What 2011 Summit Attendees Said
"The plenary session topics and
speakers were outstanding and right on target."
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Plenary Speakers & Panelists |
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Opening Keynote Speaker
 Bill
Strickland is a CEO, social architect, community leader and
visionary. As president-CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation and its
subsidiaries, Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (MGC) and Bidwell Training Center
(BTC), Strickland builds partnerships to help the disadvantaged build a
better future. Strickland began MCG as an after-school arts program in a
donated North Side rowhouse that he secured while still a college student at
the University of Pittsburgh. In 1969, he graduated cum laude with a
bachelor's degree in American history and foreign relations.
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decline of the steel industry created widespread unemployment, and Bidwell
Training Center addressed the problem by offering vocational training to
displaced and underemployed workers. Due to Strickland's successful track
record with MCG, he was asked in 1971 to assume leadership of BTC and guide
its transition to providing skills relevant to Pittsburgh's emerging market
economy. Strickland's involvement in both MCG and BTC doubled the strength
of Manchester Bidwell Corporation's ability to help the community. He
envisioned a template for social change, and began to form relationships
with businesses, government officials and individuals who shared his
vision.
Today Manchester Bidwell Corporation has
evolved into a national model for education, culture and hope. Bidwell
Training Center provides market-driven career education created through
strong partnerships with leading local industries. The center offers
accredited Associates Degree and diploma programs in fields as varied as
culinary arts, chemical laboratory technologies, health careers,
horticulture and office technology. Manchester Bidwell Corporation also
operates MCG Youth, which serves approximately 3,900 youth each year through
classes and workshops in ceramics, photography, digital imaging and design
arts; MCG Arts, which gives students a chance to work intensively with
visiting artists of national and international stature through exhibitions,
lectures, workshops, residencies and school visits; and the Grammy Award-winning
MCG Jazz, which is dedicated to preserving, promoting and presenting jazz
music by bringing audiences together with jazz artists at its 350-seat music
hall in Pittsburgh for innovative four-day performances and recordings.
Strickland is nationally recognized as a visionary leader who authentically
delivers educational and cultural opportunities to students and adults
within an organizational culture that fosters innovation, creativity,
responsibility and integrity. He is the author of Make the Impossible
Possible, which includes his story of how a kid from Pittsburgh's ghetto
would go on to lecture at Harvard and serve on the National Endowment of the
Arts board. He is a MacArthur Fellowship "genius" award winner,
and in 2010 was appointed to the White House Council for Community
Solutions. In November 2011, he received the 2011 Goi Peace Award, which
honors individuals and organizations that have made outstanding
contributions toward the realization of a peaceful and harmonious world for
humanity and all life on earth. His successful track record demonstrates the opportunities and
solutions to the pressing problems and challenges we face in today's new
social economy. Through his life, his work and his words, Bill Strickland continually inspires others to dream bigger and achieve the
extraordinary.
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Closing Keynote Speaker
 Gara
LaMarche is a Senior Fellow at New York
University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. From
2007 to 2011, he was President and Chief Executive Officer
of The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation
focused on aging, children and youth, health and human
rights operating in Australia, Bermuda, Northern Ireland,
the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United States and
Viet Nam. During his tenure at Atlantic, the foundation made
the largest grant ever made by a foundation for an advocacy
campaign - over $25 million - to press for comprehensive
health care reform in the U.S., embraced a social justice
framework for grantmaking, and worked closely with new
governments in many of its geographies to take advantage of
opportunities to achieve changes in HIV/AIDS and nursing
policies in South Africa, civic engagement and democratic
reform in Ireland, a more secure peace in Northern Ireland,
and many other areas.
Before joining Atlantic in
April 2007, LaMarche served as Vice President and Director
of U.S. programs for the Open Society Institute (OSI), a
foundation established by philanthropist George Soros. LaMarche joined OSI in 1996 to launch its U.S. Programs,
which focus on challenges to social justice and democracy.
He previously served as Associate Director of Human Rights
Watch and director of its Free Expression Project from 1990
to 1996. He was Director of the Freedom-to-Write Program of
the PEN American Center from 1988 to 1990, and served in
a variety of positions with the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), with which he first became associated in 1972
at age 18 as a member of its national Academic Freedom
Committee.
