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Putnam Barber is president of The Evergreen State Society., a non-profit organization which supports efforts to improve the policy environment within which nonprofits work and provides access to useful information for leaders, organizers and observers of nonprofits. Mr. Barber teaches in the Master of Public Administration program at Seattle University, and is a regular columnist in "The Chronicle of Philanthropy." He also serves as the project manager for the "Extended Learning Community" project of Seattle University's Master in Not-for-Profit Leadership. His recent publications include Nonprofits in Washington 1999, and The New Era of Accountability: Challenges for Nonprofits and Regulators.
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Robin L. Barry, MNPL, CAE is an Association Executive with Melby, Cameron & Hull, an Association Management firm in Edmonds, WA. She serves as the Executive Director of two non-profit organizations: The Washington State Psychological Association and the Washington State Dietetic Association.
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Susan Alexander Bond is the executive director of Washington's newest environmental learning center, arboretum and botanical gardens. The 300 acre gardens are a public private partnership jointly created with King County. Through her work Ms. Bond has used her entrepreneurial skills to creatively form companies and organizations designed to satisfy public demand for specific goods or services. In some cases these companies were formed specifically for a profitable re-sale, others were formed as "earned income" opportunities.
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Bruce Brooks is the director of community affairs within the Law & Corporate Affairs department at Microsoft. The department manages Microsoft's community affairs activities, including corporate and employee giving and volunteer programs. Mr. Brooks served as senior vice president for MWW/Savitt, a Seattle-based public relations and public affairs firm, where he managed firm operations and advised a wide range of clients on community relations, government affairs, business communications, and corporate giving. He has served as deputy mayor to Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, managing a wide range of municipal issues including economic development, human services, capital planning, internal administration, and personnel and labor relations. As a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm, he focused on employment and labor law issues.
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Tracy L. Brown
Windows to the World®
Tracy Brown is principal/owner of Windows to the World®, an organization that provides personal, organizational and community leadership consulting, and facilitation and training to businesses, community groups, and government agencies that are seeking to be competitive in a global economy. Ms. Brown is a graduate of the regional leadership program, Leadership Tomorrow, Seattle, WA (1993), and has served on its Curriculum and Alumni Governing Committees. Ms. Brown is also a Commissioner of the Seattle Human Rights Commission. She has worked as a Civil Rights Manager, Investigator, Trainer and Negotiator for local, state and federal civil rights agencies.
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Peter Donnelly has been president of Corporate Council for the Arts, a Northwest-based funding agency that benefits arts organizations in Western Washington state, since 1989. Mr. Donnelly's arts career includes serving in many capacities with the Seattle Repertory Theatre including producing director, and as executive managing director of the Dallas Theatre Center. He has served on many arts organization boards and chaired awards panels. Mr. Donnelly is on the board of the Theatre Communications Group, vice president of Americans for the Arts, and president of Classic KING-FM Radio. He has received numerous arts awards, including the Seattle Arts Commission Howard S. Wright Award for Outstanding Support of the Arts and the Michael Newton Award for Excellence.
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Larry Fehr is the senior vice president and chief program officer for Pioneer Human Services, headquartered in Seattle. His work focuses on tracking the progress of former clients and auditing programs for quality assurance. Mr. Fehr has taken the lead in creating a new enterprise, Pioneer Consulting Services. In his capacity as senior consultant, he works with other organizations in such areas as assessing social enterprise opportunities and measuring program outcomes. Recent clients have included international foundations, government agencies, and national nonprofit organizations. Mr. Fehr also teaches at the University of Washington and at Seattle University.
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Jay D. Hair participated in the launch of the Seattle-based Internet marketing company, GreaterGood.com, Inc. and its affiliate Collegiate Plus.com, Inc. GreaterGood provides, markets and manages all aspects of on-line shopping villages for over 2,500 not-for-profit educational organizations whose collective memberships exceed 75 million individuals. Prior to joining GreaterGood in 1998, Mr. Hair was affiliated with Perkins Coie law firm. At Perkins Coie, he engaged in international environmental and social compliance audits for private sector companies and The World Bank Group.
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Mary Stewart Hall is Professor and Director of Seattle University's Executive Master of Not-For-Profit Leadership Program, which she helped found in 1995. She was previously President of the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation and Vice President of this large, multinational forest products company. She chaired The Contributions Council of The Conference Board, Washington Gives, the Pacific Northwest Grantmakers Forum and was a member of the board of Independent Sector and the Council on Foundation's Corporate Giving Committee. She speaks and writes frequently on corporate philanthropy, fundraising and nonprofit leadership. Her consulting firm, Stewart-Hall, offers a wide range of services to foundations, corporate philanthropists and individual donors.
