Kathy Whelpley

January 19, 2014
Kathy Whelpley joined the National Center in May 2012 as Vice President. Kathy has spent the past 25 years working to build the assets and impact of philanthropic and nonprofit organizations. Most recently, she was with The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, where over 12 years she served in a variety of roles.  As Chief Operating Officer, Kathy Read More

Kara Inae Carlisle

January 19, 2014
Kara Carlisle’s whole career has been place-based, with chapters in southern California, rural New Mexico, Minnesota, and now in Oregon and Siskiyou County, California. Starting out in nonprofits, she served in numerous roles—writing grants, leading communications, human resources, evaluation and more. Much of her work focused on nonprofit sustainability, the mediation of economic and cultural conflict, and on seeing and Read More

Karen Green

January 19, 2014
Karen Green is a nonprofit governance and management consultant specializing in working with family foundations. In 2011, Green was named vice president of the National Center for Family Philanthropy. She also served as Managing Director of Family Foundation Services at the Council on Foundations as well as Director of their Governing Boards Program, which provided foundation board members and CEOs with resources on Read More

J.C. Downing Foundation

January 19, 2014
The Downing Foundation is a private family foundation that seeks to improve the quality of life for communities or a significant number of community members. Read More

Henry A.J. Ramos

January 19, 2014
Henry A.J. Ramos is CEO of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. The Insight Center helps people and communities achieve and sustain economic security through research, technical assistance, and policy advocacy efforts. Read More

George Hobor

January 19, 2014
George Hobor is a senior research fellow at the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. Read More

Donald A. Griesmann Esq.

January 19, 2014
Donald A. Griesmann has served the nonprofit community as a virtual volunteer through his Nonprofit Blog since 2001. Previously he worked as a lawyer and a manager in the nonprofit sector. Read More

David Beckwith

January 19, 2014
David Beckwith retired from his position as executive director of the Needmor Fund in 2013. Before joining the Needmor Fund in 2003, David worked as a community organizer. Read More

Constance J. Walker

January 19, 2014
Constance J. Walker is the founder and president of Walker and Associates Consulting. She was the executive director of the Greater Richmond Community Development Corporation, program officer of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and program officer and director of the Program Related Investment Fund for the James Irvine Foundation. She is also a former Co-Chair of the Neighborhood Funders Group, an Read More

Center for Ethical Leadership

January 19, 2014
The Center for Ethical Leadership is a national nonprofit that cultivates leadership and change capacity that advances social change.  The Center supports individual, institutional and community transformation necessary to creating healthy, just and inclusive communities.  Part think tank, incubator, and change agency, the Center seeks to help people develop and carry out change initiatives. Read More