14 from 2:30pm - 3:50pm
     Dr. Brian J. Fraser is a social historian who has spent 30 years in executive education and organizational development at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia. The primary focus of his research and endeavors has been the Christian church, an organization Peter Drucker calls the most successful nonprofit in Western history. He has worked with over 200 congregations in Canada and the United States. He created a national training program for volunteer church leaders at St. Andrew's Hall at UBC and a graduate program for professional church leaders at Vancouver School of Theology at UBC, both focused on how best to contribute people?s talents to the creation of a coherent community of achievement.
     He is the Founder, Imagineer and Provocateur of Jazzthink Consulting, a company of coaches, educators and speakers based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a coaching and consulting associate with Tekara Organizational Effectiveness Inc. He is the author of 8 books and 30 articles, most dealing with leadership and cultural change. He has been a member of the Alliance since 2001 and sits on the McAdam Book Award Jury. His latest book is Jazzthink: Playing with the Stuff of Success (2003). He and the Jazzthink Trio have produced a CD called Jazzthink for Teams (2003). He finds in the literature and practice of jazz a rich resource for exploring the complex challenges of motivating and aligning talent to play above their current levels of performance in the best interests of the organization.

Donna Haig Friedman

Session: Field-Specific Capacity Building Organizations: Empowering Nonprofit Fields From the Inside; Friday, 8/13 from 2:15pm - 3:45pm

Donna Haig Friedman directs the Center for Social Policy (CSP), within the McCormack Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a nationally recognized scholar in the field of poverty, housing policy, and homelessness. She is the author of Parenting in Public: Family Shelter and Public Assistance (Columbia University Press, 2000) and of numerous articles and commissioned reports on homelessness and poverty. Under Dr. Friedman’s direction, CSP is the lead organization for statewide implementation of the Massachusetts Homeless Management Information System project. Named CSPTech, this project currently involves more than 80 agencies and 260 programs providing homeless assistance services across the state, and links together service providers, consumers, advocates, researchers, state and local government, and funders through a web-based information system called ServicePoint. CSPTech involves all these stakeholders in using advanced technology to understand and address homelessness in Massachusetts.

Amy Frumolt

Session: Quality Improvement: A Whole Systems Approach; Saturday Morning (Part 1) and Afternoon (Part 2), August 14

Michael Gilbert

     Session: Weblogs - What's Behind the Hype? Analyzing the Potential of Blogs for Nonprofits and MSOs; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
     Michael Gilbert is the editor of Nonprofit Online News, (www.nonprofitnews.org), one of the world's most respected sources of news, information, and opinion for the online nonprofit community. Nonprofit Online News follows the weblog model of short, readable items delivered on a regular basis. Nonprofit Online News is a project of The Gilbert Center and has been in continuous publication since April 1997.
     Mr. Gilbert is also an internationally known consultant to foundations, nonprofits, and progressive businesses and a writer, a social entrepreneur, and an innovator and researcher in the field of nonprofit infrastructure. He is a regular keynote speaker at social sector conferences.

Maria Gitin

     Session: Beyond Diversity: Cultural Competency in Capacity Building; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     Maria Gitin, CFRE is principal of Maria Gitin & Associates, a California-based independent consulting network established in 1983. Her specialties are assessing, planning and directing capital, annual and endowment campaigns, fund raising, diversity and team building training, and facilitating strategic plans. Maria's background includes twenty-five years of fund raising, program planning and community organizing. She was the founding President of Association of Fund raising Professionals Monterey Bay Chapter. She is a trainer for the Drucker Foundation/Leader to Leader Institute, The Management Center, and for many foundations and Management Assistance Programs. Maria is on the faculty of The Management Center in San Francisco. She is a volunteer trainer with the National Coalition Building Institute.
     Maria was a SCLC-SNCC civil rights worker doing voter registration in Georgia and Alabama in 1965. She has a lifetime commitment to social justice and civil rights. Early projects included founding a domestic violence emergency shelter while serving as Executive Director of the Monterey YWCA and directing a $1.4 million capital campaign for Congregation Beth Israel in Carmel in the 1980's. Since that time, she has consulted with more than 50 regional and national organizations to build stronger communities through pluralism and philanthropy.

