The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County presents Community Ventures to the nonprofit community to provide skills and entrepreneurial ideas to assist nonprofit leaders in organizational vitality.

Thursday, March 5, 2009.
8:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Xilinx
3100 Logic Drive, Longmont, CO

Cost: $35 (includes lunch)

Presenters' Bios:
Richard Male
Ann Goldman, CFRE
Malaika Pettigrew
Rich Hoops
Caryn Capriccioso
Martha Vail, Ph.D.
Robin Ericson, Assistant to the Chief, Longmont Police and Fire Department

Richard Male is a recognized leader, trainer, and consultant, both regionally, nationally and internationally, in the fields of leadership development, fundraising, community organizing and public policy for non-profit organizations, faith-based entities, private foundations local municipalities and schools.

For 35+ years he has conducted training sessions, provided consultation, coached and mentored, and been a keynote speaker, teacher and facilitator to literally thousands of organizations.  These include faith-based, indigenous, grassroots community organizations and people working at the neighborhood, statewide, national and international levels. During this time, Rich has been involved in grassroots and national public policy issues such as the passage of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, Community Reinvestment Act, Americans for Disabilities Act (ADA), and others issues impacting people. A few of Rich’s clients include National Council on Independent Living, Southern New Mexico Community Action Agency, Haiti’s Children, Ethiopia Reads,   Jewish Outreach Institute (New York City), Rose Community Foundation, Daniels Fund, AT&T Broadband, California Foundation for Independent Living, National Spinal Cord Injury Association, Center on Urban Education, National Association of Community Action Agencies, Leagues of Cities in Ohio, Pennsylvania and California, AmeriCorps, Department of Development-State of Ohio, Department of Economic and Community Development-State of Pennsylvania. He has served as executive director and CEO of three broad-based nonprofit organizations in Missouri (the Mississippi Delta), Utah and Colorado.  In 1981, Rich founded the Community Resource Center (CRC), a national nonprofit organization which has provided a wide variety of training, consulting, and leadership services to over 3,000 non-profit organizations in the Rocky Mountain West and throughout the United States.  While at CRC, Rich helped organize the Colorado Association of Non-profit Organizations (CANPO), Community Shares of Colorado, published the Colorado Grants Guide and helped organize dozens of grassroots initiatives involving people of color, persons with disabilities, environmental and social justice issues.

While at CRC, Rich obtained a national demonstration grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to organize a public policy institute and statewide organization, which develops grassroots leadership to impact public policy at a local and statewide level.  Under Rich’s leadership, CRC was honored with the Samaritan Institute Award from the Colorado Ethics in Business Award as the organization that exemplifies the highest ethical values through its work in the community.  In 1997, the Colorado Association of Non-Profit Organizations awarded Rich their highest honor, the William Funk Award for Building Community.
With Rich as director, the work of Community Resource Center has been highlighted on the NBC Today Show, NBC News with Tom Brokaw, Denver Post, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Colorado Public Radio, Austrian Radio and Television and other media.

History
Since 1971, Rich has taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses in subject areas such as grant writing, fundraising and resource development, governance, leadership development, social justice community organizing/public policy; contemporary issues in society; religious institutions in the community; and proposal writing.  He has taught at the following colleges and universities:  State University of New York (SUNY), Washington University (St. Louis), Iliff School of Theology (Denver), Regis University, University of Colorado at Denver and Metro State College.  He received the 1996 Excellence in Teaching Award in Graduate Programs of the School for Professional Studies at Regis University.

Rich has served on many local and national boards of directors, including the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (Washington, D.C.), Colorado Association on Nonprofit Organizations, Native Voices (Alaska), Training Resources for the Environmental Community (Seattle) and the National Philanthropy Day Committee.

In 1993 and 1994, Rich was invited to provide community organizing, leadership development and fundraising assistance to a wide variety of civil and human rights groups in Israel.  He worked with the Ethiopian, Russian, Palestinian and disability communities throughout the country.  In 1995 Rich was awarded a fellowship (by the Kellogg Foundation) to be part of the international symposium on leadership as a Salzburg, Austria fellow.

In 1996 Rich formed Grant Guides Plus, a for-profit corporation that provided information, training and educational assistance to non-profit organizations, schools and local governments nationally.  GGP was most visible through the publication of sophisticated databases, research instruments and grant writing services and was the publisher of comprehensive grant guides for the states of California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and New Jersey. In 2000 Rich merged Grant Guides Plus with a new company called GrantSeeker.com that provided an on-line searchable database for nonprofits, schools, and local governments throughout the country. Grantseeker analyzed over 19 billion dollars in grants from private foundations, corporations, government and religious funding sources and has one of the premier search engines on grants in the country.  Currently, Richard Male is President of a national training, consulting and coaching company that bears his name.

