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Featured Alumnae
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She had worked with her organization for six years, and won
several promotions, but Jeannine Lisitski was still struggling...
"I didn't really
understand how the pieces of the non-profit puzzle fit together - financial,
public relations, internal communications."
Lisitski still finds her job
hard. But it's a different job:
executive director of Women Against Abuse, where she heads an organization with
some 100 employees and a $5.5 million annual operating budget...
[read more]
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| Special Events
| October 19
Open House for the Ascending Leadership Certificate Program
5:30 - 7:00 PM
December 2
Leveraging Leadership Through Life Experience: Tapping the Expertise of Volunteers 50-Plus
9:00 - 4:00
Bryn Mawr College
December 7
Ensuring A Successful Audit
9:00 - 12:00
United Way of SE Pennsylvania
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Greetings!
Autumn always feels like a time of renewal to me - the crisp,
cool air after the heat of summer, the return to school and new
adventures in learning.
This year, NELI is birthing a new website (www.brynmawr.edu/neli), a
new certificate program for Ascending Leaders, and this new
e-newsletter!
Take a look at the new website for the details on the new Ascending Leadership Certificate - applications are due November 22nd.
Feel free to send in your organizational events for the Community Calendar. We're also holding two Alumni special events in late fall. Check out all the news below and
please forward this newsletter to friends you think may be interested in our programs.
Sincerely,
Margie DuBrow
Director
Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute |
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Ascending Leaders On The Rise:
New Certificate Launches in January
|  For Francine Axler and Jennifer Barnhart, the only problem
with the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Certificate program is that it didn't
come earlier in their careers.
Axler, a senior research associate at the Philadelphia
Health Management Corporation, worked at her agency for 21 years when she
entered the program this year. Barnhart, director of Home and Community Based
services at Liberty Resources, Inc., worked with non-profits since 1998.
Both say they would have liked the chance to participate in
the new Nonprofit Ascending Leadership Certificate program starting in January. "It
would have been great to have had something like this at an earlier
stage," Axler said. [read more]
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| KUDOS! |
PAM BARTON,
Executive Director of the Main Line Adult Day Center, was recently elected
Southeastern Regional Representative for the Pennsylvania Adult Day Services
Association (PADSA). Established in 1982, PADSA is an organization of providers
and concerned individuals working to promote quality adult day
services in PA.
BRUCE BONNER, Executive Director of the Children's
Literacy Initiative, reports that CLI is
scheduled to receive a special $21,000,000 grant
from the Department of Education's Innovation 3 program. CLI, which provides
literacy training and materials for prekindergarten through third-grade
teachers, scored the highest in its category - Validation grants. This grant
will be used to start a five year validation study of the organization's Model
Classroom program in four school districts.
SHERI COLE,
Executive Director of the Career Wardrobe, completed Leadership
Philadelphia in 2009-10. She encourages
all nonprofit leaders who are interested in meeting potential Board members and
corporate sector volunteers to consider the investment of time and resources. In
June 2010, The Career Wardrobe moved its
Client Dressing Suite and administrative offices to a new 5,000 square foot office space at 21 South 12th Street.
STEPHANIE
MAYWEATHER received her Doctorate of Law and Public Policy from Northeastern
University in September 2010. Stephanie is the Executive Director of the East
Division Crime Victim Services in Philadelphia.
GLORIA GUARD, former NELI Advisory Committee member and former President of People's Emergency
Center (PEC) in Philadelphia, joined global nonprofit One Economy in July as Engagement
Officer for the northeastern United States. Glori will be working with
communities to break down the barriers to broadband adoption and bring
affordable access, digital literacy training and local online tools and
resources to low-income communities.
SHELLY WIMPFHEIMER, NELI Advisory Committee member, recently
traveled to Amman, Jordan to teach management skills to social
services professionals from the Ministry of Social Development and a selection
of NGO's. The course is a three-day intensive seminar offered through the Columbia
University Middle Eastern Research Center. Shelly is the Vice President of the Youth and
Family Program at the YMCA of Greater New York. |
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| NELI ALUMNI ON THE MOVE! | We are bringing you up-to-date with a number
of NELI alumni who have changed positions in the past year. Please let us know if you have taken on a new
position!
In August 2010, MIRIAN WEILER GERBER left her position after 10-plus years as Executive
Director of Women's Way to take on new challenges as Executive Director of the
Family Planning Council. Also in August 2010, ROBYN GOLDMAN became the Chief Financial Officer at AIDS Project Los Angeles. After
six happy years, KATE HOUSTOUN left
her position as Deputy Director for Community Affairs at The Doe Fund's Ready,
Willing, and Able program to take on a
new role as Director at the Sustainable Business Network of Greater
Philadelphia. In her new role, she oversees Philadelphia's Green Economy Task Force, which more than
doubled in size in her first year of leadership. Kate also developed and
manages the Emerging Industries Project, an ongoing, business-focused study of
green industries that show a strong potential for growth in our region. Check out SBN's new website at ww.sbnphiladelphia.org. LISA CORDERO KRICUN became the Director of Development at the Children's Crisis Treatment Team in
Philadelphia in August 2009, after several years as Vice President of External
Affairs at Congreso de Latinos Unidos. JULIA LOPEZ became the Director of Education at the Kimmel Center in 2009, after her agency
Centro Pedro Claver, Inc. closed, as a result
of the state budget crisis. JACQUIE PATTERSON became Director of Development at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Center in 2009, after
serving as Vice President of Development at People's Emergency Center. JOANNA ORTERO-CRUZ became the Executive Director of Consiglio in 2009, leaving her position at as
Director of the Family Health Program at Congreso de Latinos Unidos. MILES WILSON,
former Executive Director of People's Emergency Center, took on the new role of
Director of the Philadelphia Program at the Nonprofit Finance Fund in August
2010. |
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