Sarah Gleason

Session: Capacity Building with Immigrant and Refugee Led Organizations; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
Sarah is a consultant with Wilder Center for Communities. She works in WCC’s Leadership Development and Vital Neighborhoods programs and is project manager of Nexus. She has over 12 years experience in facilitation, training and program management. The focus of her current work is on community leadership, civic engagement and cultural diversity. She has directed an AmeriCorps program serving children in schools and after-school programs in central St. Paul neighborhoods, and facilitates training for AmeriCorps members nationally. She lived and worked in West and Central African countries for nearly nine years. During that time, she trained Peace Corps volunteers in community development, non-formal education, and cross-cultural adaptation, along with various technical topics. She served for four years as the training director for a Peace Corps training center, where she trained and coordinated new training staff teams three times a year. Sarah currently teaches a class on World Development Problems at the University of Minnesota. She is also strongly involved in faith-based social justice organizing in the Twin Cities. Sarah has degrees in history and education.

Anne Glendon

     Session: Using Whole-System Change Theory to Create Strategic Thinking Boards; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
     Glendon Associates is led by Anne Glendon, a senior consultant and facilitator whose practice focuses primarily on nonprofit organizations. The firm uses a whole-system, asset-based approach to organizational evaluation and development. Our process begins by listening with respect, helping clients evaluate current strengths and challenges, clarifying desired outcomes for the engagement, and identifying key stakeholders whose voices must be heard. Scope of work, timeline and personnel involved are joint decisions. The collective wisdom and experience of the consulting team at Glendon Associates helps clients build capacity for long term sustainability.
     Glendon Associates has extensive experience working with foundations, libraries, health and human service agencies, faith based groups and multi-sector community partnerships. Current and past clients include the CS Mott Foundation, Ruth Mott Foundation, Flint Funders Collaborative and the BEST Nonprofit Fund; Spanish Speaking Information Center and the International Institute; Novi, Ann Arbor and Chelsea District Libraries; Corner Health Center and the Brain Injury Association of Michigan; church conferences and congregation leadership; and a diverse array of other nonprofit and for-profit entities. Areas of special interest and expertise: Organizational Assessment; Strategic Planning; Board and Staff Leadership Development; Mission and Program Alignment; Resource Development; Meeting and Partnership Facilitation; Collaborations, Mergers and Strategic Restructuring.

Hilary Greer

Session: Capacity for What: Assessing Organizational Impact; Friday, 8/13 from 9:00am - 10:30am

Susan Griffin

Session: Taxonomy as the Basis for Structuring Nonprofit Organizational Resources; Saturday, 8/14 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
Ms. Griffin has thirty years experience in the nonprofit sector and was instrumental in the start-up of five programs in the fields of health care and aging. Her expertise is in the areas of program development, team building, and the overall planning, administration and operation of health and social service agencies. She is currently the Knowledge Manager for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, a management service organization whose mission is to help nonprofit organizations in Summit County, Ohio achieve their missions through effective management. She has a B.A. in Urban Studies and a Masters in Public Administration.

Jennifer Henderson

Session: The Fusion Model of Organizational Development: A Comprehensive Approach to Understanding and Strengthening Organizations; Saturday, 8/14 from 2:30pm - 3:50pm
Jennifer Henderson is President and co-founder of Strategic Interventions, Inc. She is an experienced trainer, facilitator and technical assistance provider in the area of strategic planning, organizational transformation, cultural diversity, community development, management assistance and capacity building. Having spent twenty-years in management and training, and technical assistance, Jennifer is a sought-after expert in leadership development, curriculum design, fellows programs, organizational redesign and capacity building. She spearheads the firm's training and development assistance to NGOs and businesses in South Africa and the Newly Independent States of Eastern Europe. The firm also provides consultation and support to a number of corporations and small businesses that are attempting to embrace the ethics and practices of corporate social responsibility. This work has included negotiating supplier contracts between nonprofit organizations and corporations and facilitating collaborative efforts between for-profit and nonprofits on key public policy issues. Jennifer has served on the boards of directors of the Nonprofit Management Association and the Applied Research Development Institute. Currently, Jennifer serves on the Board of the Twenty-First Century Foundation and the Young Women's Project. She was recently named the Chair of the Board of the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Company. Jennifer has authored articles, which have been published by the Hitachi Foundation, MS Foundation, Presbyterian Church, the National Society for Experiential Education and the Grassroots Fundraising Journal. Jennifer holds a Bachelor's degree in Politics and Journalism from N.C. State University.

