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RM05 Regional Meeting Presenters

Cambridge, MA
May 18, 2005

About the Presenters

Kelly Bates, Esq., Bates Consulting

Kelly Bates, Esq., Principal of Bates Consulting is a leading consultant in diversity and organizational development. Bates Consulting works with its clients to help them build healthy, high functioning and multicultural organizations through diversity and organizational development consulting and training. She has led several strategic planning processes with complex diversity and cultural competency components.

Liliana Riva Clement, Dynamic Solution Associates

Clemente Ms. Clement is a Senior Consultant and Partner of Dynamic Solution Associates. She has over 15 years experience working for public health and nonprofit organizations. Her MPH is from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Ms. Clement is an expert in the areas of program design and evaluation, grantwriting with particular expertise in writing state and federal government grants, cost-effectiveness analysis, developing fee-for-service business plans, and in community mobilization/ participation. Ms. Clement’s work has included serving as an outside evaluator to U.S. Agency for International Development sponsored health programs serving upwards of 100,000 beneficiaries. She has worked with a large variety of underserved populations throughout her career, including providing direct services to minority populations in the US and providing education and outreach to poor, remote communities in Latin America and Africa. Specifically she has worked on the issues of HIV/AIDS, nutrition education, primary health care to under 5 year olds, maternal health, breast cancer, and many other community-based needs. She has also served as a technology transfer expert for the Johns Hopkins Division of Nutrition, establishing biochemical laboratories around the world. Ms. Clement is fluent in Spanish and is an advocate for the Latino population where she lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Susan Egmont, Egmont Associates

Egmont 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.

Judy Freiwirth, Nonprofit Solutions Associates

Dr. Judy Freiwirth is an organization development consultant and Principal with Nonprofit Solutions Associates. She has been consulting to and training exclusively for nonprofit and public organizations for the past 30 years, primarily with community-based nonprofits. Her practice includes all major areas of organization development including strategic planning, board development, organizational assessment and management, program evaluation, diversity initiatives, fundraising strategy, human resource issues, and helping organization become learning, participatory organizations. Considered one of the leading trainers for nonprofits in the Boston area, she has taught extensively in many areas of organization development and planning both locally and nationally. She co-authored a new national training curriculum for outcome measurement, entitled, “Measuring Outcomes: How to Improve Your Programs and Meet Your Mission”. She has a long history of community organizing, coalition building, and national advocacy work and brings her experience as an Executive Director, board member and community organizer to her consulting. She holds a doctorate in psychology, specializing in organization development.

Tawara Goode, National Center for Cultural Competence

Goode Ms. Goode is an instructor in the Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She has been on the faculty of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD), for the past 27 years and has served in many capacities. She has degrees in early childhood, special education and human development and over 26 years of experience in the field. Ms. Goode is Director of the National Center for Cultural Competence at GUCCHD. (The NCCC has been in existence for the past 10 years during which Ms. Goode was the director for 8 years). The mission of the NCCC is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health programs to design, implement and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems. Ms. Goode has been actively involved in the development and implementation of programs and initiatives in the area of cultural and linguistic competence at local, national and international levels. These efforts address the needs of diverse audiences including health care, mental health, social services, early childhood and special education, community/advocacy organizations, professional societies/organizations, institution of higher education etc.
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Wilbur Herrington, Consultant

Wilbur Herrington works with nonprofit organizations to coach leaders and teams in developing strategies needed to achieve successful results in complex environments. As a consultant his particular focus is the integration of diversity with organizational development. He has done large scale change initiatives in both community-based and academic settings which have bridged internal organizational goals with various external constituent stakeholder interests. He designs and facilitates training workshops for organizations throughout the United States with an emphasis on embedding the learning into the organizational culture. Currently he is working in the health care industry addressing issues of cultural competence.

Andrea Nagel, Interaction Institute for Social Change

Andrea Nagel is a Senior Associate at Interaction Institute for Social Change, where she also delivers training, consulting, and facilitation services that foster collaborative processes and support cooperative learning in the nonprofit sector. She also manages the Community Building Curriculum, a grassroots leadership development project. Andrea delivers many of these services in Spanish as well as English, and has additional expertise in strategic planning, community organizing, and community development. Her most decisive and extensive community development experience has been with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, where she served as Community Organizer and Human Development Director. Prior to joining IISC, Nagel was a Program Advisor and later a Training Associate at YouthBuild USA, a youth development program with over 130 sites nationwide. Andrea’s recent clients include: Lawrence Community Works, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Urban Edge, and Mujeres Unidas en Acción. Andrea holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University and a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Alan Reid-Erickson, New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits

Alan has been involved in nonprofit, human service work for over thirty (30) years. He has been the Director of a group home, a mental health association and a child and family service agency. He has also worked with children with autism, at an alternative school and in the juvenile justice system. Has had ten (10) years of experience in the statewide association of nonprofits movement as co-founder/co-director of the Granite State Association of Nonprofits (now NHCN, as a consultant to the Maine Association of Nonprofits and executive director of the California Association of Nonprofits. He is currently executive director of the Child Development Center of Strafford County in Rochester, NH. He also serves on several nonprofit Boards and the Rochester, NH City Council. He received a BA from Central Connecticut State University and a Masters from Antioch/New England Graduate School.

Christine Robinson, Stillwaters Consultation

Christine Robinson launched her independent consultation practice in 2004. Ms. Robinson served as the Executive Director of the Brazelton Foundation, the Director of Human Development Programs for the Fannie Mae Foundation, the first Director of Poverty Programs for the Moriah Fund, and as the program officer responsible for national grantmaking for children and youth at the Pew Charitable Trusts. She has also served as a consultant for the Philadelphia Foundation, the Boston Foundation, and the Indianapolis Foundation. Ms. Robinson has been instrumental in the establishment of more than 50 nonprofit organizations nationally, and numerous coalitions. In addition, she has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 25 years, holding senior positions, and has served as a senior consultant for various foundations, health agencies, and child care agencies. She is active on several boards of directors.

Brigette Rouson, Alliance for Nonprofit Management

Rouson Brigette Rouson, J.D., M.A., serves on the Alliance staff with a focus on cultural competency, racial equity, and professional resources. In addition, she is principal of Rouson Associates/Paradigm Partners, a consulting practice for social change. Brigette partners with colleagues to guide community and sector-wide initiatives, and also provides strategic planning, board and leadership development, and fundraising planning services. Brigette brings more than 20 years' nonprofit experience as a public policy attorney, grantmaker, board member, facilitator and scholar-activist. She is dedicated to nonprofit effectiveness from a “three-dimensional” perspective—fusing traditional organizational Development, Diversity, and the Dynamics of inner/energy work. Having completed Ph.D. coursework and specialized training, she is attentive to power relations—seeking equity across identities—and values insights from spiritual life coaching and social enterprise. Previously, Brigette was on the consulting staff of the Management Assistance Group (MAG), and earlier directed a $4 million grantmaking and capacity-building collaborative at the Ms. Foundation for Women. Brigette is co-founder of the Alliance People of Color affinity group, and a member of the Faith-Based Capacity Building affinity group. Memberships include the National Network of Grantmakers’ People of Color Caucus steering committee, Teaching for Change fundraising committee, Women & Philanthropy, and Project South. Locally, she co-chairs the women’s foundation capacity fund, is a donor-organizer with its African-American Women’s Giving Circle, and serves on the board of social action of a United Church of Christ congregation. She is the proud mother of a middle-school jazz drummer and the spouse of a music educator.

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