Speakers
Conference Chair
Susan Kubik
Vice President for Institutional Advancement (Emeritus)
Northampton Community College
Susan Kubik, vice president for institutional advancement (emeritus), Northampton Community College, is widely regarded as one of the most successful college fundraisers in the country. The college foundation that she directs is a four-time recipient of the CASE Circle of Excellence Award.
Kubik, her foundation board and staff, have developed a fundraising program that generates more than $2 million per year, built an endowment that provides more private scholarship funds for students than any other community college in Pennsylvania, exceeded goal in several ambitious fundraising campaigns, and written grant proposals that bring in more than $7 million each year.
She has been honored with the CASE/Commonfund Award for Institutionally Related Foundation Executives, CASE District II's Professional of the Year Award, and the Frank L. Ashore Award for service to CASE and the advancement profession.
Speakers
Lewis Bailey
Senior Engagement Manager
Moveo Integrated Branding
Lewis Bailey is a senior engagement manager at Moveo Integrated Branding, where he leads the strategic branding for Waubonsee Community College, NES Rentals and Westex. He has extensive educational branding experience, working with institutions such as Elgin Community College and Rhodes State College. Before joining Moveo, he worked with Doner Advertising in Southfield, Mich,, where he presided over national brands such as May Company department stores and ADT. Prior to Doner, he was a member of the account team at Ogilvy & Mather in Chicago. He is a graduate of Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in advertising.
Kathy Baird
Advancement Associate
Napa Valley College Foundation
As advancement associate of alumni and donor relations, Kathy Baird fosters the continuing participation of Napa Valley College alumni, promoting student success and the college's achievements. Interacting with alumni and students and expanding the scholarship endowment are some of Kathy's primary interests at Napa Valley College. She has made presentations on alumni outreach and engagement, set up a reporting structure for donor relations, and is researching the correlation of community college alumni and donor giving. Kathy is pursuing a Master of Science in Higher Education from Drexel University. Upon receiving her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985, she worked at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for six years where she was the database supervisor for membership and annual giving. For the last 14 years she has supported the development efforts of the Napa Valley College Foundation.
Amy Berman
Senior Program Officer
John A. Hartford Foundation
Amy Berman is a senior program officer with the John A. Hartford Foundation, a national foundation located in New York City. The John A. Hartford Foundation is to dedicated to improving health care for older Americans. Berman heads the foundation's investments in the development and dissemination of innovative, cost-effective models of care that improve health outcomes for older adults. She is also responsible for grants to Community College of Philadelphia and the National League for Nursing, which together, are improving the geriatric expertise of nursing graduates.
Michelle Buchanan
Partner
Dini Partners, Inc.
Michelle Buchanan has worked as a development officer and leader in fundraising campaigns with staffs ranging in size from one to 85. Buchanan's professional background includes upper-level development leadership roles with the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the University of Houston and the Wesley Community Center. She is a past president of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Greater Houston Chapter and a board member of the National Board of Directors of the College of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University.
Sheri Horn Bunk
Executive Director
Taft College Foundation
Sheri Horn Bunk is the executive director for the Taft College Foundation. Previously, Bunk was the director of major gifts at California State University Bakersfield from 2006 until 2009. Bunk was elected to the Network for California Community College Foundations board, which is housed by the Chancellor's Office, for a three-year term.
Bruce Byl
Immediate Past Chair
Northwestern Michigan College Foundation
Bruce Byl is director of real estate and special projects at Northwestern Bank in Traverse City, Mich. Byl is former president and chief executive of Office Concepts, a Chicago-based Steelcase commercial furniture distributor. He is an alumnus of Northwestern Michigan College and a passionate, persuasive champion for his alma mater. Byl also received a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University. Named an Outstanding Alumnus of NMC in 2010, Byl has served on the NMC Foundation board since 2006 and led the board as chair in 2010 and 2011. He has also served as chair of the foundation's annual fund campaign. Under his leadership, the NMC Foundation exceeded annual fundraising goals and advanced the board's high performance culture.
Barbara Capsouras
Director, Alumni Relations
County College of Morris
As director of alumni relations for County College of Morris, Barbara Capsouras develops, directs and administers a comprehensive alumni program to strengthen constituent relations in cultivating alumni, alumni communications, alumni support service, resource development and special projects with the foundation of the County College of Morris. Her duties include providing a leadership role in alumni association development and operations, as well as all internal and external alumni communications. Major responsibilities encompass program management, staffing, budgeting, communications, fundraising, volunteer management, board coordination, reporting and special projects. Her early background includes experience in corporate public relations as a public affairs coordinator providing efficient tactical execution and administration of several corporate-wide programs including: contributions, matching gifts and community relations. Capsouras holds an cum laude associate degree in business administration from the County College of Morris, a bachelor's degree in business administration and general management from Thomas Edison State College and a master's degree in administrative science from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Selena Chi
Dean, Resource Development
East Los Angeles College
Laurie Clowers
Associate Vice President of Communications
Wake Tech Community College
Laurie Clowers is the associate vice president of communications at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, N.C. Prior to joining Wake Tech in 2007, she had a successful career as a broadcast journalist. Most recently, Clowers spent eight years working as an anchor and reporter at the top-rated WRAL-TV in Raleigh. She has worked at CNN in Atlanta and Washington, DC, as well as WTTG and NewsChannel 8 in Washington, D.C. and WGGB-TV in Springfield, Mass. Over the years, Clowers received numerous honors, including a Telly Award, a Radio and Television News Directors Association award and several Emmy nominations. She received a bachelor's degree in mass communications from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an academic minor in Spanish while studying at the University of St. Louis in Madrid.
Pam Cohen
Behavioral Economist
Dix & Eaton
Pam is a nationally recognized behavioral economist whose work has helped higher education institutions connect sustainability efforts and reputation to bottom-line performance and broader organizational outcomes. Pam is also on the Sustainability Certificate Program Board of the University of Chicago's Graham School, working on the development of a certificate program in Leadership in Sustainability Management. As part of this program she designs and teaches courses on Environmental Economics and Green Communications. Additionally, Pam is on faculty at DePaul University where she teaches statistics in the behavioral sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology, specializing in social psychology, from the University of Michigan, and MAs in sociology and in education from the University of Michigan. Her BA in sociology is from the University of Texas at Austin.