Anne Howden

     Session: Becoming Who You Are: A Lifecycle Approach to Nonprofit Capacity; Saturday, 8/14 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     Howden is a Senior Consultant with the LarsonAllen Public Service Group. Anne joined The Stevens Group (which became LarsonAllen Public Service Group) in 1994. During the previous twelve years, she served in senior finance and administrative roles for major Twin Cities nonprofit social services and arts organizations as well as for local government and private funding organizations. This breadth and depth of experience has provided Anne with very practical perspectives on a wide variety of nonprofit financial and management issues. In addition to her role as consultant and advisor to many local and national nonprofits and foundations.
     Anne is a national lecturer, public speaker, and trainer on a variety of financial and organizational management topics. She has served on the faculty of the Council on Foundation's New Staff Institute, the faculty of the University of St. Thomas Center for Nonprofit Management in Minneapolis, and the faculty of the Minnesota Council on Foundations New Staff Institute. She is co-author of "Budgeting Your Way to Financial Stability", a publication of LarsonAllen Public Service Group. She holds a master's degree from the Harvard University School of Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

John Irons

     Session: Moving Towards Long-Term Action on Tax and Budget Issues; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     Prior to coming to OMB Watch in 2003, Dr. Irons was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Amherst College since 1999. He came to Washington DC and OMB Watch to play a more active role in policy analysis and advocacy. He holds a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also worked for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and briefly for the Brookings Institution and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
     Dr. Irons has published in several economics journals and was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, as well as a Graduate Fellowship from the Harvard/MIT Research Training Group in Positive Political Economy. In addition, he has won several awards for his economics websites including top 5 website awards from The Economist magazine and Forbes.com. He has served on the board of nonprofit institutions, including the Coalition on Human Needs.
     At OMB Watch, John works primarily in the area of federal budget policy, including tracking federal budget, tax, and management issues, from presidential and congressional proposals to final appropriations, with particular emphasis on the domestic impact of current and proposed policies. John's work also includes educating the public, including community groups and the news media, about federal budget issues, both on the tax and on the expenditure side.

Stanley Jackson

     Session: Public Sector Technical Support to Nonprofits: City, County, State and Federal Capacity Building Programs for Nonprofits; Friday, 8/13 from 9:00am - 10:30am
     Stanley Jackson began his tenure as Director at the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) in 2001. Mr. Jackson is committed to the Department’s missions to ensure increased homeownership opportunities, preserve and develop affordable housing for moderate and low-income residents, and revitalize neighborhoods by promoting community development and providing economic opportunities for all residents of the District of Columbia. Since Mr. Jackson took the helm, the Department has developed more than 6,700 units of newly constructed and rehabilitated affordable housing units and has assisted more than 1,800 District residents to become first-time homeowners.
     Mr. Jackson has served the District government in various positions for more than 22 years. He joined the District government in 1981 as a management analyst in the Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR). From 1995 until his appointment in May 2000 as Chief of Staff for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Jackson served as OTR's Director of Customer Service Administration.
     Mr. Jackson received a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Fayetteville completed a senior executive training course at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.   Mr. Jackson currently serves as President of the National Forum of Black Public Administrators, Washington DC Chapter, and is a member the National Association of Tax Administrators and the Howard University Advisory Board for Public Policy.

Betsy Johnson

     Session: How to Get Funding for Your Training Program; Friday, 8/13 from 2:15pm - 3:45pm
     For the past 18 years Betsy has been the Executive Director of the Washington Council of Agencies, the oldest association of nonprofits in the country.  Betsy started her career as a high school government and history teacher in Smyrna, Georgia. She has worked for the Close-up Foundation, the Massachusetts State Energy Office, Beacon College and the National Women's Law Center.
     Betsy is one of the founders of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations and served as Chair of the Board of NCNA for five years. She also was a founder and Board member of the National Nonprofit Unemployment Trust. Locally, she served on the D.C. Commission for National and Community Service, the Boards of the Emeritus Foundation, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center and Innonet. She also currently serves on the Advisory Board of 40 Plus, the Audit Committee for INDEPENDENT SECTOR and she served on the Host Committee for the IS 20th Anniversary Meeting. She is also a 1994 Leadership Washington graduate and a 1998 Leadership Montgomery graduate and is active in both organizations.
     Betsy holds a Bachelors degree in Political Science from the Women's College of Georgia and a Masters degree in Curriculum Development and History from Georgia State University.

Lorri Johnson

Session: Using Whole-System Change Theory to Create Strategic Thinking Boards; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
Lorri is a senior partner with Dannemiller Tyson Associates specializing in organization and community development. Her experience with whole system processes includes strategic planning and deployment, leadership development and coaching, organization and work redesign, culture change, and community transformation initiatives. Lorri has consulted in a wide range of settings ranging from information technology to health care as well education, government, unions, and non-profit organizations. Her clients include The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, National Caucus and Center for the Black Aged, Seattle Public Schools, Washington State Learning First Alliance, and YWCA of Greater Flint (MI). Lorri is a faculty member of the School for Managing and Leading Change. Her background includes 14 years experience with Xerox Corporation and Bell & Howell in the areas of human resources, sales and marketing.

