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Andy Goodman
Communications Consultant
Closing Plenary
Andy Goodman, a communications consultant,
author and nationally recognized speaker, specializes in helping
nonprofits, foundations, government agencies and educational
institutions reach more people more effectively. As a public speaker, he
regularly delivers presentations including "The Four Connecting Points,"
"Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes" and "Dramatically Better Meetings."
He publishes a monthly newsletter, free-range thinking, which
profiles best practices in public interest communications, and is the
author of the books Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why
Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. Goodman was selected by
former vice president Al Gore to train 1,000 volunteers who are
currently giving Gore's presentation on global warming around the U.S.
and the world.
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H. Peter Karoff
Author and Chairman/Founder of The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI)
Opening Plenary
H. Peter Karoff is author of The World We Want: New Dimensions in
Philanthropy and Social Change. He is also chairman and founder of
The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI), a nonprofit organization that
provides strategic planning and programmatic services to individual
donors, families, foundations and corporations, and was president of TPI
from 1989-2002. He has been on the board of more than 30 nonprofit
organizations, including Blackside Productions, and he was producer of
the PBS series The Eyes on the Prize. Karoff is also the editor
of Just Money: A Critique of Contemporary American Philanthropy (TPI
Editions, 2004), and his poetry has also been published. A graduate of
Brandeis University and Columbia University, he received an honorary
degree from Lesley University in 2002, was named a fellow of the
McDowell Colony in 1989 and became a Purpose Prize fellow in 2006.
> Karoff
Podcast Corner
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Tim Penny
President, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation
Opening Panel Discussion
Tim Penny took the helm of the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation
in April 2007. He represented Minnesota's First Congressional District
in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1982-1994. He was
a member of the Minnesota State Senate from 1976-82, and most recently
served as a senior counselor at Himle Horner, a Twin Cities-based public
relations and public affairs firm, and co-chair of the Humphrey
Institute Forum at the University of Minnesota.
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Bao Phi
Spoken word performer
Opening Plenary
Bao Phi is a founding member of the first Minnesota Pan-Asian
spoken-word group, Mongrel, and a featured artist of the
artists-of-color collective Diaspora Flow. He has been published in
From Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and its Aftermath,
Asian American Writers' Workshop Journal and the Def Poetry Jam
anthology. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins chose his poem "Race"
for the Best American Poetry 2006 anthology.
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Mary E. Pickard
Opus Philanthropy Group
Moderator, Promising Visions and Voices
Mary Pickard is a principal advisor at Opus Philanthropy Group (OPG), where she and her colleagues
advise a group of family foundations and a corporate foundation committed to high-quality
philanthropy both within and outside the U.S. Pickard retired after 35
years as
president of the Travelers Foundation in 2007, having developed the company's community citizenship
program from a $600,000 contributions program to a broad-based community affairs function,
including a foundation, a sponsorship and corporate contributions program, volunteerism and
social purpose investments. She has also worked as a newspaper reporter and corporate publications editor.
Pickard chairs the Citizens League, an organization that builds civic capacity in Minnesota by
working to identify "common ground for the common good." She is past chair of the Minnesota
Council on Foundations and a former board member of the national Council on Foundations.
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Sharon Sayles Belton
Vice president of community relations, GMAC ResCap
Opening Panel Discussion
Sharon Sayles Belton is a senior fellow with the Humphrey Institute's Roy
Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice on anti-racism
initiatives and improving information-sharing between community
organizations and research institutions. She
is involved with the development of an emerging leaders program for
communities of color in the Twin Cities and its suburbs, as well as
community leadership among new immigrants. She also lectures on her
experiences as an elected official and policymaker. Sayles Belton
served as mayor of Minneapolis from 1994-2001; she served on the Minneapolis City Council for
the previous 10 years and was
council president for four of those years. She is the recipient of the Gertrude E. Rush Distinguished Service Award presented by
the National Bar Association and the Rosa Parks Award presented by the
American Association for Affirmative Action.
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Melissa M. Stone
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Session Facilitator, Doing More Together: The Power of Funder Collaboration
Melissa M. Stone is the Gross Family Professor of Nonprofit Management and an Associate Professor
of Planning and Public Affairs at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of
Minnesota. Stone directs the Institute's Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center. Her teaching and
research focus on governance and strategic management of nonprofit organizations,
government/nonprofit relationships, and cross-sector partnerships as policy implementation tools.
Stone has published widely on these topics and sits on the editorial board of Nonprofit and
Voluntary Sector Quarterly and the advisory board of Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
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Kathryn Tunheim
Board chair, Bush Foundation
CEO and Trustee Dinner and Program
Kathryn Tunheim has served many Minnesota philanthropic and nonprofit
organizations as a board chair and board member/trustee. In her current
role as board chair of Bush Foundation, she has led the organization in
examining its focus, approach and practice, as well as in the search for
a new foundation president. Tunheim is president and CEO of Tunheim
Partners, oversees strategic planning for clients and is actively
involved in client service and counseling. She serves on the board of
IPREX, a worldwide network of leading independent public relations
firms. Tunheim is a member of the Itasca Project and co-chair of the
Great Northern Alliance. She also serves as a board trustee for the
Science Museum of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota Foundation, the
St. Croix Valley Community Foundation and the Luther Institute in
Gettysburg, Pa.
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Kate Wolford
President, The McKnight Foundation
Opening Panel Discussion
Kate Wolford became president of the McKnight Foundation in January
2007. She previously worked at Lutheran World Relief since 1991, where
she was named president after two years as program director for Latin
America. Wolford has been a frequent keynote speaker regionally and
nationally. She has served as board chair of InterAction, an association
of over 150 U.S. organizations that work internationally, and Action by
Churches Together, a global alliance of faith-based organizations. She
has also served on the board of the Lutheran Community Foundation.
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