Heather Cook
Executive Director of the Foundation
Northeast State Community College
Heather Cook is the executive director of the Foundation at Northeast State Community College. In less than a year, she has increased faculty/staff support by 86 percent and more than doubled giving. Cook was the director of marketing for the Kingsport Convention and Visitors Bureau, a program of the Chamber of Commerce. She also worked with the Center for Appalachian Studies, where she designed the award-winning magazine, Now & Then. She conducts leadership development training with local high schools and colleges and is the drum major instructor for the Dobyns-Bennett band. She received her doctorate in educational leadership from East Tennessee State University and was the first graduate of the prestigious Roan Scholars Leadership Program. Cook is pursuing both the Nonprofit Executive Management Certificate and CFRE certification. She is a board member for the local Rotary Club and a communications committee member for United Way.
William Craft
Founding Partner
Eaton Cummings Group
Dr. William M. Craft is co-founding partner of the Eaton Cummings Group and a nationally known consultant in areas of strategic planning and fundraising counsel for community colleges and non-profit boards and organizations. His appointments in higher education span 30 years including professor of mathematics, academic dean and vice president for planning and development. He is a past president of the Washington, D.C.-based Council for Resource Development (CRD) and recipient of the CRD Lifetime Service Award. Specializing in executive coaching, he has trained more than 200 community college CEO's to effectively garner philanthropic support for their colleges. He holds a BA (Cum Laude) in mathematics from the State University of New York, an Ed.D. with concentrations in Public Policy and Finance from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, a certificate in management (IEM) from Harvard and served as a resident EXXON Fellow at MIT. Bill is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE).
Wendy Davis
Principal Consultant
Ellucian
Wendy Davis has been a higher education consultant 15 years. During her tenure with Ellucian, she has visited hundreds of colleges and universities and their foundations to discuss advancement solutions. Wendy is a member Bradley University Alumni Association Board of Directors and serves as an advisor on the marketing committee. She is also has experience as a former board member of an affinity group at Bradley that works to coordinate alumni efforts for the Bradley University national championship speech team. The affinity group is one of the most successful at the university and works to advance the needs of the current student team as well as engage alumni in volunteer and fundraising efforts. Wendy holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Bradley University, a master's degree in political science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and she is currently in a doctoral program in political science at the University of Utah. Her academic focus is public policy with an emphasis in education policy.
Jody Donaldson
Scholarship Alumni Director
Kirkwood Foundation
Doug Ferguson
Director
Delaware County Community College
Doug Ferguson is currently the director of alumni programs at Delaware County Community College, arriving in September 2010 after five years with an international publishing association in New Jersey. Prior to that, Ferguson was assistant director of alumni relations at Widener University, where he graduated with both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in public administration with a non-profit management concentration.
Emily S. Fisher
Executive Director
WVNCC Foundation
Emily S. Fisher began her career as an accountant in 1978. She moved into the role of executive director of the local community foundation and a private foundation in 1998. She has been with West Virginia Northern Community College for the past seven years as the executive to the president for development and executive director of its foundation. Fisher is a graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University, a Certified Fund Raising Executive and a Certified Non Profit Executive Leader from Indiana University's School of Business and Philanthropy. She is an accomplished presenter in the areas of grant making, executive leadership and organizational skills. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Council for Resource Development, Pittsburgh Planned Giving Council and the Estate Planning Council; serves as a board member of the Western Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Leadership WV and the President of the Wheeling Lions Club.
Bert Glandon
President
College of Western Idaho
Berton L. Glandon was named president of the College of Western Idaho in July 2009. Prior to joining CWI, Glandon was president at Arapahoe Community College from 2002 to 2009 and of Treasure Valley Community College from 1981 to 2002. He received his bachelor's degree in business and master's in communications from Western Washington University and doctorate in educational administration from Brigham Young University. Glandon is a seasoned leader with more than 31 years of community college experience. He has been involved with four community college foundations, all of which developed into multi-million dollar resources for their institutions. Glandon is an advisory board member for the Higher Education Research and Development Institute; co-chair for the Workforce Subcommittee of the Idaho Technology Council; a member of Boise Valley Economic Council; and, by appointment of the Governor, is a member of the Idaho Workforce Development Council.
Gena Glickman
President
Manchester Community College
Gena Glickman is the fifth president of Manchester Community College, beginning her tenure in 2008. Her community service includes: the American Council on Education's Commission on Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity; the American Association of Community Colleges Commission on Research, Technology, and Emerging Trends; the Greater Hartford Arts Council; Corporator for Rockville Bank. Glickman received the Distinguished Alumna Award from the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association; the Faculty Mentor Award from University of Maryland College Park; Outstanding Administrator, Maryland Association of Higher Education; and a service award from the Black Law Student's Association at the University of Baltimore. Glickman holds a bachelor's degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Education; and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Rae Goldsmith
Vice President of Advancement Resources
Council for Advancement and Support of Education
Rae Goldsmith serves as the vice president for advancement resources at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). She oversees the development and delivery of advancement content through the offices of communications (including media relations and online initiatives), books publishing, CURRENTS magazine, the CASE InfoCenter and research.
Goldsmith joined the CASE staff in 2005 after 22 years in educational communications and marketing, overseeing public and media relations, issues management, marketing, advertising, branding, development and health sciences communications, publications and online communications. She was the associate vice president for communications and marketing at the University of Louisville, where she led a nationally recognized integrated marketing program. She was also the associate vice president for public relations and marketing at Central Michigan University and the director of public information services at Ball State University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in public relations.
An active CASE volunteer before joining the staff, Goldsmith chaired the Annual Assembly, now the Summit for Leaders in Advancement, and the conference for senior public relations professionals, served on the Commission on Communications and Marketing and the District III board, and was a CURRENTS author and frequent conference speaker. She has been recognized with the CASE Crystal Apple Award for outstanding teaching at CASE conferences.
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Frank Gornick
Chancellor
West Hills Community College District
Frank Gornick, chancellor of the West Hills Community College District, has been at West Hills for more than 18 years. Under his leadership, first as president and now as chancellor, a single College at Coalinga has grown into a district including a second college in Lemoore and a north district center in Firebaugh, Calif.