Robin Katcher

Session: Calling the Hard Questions: Balancing the Role of the Facilitator/Consultant in Strategic Planning that Really Makes a Difference; Saturday, 8/14 from 2:30pm - 3:50pm
Robin Katcher has nearly 10 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations, as an ac-tivist, trainer, organizer, and board member. Before joining MAG, she spent three years as the Legislative Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence where she advocated for federal policy, developed a national coalition, and supported the development of local organizations. As an adjunct faculty member of the Gill Foundation, Robin has led trainings in fundraising and organ-izational development for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community groups. Robin also served as a founding board member of Jews United for Justice. At MAG, she has provided assis-tance to numerous organizations including the Washington National Office of the ACLU, Pri-mary Care Coalition of Montgomery County, DC Prisoners' Legal Services Project, Service-Members Legal Defense Network, Homeless Persons Representation Project, Land Trust Alli-ance, Economic Policy Institute, and Nebraska Appleseed Center.

Roselyn Kay

     Session: Leadership: Building Powerful Relationships with Appreciative Inquiry; Friday Afternoon, August 13
     Roselyn Kay is President of New Heights Group, LLC, a consortium of executive coaches and consultants. New Heights is built on Ms. Kay's 25 years of business leadership experience in financial services and her advanced study of organization dynamics and leadership. Previous to founding New Heights Group, LLC, Roselyn was with Fannie Mae where she held various Director positions during her tenure. She was Director of Lender Strategies for two years and Director of Customer Management for six, where for four years, her team was awarded the President's Club award in recognition as one of the top marketing and sales teams in the country.   Prior to Fannie Mae, Roselyn held the position of Chief Operating Officer/Acting President of National Mortgage, a subsidiary of a New England financial institution.
     Roselyn uses an action-oriented positive approach that engages leadership in bold visioning, guides the exploration of appropriate strategies and goals, and encourages leaders to make personal changes that enhance leadership capacity, elevate team performance, and increase the organization's capacity to manage dynamic organizational change. She incorporates Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and other strength-based, high communication-oriented approaches in her work. Roselyn is a Partner in Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, LLC a chaordic and virtual global consultancy dedicated to positive change. She holds a M.S. in Organization Development (MSOD) from American University (AU/NTL) and a B.S. in Business Management from Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH. She also holds certificates in OD and Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University and in Aligning Human Resources to Business Strategy from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She is qualified to deliver and interpret the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and FIRO B.
     Roselyn also co-designed and facilitated Innovation and Sustainability: An Appreciative Inquiry Foundations Course.

Sharon Kayser

Session: How to Get Funding for Your Training Program; Friday, 8/13 from 2:15pm - 3:45pm
Sharon Kayser is the Training Director at the Nonprofit Support Center of Santa Barbara County. She joined the Center as Training Director in January 1998 when the NSC became an independent 501 (c)(3) and the position was established. Until then, the Nonprofit Support Center had been operating as a program of the Santa Barbara Foundation. Under her leadership the scope, quality and quantity of trainings offered, as well as the numbers of participants attending, has expanded exponentially. She has 30 plus years of experience as a volunteer in the Santa Barbara community and is a graduate of Leadership Santa Barbara. She has a bachelor's degree from UCLA and during her professional career has worked for Santa Barbara County as a social worker and for a number of Santa Barbara based companies as a designer, production coordinator, customer service manager, and national product sales manager. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center.

Veena Keswani

Session: Evaluation Training of Trainers; Thursday, 8/12 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
Ms. Keswani brings knowledge and direct experience in organizational capacity building and participatory evaluation. As a Project Manager for Innovation Network, she has provided oversight and technical assistance to grassroots nonprofits in the areas of program planning, evaluation and capacity building. Ms. Keswani has played an important role in the design and implementation on a variety of projects intended to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to better serve their clients. She has worked with nonprofits to assess and improve their overall organizational effectiveness and helped construct organization development assessment tools. Ms. Keswani was a coach for the Learning Circles Project.

Norman King

Session: Strategically Connecting Nonprofit Boards and the Business Board Members They Need; Thursday, 8/12 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Norm King is the Director of BoardMatch Fundamentals, a program of Altruvest Charitable Services-Ontario, Canada. Norm King comes to Altruvest after having practised law in Toronto for several years. Norm has been a long-time volunteer with Ontario Special Olympics and the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. In addition to the above volunteer commitments, Norm serves as a volunteer Dispute Resolution Panel member to the Provincial Government's Ontario Disability Support Program-Employment Supports. He is also a course conductor for the National Coaching Certification Program for amateur sport in Canada.

