Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference
The 2012 Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference (April 23 & 24) was a great opportunity to meet foundation representatives from around the region, attend a wide range of presentations focused on nonprofit leadership and operations, and network with nonprofit peers from across the region and state.
Thank you for joining us!
FEATURED PRESENTERS
Jan Masaoka is the CEO of California Association of Nonprofits and Publisher of Blue Avocado, an online magazine. For 14 years she served as the Executive Director of CompassPoint, a consulting and training firm for nonprofits based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. In addition to her role as publisher, Jan is a frequent contributor to the magazine and writes the Board Café column for nonprofit boards.
Jan is an eight-time designee as one of the nation’s "Fifty Most Influential People" in the nonprofit world. In 2003 she was named "Nonprofit Executive of the Year" by Nonprofit Times, and in 2005 she was named “California Community Leader of the Year” by Leadership California.
Jan authored The Best of the Board Café (Fieldstone Press, Second Edition 2009) and All Hands on Board: The Board of Directors in All-Volunteer Organizations (BoardSource). She is a frequent speaker and contributor to nonprofit journals and the co-author of Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Sustainability.
Paul Nicholson
2012 marks Paul Nicholson’s 33rd season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As Executive Director he is responsible for all management aspects of the largest professional theatre in the United States.
Paul has been a guest lecturer at Stanford University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Oregon, the Oregon Educational Media Association and the B.C. Touring Council for the Performing Arts. He has also consulted with many U.S. arts organizations, including the William Inge Festival, Musical Theatre Festival in Auburn, Roanoke Island (Lost Colony) Historical Association, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Southern Oregon Historical Society, the Rogue Valley Symphony and Britt Festivals. In 1984 Paul became an Adjunct Professor at Southern Oregon University.
Rebecca Ross
Rebecca (“Becky”) Ross is President of Fitzgerald & Graves, where she has been an associate for 28 years. The firm provides comprehensive fundraising consulting services through capital campaign planning studies, campaign direction, institutional planning, and major gift program design and counseling. Additional services include management audits, audits and assessments of development programs, leadership development, and integration of development functions with other institutional operations. Fitzgerald & Graves has assisted scores of major cultural organizations, educational institutions, environmental concerns, and human service agencies in the United States and Canada.
Kathy Ingram
Kathy Ingram holds a doctoral degree in medical business administration with an emphasis in health care financing. She has been a self-employed consultant to nonprofit organizations since 1986, offering a focused range of services pertinent to grant and program development and evaluation. She has developed in excess of 1,200 successful foundation grant proposals on behalf of more than 100 nonprofit organizations throughout rural Oregon and has authored federal grant proposals that have returned $550 million. Kathy was among the first cohort of individuals to receive national certification by the Grant Professionals Certification Institute.