Gornick received his associate Degree at West Hills College—then called Coalinga College—in 1966, his bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University, Sacramento and doctorate from St. Louis University.
Kathleen Guy
Founding Partner, Eaton Cummings Group and Director Emeritus, NMC Foundation
Eaton Cummings Group
Kathleen Guy is co-founding partner of the Eaton Cummings Group, a nationally-known consulting firm specializing in strategic planning and fundraising counsel for community colleges and other non-profit organizations. Her experience includes a 33-year career in higher education, most recently as vice president for institutional advancement and executive director of the foundation at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, Mich., where she annually led the foundation to a position among the nation's top community college foundations in funds raised. Guy is a community college alumnae, a graduate of Alma College in MIch. and holds master's and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University. She is a certified fund raising executive.
John Gyllin
Executive Director, Foundation for Seminole State College of Florida
Seminole State College of Florida
Marilyn Harvey, Ed.D
Acting Director, Development and Alumni Relations
San Diego City College Foundation
Kathy Hall
Executive Director
Kirkwood Foundation
Russell Hammond
Associate VP for Resource Development
Orange County Community College
Russell E. Hammond, Ed. D. Dr. Hammond is currently associate vice president for Resource Development for Orange County Community College in Middletown, New York. His responsibilities include overseeing his fourth capital campaign, which to date has raised $23.2 million towards a stated goal of $25 million. Dr. Hammond has worked in higher education advancement for more than sixteen years, assisting with raising a total of nearly $100 million. Prior to joining SUNY Orange, he was Associate VP for Institutional Advancement at Kean University, and prior to that he was Associate Director of Westchester Community College Foundation. His earlier career included senior administrative positions in both public and non-profit agencies, serving adults with developmental disabilities.
Rebecca Hastings
Executive Director for the Foundation
Cascadia Community College
Rebecca Hastings, has worked in education for nearly 30 years, primarily in the state of Washington, but also in the states of Virginia, Ohio and Montana. Her move into higher education began in 1993 when she accepted a supervisory position with the University of Washington, College of Education and continues today with her most recent appointment as executive director for the Foundation at Cascadia Community College. Highlights of her career include directing Seattle Community Colleges $25 million Power and Promise campaign, establishing the first district-wide endowed fund for scholarships, and implementing and creating support for the first-ever online annual fund campaign at Cascadia. Hastings is a member of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Northwest Development Officers Association. Hastings holds an undergraduate degree in education from Ohio State University and a master's degree in education from the University of Virginia.
Lisa Heise
Controller
Great Basin College Foundation
Lisa Heise, a certified public accountant for more than 30 years, Heise has worked in both public accounting and private industry, with a strong emphasis in the not-for-profit arena. As controller for Great Basin College Foundation, Heise's responsibilities encompass all aspects of financial reporting and asset management. Heise is a regular speaker for CASE and other organizations, addressing compliance issues in small organizations and governance topics, especially those related to fiscal matters. In 2011, she received the CASE Commonfund Institutionally Related Foundation Award. Heise received a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Oklahoma.
Paul Heaton
Director of Center for Community College Advancement
CASE
Paul Heaton joined CASE as the inaugural director of the Center for Community College Advancement in May 2011 after five years at Northwestern Michigan College, a community college in Traverse City, Mich., where he was responsible for public relations, marketing and communications, as well as the school's public radio station. He also supported the college's fundraising efforts, which earned a CASE-WealthEngine award for overall performance in 2007.
In addition to his work at a community college, Heaton has held leadership positions in marketing, communications, public relations and student media at Eastern Michigan University and the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, and at Ithaca College in New York. Prior to working in higher education, he was an editor and bureau chief for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida.
Eileen Hill
Associate Director
Cabrillo College Foundation
Eileen Hill joined the Cabrillo College Foundation in 1998 and serves as the associate director. She manages the Annual Fund Telephone Outreach program, overseeing a 15-person staff; the annual President's Circle campaign and 35-person volunteer committee; the Cabrillo Advancement Program, an innovative mentoring and scholarship program which boasts a $1.4 million endowment; Women's Educational Success, which raises $70,000 each year and boasts a $1 million endowment; and the Scholarship Program, which ranks among the top 10 in the state for the amount of scholarships awarded. She plays an integral role on the major gifts team, helping to develop donor relationships, cultivating donors, and formulating major gift solicitations. Hill's support on the major gifts team has resulted in three $1 million gifts to Cabrillo College and numerous major gifts from individuals. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
John Hill
Higher Education Evangelist
LinkedIn
Find John online:
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/msuaajohn
Twitter: https://twitter.com/linkedinjohn
John Hill traded one passion for another. He left Michigan State University to become the higher education evangelist at LinkedIn. He believes "changing the world" can be more than hyperbole. Building relationships and connecting people with opportunity are at his core. He relies heavily on online networks like LinkedIn to facilitate each. He also works with academic entities to identify how Web 2.0 can help their organizations aggregate audience, target market, communicate and develop funding sources. He is young, smart and global at heart, MSU by passion and driven by nature.
Cary Israel
District President
Collin College
Cary A. Israel is president of Collin County Community College District, a multi-campus operation serving more than 53,000 students annually. Israel began his presidency at Collin in 1999. He previously served as president of Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey, president of the Illinois Community College System, and president of Front Range Community College in Colorado.
Israel currently serves on the executive and legislative committees of the Texas Association of Community Colleges. He currently serves as an officer and past president of Texas Campus to Community Coalition, a coalition of college and university presidents who promote civic purposes of higher education. He also serves on the national Executive Advisory Council for Ellucian and is an active member of the Board of Trustees of Medical Center of Plano, the Advisory Council for the Center for Community College Education of Texas A&M University-Commerce, The University of North Texas Bill Priest Center Advisory Board, the Advisory Board for Sustainable Technology Research, the Collin County Business Alliance Board, Plano Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board, and the Plano Rotary Club Board.
Israel received a bachelor's degree with highest honors from Michigan State University and law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy Law School.