Steve Klass

Session: Successful Consulting with Faith-Based Organizations; Saturday, 8/14 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
Steve Klass is the principal in Klass Strategies, a consulting firm formed in 1993 to exclusively serve nonprofit and government organizations. Mr. Klass recently assisted two dozen organizations as the capacity building consultant for Utah's faith-based and community organization initiative. He designed the consulting program and contributed presentation and website materials as well as the associated research activity and project report. Mr. Klass has developed an ethics and best management practices course and taught outcome measurement and proposal development for the Utah Nonprofits Association. His consulting practice concentrates on strategic planning and program design, board and organization development, grant/contract proposal development, performance and outcome measurement; and program evaluation. His proposals have generated over $9 Million in government grants/contracts in the last 8 years. Mr. Klass served as lead trainer in collaborative service delivery and strategic planning for local United Way agencies. He previously served as Deputy State Planning Coordinator and a Governor's Budget Analyst as part of 13 years in public service in Utah with program specialties in community development and public health.

Kim Klein

     Session: The Role of Fundraising in Determening the Future of the Nonprofit Sector; Saturday, 8/14 Luncheon from 12:45pm - 2:00pm
     Kim Klein is internationally known as a fundraising trainer and consultant. She is the Chardon Press Series Editor at Jossey-Bass Publishers, which publishes and distributes materials that help to build a stronger nonprofit sector, and the founder and publisher of the bimonthly Grassroots Fundraising Journal. She is also the author of Fundraising for Social Change (now in its fourth edition), Fundraising for the Long Haul (2000), which explores the particular challenges of older grassroots organizations, Ask and You Shall Receive: A Fundraising Training Program for Religious Organizations or Projects, a teaching manual for lay leadership, and an anthology of articles from the Grassroots Fundraising Journal called Raise More Money, which she edited with her partner, Stephanie Roth. Her new book, Fundraising in Times of Crisis, was released in December 2003. She is the featured writer for the e-Newsletter of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal, with her "Dear Kim Column" of answers to questions posed by readers.
     Kim has worked in all aspects of fundraising: as staff, as volunteer, as board member, and as consultant. She is best known for adapting traditional fundraising techniques, particularly major donor campaigns, to the needs of organizations with small budgets working for social justice. Widely in demand as a speaker, Kim Klein has provided training and consultation in all 50 states and in 19 countries. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Haas School of Business and a visiting lecturer at the University of Colorado-Denver. She was named Outstanding Fund Raising Executive of the Year in 1998 by the Golden Gate Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
     She graduated with honors from Beloit College, majoring in Religion and Classics, and did graduate work at the Pacific School of Religion.

Valyrie Laedlein

     Session: Structuring Your Management Support Organizations to Improve Impact; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
     Session: Evaluation of Capacity Building: Advanced Practitioners Dialogue; Saturday Morning (Part 1) and Afternoon (Part 2), August 14
     Valyrie Laedlein is Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation for Community Resource Exchange (CRE), a management assistance organization dedicated to building and strengthening community-based organizations working for change in poor communities in New York City. Ms. Laedlein joined CRE in 1990 and has consulted to hundreds of organizations in areas of strategic planning, organizational restructuring, financial management and fundraising. She has served as CRE's Deputy Director and CFO, and is currently spearheading a groundbreaking, 6-year evaluation study of CRE's effectiveness with community organizations. Before joining CRE, Ms. Laedlein consulted with community groups in Washington, D.C., New Jersey and Connecticut, worked as an economist for the U.S. Department of Labor, and served as a volunteer, trainer, and program coordinator with the Peace Corps in Senegal. She holds a master's in business administration from Yale University.

Ann Larsen

Session: Evaluation of Capacity Building: Getting Started; Friday Morning, August 13
Ann joined Tampa’s Management Assistance Program in 1998, contributing leadership to develop the program into an independent MSO serving the Tampa Bay metro area. Throughout 30 years divided between public, private and nonprofit business, she has also been active on boards and panels supporting youth, education, the arts, intercultural and international exchange programs. A graduate of the University of Iowa, she also studied nonprofit leadership and management at the Center for Nonprofit Management at the University of St. Thomas, and at the Reflective Leadership Center /Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. In 2003 she completed the Leadership Development Program at Eckerd College. Ann is one of the founding members of the Florida MSO Network and has been a strong proponent and practitioner of program evaluation among capacity building organizations. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Leepa-Rattner Museum at St. Petersburg College and Tampa Bay’s Network of Executive Women.