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Dean Hanks is currently Director of Development for the Seattle Center Foundation responsible for all development activity in support of the mission of Seattle Center. His current key responsibilities include the lead staffing of the $55 million plus capital campaign to renovate the Opera House into a new performance hall. Mr. Hanks was previously in an independent contractor role working with various non-profits. He has more than twenty years experience in various leadership positions with local United Ways. His most recent position with that organization was as President/CEO of the Snohomish County United Way.
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David S. Harrison is a senior lecturer and Director of the Northwest Forum at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and was founder and former executive director of the Northwest Policy Center. As a consultant, he has planned, facilitated and carried out several intergovernmental projects under the auspices of the Puget Sound Regional Council and other local and state agencies. He has served as Executive Director of the Northeast-Midwest Institute (providing policy counsel to members of Congress from the Rust Belt), as an aide to Michigan Governor William Milliken, and as a member of the Bainbridge Island School Board.
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Mark Hugh, CPA, is a shareholder with Clark Nuber in Bellevue. He is director of the firm's State and Local tax group and is a specialist in Washington State business, sales and use taxes, as well as multi-state income taxes. His experience includes reviews for over-reported taxes, missed tax incentives, and omitted tax credits, as well as transactional analysis and restructuring to reduce state tax obligations. He is a frequent speaker on state taxation and is the author of Washington State Business, Sales, and Use Taxes, Washington State Taxes for Not-for-Profit Organizations, and Washington State Taxes for Manufacturers for the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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Jill Jones has served as president of Seattle Goodwill Industries since 1991. In that time the organization has more than tripled the number of people served by its employment training and adult basic education programs each year. In addition, Seattle Goodwill has undergone a major retail expansion, growing from three stores to nine, resulting in an additional $10 million in retail revenue annually. Ms. Jones began her career in the public relations department at Seattle Goodwill. She is a member of Seattle Rotary, Executive Alliance and Goodwill Industries International. Her community service activities have included Seattle Special Olympics, Congregations for the Homeless and PTA.
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Tom Lattimore is the Senior Program Director for the Puget Sound Local Initiatives Support Corporation. As a national organization, LISC is the nation's largest nonprofit community development support organization, with programs working cities, urban counties, and rural communities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Since its founding in 1984, The Puget Sound LISC program has raised over $12 million from local corporations and foundations to support community development. Mr. Lattimore has served as the Executive Director of SEED, a community development corporation serving Seattle's Rainier Valley, and as the Director of Planning and Development for Yates County in upstate New York.
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James N. McClurg
Venture Philanthropy Resources
Jim McClurg served as CEO of Northwest Center Industries from 1975 to 1999, transforming a small nonprofit corporation into Washington's largest program of its kind serving people with disabilities. With a focus upon earned income, he developed a diverse network of supporting businesses that now underwrite Northwest Center's charitable mission with annual sales of $15 million. For six years, he has represented a nine-state region on the National Council of Work Centers and has served on numerous local boards and committees, including the Washington State Select Committee on Non-Profit Competition with the For-Profit Sector. He is a member of the steering committee of the upcoming "National Gathering for Social Entrepreneurs" and now works as a private consultant specializing in social enterprise and venture philanthropy.
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Dennis Moore
Dennis Moore is the Treasurer for the Friends of P-Patch and serves on the Board of Directors for the Food Resource Network Federation in addition to his studies in the Executive Masters for Not-For-Profit program at the Seattle University Program. Mr. Moore's focus is on connecting people to each other, their neighborhood, community, and the earth to develop relationships based on caring, awareness, and trust. He believes the ultimate goal is to build strong communities, not strong programs.
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Jim Pitofsky
SEA Change/Open Society Institute
Jim Pitofsky serves as the Chief Executive Officer of SEA Change, an organization that is building a learning community for social entrepreneurs, cultivating partnerships between non-profit and for-profit entrepreneurs, and advising philanthropists on how to support social entrepreneurship. For the past three years, Mr. Pitofsky served as the Vice President of the Echoing Green Foundation where he initiated and managed strategic, entrepreneurial alliances with businesses, philanthropists, foundations, government agencies and Fellows and provided and coordinated training and technical support to 300 social entrepreneurs in thirty states and thirty countries. He continues to facilitate a collaborative of more than 60 funders who are working to advance social entrepreneurship and innovation in philanthropy.
