2006 Nonprofit Executive Roundtable

The sixth annual Nonprofit Executive Roundtable was held April 12, 2006, at the Andrew Young School on the Georgia State University campus. Community nonprofit leaders and scholars met over breakfast for a morning of presentations and discussion regarding resource shift and income inequality. View photos of the event here.

Keynote Speaker

Virginia Hodgkinson presented “Amid Retreating Resources and Growing Income Inequality: Whither Nonprofits?” (Download the presentation slides here). Dr. Hodgkinson holds the position of Research Professor of Public Policy at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University. At Georgetown, she founded the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership (1997) and the Center for Democracy and the Third Sector (2003). Previously she was the founding vice president of research at Independent Sector and executive director of the National Center of Charitable Statistics. Prior to that, she was the founding executive director of the National Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Dr. Hodgkinson is the author and editor of numerous, research reports, articles, and books about the nonprofit sector, giving and volunteering, and community service. She also is a founder and past president of the International Society for Third Sector Research. She has been an associate editor of the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and Voluntas, and currently is co-editor of the University of New England Press Civil Society Series at Tufts University.

Dr. Hodgkinson received a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Southern Illinois University. She was named in the Nonprofit Times “Power and Influence Top 50” list from 1998 through 2003. Dr. Hodgkinson has received many other awards including a Doctor of Humane Letters from Indiana University (1997) and from Hartwick College (1990), a Lifetime Achievement Award from ARNOVA in 1996 and one from the Jesse Ball DuPont Fund in 2003, and a Pinnacle Award from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She has served on numerous boards and committees. Currently she is chair of the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, vice chair of Philanthropic Research, Inc., and an officer of the Kettering Foundation.

Panel Discussion

The second half of the morning was devoted to a panel discussion. Bruce Seaman, Nonprofit Studies Program at AYSPS, served as moderator.The panelists were Doug Ammar of the Georgia Justice Project,Gary Nelson of Healthcare Georgia Foundation, Pat Showell of Families First, and Eric Twombly of the Nonprofit Studies Program at AYSPS. Dr. Hodgkinson also participated.

Attendees:

Kim Anderson
AID Atlanta

Douglas Ammar
Georgia Justice Project

Shena Ashley
AECF Atlanta Civic Site

Scott Bales
Autism Society of America Greater Georgia Chapter

Bill Bolling
Atlanta Community Food Bank

David Brown
Georgia State University

Jackye Brown
Atlanta Children’s Center

D. BryAnn Chen
Refugee Women’s Network

Bobbi Cleveland
Tull Foundation

Roy Craft
The Regional Council of Churches
of Atlanta

Lisa Cremin
Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund

Fred Elsberry
The Better Business Bureau

Robert Franklin
Emory University

Diana Ellsworth
Teach for America

Doug Gatlin
Faith and the City

Thomas Glenn
Hilda and Wilbur Glenn Family Foundation

Elmer Goble
People Count Inc.

Patricia Harris
Cobb Microenterprise Center

Len Al Haas
Haas LLC

Connie Hawkins
Georgia State University

Joe Iarocci
CARE

Patti Johnson
Foundation Center Library

Christina Lennon
GA Lighthouse Foundation

Dell Martin
Alexander, Haas, Martin & Partners

Larrie Del Martin
Atlanta Habitat for Humanity

Perry McCarty
Calvin Edwards & Co.

Jack McMillian
TechBridge

Robert Meier
Northern Trust

Mike Mescon
The Mescon Group

Michael Nachman
TechBridge

Gary Nelson
Healthcare Georgia Foundation

John O’Kane
Coxe Curry & Associates

Michelle Ozumba
GA Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention

Linda Parrish
King & Spaulding

Nancy Peterman
Georgia State University

Alicia Philipp
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Maritza Pichon
Latin American Association

Joseph Piffaretti
Georgia State University

Anthony Pinder
Morehouse College

Edward Queen
Emory University

Pat Showell
Families First, Inc.

Lizzy Smith
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc.

Jeffery Smythe
Senior Citizens Services of Atlanta

Sherrie Snipes-Williams
Samaritan House

Shelton Stanfill
Woodruff Arts Center

Russ Toal
Georgia State University

Beth Vann
Decatur Cooperative Ministry

Sandra Walker
IBM Foundation

Patricia Willis
Voices for Georgia’s Children

Jamil Zainaldin
Georgia Humanities Council

from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies:

Roy Bahl

Robert Eger

Elsa Gebremedhin

Janet Johnson

Deborah McCarty

Harvey Newman

Michael Rushton

Bruce Seaman

Dave Sjoquist

Greg Streib

Eric Twombly

Dennis Young

Previous Roundtables:

2005 Nonprofit Roundtable
2004 Nonprofit Roundtable
2003 Nonprofit Roundtable
2002 Nonprofit Roundtable
2001 Nonprofit Roundtable