Paul Joly
Director, Marketing and Communications
Northampton Community College
Paul Joly has served as director of marketing and publications with Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, since 2000. Several years ago he introduced the college's successful "Where are YOU going?" marketing campaign which has garnered numerous awards. The campaign develops the success stories of real graduates through billboard placements, TV spots and newspaper advertising. Joly received his M.A. from Fordham University, New York, N.Y. and a B.A. from Canisius College, Buffalo, N.Y. He previously served as Vice President for Marketing at Sacred Heart Healthcare System, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Laurie Jorgensen
Director of Marketing/Creative Services
College of DuPage
Laurie Jorgensen is the director of marketing and creative services at College of DuPage, a single-campus community college serving 60,000 students annually. Prior to joining COD, Jorgensen served as director of creative services for the University of Chicago Alumni and Development Office and has nearly 20 years of corporate marketing and communications expertise.
Jorgensen is responsible for COD's branding as well as print, online, social media and broadcast marketing. During her two years at COD, she has instituted the college's first integrated marketing campaigns and led the team that redesigned and overhauled the college website.
Ann Kaplan
Director, Voluntary Support of Education Survey
Council for Aid to Education (CAE)
Ann E. Kaplan joined the Council for Aid to Education in 2001 as the director of the Voluntary Support of Education Survey and the affiliated online benchmarking program, Data Miner. Kaplan directs the 54-year-old program that measures, reports on and allows others to study the charitable giving receipts of higher education and private precollege institutions in the United States.
For the ten years prior to her tenure at CAE, Kaplan was the primary researcher, writer, and editor of Giving USA, the annual report on charitable giving in America, published since 1955. She served as an advisor to and collaborator with other research organizations, including the Foundation Center, Independent Sector, the White House Council on Philanthropy during the Clinton administration, and the Urban Institute.
Kaplan was also a policy analyst for the New York State Senate Subcommittee on Privatization. And she was the admissions director for a private school in New York City.
Glenn Kaufhold
CEO
GKollaborative
Glenn Kaufhold brings more than two decades' worth of experience as FGCC's Chief Executive Officer. He was previously the chief executive of the Miami Dade College Foundation and held senior positions at Florida International University and Boston University. He was also the co-founder and executive director of Special Athletes/Special Smiles, a national oral health initiative created in partnership with Special Olympics International and Boston University. In addition to leading the FGCC, he owns his own consulting practice.
Brian King
President
Cabrillo College
Brian King is in his ninth year as president of Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz County, Calif. Since joining Cabrillo in 2004, King has worked with the Cabrillo College Foundation to raise more than $20 million. A graduate of the University of Missouri, the University of Arkansas, and Duke University School of Law, King says that he is a "recovering" attorney. He serves on numerous local, state and national boards, including currently serving as Chair of the Board of the California Community College Athletics Association. Cabrillo is currently spearheading the Santa Cruz County College Commitment, an innovative, collaborative effort to increase college readiness and success.
Steve Klingaman
Author, Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges
Steve Klingaman is the author of Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges. He has worked for 25 years in nonprofit development. He is currently a consultant offering his services to 30 community colleges on building advancement programs in conjunction with Scholarship America. He has lectured and written on a number of development-related topics, including presentations delivered in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, the Association of Fund Raising Professionals and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. His professional education includes the Indiana University Center for Philanthropy Executive Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and the Center for Institutional Effectiveness.
William Kopp
Vice President of Marketing and Communications
Columbus State Community College
As the vice president for institutional advancement, Will Kopp oversees marketing and internal and external communications. He arrived at Columbus State Community College in 2004. Previously, he worked as a speechwriter for the president of Ohio State University. Kopp has a master's degree in English from Ohio State University and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ohio University.
Diane Kuehn
President & CEO
VisionPoint Marketing
Diane Kuehn is president and chief executive of VisionPoint Marketing. Kuehn, who is an alum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, founded VisionPoint Marketing after climbing the corporate ladder at such marketing hubs as Cox Communications, SourceLink, High Speed Net Solutions and ADVO (now Valassis)—the country's largest direct marketing firm—among other respected organizations.
Brenda Lea
Executive Director, Institutional Advancement
Central Piedmont Community College Foundation
Brenda Lea is the executive director of institutional advancement at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C. Her office is responsible for raising $6 million annually. In 2006, this office concluded a highly successful capital campaign exceeding a goal of $15 million to raise $28 million. CPCC is currently in a campaign to raise $30 million. In 2005, Lea was recognized as Charlotte's Outstanding Fundraising Executive by the Charlotte Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Lea's responsibilities have included the entire gamut of fundraising: annual giving, major gifts and planned giving. Lea currently serves on the steering committee of Leave a Legacy, Charlotte. She was a founding member of Charlotte's Association of Fundraising Professionals, and she has served on the Boards and Committees of numerous nonprofits in the area; most recently, she has served on Rotary's national planned giving committee and on the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina's planned giving committee.
Lea is a graduate of Queens University in Charlotte, a certified fund raising executive, and a graduate of the Robert F. Sharpe Planned Giving Institute in Memphis, Tenn.
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Doug Lederman
Editor
Inside Higher Ed
Doug Lederman is co-editor and one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed. He helps lead the site's editorial operations, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features. Lederman speaks widely about higher education, including on C-Span and National Public Radio and at meetings around the country, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, and other publications. Lederman was managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003, and before that worked in a variety of roles at the Chronicle, beginning in 1986. He has won three National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, including one in 2009 for a series of Inside Higher Ed articles on college rankings. He began his career as a news clerk at The New York Times. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated in 1984 from Princeton University. Doug lives with his family in Bethesda, Md.
John Lippincott
President
Council for Advancement and Support of Education
In 2004, John Lippincott became president of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the professional association for alumni relations, communications, fundraising and marketing officials at colleges, universities and independent schools around the globe.
As president, he provides strategic and operational leadership for one of the largest associations of education-related institutions in the world. During his tenure he has overseen creation of principles of practice in each of the advancement disciplines, development of ongoing operations in the Asia Pacific region, strengthening of the organization's financial position, and enhancement of CASE's relationships with members, districts and other associations.
Lippincott joined the CASE staff in 1999 as vice president for communications and marketing, with management responsibility for CURRENTS magazine, CASE Books, organizational communications, integrated marketing, government relations and special projects.