LaMarche is the author of numerous
articles on human rights and social justice issues,
which have appeared in the New York Times, Washington
Post, Financial Times, Nation, American Prospect,
Huffington Post, Texas Observer, Wharton Magazine, and many other
publications, and is the editor of Speech and Equality: Do
We Really Have to Choose? (New York University Press,
1996). He teaches a course on philanthropy and public policy
at NYU's Wagner School and has been an adjunct professor at
New School University and the John Jay College of Criminal
Justice. He also blogs at
garala.typepad.com
and many of his speeches and articles can be found there. He
serves on the boards of StoryCorps, ProPublica and the
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. A Westerly,
Rhode Island, native, LaMarche is a graduate of Columbia
College at Columbia University in New York. [@garalog] |
Featured Plenary Speakers
 Ray Arsenault,
Ph.D. is the John Hope Franklin Professor of
Southern History and Program Advisor of the Florida Studies
Program at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg,
where he has taught since 1980. A specialist in the
political, social and environmental history of the American
South, he has also taught at the University of Minnesota,
Brandeis University and at the Universite d'Angers in
France, where he was a Fulbright Lecturer in 1984-85.
Arsenault was educated at Princeton University (B.A. 1969)
and Brandeis University, where he received his Ph.D. in
1981. He is the author of two prize-winning books: The Wild
Ass of the Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Bases of
Southern Politics (1984, pbk 1988) and St. Petersburg and
the Florida Dream, 1888-1950 (1988, pbk. 1998). His recent
publications include Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle
for Racial Justice (Oxford University Press, 2006) and
Paradise Lost? (2005) an anthology (co-edited with Jack
Davis) on the environmental history of Florida. Since 1996,
he and USF history colleague Gary Mormino have served as
co-editors of the University Press of Florida's highly
acclaimed "Florida History and Culture" book series. An
active member of the Florida affiliate of the American Civil
Liberties Union since the early 1980s, he served two terms
as state president (1998-2000) and received the Nelson Poynter Civil Liberties Award in 2003.
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 Perla
Ni is Founder and President of GreatNonprofits, the
leading developer of tools that allow people to find, review
and share information about great - and perhaps not yet
great - nonprofits. Ni is the Founder and former Publisher
of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the leading
journal on nonprofit management and philanthropy. While at
the Review, she also launched the successful
www.ssireview.org Web site and blog. Prior to her work at
SSIR, Ni co-founded and was editor in chief of
Grassroots.com, a nonprofit advocacy website named by Forbes
as "Best of the Web." A frequent speaker on nonprofits and
philanthropy, Ni continues to blog at www.ssireview.org. She
has a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a
J.D. from Harvard Law School. She serves on the advisory
board of the Nonprofit Finance Fund and on the board of
Goodwill Industries. [@perlani] |
Plenary & Concurrent Session
Participants &
Facilitators |
 Grace
Armstrong is CEO of the Nonprofit Leadership Center
of Tampa Bay, a position she has held since July 2010. After
obtaining her degree in Education from the University of
South Florida, Armstrong worked with the Department of
Children and Families as manager of contracts with various
nonprofit organizations. Subsequently, she served as
Executive Director at Easter Seals Florida Inc. in Winter
Haven for 19 years, where she was responsible for seven
Easter Seals operations across four counties. During her
tenure, Armstrong created a variety of social enterprise
programs and increased the organization's operating budget
from $500,000 to $4 million. |
 Isaac
Castillo is Director of Learning and Evaluation for
the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) in Washington, DC. He
oversees all of LAYC's research and evaluation efforts,
including the implementation and maintenance of a
center-wide database system to track demographic and
outcomes information on all youth attending programs at
LAYC. He also provides direct assistance to each LAYC
program with the intent of improving outcomes and
facilitating effective reporting to funding agencies. His
work at LAYC has been highlighted in publications such as
the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Youth Today and the Wall
Street Journal. Prior to joining LAYC, Castillo worked with
a private research and evaluation firm in Bethesda, MD, and
completed program and cross-site evaluations for a wide
spectrum of agencies, including federal and state
governments, private foundations and community-based
organizations. In 2000, he completed an evaluation entitled
"Assessment of State Minority Health Infrastructure and
Capacity to Address Issues of Health Disparity" for the U.S.
Office of Minority Health. Castillo received his
undergraduate degree in human resource management from
Syracuse University and his M.S. in public policy analysis
from the University of Rochester.