Mark Leach

Session: Calling the Hard Questions: Balancing the Role of the Facilitator/Consultant in Strategic Planning that Really Makes a Difference; Saturday, 8/14 from 2:30pm - 3:50pm

Janine Lee

Session: A Delicate Balance: The Relationship Between Funders, Capacity Builders and Nonprofits; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Session: Doing it 'Right': The Public Policy Grantmaking of Conservative Foundations; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm

Janine E. Lee joined the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 1990 to manage Project STAR (Students Taught Awareness and Resistance), a nationally recognized alcohol, tobacco and other drug use prevention program created and administrated by the Foundation. Lee assumed her current duties as a Youth Development division vice president in 1998. The Foundation's Youth Development division supports initiatives that focus on the needs of children, families and communities with an ultimate goal of developing youth to reach their full potential in society. Lee is responsible for neighborhood based investments in Kansas City's urban core, the Youth Advisory Board and the creation of the Organizational Effectiveness Investment strategy designed to strengthen and support nonprofits.
In addition to her professional responsibilities, Lee is dedicated to performing civic duty, such as serving on both the Urban Affairs and Urban Planning Task Force at UMKC and Kansas City's 150 Sesquicentennial Steering Committee. She serves as alumni for Leadership 2000 in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City Tomorrow in Kansas City, Missouri, and she represents the Kauffman Foundation as a founder for the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations through the Council on Foundations. Lee is also a lifetime member of the National Black MBA Association. Currently, Janine serves as a Board Member for the Alliance for Non-Profit Management.

Jason A. Lefkowitz

Session: Weblogs - What's Behind the Hype? Analyzing the Potential of Blogs for Nonprofits and MSOs; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Jason A. Lefkowitz is the E-Activism Manager for Oceana, a global non-profit organization which campaigns to protect and restore the world's oceans. In this capacity, he manages Oceana's online grassroots program (with more than 150,000 members around the world), edits the Oceana blog, and directs the online component of Oceana's communications strategy. Mr. Lefkowitz received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government from American University in 1997.

Russ Linden

Session: Helping Nonprofits Collaborate to Increase their Power and Effectiveness; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Russ Linden is a management educator, consultant, and author, who works primarily with nonprofit and government agencies. His practice focuses on the human side of organizational change, collaboration, strategic planning, and practices that support organizational learning. He writes a column on management innovations for The Virginia Review, speaks at national conferences on management topics, and is the author of four books and many articles. His most recent book: Working Across Boundaries: Making Collaboration Work in Government and Nonprofit Organizations (Jossey Bass, 2002).

Deborah Linnell

Session: Evaluation of Capacity Building: Getting Started; Friday Morning, August 13
Deborah Linnell has conducted multiple evaluations for philanthropic institutions and nonprofit organizations since 1990. Four of these evaluations focused specifically on capacity-building efforts by nonprofits or other capacity organizations serving the sector. In addition to evaluation, Linnell has conducted organizational assessments and provided organizational development consulting to nonprofit coalitions, associations and collaboratives. She has also worked for more than 22 years as a planner, strategist, fundraiser, board member and executive director within the sector. She is the lead author of the Executive Directors Guide: The Guide for Successful Nonprofit Management published by the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Third Sector New England (2001).

Vivienne Lorijn

Session: Quality Improvement: A Whole Systems Approach; Saturday Morning (Part 1) and Afternoon (Part 2), August 14
Vivienne joined SERG in 2002, during her graduate training at Columbia University in New York. She has managed various projects and consulted with not-for-profit human service organizations on how to improve their effectiveness through the application of management research and development technologies. This includes strategic and business planning; program planning, development and evaluation; financial management; and outcome management systems. Vivienne, a Dutch national, was brought up in the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. She holds a Masters degree in Administration and Planning from Columbia University School of Social Work in New York, and an M.A. from The University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Vivienne speaks English, Spanish, Dutch, German and French.

Sandra Lowe

     Session: Public Sector Technical Support to Nonprofits: City, County, State and Federal Capacity Building Programs for Nonprofits; Friday, 8/13 from 9:00am - 10:30am
     Sandra Stiner Lowe is the Director of the Fairfax County Office of Partnerships. Extensive experience in public policy, human services, personnel administration, and organizational management, Sandra Lowe focused her career on improving the quality of life for Fairfax County’s low-income population. Her proven capabilities as an administrator and motivator have been instrumental in the development of successful local and nationally replicated partnerships, including the Fairfax County Computer Learning Centers Partnership (CLCP) as well as the nationally renowned Medical Care for Children Partnership (MCCP). Currently, Ms. Lowe serves as a key player and principal liaison in the development of the Fairfax County Government’s Public/Private Partnership Initiatives in the areas of Health, Education and Technology.
     Ms. Lowe holds a Masters of Science degree in Urban Affairs from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Prairie View A&M University in Texas.