Background in activism, social justice and community organizing/ human rights and international NGO work

Rich started off his work in social justice, human rights and community organizing in the 1960’s in the Mississippi Delta working on civil rights issues with poor black persons in the rural south where he was both a community organizer and civil rights worker as well as being the executive director of the civil rights organization.

He also spent time at the Saul Alinski Industrial Areas Foundation (Chicago) organizing on a wide variety of poor people’s issues around housing, crime, discrimination and jobs issues in low-income black neighborhoods.
When Rich moved to Colorado, he set up a national organization that trained activists and helped build the capacity of grassroots organizations throughout the United States.  During this time he was an active community organizer on a wide variety of peace and justice issues impacting poor people, anti-war activism, health care and other issues. Involving himself in helping to organize the first affirmative action law in Las Vegas, Nevada, his work allowed members of the black community to become dealers at the casinos.

Rich was involved in the early days of the disability movement starting in 1974 and was involved with the forming of ADAPT with Wade Blank and the Americans with Disability Act (ADA).  The ADA was the premier piece of civil rights legislation in the United States for persons with disabilities.   His specific role was to train the activists and leadership prior to the direct actions and demonstrations that were taking place around the United States. . He has provided training, workshops, and consulting to disability organizations all around the country.

International NGO work

For many years Rich has been involved in supporting grassroots and indigenous nongovernmental organizations (NGO) with a variety of capacity building, resource mobilization, governance, management and leadership support. Rich has been a trainer, speaker, consultant and coach for dozens of organizations in the Middle East, Europe, Australia, Africa, and other countries.

He has also worked on human rights issues from the Middle East with Palestinians, Bedouins and disenfranchised communities in Eastern Europe when the Communist wall came down. Rich worked on civil rights issues in Haiti, with the disability community in Australia, youth organizations from many countries in Europe, South America, Africa, and North America, and, most recently, on a wide variety of human rights and survival issues in Africa concentrating in Ethiopia. Rich will shortly be leaving for Mongolia to work with environmental and other local NGO’s.

Rich has an undergraduate degree in economics from New York University and a Masters in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis.  Rich resides in Denver, Colorado.

For more information on Richard Male and his activities go to www.richardmale.com
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Ann Goldman, CFRE
Ann Goldman Consulting, Inc.
Strengthening nonprofits and their leaders.
www.anngoldman.com ~

Ann Goldman Consulting, Inc. provides strategic planning, board development, and fundraising services to the nonprofit community.  Ann Goldman established the firm in 2000 after serving as a senior development professional at some of Chicago’s most prestigious institutions. In 2006, Ann and her family moved to Boulder, Colorado.

Ann served as director of corporate, foundation and government relations at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago where she oversaw an annual $11 million corporate, foundation and government fundraising program.  Prior to joining the Museum, Ann held the position of midwest regional campaign director for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation's $100 million research campaign.  Formerly, Ann was director of major gifts at the Children's Memorial Hospital Foundation in Chicago.  Prior to joining Children's Memorial, Ann helped establish the Chicago office of Barnes & Roche, Inc., a fundraising consulting firm. 

Ann has developed curriculum and taught for such organizations as Chicago’s Nonprofit Financial Center, Donors Forum of Chicago, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and Northwestern University’s School of Continuing Studies.  Ann also brings to her clients a strong background in writing.  She has recently completed a documentary book in collaboration with her husband, photographer Andrew Goldman.  Entitled Facing North: Portraits of Ely, Minnesota, the book was released by the University of Minnesota Press in spring of 2008.

Currently, Ann serves on the Board of Impact on Education in Boulder, Colorado.  Also as a volunteer, Ann has served on the Advisory Board of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust and on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Foundation for Women.  She was a founding board member of Wonder Works, a children’s museum in Oak Park.  She has also served as a director of the Community Chest of Oak Park and River Forest and served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Ann is a graduate of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England where she received her B.A. with Honors in Philosophy.  She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Adult Education at DePaul University, Chicago.
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Malaika Pettigrew
Malaika Pettigrew and her family relocated to Boulder, Colorado in 1991 from the San Francisco Bay Area.  She and her partner Andre have 3 grown children, Maya, Jason and Naima.  Once recovering from initial cultural shock, Malaika committed to creating the community virtues (ethnic, cultural, social, economic, and spiritual diversity, community networking and social activism) so dearly missing here.
Malaika Pettigrew earned her master's degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology at John Kennedy University, in Orinda, California.  For 9 years she served as a faculty member at Naropa University teaching in the Contemplative Psychology Department.