[@isaac_outcomes] |
 Joseph
W. Clark serves as President of the Eckerd Family
Foundation, a time-limited foundation based in Tampa. The
foundation's primary interests center on at-risk youth
between the ages of 12-25. The foundation's goal is to
support interventions and strategies that promote the
successful transition from adolescence into young adulthood,
with concentrations on youth failing in school, those aging
out of foster care and youth involved with the juvenile
justice system. Success is measured by understandable and
documented outcomes derived from the principles of positive
youth development. Prior to joining the foundation, Clark
practiced civil trial law for 25 years in Tampa, as a
shareholder in the firm of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings &
Evans, serving as President and on the board of
directors and has been designated as a Florida Bar Board
Certified Civil Trial Lawyer. He has served on the boards of
several nonprofit organizations, as President of the Child
Abuse Council and Chair of the board of trustees of Berkeley
Preparatory School. Clark holds a B.S. in economics from
Union College and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of
Law. |
 Rena
Coughlin is President & CEO of the Nonprofit Center of
Northeast Florida. The Center is dedicated to creating a
thriving independent sector by investing in nonprofit
leadership training, organizational development and
advocacy. Prior to joining the Nonprofit Center, Coughlin led
Girls Inc. of Jacksonville, a nonprofit organization
delivering programs for girls through centers and outreach
programs in the greater Jacksonville area. She moved to
Jacksonville in 2001 from Tallahassee, where she worked for
Leadership Florida. She also served as a Washington,
DC-based aide to Bob Graham during both his terms as
Governor and as U.S. Senator. She is a former Peace Corps
Volunteer, and a graduate of the University of Florida.
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 Wayne
Farmer is Managing Director for Arabella Advisors.
He has counseled foundations, philanthropists and families
and helped to start or scale several successful non- and
for-profit organizations. World Links, founded by former
World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn, was launched from
inside the World Bank when Farmer was recruited to build the
board and diversify revenue. Prior to World Links, he
launched the International Center for Missing and Exploited
Children. Prior to joining Arabella Advisors, Farmer was a
Director for The HealthStore Foundation, Senior Director
to KaBOOM!, a board member to Living Goods and an advisor to
numerous social ventures. He is active in many philanthropy
networks including food activism, veterans' issues, impact
investing, documentary film and modern slavery. Farmer has a
B.A. in English Literature from Washington College and a
master's degree in fine arts from the University of Arizona. |
 Allison
Fine studies and writes about the intersection of
social media and social change. She is the author of the
award-winning book Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the
Connected Age (Wiley & Sons, 2006). Her latest book, The
Networked Nonprofit (Wiley & Sons, 2010), co-authored with
Beth Kanter, was an immediate best-seller. Fine is a Senior
Fellow on the Democracy Team at Demos: A Network for Change
and Action in New York City. In 2008, she published a paper
on young people and activism commissioned by the Case
Foundation call Social Citizensbeta, and edited a collection
of essays, Rebooting America, about transformative ways to
reinvent 21st century democracy using new media tools. She
hosts a monthly podcast for the Chronicle of Philanthropy
called Social Good and writes her own blog, A. Fine Blog.
Fine was the Founder and Executive Director of Innovation
Network, Inc. from 1992-2004, providing program planning and
evaluation support for nonprofits and foundation. She served
as CEO of The E-Volve Foundation in 2004-2005. She is a
graduate of Vanderbilt University and New York University. [@Afine] |
 Bruce
Greer joined the Community Foundation of South Lake
County as its Executive Director in January 2005. Before
this position he was with a national nonprofit organization
for 17 years serving as an Executive Director in Missouri,
Minnesota, Hawaii and Wisconsin. He earned his Business
Administration degree from Columbia College in Columbia,
Missouri. He is a member of the Central Florida myRegion
Regional Board of Advisors, Community Foundations of
Florida, Florida Philanthropic Network, Council on
Foundations and founding member of Food Providers of Lake
County, Lake County Nonprofit Leadership Council Steering
Committee, Co-Sponsor Lake and Sumter Counties Make a
Difference Day. |
 Teri
A. Hansen has served as President/CEO of Gulf Coast
Community Foundation, Florida's largest community
foundation, since 2002. Under her innovative leadership,
Gulf Coast recently surpassed $124 million in grants
invested in the community. Hansen also oversees the creating
and funding of major community initiatives, such as an
analysis of Florida's 9-1-1 system that helped secure
passage of a milestone public safety law in Florida in 2010.
She volunteers her leadership nationally, regionally and
locally. She chairs the Council on Foundations' community
foundations leadership team and is a member of COF's board
of directors. She is a past president of Community
Foundations of Florida and a board member of the Florida
Chamber of Commerce Foundation. She also serves on the USF
Sarasota-Manatee Community Leadership Council and in a
number of leadership positions that focus on economic
development in Sarasota County. Prior to joining Gulf Coast,
Hansen was Vice President for Gift Planning and Donor
Relations at The Cleveland Foundation and Vice President of
External Relations for Central Indiana Community Foundation.
