2016 EASTERN MISSOURI NONPROFIT CONFERENCE

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APRIL 1, 2016 ST. LOUIS, MO

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7:30 Registration and Pre-Conference Brainstorming*

8:00 Welcome, Introductions and Preview of the Day - Barbara Levin & Matthew Homann

8:15 The Multi-Dimensional Nonprofit Professional

8:45 Rethinking Advocacy - Delia Coleman

9:30 Rapid-Fire Future Sharing, Part One

10:15 Creating Impact - Paul Evensen

11:00 Rapid-Fire Future Sharing, Part Two

11:15 Idea Exchange Begins

11:30 Lunch

12:30 The Role of Innovation in the Nonprofit Sector - Travis Sheridan

1:15 Rapid-Fire Future Sharing, Part Three

2:00 Equity for the Sake of All - Jason Purnell

2:45 Rapid-Fire Future Sharing, Part Four

3:00 Lifting Up Our Leaders - Yemi Akande-Bartsch

3:45 Connection, Creation and Collaboration

4:45 Wrap-Up

5:00 Happy Hour

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Join Nonprofit Missouri Today! Nonprofit Missouri is dedicated to helping nonprofits: •  Manage and lead more effectively by providing ongoing education and training opportunities; •  Foster and sustain networks and collaborations; •  Achieve greater impact in communities and service regions; •  Monitor and react to nonprofit legislative issues; •  Advocate on critical policy issues affecting the sector; •  Promote the value and impact of the nonprofit sector in Missouri.

Member Benefits •  Discounts on conference registrations and sector learning events; •  Discounts on office supplies, background checks, and fundraising software; •  Free subscriptions and discounts to major nonprofit publications; •  Yearly membership to Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) •  Free and discounted access to Nonprofit Missouri webinars and advocacy events; •  Policy alerts and a collective voice to work with Missouri legislators.

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Delia Coleman Vice President, Strategy and Policy at Forefront

Delia guides and directs the Strategic Initiatives at Forefront, as well as educates policymakers at all levels of government on key issues impacting grant makers and social impact organizations. Delia joined our organization in 2010 as Manager, Public Policy Communications and Outreach, received several promotions, and assumed her current role in February 2016. Previously, Delia was Government Relations Officer at YWCA Metropolitan Chicago. She has been a Board Member of Chicago Lights and an Advocacy Council member of Women Employed. She is currently Board Co-Chair of the Chicago Abortion Fund. Before entering the nonprofit sector, Delia worked for several years in the corporate world, including at Gagen MacDonald (formerly Matha MacDonald), Starpoint Solutions, and Deloitte Consulting. She is a skilled speechwriter, public speaker, researcher, and advocate for social justice and women’s issues. Delia earned a BA in English Literature from UCLA, an MA in English Literature from the University of Michigan, and is in the process of writing her first novel.

Paul Evensen, PhD., Sr. Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Wyman

As one of the nation’s foremost experts in the design, implementation and evaluation of impact coalitions at the community and systems level, Paul Evansen joined the Wyman team in 2015 to pursue outside of the box solutions to help more young people thrive, not just survive.

Evensen will guide work to assess, conceive, design and implement contributions to regional collective impact, including convening, educating, training, and empowering like-minded leadership stakeholders to help ready the region for planning, evaluating, supporting and advocating our young people and those who serve them.

He completed his doctorate at the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas, and has worked with hundreds of coalitions across the country addressing teen pregnancy, poverty, literacy, school readiness and substance abuse.

Travis Sheridan Executive Director of Venture Café

Travis is the founding Executive Director of Venture Café Foundation – St. Louis. Travis has spent the past decade working with more than 400 startups in California and St. Louis. His goal is to use innovation and entrepreneurship to drive community and economic development. Travis is a co-founder of both 59DaysOfCode and GlobalHack. These competitions are creators of community and help identify talent. A frequent speaker, Travis honed his skills while doing standup for more than three years. Always looking for a new way to engage smart people, Travis hosts a monthly Boozestorming session that encourages people to drink outside the box and change the world one sip at a time.

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Jason Purnell Assistant Professor, Brown School of Social Work

Dr. Jason Purnell is trained in both applied psychology and public health. After undergraduate study in government and philosophy at Harvard University, he received his doctoral degree in counseling psychology from Ohio State University and his Master of Public Health degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. Dr. Purnell completed an NCI-funded fellowship in cancer prevention and control and was a research assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Rochester before joining the Brown School. He is also a licensed psychologist in the states of Missouri and New York and a former director of community engagement with the United Way of Greater St. Louis.

Dr. Purnell is very active in the St. Louis community, both personally and professionally, including service on the boards of Beyond Housing, Inc., Loyola Academy of St. Louis, the Maternal, Child and Family Health Coalition as well as the United Way of Greater St. Louis Men’s Leadership Society Cabinet, and the Program and Education Committee of the American Youth Foundation. Dr. Purnell received the Young Leader Award from the St. Louis American Foundation in 2013 and the Young Professionals Awards in Health and Quality of Life Empowerment from the Urban League Young Professionals of Metropolitan St. Louis in 2014. He is currently leading a Missouri Foundation for Health-funded project called For the Sake of All. He continues his transdisciplinary work as a faculty member in the Brown School and a faculty scholar in the Institute for Public Health. Dr. Purnell joined the Brown School research faculty in 2009 and was appointed an assistant professor in 2011.