Prior to his arrival at CASE, he served for 12 years as associate vice chancellor for advancement at the University System of Maryland. In that capacity, he provided public relations counsel to the leadership of the 13-institution system, created an award-winning public television series, played a key role in state relations and provided communications support for two system-wide fundraising campaigns.
Lippincott has also held public relations posts at Ithaca College in New York and at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. He began his career teaching humanities courses at community colleges in Connecticut, New York and Oregon. Both his bachelor's and master's degrees are from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
He has served on the board of the American Council on Education, the major coordinating body for U.S. higher education, as well as on Independent Sector's ethics and accountability committee and the Washington Higher Education Secretariat's steering committee.
Elizabeth S. Littlefield
Vice President for Institutional Advancement
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
Elizabeth S. Littlefield is the vice president for institutional advancement at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, responsible for fund raising, grants, legislative advocacy, marketing and public relations. She serves as the executive director of the JSRCC Educational Foundation. Since her appointment in 1996, Reynolds has obtained more than $40 million in gifts and grants. She led the college through its first-ever major gifts campaign which raised over $15 million. Prior to Reynolds, she worked in alumni relations at George Mason University, Medical College of Virginia Alumni Association of Virginia Commonwealth University and the College of William and Mary. She has experience in strategic planning, board development, special campaigns, major gift fund raising and annual giving. Littlefield has earned a Certified Fund Raising Executive designation from the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She received her bachelor's degree in government from the College of William and Mary and master's degree in education from the University of Virginia.
Ann McGee
President
Seminole State College of Florida
In her sixteenth year as president of Seminole State College of Florida, Ann McGee has seen Seminole State grow from one site to six distinct sites throughout Seminole County. Enrollment tops 32,000 students with nearly $95 million in financial aid awarded this year. McGee graduated from St. Petersburg Junior College and then continued her education at Florida State University and Nova Southeastern University. McGee serves on many local and national boards and most recently has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar. Before becoming president, McGee led fundraising efforts at Broward College, raising $21 million over 10 years.
Richard Morley
Executive Director Irvine Valley College Foundation
Irvine Valley College
Richard Morley has spent the last 12 years in development and philanthropy after successful careers in education and business owner. He has served on several large nonprofit boards in leadership positions. His work background includes director of corporate and foundation relations for the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning in Chicago; director of development for Community Care Health Centers, the largest nonprofit primary health care provider in Orange County, Calif., and numerous other development and fund raising positions. He has significant experience in nonprofit legal issues and in major gifts and campaigns. After nearly five years at Mt. San Antonio College in California, Morley currently the executive director of the Irvine Valley College Foundation in Irvine, Calif.
Marianne McGhee
Director of Development
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
Marianne McGhee serves in the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College office of institutional advancement. Joining the team in 2010, her work as director of development includes donor communications, alumni relations, stewardship and fundraising activities. Before joining Reynolds, McGhee served as director of public affairs for the Virginia Department of Social Services. Prior to this role, she managed communications and television operations for Henrico County Public Schools for 13 years. She has been able to use those skills to develop video appeals and stewardship pieces for donors and prospects. McGhee earned a bachelor's degree in mass communications from Virginia Commonwealth University and a master's degree from the University of Richmond—but she credits much of her success to the solid foundation she received while she was a two-year student at J. Sargeant Reynolds.
Cassie McVeety
Vice President of University Advancement
Pacific University
Cassie McVeety, a leader in educational advancement for more than 25 years, currently serves as vice president of university advancement at Pacific University in Oregon. McVeety served as vice president for college advancement and executive director of the Mt. Hood Community College Foundation from 2009 to 2012, where she led the college's advancement efforts including fundraising, alumni relations, communications and marketing, as well as external and government relations.
Prior to joining Mt. Hood, McVeety served as the vice president for university relations at Portland State University, where she secured the largest private gift in the institution's history, orchestrated the university's first comprehensive fund raising campaign that raised $114 million and led the university's first branding campaign. Prior to joining Portland State in 2004, McVeety held advancement positions at Washington State University's Vancouver campus, the University of Portland and Eastside Catholic High School in Bellevue, Wash.
McVeety has served on numerous boards and is the immediate past chair of the Board of Trustees of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. She has been honored with the CASE District VIII Distinguished Service Award as well as many other awards and honors.
Nancy Mihalko
Grants Manager
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
Nancy Mihalko began her tenure with J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College (JSRCC) in 1988, beginning as an institutional researcher. In 2004, the College kicked off its first major gifts campaign and Nancy transitioned to development researcher with the JSRCC Office of Advancement. She is the creator of the College's first prospect research program, instituting processes for identifying and qualifying new major gift prospects and providing essential contextual background on prospects in order to establish previously unknown connections to JSRCC and its programs. In 2007, she added grant management to her duties. Through her grant research, project development, grant writing and management, the College has received more than $8M from competitive grants over the last five years. Nancy has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Marshall University and is currently pursuing a Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Richmond.
Chris Mihavetz
Director of Marketing
Community College of Baltimore County
Christopher Mihavetz is the director of marketing at the Community College of Baltimore County, a multi-campus, two-year college that serves more than 70,000 students annually. Mihavetz is responsible for CCBC's print, online and mass-media marketing and is charged with ensuring consistency and relevance of marketing messages throughout all college-wide communications. Chris holds a master's degree in publication design from the University of Baltimore, a master's degree in education from Towson University and a Bachelor's degree in English from Washington College.
Voltaire Santos Miran
Co-founder, CEO, and Senior Strategist
mStoner Inc.
Voltaire has more than two decades of experience in fund raising, marketing, and communications strategy for nonprofits. He worked at Lipman Hearne as senior web producer, where his client portfolio included Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, the University of Chicago, and the Atlantic Philanthropies. He also served as director for new media strategies at Opportunity International, a global microenterprise organization that creates jobs and stimulates business in the poorest communities of the Third World. Previously, he held the post of executive director for development at Trinity International University, where he managed public relations, institutional advancement, alumni relations, and a capital campaign. Voltaire earned a BS from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Voltaire's current client portfolio includes Northwestern University, Miami University, the College of DuPage, and the Kentucky Community and Technical School System.