Sida Ly-Xiong

Session: Capacity Building with Immigrant and Refugee Led Organizations; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
Sida is a program associate with Wilder Center for Communities of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. She is experienced in youth programming, conflict resolution, policy analysis, and environmental management. Her work in the nonprofit and government sectors has included creating youth leadership programs for immigrant and refugee communities in Wisconsin; researching community development and environmental management initiatives in Botswana; and mediating consumer disputes for the State of Minnesota. Sida has degrees in science and technology policy, environmental studies, and biology.

Brooke Mahoney

Session: Strategically Connecting Nonprofit Boards and the Business Board Members They Need; Thursday, 8/12 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm
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.

Debbie Mason

     Session: The Marketing Plan: Your Roadmap for Technical Assistance Organizations; Friday, 8/13 from 9:00am - 10:30am
     Facilitator, communicator, author and trainer, Debbie Mason's work focuses on strengthening nonprofit executives and their organizations. Debbie serves as President of Strategists, Inc., which provides research, strategic planning, and communication counseling services and Sage Musings, Inc. a training and development company providing custom training programs and publications to Nonprofit Resource Centers, professional associations and nonprofit organizations. Debbie is an experienced facilitator and organizational coach, providing training and counsel to board and staff of organizations, guiding organizations through strategic planning, marketing, issues resolution, team building, and business development planning sessions, and the subsequent planning process.
     An accomplished speaker focusing on a variety of planning, leadership, communications and inspirational topics at regional and national conferences, Debbie is also the author of the book, "The Nonprofit Public Relations Toolkit."

Ruth McCambridge

     Session: Organizational Assessment; Friday, August 13
     Session: Organizational Assessment Advanced Practitioners Dialogue; Saturday Morning (Part 1) and Afternoon (Part 2), August 14
     Ruth McCambridge of Third Sector New England is the Editor-in-Chief of the Nonprofit Quarterly, a national magazine on nonprofit management and trends affecting the sector. Before joining TSNE, McCambridge spent a decade at the Boston Foundation where she developed and implemented several large capacity-building programs.

David Menefee

Session: Quality Improvement: A Whole Systems Approach; Saturday Morning (Part 1) and Afternoon (Part 2), August 14
Dr. Menefee earned his PhD in 1990 from the University of Washington and is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Social Administration and Planning Department at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York. He also is the founding- partner of SERG LLC, a not-for-profit consulting firm. Dr. Menefee has over twenty years of practice experience designing and conducting evaluation research and employing development initiatives for a variety of health and human service organizations. His work focuses on organizational effectiveness and management in the nonprofit sector and he is widely published. His work with major medical centers, state governmental agencies, and private non-profit organizations, focuses on strategic planning and management, business process analysis and improvement, financial management, management information systems, and outcome-based evaluation systems. His more recent works have involved: (1) designing and implementing activity-based management systems in two state social service agencies, (2) facilitating strategic planning for a state agency, (3) evaluating the efficacy of outcome measurement instruments in a private non-profit human service agency, (4) developing a software application to measure service cost and quality in a public social service agency, and (5) implementing an outcomes measurement system for an emergency department in a major medical center.

Inca Mohamed

Session: Calling the Hard Questions: Balancing the Role of the Facilitator/Consultant in Strategic Planning that Really Makes a Difference; Saturday, 8/14 from 2:30pm - 3:50pm
Internationally recognized for her group facilitation and training skills, Inca Mohamed has over 25 years experience of working with and managing nonprofit organizations addressing gender equity, sexual and reproductive health and rights, youth development and diversity. Inca has served as a senior manager, trainer, and service provider at local, national and governmental lev-els including Planned Parenthood in San Francisco, the Hawaii Department of Health, and The Door youth center in New York City. During her tenure at the YWCA of the USA, Inca provided leadership development and management consultation to YWCA affiliates across the country. Prior to joining MAG, Inca was a program officer at the Ford Foundation, where for 7 years she was responsible for both domestic and international youth development programming. Among the organizations she has assisted are A Better Chance, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights un-der Law, Burns Institute, National Women's Health Network, DC Agenda, National Community for Latino Leadership, the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Network, Moriah Fund, and The Funders Network for Population and Reproductive Health, and Rights.