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Jeff Reifman has long been a Seattle-area community activist. Over the years, Mr. Reifman has established two coffeehouses and a web design firm, EarthStudio.net, all of which donate their profits to the community. National media features of his philanthropic projects include The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, NBC Nightly News, and ABC's Good Morning America. In April 1999, Mr. Reifman founded GiftSpot.com, an Internet retailer in the online gift certificate market. His eight-year tenure at Microsoft helped him hone his online and e-commerce talents through positions such as Group Program Manager of Technology for MSNBC and Group Program Manager for Microsoft's online software store, Shop.Microsoft.com. Mr. Reifman recently left GiftSpot.com to take time off to recharge and deepen his commitment to community involvement.
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Cheryl Sesnon
Nonprofit Management Consultant
Cheryl Sesnon is the former executive director of FareStart, a Seattle-area non-profit which serves homeless men and women, building self-sufficiency through job training and placement in the food service industry. Her involvement with FareStart began as a guest chef and volunteer more than six years ago. She later joined the board of directors and served as vice president, before assuming the responsibilities of executive director. Ms. Sesnon now consults for non-profit organizations, applying expertise developed at FareStart to the larger community. She will focus her consulting with other non-profit organizations on community building experiences which benefit participants and lead to real and lasting change.
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Paul Shoemaker is the executive director of Social Venture Partners; a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization dedicated to addressing children's and educational issues in King County. Using the venture capital approach as a model, SVP is committed to giving time, money and expertise to create partnerships with not-for-profit organizations. Prior to SVP, Mr. Shoemaker acted as the group manager for worldwide operations at Microsoft Corporation, where he implemented Microsoft end-user direct billing solutions as well as other business planning and development. At Microsoft he also developed a group of 22 direct marketing professionals and implemented a direct marketing infrastructure.
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Edward Skloot is executive director of the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation headquartered in New York City. Surdna makes grants in the environment, community revitalization, creating and effective citizenry, arts, and nonprofit sector issues. Surdna's grantmaking often takes an early-in, higher risk posture than is common among funders, supporting social and commercial entrepreneurial efforts in new market development, marketing, policy formulation, organizational design, and earned income venturing. Mr. Skloot was president and founder of New Ventures, a nonprofit consulting organization specializing in enterprise development and management improvement for nonprofits, and policy studies and evaluations for foundations. He is the author of Smart Borrowing: A Nonprofit's Guide to Working with Banks and editor and principal author of The Nonprofit Entrepreneur.
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Steven Smith is an associate professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Professor Smith teaches courses in nonprofit management and urban/regional affairs. He is presently conducting research on the role of nonprofit organizations and community partnerships in building and rebuilding local communities, and the impact of welfare reform and devolution on faith-related service agencies. Professor Smith is co-author of Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting and Adjusting the Balance: Federal Policy and Victim Services, and is the editor of "Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly" (NVSQ), the journal of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
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Kay Sohl is co-founder and executive director of technical Assistance for Community Services in Portland, Oregon (TACS). She has provided leadership in the development of consulting and training resources to address the specific needs of nonprofit organizations, with a particular focus on technical and financial information. Ms. Sohl has worked with a wide variety of nonprofits, from start-up agencies to those with many years of service and large, complex budgets, and with a variety of revenue sources including government funding, private funding, and client fees. She has helped many agencies deal with the changing economic situation for nonprofits and is interested in different approaches to stabilizing funding.
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Brett White is the Chief Executive Office of The Communitas Group, a non-profit organization which supports community development. Mr. White oversees strategic implementation of an active portfolio of corporate services and revenue initiatives, including the structure, negotiation, and support of organizational alliances; broadening access to capital markets; corporate marketing initiatives; funds acquisition and development efforts; quality assurance; risk mitigation; and strategic relationship management. In fifteen years of management of nonprofit and non-governmental organizations, he has specialized in facilitating job creation, public investment, and affordable housing and community infrastructure projects. Mr. White oversaw the operational rejuvenation of several organizations, resulting in on-going public investment and joint ventures with private sector companies.
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Sue Wilkes
Refugee Women's Alliance
Sue Wilkes is the Executive Director of the Refugee Women's Alliance (ReWA), a Seattle-area non-profit organization which provides education, advocacy, and support services for refugee and immigrant women. ReWA works to build community partnerships and advocates for access to services and opportunities for refugee and immigrant women.
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LaVerne Woods is a partner in the tax department of Davis Wright Tremaine's Seattle office. Her practice focuses on tax-exempt organizations and international transactions, as well as general domestic federal income tax matters. She advises service and arts organizations on a wide variety of issues, and also assists individuals in establishing foundations and planning charitable giving. Ms. Woods in an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law and is a past president of the Seattle International Tax Roundtable. Prior to joining Davis Wright Tremaine in 1987, she practiced in Washington D.C., where she was involved in tax legislative matters.
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