Elise Mullinix
Editorial Manager
Tyler Junior College
Elise Mullinix joined Tyler Junior College in 2005. As editorial manager, she serves as editor of the college's printed and electronic publications, manages its social media presence, and assists with marketing, publicity and media relations efforts. Prior to joining TJC, Mullinix worked in print journalism. She holda a B.A. in Communication from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas.
Jeff Noblitt
Director of Marketing and Communications
Waubonsee Community College
Jeff Noblitt i director of marketing and communications at Waubonsee Community College. He joined Waubonsee in 2005 after working in journalism and as vice president of Cambridge Educational Services. Noblitt holds a master's degree in integrated marketing communications from Roosevelt University and a bachelor's degree in communications from Loyola University Chicago.
Katie Olsen
Development Director
County College of Morris
Katie Olsen is the director of development at the County College of Morris Foundation where she focuses on raising support from alumni and individual donors to build a strong foundation of giving at the community college level. Additionally, Olsen manages a scholarship program which supports 200 students with close to $200,000 annually. She holds a master's degree in administrative science with certificates in non-profit management and leadership from Fairleigh Dickinson University as well as a bachelor's degree in communication from Washington State University. She previously worked at Seton Hall University as the annual fund director and prides herself with a strong knowledge of annual and individual giving.
Graeme Page
President
George Brown College Foundation
Graeme Page has held a number of senior development positions over the past decade. He led Canada's National Ballet School's $100 million capital campaign, established the infrastructure for Evergreen, a national environmental charity, to launch its $55 million campaign to develop the Brick Works heritage site, and served for three years as chief communications and development officer for the Alzheimer Society of Canada. He was appointed president and chief executive of the George Brown College Foundation in October 2010.
Tony Poillucci
Vice President , Strategy & Creative
VisionPoint Marketing
As vice president of strategy and creative, Anthony Poillucci guides the creative vision and the strategy development for VisionPoint Marketing clients. His client list and industry experience is just as diverse, ranging from technology (Intel, XM Satellite Radio), higher education (Bucknell University, New School, North Carolina State University, Duke University), financial (global investment management firms) and beyond.
Laurie Principe
Associate Director for Development-Operations
The Lakeland Foundation (Lakeland Community College)
Laurie Principe is the associate director for development of the Lakeland Foundation of Lakeland Community College. Prior positions include chief development officer for the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, director of advancement for the Fine Arts Association, and director of development of the Lake County Council on Aging. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Rabbit Run Community Arts Association and past vice president of the National Alumni Board of Lake Erie College. Principe holds a bachelor's degree in communications/fine arts from Lake Erie College and a Certificate in Fund Raising Management from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
John Rice
Chief Development Officer, Great Basin College; Executive Director, Great Basin College Foundation
Great Basin College
John Patrick Rice has served as the executive director of Great Basin College Foundation and the chief development officer for Great Basin College since 2005. He is responsible for the development of partnerships between the college and the private sector resulting in academic and training programs that advance the college and fulfill the workforce needs of partner organizations. In addition, he works with state and federal agencies to provide funding for a variety of programs, including renewable energy systems and high-demand workforce training. Coming to advancement from the faculty, he was part of the team to develop one of the first community college baccalaureate programs in the nation. He recently contributed a chapter for the book, Alternative Pathways to the Baccalaureate, published in September of this year.
Paula Sammons
Program Officer, Family Economic Security
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Paula Sammons is program officer on the Family Economic Security Team at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a new program area created in 2008, and manages a national and local portfolio of grants focused on building economic security through increasing sustainable income and assets for low-income vulnerable families. She also serves on two place-based teams focused in New Mexico and Michigan. Prior to this team, Sammons served as Program Associate from 2001-2007 on the Education and Learning team where she lead the team's proposal review process and helped manage a general portfolio of grants. She worked on various other initiatives, including a school readiness initiative; a pipeline to college initiative; and an alternative credentialing initiative for disconnected youth ages 16-24.
Outside of philanthropy, Sammons' experiences have included serving as a clinical social worker, therapist and counselor in various settings, including community mental health, secondary education, and domestic violence. She has also had experience working in the banking industry, business, K-12 education, youth development, community college, and university settings. She graduated with her B.A. in 1997 in Family Life Education and a Masters Degree in Social Work in 2001. She also has 15 years of accumulated experience serving on various boards and committees, and currently serves on the board of the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation, as well as the Earned Income Tax Credit Funders Network.
Vincent Stewart
Senior Program Officer
James Irvine Foundation
Vince Stewart was appointed Senior Program Officer in April 2010. Prior to joining the Foundation, he served as the Associate Director for Institutional Relations for the University of California, Office of the President, where he was responsible for managing the university's system-wide advocacy efforts. Prior to returning to the University in 2009, Vince was the Deputy Secretary for Higher Education and Workforce Development in the Governor's Office of the Secretary of Education, where he focused on refining and implementing the Schwarzenegger administration's career technical education initiative, aligning public postsecondary education degree programs with the state's workforce needs, improving K-12 teacher recruitment and education programs, and creating educational and career pathways for California's veterans. As Deputy Secretary, Vince led the governor's Engineering Education Initiative, which was focused on creating postsecondary educational pathways in high-need engineering fields. Before joining the Governor's office, Vince served as the Director for Federal Government Relations at UC Davis, where he managed the university's federal policy agenda. From 1999 to 2004, Vince was a Legislative Director in the Office of State Governmental Relations for the UC Office of the President and was responsible for managing the university's legislative portfolio in the areas of undergraduate and graduate education, with a particular emphasis on academic preparation and teacher education programs. Prior to joining the university, Vince was a legislative advocate with the California School Boards Association where he worked on a wide range of issues, including charter schools, K-12 governance and school safety. Vince holds a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of California, Davis.
Scott Shanley
Town Manager
Manchester, Connecticut
Scott Shanley has served as a municipal executive since 1985. He is currently as general manager/chief executive officer for the town of Manchester, Conn. since 2006.
Prior to his service in Manchester, Shanley served as the chief executive of Enfield, Conn. and Waterville, Maine. Earlier in his career, he served as a deputy chief executive in Groton, Conn. and Jackson County, Ore. Shanley did his undergraduate work at Indiana University and, after some time doing historic building preservation work in Portland, Maine, his graduate work at the University of Maine in Orono.
