Kim Klein
Founder and publisher of the
bimonthly Grassroots Fundraising Journal.
Kim is also the author of the classic Fundraising for Social Change (fifth edition, 2006), Fundraising for the Long Haul, Ask and You Shall Receive, and Fundraising
in Times of Crisis. She and Stephanie Roth edited Raise More Money:The Best of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal. She is the featured writer for the e-newsletter of Grassroots Fundraising and has a column called “Dear Kim.” She is also a member of the Building Movement Project.

Kim has contributed many articles to the leading books, periodicals, and websites in the field of fundraising. She also has a popular video series on fundraising, distributed by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training in Denver, Colorado. Widely in demand as a speaker, Kim Klein has provided training and consultation in all 50 states and in 20 countries. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Haas School of Business at the University of California. Kim owes most of her success to growing up in Boulder and going to Boulder High.

DeAnne Butterfield
Executive Director, Boulder County Civic Forum
DeAnne has lived in Boulder since 1979. She was twice elected to the Boulder City Council, in 1989 and 1991, and also served as legislative director to Governor Dick Lamm and district director to Congressman David Skaggs. She has consulted and taught in the .eld of community consensus building and public process since 1971. She has a masters degree in public administration with an emphasis in public participation from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. From 1992-1999 she was co-founder andthen executive director of the Rocky Flats Local Impacts Initiative. She is married to John Huyler and their daughter, Jesse, attends Casey Middle School.

Adrian Miller
Director of Outreach and General Counsel,The Bell Policy Center
Adrian Miller was special assistant to the President and deputy director of the President’s Initiative for One America in the Clinton Administration. Before joining the White House staff in 1999, Adrian practiced law for four years with the Denver law .rms of Holme Roberts & Owen and Leboeuf Lamb Green and MacRae. Adrian has a bachelor of arts degree in international relations from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and a juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Richard L. Wobbekind
Director of the Business Research Division and Associate Dean for External Relations at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Rich joined the faculty at the Leeds School of Business in the fall of 1985. As Director of the Business Research Division his responsibilities include developing an annual consensus forecast of the Colorado economy and performing various economic impact assessments of the Colorado economy. Currently he is involved in several market research and strategic planning projects with public and private entities throughout Colorado. Richard also produces a quarterly economic indicator series for Boulder County.