In 1995, she founded the Institute for African American Leadership, a community based, non profit organization providing community support and leadership skills development for African American youth in Boulder County.
This past year, she facilitated workshops for the YWCA on Conversations on Race.  She also helped facilitated a collective entitled Strategies to Ending Oppression, bringing together various non-profit organizations in Boulder County.
She has served on a number of Boards, including The Colorado Dance Festival, the Dairy Center for the Arts, and Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Non-Violence.  She currently serves as board officer for the Chinook Fund, Boulder County Community Action Program, Greenhouse Partners Scholarship Fund, and the Community Foundation of Boulder County. 

Malaika Pettigrew is now working within a global arena, most recently organizing educational, cultural and social change work in Haiti, Brazil and Africa.
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Rich Hoops

Rich began his 14 year career in the personal computer industry in 1986 with Tandy Corporation.  In early 1989, he was recruited to Austin, Texas to join Dell Computer Corporation embarking on an exciting 11 year career with Dell where he held a variety of senior management and executive positions in sales, marketing and business development contributing to Dell’s ascent from a small direct marketing company to the world’s largest and most successful PC Company.

After leaving Dell in 2000, Rich founded, and served as CEO of Outdoor Intelligence, a startup focused on delivering digital map information and data to the recreational fishing industry.  

 In the fall of 2001, while still running his new company, Rich became involved with Social Venture Partners, a nonprofit organization in which partners invest both time and money in the development of small, innovative Boulder County nonprofits.  In addition to providing consulting to a number of area nonprofits, Rich has served on the Board of SVP including a term as Board Chair from 2004-2006.  After transitioning out of his start-up in 2002, Rich has dedicated more and more of his time towards assisting area nonprofits in building operational/organizational capacity through strategic consulting and general business coaching.  In addition to his work with SVP, Rich also serves as Board Chair for Blood:Water Mission (www.bloodwatermission.com) in Nashville, TN.

Rich has a Bachelors degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an MBA from the University of Chicago with an emphasis on Entrepreneurship and Organizational Strategy.  He, his wife Traci and their four daughters moved to Boulder from Austin, Texas in January of 2001.
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Caryn Capriccioso

Caryn Capriccioso has a diverse 19-year background working with nonprofits and municipal governments in the areas of fundraising, strategic and business planning, and social enterprise.  Her efforts have focused on building community and promoting cross-sector partnerships.

Caryn has been actively involved in the Boulder County community. Past work includes serving as a board member with Growing Gardens and the Boulder Creek Festival and as a volunteer for Longmont Economic Advisory Task Force and the Colorado Chautauqua Association. She's currently devoting her volunteer time to Social Venture Partners of Boulder County.

Caryn holds a BA in Sociology from Michigan State University and a Master in Nonprofit Management from Regis University.
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Martha Vail, Ph.D.
and www.marthavail.com
Martha Vail is a consultant in private practice.  Her service in the independent sector spans three decades and lots of roles—from volunteer to staff to board member.  Martha’s passion is empowering individuals and organizations to effectively and efficiently carry out mission-critical work.  Her areas of expertise include:

• Governance: best practices for nonprofit boards, developing the stewardship function, high impact governance for real human beings
• Organizational development: startups, growing pains and strategic visioning
• Fundraising: building an individual donor base, corporate partnerships, and strengthening fund development capacity

Her professional positions have included Program Officer, The National Faculty; Development Director, the Colorado Chautauqua Association; Training Officer, the Gill Foundation; Interim Executive Director, State of Change; and Director of Organizational and Leadership Development, JVA Consulting, LLC.

She currently serves on the board of directors of the Porsche Club of America, Rocky Mountain Region, the capital campaign committee for High Plains Raceway, and the fundraising committee of the 39th Avenue Jubilee Center.  She has served on the boards of the Colorado Chautauqua Foundation, Civil Rights Now and Congregation Chevra Thilim.

Dr. Vail received her B.A. in History with Highest Honors from Smith College, and her Ph.D. in American History at Yale University.  History is still her favorite “past time”; she is the author of the successful 2006 National Historic Landmark nomination for the Colorado Chautauqua and of Exploring the Pacific (Facts on File, 2005).  On sunny weekend days, she can be found either on a racetrack or on the slopes. Both driving and skiing fulfill her need for speed and test her tolerance for helmet hair.
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Robin Ericson, Assistant to the Chief, Longmont Police and Fire Department

Robin has over 22 years of experience in emergency service public relations and marketing including law enforcement, fire service and ambulance. Her experience ranges from non-profit to municipal, as well as private corporate public relations. Robin graduated from Colorado State University with a BA in Journalism (Public Relations) and completed her MS coursework at CSU in Technical Communication.  She has co-taught numerous courses at Colorado State University in the Journalism Department.

She has won numerous awards for victim advocacy and innovative programming. In her spare time, Robin is deeply committed to historic preservation efforts in Colorado and Wyoming.
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