Melinda Silverstein
Executive Director
Cabrillo College Foundation
Melinda Silverstein has served as the executive director of the Cabrillo College Foundation since 1998. Before taking the position at Cabrillo College she was the interim director of development for the natural science division of the University of California, Santa Cruz. She served as executive director of United Way of Santa Cruz County for seven years. She received a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a master's degree in public health degree from San Jose State University. She received the Network of California Community College Foundation Eagle Award for Outstanding Executive Director in California in 2006. She served seven years on the NCCCF Board. She has presented on a wide range of development topic at conferences. The Cabrillo College Foundation has four full-time staff and 15 part-time seasonal staff. The net assets are $21 million and the endowment is $16 million.
Lisa Skari
Vice President, Institutional Advancement
Highline Community College
For the last 20 years, Lisa Skari has worked in community colleges, in academic affairs, advancement, and administration. Since 2001, she has served as the vice president of institutional advancement at Highline Community College, overseeing the college's marketing, recruitment, and development efforts. She received her doctorate in 2011 from Washington State University, and her dissertation "Who Gives? Characteristics of Community College Alumni Donors" was the first multi-state study of community college alumni donors.
Rana D. Spurlock
Development Assistant
West Virginia Northern Community College
Rana D. Spurlock is a 1994 graduate of Cadiz High School and a 1998 graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University with a bachelor's degree in professional writing. She began her career in advertising but moved into the development field in 1999 and has held development and fundraising positions for various non-profit institutions for the last 12 years. Her experience includes grant writing and management, public relations, database management and planning special events. She is currently West Virginia Northern Community College's fundraising and development assistant and its foundation's executive secretary. Spurlock is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Council for Resource Development and the Ohio County Rotary. She is also a board member of the King's Daughters Child Care Center.
Melissa Starace
Director of Alumni Affairs
Northampton Community College
Melissa Starace serves as the director of alumni affairs at Northampton Community College. An employee of NCC for 14 years, Starace has spent the past eight years in the college's Institutional Advancement division where she is responsible for expanding the number of alumni who have personal and meaningful relationships with the College. She oversees the college's alumni association, which is one of the oldest, continuously active community college alumni associations in the nation, as well as manages a donor prospect pool. Starace will complete a doctorate in higher education management May 2012 from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation research focuses on community college alumni engagement efforts.
Lauren Stroman
Coordinator, Alumni Relations
Houston Community College Foundation
Lauren Stroman joined the Houston Community College Foundation staff in 2009 as the coordinator of alumni relations and took on the task of revitalizing the HCC Alumni Association and HCC Foundation Annual Fund. After restructuring the HCC Alumni Association as a paid membership entity and establishing a web presence for alumni on the Foundation's website, Stroman has gone on to create the Golden Eagle Society, a donor giving society at Houston Community College that celebrates donors who have cumulatively given $2,000 or more in a fiscal year. Most recently, she has founded the first HCC Alumni Association Advisory Council, developed the first chapter to the HCC Alumni Association, and executed the naming of HCC's first mascot, Swoop, in 2011. In addition to her primary responsibilities, she works closely on SOAR, HCC's alumni and donor magazine; EAGLENews, HCC's alumni quarterly e-newsletter; and is founding a student philanthropy program at HCC.
Steve Snyder
Managing Director and Head of Client Service
Commonfund
Steve Snyder is a managing director and head of client service at Commonfund. Snyder is responsible for leading Commonfund's efforts in providing exceptional service to the firm's 1,500 non-profit clients across North America. Snyder joined Commonfund in 1999 and has more than 17 years of experience in the banking, treasury and investment management fields. Prior to joining Commonfund, Steve previously was a Cash Management Consultant supporting the Education Industry for CoreStates Bank. Snyder is a contributing editor to the Treasury Management Chapter of CUBA VI, the guide to College and University Business Administration, published by National Association of College and University Business Officers, and has also presented at numerous industry conferences and educational consortium events. Snyder has a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Scranton. He currently serves on the investment committees for the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and Lancaster County Community Foundation and is a member of the University of Scranton's president's business council.
Rebecca Teahen
Executive Director for Resource Development and NMC Foundation
Northwestern Michigan College
Rebecca Teahen was appointed as executive director for resource development and the NMC Foundation in July, 2011 after joining Northwestern Michigan College as director of development for major and planned gifts in November, 2010. She began her career in fundraising as the development coordinator for the Grand Traverse Conservation District and Boardman River Nature Center in Michigan. A lifelong resident of Traverse City, Mich., Teahen is a board member of Oryana Natural Food Cooperative and is a member of the Traverse City Economic Club. Teahen holds a bachelor's degree in Zoology from Michigan State University and is a Certified Fundraising Executive.
Mark Van Horn
Developer of Video Production
Columbus State Community College
As the Developer of Video Production at Columbus State Community College, Mark Van Horn creates, updates and manages Columbus State Community College's promotional video program. Van Horn is also responsible for developing strategies, ideas and plans for promotional videos and video/multimedia programs that support the College's marketing and branding initiatives and enhance internal and external communication. Before joining Columbus State Community College, he was a photojournalist for the NBC affiliate in Columbus. Mark Van Horn graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science in Digital Media Production.
Leah Wansley
Web & Rich Media Content Developer
Tyler Junior College
Leah Wansley is the web and rich media content developer at Tyler Junior College. Wansley develops, coordinates and manages content for the college's website and social media. Wansley came to the college last year with nine years of advertising agency experience and four years of social media marketing and consulting experience. Her previous formal speaking engagements on social media include: the 2010 Zumba Instructor Convention in Orlando, Fla., "Shake it Up with Social Media"; the Annual NW Instructors Business Summit in Tacoma, Wash., "Social Media Strategies"; and Professional Development Day at Tyler Junior College, "Socially Speaking: What Today's Communication Tools Can Do For You." Wansley holds a bachelor's degree in communication design from the University of North Texas.
Bill Tyson
President, Morrison & Tyson Communications; and author of Pitch Perfect: Communicating with Traditional and Social Media
Morrison & Tyson Communications
Bill Tyson is president of Morrison & Tyson Communications, a national media relations firm that serves colleges, universities, policy institutes, and foundations, and is author of the book Pitch Perfect: Communicating with Traditional and Social Media for Scholars, Researchers, and Academic Leaders.
