Relevant Skills and Experiences
Non Profit Management: Thirty-five years experience leading and managing non profit organizations with staffs of up to 26 including chambers of commerce, arts organizations, and foundations. Familiar with working with Boards and Volunteers, directing staff, establishing strategic goals and leading implementation efforts, and creating and monitoring budgets.
Funding: Strong background in various aspects of fund raising including directing capital campaigns that raised up to $2.5 million. Have secured start up funding for several non profits from corporate and individual donors. Have secured and successfully implemented grant funding from a wide variety of sources including public (the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, Sonoma County), non profit sources (Idaho Arts Commission, First Five, the Jordan Foundation) and private foundations (PG&E, Umpqua Foundations and the Bank of America Foundations
Strategic Planning: Have worked with a wide variety of groups to develop short and long term plans including both tactical “campaigns” and long range strategic approaches. Long term plans have served as the means for at least doubling the size of each organization led.
Financial Management: Created and secured board approval for annual budgets of up to $3.5 million. Oversaw bookkeeping and financial record keeping. Monitored finances and reported monthly to board and volunteers
Public Policy: Extensive experience working on public policy issues at the local and State levels. Areas of focus have included transportation, taxes, public bonds, environmental quality, and economic development. Comfortable working with elected officials at all levels.
Communications: Strong verbal and written communications skills. Have created newsletters, web-site content, position papers, and written grants to public and private funding sources. Experienced making presentations to groups of up to 1,000 both in “MC” role as well as featured speaker.
Work History/Organizations Managed
2009 – 2017 President/CEO
Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce
including managing separate non profits:
New Vision Santa Rosa Foundation
Downtown Action Organization
Visit Santa Rosa
1999 – 2009 President and General Manager
Coeur d’Alene Area Chamber of Commerce
including managing separate non profits:
Coeur Arts Alliance
North Idaho Centennial Trail Foundation
Coeur d’Alene Downtown Association
1984 – 1998 Executive Director
Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce
Education
Sandpoint, ID
BA, American History, 1975 Amherst College Amherst, MA.
MA, Applied Behavioral Science, 1982 Whitworth College Spokane, WA.