Mary Anne Moore

     Session: Opening the Space for Nonprofit Advocacy; Friday, 8/13 from 2:15pm - 3:45pm
     Mary Ann Moore is an organization/management development consultant specializing in facilitating organizational change in the profit and not-for-profit sectors. Open Space Technology has greatly influenced her work as a tool for large systems change.   The methodology supports individuals and organizations in finding a voice for issues that are of collective concern and for which there is passion to pursue dialogue and action.
     Mary Ann has worked with a variety of clients including: Nonprofit Services Consortium; Anheuser-Busch Companies; SSM Health Care – St. Louis; Unilever HPC-USA; Exxon/Mobil Corporation; Sisters of Mercy Health System, St. Louis; Catholic Health Association; Boeing Corporation; and, US Department of Labor.
     Mary Ann has conducted executive development programs incorporating indoor and outdoor experiential learning. Her experience also includes first line supervisory training and team building in both union and non-union operations. She has worked with leaders and teams in multi-cultural settings in the US, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, Australia and New Zealand.
     Mary Ann is a graduate of the Coro Foundation Women in Leadership Program. She was a presenter at the United Nation’s Forum, 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya, on the International Decade of Women. Mary Ann holds a BA degree from Marquette University and an MFA from the George Washington University where she was a graduate teaching fellow and is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s Organization and Systems Development programs.

Peggy Morrison Outon

     Session: The Skill to Guide: An Introduction to Using the Drucker Foundation Self-Assessment Tool; Wednesday, 8/ 11 from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
     Session: MSO-Funder Collaboration: American Express Company Partners with Arts and Business Council; Alcoa Foundation Partners with Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management; Friday, 8/13 from 2:15pm - 3:45pm
     Peggy Morrison Outon is the Executive Director of the Bayer Center For Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA. She has twenty-six years experience in the not-for-profit sector as development officer, management support professional, and board member & volunteer. She has served as a management consultant to more than 500 nonprofit organizations. She has demonstrated expertise in all aspects of fund development, board development, strategic & operational planning, and volunteer management. She has served on 32 boards (7 as president) for many different causes ranging from Habitat for Humanity to Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors. She has also served as Founding Board Chair of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. She has sixteen years experience in arts organizations as a development and community relations professional in Austin, TX and in New Orleans, LA. She has led the development of three successful management support organizations and has developed curriculum and taught at the graduate level at the University of New Orleans and now at Robert Morris University. She is a founding member of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation international training team and serves as a trainer and advisor to the Institute for Global Ethics. A nationally noted teacher and trainer, Ms. Outon is a frequent national speaker and workshop presenter to many diverse audiences.

Monika Moss

     Session: Knowledge Practices - Building Adaptive Capacity for Nonprofit Survival; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
     Monika K. Moss is president of MKM Management Consulting. MKM Management Consulting, by providing a full range of consulting services, supports its many clients as they address the complex issues of their organizations and the communities they serve while facing the reality of limited resources and competing community agendas. Our clients range from small all-volunteer organizations to large international organizations. We facilitate and support a wide range from projects in both size and scope from retreats and training sessions to large scale community meetings. Our goal remains to support our clients in finding earthly paths to their vision.
     Monika Moss brings over 18 years of experience in working with the nonprofit & public sector to this presentation. Her expertise in planning, facilitation, meeting design, group dynamics and diversity help insure the environment is created for groups to do their work. Her collaborative style increases each organizations? ability to impact the design and outcomes of the projects that she facilitates. Ms Moss is a graduate of Howard University and Columbia University. She is a former adjunct professor at Cleveland State University and Fordham University. She is a certified facilitator under the Technology of Participation from the Institute of Cultural Affairs, a certified Gestalt practitioner and serves on the faculty and Board of Directors of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.

Rick Moyers

     Session: A Delicate Balance: The Relationship Between Funders, Capacity Builders and Nonprofits; Friday, 8/13 from 4:15pm - 5:30pm
     Richard L. Moyers is the program officer for the Meyer Foundation's Nonprofit Sector Advancement Fund, which includes a management assistance program for grantees, support to strengthen the nonprofit sector, and a cash flow loan program.
     Prior to joining the Meyer Foundation in November 2003, Rick was executive director of the Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations (OANO), a statewide coalition of more than 650 nonprofits which provided leadership, education, and advocacy to strengthen Ohio's nonprofit sector. Under his leadership, OANO established a public policy program and became one of the first state associations outside Maryland to adopt the Standards for Excellence ethics and accountability code. Before joining OANO in 1999, Rick spent seven years at BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards), concluding his tenure as vice president for programs and services.

Douglas Muzzio

Session: The Next Leaders: Developing Tomorrow's Nonprofit Executives; Friday, 8/13 from 11:00am - 12:15pm
Douglas Muzzio is Professor of Public Affairs at Baruch College. He specializes in the study of American public opinion and voting behavior and has written widely on the subject. He has extensive public opinion survey experience. In 1994, he founded and directed the Baruch College Survey Unit. The Unit has conducted surveys for the Federal Court of the Second Circuit, BusinessWeek, The New York State County Executives Association, the New York City Department of Health, and the Hispanic Federation of New York City, among other clients. Additionally, he has been a policy consultant to City agencies and nonprofit organizations, including the Sanitation Department, the Board of Education, the Parks Council, the Federa