As a leading consultant in communications strategy development and media relations for more than 30 years, Tyson has worked with the Community College Survey of Student Engagement; National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education in the release of its 50-state report card on higher education, Measuring Up; Ford Foundation International Fellowships and Campus Diversity programs; Pew Charitable Trusts Early Education project; Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania; and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In addition, he has provided national media consulting services to numerous colleges and universities.
Much of MTC's work focuses on advancing new research and issues of higher education cost, quality, access, and student success. National media outlets also call upon MTC for its expert sources as they develop their stories and report the news.
Bill Tyson is a founding board member of the National Survey of Student Engagement. He also served on the board of the American Association for Higher Education and as an advisory member to the Institute of Higher Education Policy's Building Engagement and Attainment of Minority Students.
David Wayne
Media Relations Coordinator
Columbus State Community College
David Wayne has been the media relations coordinator for Columbus State Community College since 2008. The Cincinnati native began his professional career as a television journalist in Joplin, Mo. That was followed by stops in Virginia, North Carolina and finally the NBC station in Columbus, Ohio, where he worked from 2004 until he transitioned into his current role at the college. Wayne graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ohio University.
Robert Whelan
Director of Alumni Relations
Bronx Community College
Robert Whelan has been involved in advancement for fifteen years. He began his professional career at Manhattan College as the phonathon director. Realizing that he needed to expand his understanding of the field, he became the director of alumni relations at Iona Preparatory School. With the small staff, he was able to not only organize all alumni events and publications, but was able to work on annual giving and major fundraising events. After Iona Prep, he became the director of annual giving and special events at Mercy College. In 2006, Whelan became the first full-time director of alumni relations at Bronx Community College which is part of the City University of New York. At BCC, he established the first regional and local receptions, special major-based reunions and a young alumni program.
Larry Whitworth
President (retired)
Washtenaw Community College
Larry Whitworth served as the president of Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Mich. for the past 13 years and prior to that was the president of Tidewater Community College serving the Norfolk and Virginia Beach area of Virginia. Prior to becoming president of Tidewater Community College, Whitworth was with the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh for 24 years, where he served as a dean for occasional technical programs, executive head of a campus and as the executive vice president for the college. Whitworth has a bachelor's degree from Adrian College, a master's degree in business administration from Duquesne University and a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh in curriculum and supervision. Throughout his career he has pursued resource enhancement and management utilizing the analytic tools acquired through more than 40 years of experience.
Murray Wood
Chief Development Officer
College of the Canyons Foundation
Murray Wood came to the College of the Canyons four years ago as the Foundation's Chief Development Officer. During that time he led a successful scholarship endowment campaign and a capital campaign to build a culinary arts center. He has more than 30 years of experience as a nonprofit organization executive, and during his career he raised a combined total of nearly $122 million. Murray has considerable experience raising funds in the fields of health care, human services and, especially for institutions of higher education, including Ben-Gurion University in Israel, California State University, Northridge, and the Monterey Institute for International Studies. Murray earned his Master's degree in Social Service and Community Organization from Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. And he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English-Education from La Salle University in Philadelphia.
Kelly J. Zuniga
Executive Director
Houston Community College Foundation
Kelly J. Zúñiga is an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University's Bush School of Government & Public Service and serves on the faculty for Art of Fundraising I & II at the Rice University Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership at the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies.
Since 2006, Zúñiga has served as executive director of the Houston Community College Foundation, where she oversees fundraising efforts and the awarding of grants that benefit Houston Community College. A frequent presenter at fundraising conferences, she is a trustee-at-large on the CASE's Council Board of Trustees. She also serves on the West Houston Center for Science & Engineering Advisory Board, The Greater Houston Partnership's Executive Women's Partnership Committee and the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council Development Committee. Her past work experience includes key fundraising positions with the Houston Zoo, Inc., the University of Houston System, Sacred Heart University, Claremont Graduate University and Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
She earned her doctorate in education from the University of Houston in administration and supervision where her dissertation focused on a study of donors who have made online contributions to universities. In addition, she earned a master's degree from the University of San Diego and a bachelor's degree in finance from San Diego State University.
Keynote Speakers
Dan Pallotta
Author, Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
Dan Pallotta is a builder of movements. He is the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, which invented the multi-day AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days and changed the fundamental paradigm for civic engagement in and fundraising for important social causes. It brought the practice of four-figure philanthropy within the reach of the average citizen who had never before raised money for charity. Over 182,000 people of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds participated in these inspiring, often grueling, long-distance events, which raised $582 million in nine years-more money raised more quickly for these causes than any private event operation in history. Three million people donated to the events.
Pallotta TeamWorks was the winner of Brandweek's Best Cause-Related Event Award, and was the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. Its concepts and methods are employed today by dozens of charities in a variety of events throughout the world which raise over $100 million annually for important causes. Pallotta also created the "Out of the Darkness" suicide prevention events, which brought that issue out into the open and gave its closeted constituents the courage to put the cause on the map. The event concept has netted millions for the cause. Pallotta changed the way civic engagement is marketed. He put the marketing of heroism on the same level as the gigantic consumer brands, and it worked.
Pallotta is the author of When Your Moment Comes: A Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams and Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential, which The Stanford Social Innovation Review said, "deserves to become the nonprofit sector's new manifesto," and has been reviewed and acclaimed by The New York Times, The Economist, and The Stanford Social Innovation Review, among others. He is also a featured weekly contributor to the Harvard Business Review online.
Andy Goodman
Author, Speaker and Consultant
Andy Goodman is a nationally recognized author, speaker and consultant in the field of public interest communications. Along with the book, Storytelling as Best Practice, he is author of Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. He also publishes a monthly journal, free-range thinking, to share best practices in the field. He has been invited to lecture at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton University, as well as at major foundation and nonprofit conferences.
In 2007, he was selected by Al Gore to train one thousand volunteers who are currently conducting presentations on global warming throughout the United States and around the world. In 2008 he co-founded The Goodman Center to "help do-gooders learn to do better." To learn more about his work, visit his consulting firm's website and The Goodman Center's website.
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