A San Diego native, Hansen earned her bachelor's degree in
journalism from San Diego State University. Upon graduating,
she served as a Public Affairs Officer in the U.S. Air
Force. She is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School,
having completed its Advanced Management Program. |
 Margaret
Linnane is Executive Director of the Philanthropy &
Nonprofit Leadership Center at Rollins College in Winter
Park, a position she has held since 2004. Prior to coming to
the Center, Linnane was Executive Director of the Second
Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida for 18 years. She has
extensive experience in resource development, program and
fiscal management, and community outreach. |
 Mark
Pritchett, Ph.D. is Senior Vice President for
Community Investment for Gulf Coast
Community Foundation, where he creates and implements the
foundation's key strategies for transforming the region's
nonprofit community and serving as a leader on emerging
issues. His responsibilities include overseeing Gulf Coast's
grantmaking programs, developing community coalitions to
address critical issues, and creating innovative ways to
connect donors and philanthropic resources with community
needs. Pritchett joined the Gulf Coast staff in June 2008,
after serving for 13 years as Executive Vice President of
the Collins Center for Public Policy. He also has worked as
Vice President of Enterprise Florida and Vice President of
the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Pritchett earned his
bachelor and master's degrees from the University of
Kentucky, and his Ph.D. in education from Florida State
University. He serves on the board of Suncoast Workforce. |
 Barbara
Roole serves as Senior Program Officer for the
Jessie Ball duPont Fund in Jacksonville. In January 2011,
she joined the board of the Nonprofit Center of Northeast
Florida. Prior to joining the duPont Fund in June 2010,
Roole served as Health Disparities Program Officer at the NC
Health and Wellness Trust Fund and for seven years was a
Program Officer, focusing on social justice and equity, at
the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a statewide family
foundation in Winston-Salem, NC. In 2006, Roole
was appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court's Equal
Access to Justice Commission and has served on the board of
the NC Equal Access to Justice Foundation and the North
Carolina Network of Grantmakers. In 2008, she received the
Advocate for Social Change award from NC Community Shares, a
network of community organizations fighting for fairness and
equity. Roole holds a J.D. from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law and a master of public
administration from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School of Government; she also has a bachelor of
social work from Florida International University. |
 Mark
Sedway directs the Philanthropy Awareness
Initiative, a project initiated and supported by the
Packard, Gates, Hewlett, Irvine and Robert Wood Johnson
foundations to engage more influential Americans in the work
of organized philanthropy. He also runs Sedway Associates, a
consulting practice that helps foundations and philanthropy
organizations use communications to achieve greater impact.
Prior to establishing Sedway Associates, Sedway worked for
the communications consulting firm Williams Group and served
as the first Director of Communications for The James Irvine
Foundation. He has a broad and deep understanding of
philanthropy, and has written reports, made presentations
and conducted trainings for a variety of audiences in the
philanthropy world. He has a bachelor's degree in government
and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard
University. |
 Marc
A. Schindler is a Partner at Venture Philanthropy
Partners. He came to VPP from the District Department of
Youth and Rehabilitation Services (DYRS), where he held
numerous positions, including serving as General Counsel,
Chief of Staff and most recently Interim Director. He joined
DYRS in 2005 as one of a team of reformers who worked to
transform that agency into a nationally recognized and
innovative department based on the principles of Positive
Youth Development. DYRS' reforms were recognized by
Harvard's Kennedy School, naming the department one of the
"Top 50" government programs in 2008 in its prestigious
Innovations in American Government Awards competition. Prior
to joining DYRS, Schindler served as a staff attorney with
the Youth Law Center (YLC), a national public interest civil
rights law firm dedicated to protecting the rights of young
people in juvenile justice and child welfare systems
nationwide, from 1997 to 2005. He also served as co-chair of
the national Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention
Coalition in Washington, DC, was a founding member of the
Justice for DC Youth Coalition, and taught children's rights
at American University's Washington College of Law.
Schindler is a graduate of Yale University and the
University of Maryland School of Law. |
 Jane
V. Soltis has served as Vice President Programs
for the Eckerd Family Foundation since August 2001. Prior to
relocating to Florida from Connecticut, she served as Chief
Operations Officer for a Connecticut nonprofit that provided
housing and support services for homeless families, women,
people with AIDS and people with psychiatric disabilities.
Soltis is a registered nurse with many years of experience
in psychiatric and hospice nursing. She also holds a B.A. in
psychology and human services. She belongs to the Youth
Transitions Funders Group (YTFG) formed by leaders from
foundations dedicated to improving the lives of at risk
youth and as co-chair of YTFG's Foster Care Work Group.
Soltis currently chairs the Independent Living Services
Advisory Council for Florida and works with the Connected by
25 Initiative and the Quality Parenting Initiative projects
throughout the state of Florida. |
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