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Madison Nonprofit Day
c/o Nonprofit Tech
266 Waubesa St., Ste #2
Madison, WI 53704
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To celebrate and promote awareness of the city's nonprofits, the work they do and the communities they serve

by Madison Nonprofit Day

Presenters

Madison Nonprofit Day presenters are experts in their field. Many are consultants or professional development professionals; others are front-line workers, students, and or researchers.


Abraham Williams

Abraham Williams »

Web developer in Madison, WI. Use of open and extensible technologies in simple functional designs. Web Developer, Coder, Hacker, Social Networker. Enjoys: drupal, opensource, ruby on rails, openid, oauth, php, hacking, linux, twitter, identica, microblogging, social media, google, drupal, scala, android, iphone sdk, facebook, apis.

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Andrew Shell

Andrew Shell »

In August 2009, Shell returned to Madison after working for PBWorks in San Mateo, CA. He currently works for for the Gen Y career focused social network Brazen Careerist. He is a programmer. He’s big on community and organized the Madison PHP Meetup Group (group for programmers and similar minded folk) for close to 4… (cont'd)

Anne Katz

Anne Katz »

Ms. Katz is the first executive director of Arts Wisconsin, a nonprofit statewide community arts action and development organization, whose mission is to nurture, serve, promote, and speak up for the arts in Wisconsin and all of its communities. She guides Arts Wisconsin’s programs and activities, serves Wisconsin’s diverse and ever-expanding creative community, and advocates… (cont'd)

Ben Seigel

Ben Seigel »

Counting on twelve years professional web experience, Ben handles project management, web design and development.  He specializes in the ExpressionEngine CMS, and enjoys showing clients how painless web updating can be.  In his spare time, Ben enjoys bicycling, music, comedy and travel. Seigel has been web designing and developing professionally since 1998. He helps businesses… (cont'd)

Brent A. Hafele, M.A.

Brent A. Hafele, M.A. »

Brent Hafele, Principal Consultant/President, NewDay Nonprofit Solutions provides customized leadership solutions to help nonprofit leaders advance their organizational mission. Consulting and training services include strategic planning, board governance, executive coaching, staff/volunteer management, organization development, fund raising counsel, and editing/writing. Services are provided over the phone, by email, and in person. Start your NewDay by… (cont'd)

Christine Thompson, M.Div.

Christine Thompson, M.Div. »

Ms. Thompson has been directing the Personal Essentials Pantry since August of 2007.  She holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, where she focused on urban ministry.  Prior to that, she worked for twenty years for a research center on the UW-Madison campus.  Ms. Thompson’s ministry emphasis is… (cont'd)

David Allen

David Allen »

David Allen is the principle for Development for Conservation LLC, a consulting business specializing in fund development for nonprofit conservation organizations. David’s background includes 25 years working in membership fundraising, major donor development, communications, and marketing. He has worked for Nature Conservancy chapters around the country and for the Sand County Foundation in Monona, devoting… (cont'd)

Eric Howland

Eric Howland »

Eric Howland is the Executive Director of DANEnet, a local nonprofit providing information technology assistance to other nonprofits in Dane County. Eric collaborated with Randy in 2006 on the IT assessment pilot project. From 2003-2006, he worked with the e-Projects in Community Service (ePICS) course at UW-Madison to guide interdisciplinary teams of students providing business… (cont'd)

Greg Tarnoff

Greg Tarnoff »

Voraciously accepting the challenges the web world has presented, Greg have designed, implemented and deployed hundreds of websites across a varied field of content management systems. Additionally, he has helped develop the backend and the user interfaces for sites that serve thousands of customers a day. Direct customer interaction has enabled him to develop communications… (cont'd)

Helen Hazelmare

Helen Hazelmare »

Helen Hazelmare has two consistent themes in her life: food and people. She has lived in Madison for the past ten years and became the Food Pantry Coordinator for the Goodman Community Center in January of 2009. Helen strives for Dane County quality within the GCC Food Pantry, maintaining a 25% organic commitment to the… (cont'd)

Jill Jacklitz

Jill Jacklitz »

Jill Jacklitz recently joined CGW as the Executive Director. She has worked in progressive nonprofits as a direct service provider, lobbyist, and manager.  Most recently she taught social policy, community and organizational development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Social Work.

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JoAnn Stormer

JoAnn Stormer »

JoAnn Stormer is Executive Director of the Leadership Wisconsin in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension. Leadership Wisconsin is designed to strengthen communities by preparing leaders as catalysts to effectively deal with today’s changing world. The intensive two-year program is for women and men in the early stages of their leadership careers—old enough… (cont'd)

Karen Bassler

Karen Bassler »

Karen Bassler is a veteran employee of nonprofit conservation organizations, and trusted coach and consultant for nonprofit groups.  She has worked with conservation organizations on strategic planning, policies and procedures review, conservation planning, and leadership development.  She has also facilitated multi-partner collaborations among NGOs, local, state and federal agencies and for profit businesses to promote… (cont'd)

Laura Jennings

Laura Jennings »

Laura Jennings has worked at HospiceCare since June of 2005 and is the Director of Community Outreach, where she coordinate and supervise community outreach and education for HospiceCare Inc. She has a BS degree in Biology from the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

Laura has worked in healthcare since 1986, primarily in the field of organ and… (cont'd)

Lynn Jacobson

Lynn Jacobson »

Lynn is a librarian. Specifically, she has a Master’s in Library Science and has been the horticulture librarian at Olbrich Botanical Gardens since 2001.  A Master Gardener, she’s available to answer your plant and gardening questions as part of Olbrich Garden’s Garden Answer Service. Lynn’s prior library positions include research librarian at Covance, and the… (cont'd)

Megan Cain

Megan Cain »

Megan Cain started the Kids’ Garden at Troy Gardens in 2003. She managed the garden and worked with the many children who visited it until 2005. She is now the program manager for Community GroundWorks where she brings her business planning skills to play with her gardening skills.

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Melanie Schmidt

Melanie Schmidt »

Melanie Schmidt, principal of Timpano Consulting, brings over 16 years experience working with Boards of Directors and organizational leaders to connect the dots between strategy, systems and people. In recent years, her consultative coaching has been instrumental in helping to refocus organizations, recharge stakeholders, structure organizational change, build stronger brands and overhaul governance models to… (cont'd)

Neil Goodman

Neil Goodman »

I am a full-time student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a part-time web developer for DANEnet. I have been involved with DANEnet for the past four years and have been developing web technologies for the past two years.  At DANEnet we strive to bring low-cost technology solutions of all kinds to non-profits. We find… (cont'd)

Patricia O’Kane

Patricia O’Kane »

O’Kane is a Ph.D. student in environment and resources at the Gaylord Nelson Institute of UW-Madison. She researches birds that migrate between Madison and Central America.

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Rebecca Lorimer

Rebecca Lorimer »

Rebecca Lorimer is a second-year Ph.D. student in Composition and Rhetoric. She received a BA in Creative Writing from University of Southern California and an M.A. in English Composition from San Francisco State University. She has taught writing and ESL in San Francisco, Mexico, and Ecuador, and now teaches English 201 and ESL in Madison.… (cont'd)

Twink Jan-McMahon

Twink Jan-McMahon »

I grew up in California and learned the value of trees as I saw them disappear from a once lush landscape only to be replaced by economic “development.”  I am working for a new fiscal economy, the value of which is relative to the social and ecological health of the community that supports it.  Please… (cont'd)



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