Yemi Akande-Bartsch President & CEO, FOCUS St. Louis

Dr. Akande-Bartsch has over 15 years of experience in designing and facilitating leadership training, development, and coaching programs. She has served as vice president of leadership and alumni programs for FOCUS St. Louis, senior director of civic education for the Cleveland Leadership Center and program director for the Cleveland Executive Fellowship. Prior to joining FOCUS, Dr. Akande-Bartsch was managing partner at YsA Group, a leadership training and development company based in Cleveland, Ohio. She was also a lecturer at The Boler School of Business and Assistant Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at Ohio’s John Carroll University, and was the host of a weekly radio show called Making the Case on Cleveland’s WJCU 88.7 FM, which featured interviews on Leadership and Legacy. She also worked in the field of International education for many years.

Dr. Akande-Bartsch holds a doctorate in communication (with specialty in intercultural, organizational, and political communication) from the University of Oklahoma. She also earned two master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma, the first in human relations and organizational development, and the second in public relations, journalism, and mass communication. She earned her bachelor’s degree in speech communication from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri. Dr. Akande-Bartsch serves on the Board of Directors of The Sheldon Arts Foundation and is a member of the Association of Leadership professionals and International Leadership Association.

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RAPID FIRE FUTURE SHARING QUESTIONS

1. What is the single biggest new development or trend on the horizon

that you think will significantly impact nonprofits in the next five years?

2. What’s something that someone here in the region is doing particularly

well we should all learn from?

3. What one thing should nonprofits be paying more attention to now than

most are?

4. Other than money, what one thing do you expect will transform the

nonprofit sector most?

5. Pick one: What do you wish funders / service providers would do better

and why?

6. My company/organization is uniquely positioned to serve nonprofits in

this region is because...

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Yemi Akande-Bartsch Focus St. Louis

Vianey Beltran United Way of Greater St. Louis

Michael Boone Heffernan Insurance

Emily Bornstein Jewish Federation of St. Louis

Clare Brewka Gateway Center for Giving

Melissa Brickey De La Salle Middle School

Catherine Brown Paraquad

Nicole Brueggeman Washington University - Brown School of Social Work

Emily Brzozowski Sherwood Forest Camp St. Louis

Karen Burnell Ruff Southwest Center for Independent Living

Chris Camene Paraquad

Lisa Clancy Wyman Center

Natlie Clay BioSTL

Steven Coffey Coffey Design Group

Delia Coleman Forefront

Andy Conover Nonprofit Missouri

Christine Corcoran Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri

Shaughnessy Daniels St. Louis ARC

Yolanda DePrater Shoeman Water Projects

David Desai-Ramirez IFF

Michael Duffe LinkSTL

Cheryle Dyle-Palmer Parents As Teachers

Allison Easterwood Warrensburg Independent Living Services

Cara Eagen Children’s Education Alliance of Missouri

Margaret Eaton

Marci Eisen Jewish Federation of St. Louis

Paul Evensen Wyman Center

Deanna Finch United 4 Children

Alie Flores Ferguson Youth Initiative

Paulette Foerester Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri

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Robin Fox J.W. Terrill

Madeline Franklin STL Village

Peter Franzen Children’s Education Alliance of Missouri

Walker Gaffney St. Louis Public School Foundation

Elizabeth George The Rome Group

Gail Gerson Jewish Child and Family Services

Tricia Gordon United Way of Greater St. Louis

Barb Griffith Community Living, Inc.

Angela Haas

Kenneth Harrington The Bayberry Group

Jenny Hoelzer Commerce Bank

Michael Howard YouthBridge Community Foundation

Mary Hutchison Community Council of St. Charles County

Nancy Kelley Missouri Foundation for Health

Paul Kincaid Nonprofit Missouri

Sarah Kirschner SJK Consulting

Jamie Kleinsorge Nonprofit Missouri

Lee Koelliker Washington University - Brown School of Social Work

Evan Krauss United Way of Greater St. Louis

Meg Krejci Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri

Matthew Large JADAC

Kelly Laura Grace Hill Settlement House

Barbara Levin Nonprofit Missouri

Andrea Mayrose Gateway Greening

Julie McDowell Provident STL

Kimberly McKinney Habitat for Humanity St. Louis

Chris L Miller The Misson Center L3C

Rebekah Miller United Way of Greater St. Louis

Stuart Morse The Morse Group

Stacey Morse The Staenberg Group

Nathan Nelson Eagle Bank and Trust

Tim O'Dea Energycare

Marissa Paine The Painefree Group

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Name Organization

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Judy Pickett Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri

Terri Plain MIssouri Foundation for Health

Dan Prater Drury University

Jason Purnell Washington University - Brown School of Social Work

Stephanie Regagnon AGR Advisors, LLC

Kristen Rosen International Institute of St. Louis

Sharon Sharp Missouri Foundation for Health

Felicia Shaw Regional Arts Council

Travis Sheridan Venture Café

Samanta Sherrod United Way of Greater St. Louis

Taylor Smith College Bound STL

Paul Sorenson Grace Hill Settlement House

Alice Squires The Rome Group

Elvis Stephens Department of Housing and Urban Development

Erin Suelmann Down Syndrome Association of Greater St. Louis

Karen Taylor-Liggins Ferguson Youth Initiative

Susan Terrill

Ann Thompkins Children's Education Alliance of Missouri

Emily Uzzle United Way of Greater St. Louis

Sonya Vann

Ann Vazquez Lutheran Foundation

Edgar Velazquez IFF

Mike Walsch Eagle Bank and Trust

Lexi Walsh Washington University - Brown School of Social Work

Timetria Watson LinkSTL

Amy Wehmeier Paraquad

Nancy Weigley Central Reform

Jessica Wernli Wyman Center

Stephen Westbooks IFF

Cyrus White South Cabin Group

Teresa Wildman Hanover Research

Dawn Winkler United 4 Children

Elisa Zieg United 4 Children

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