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GUEST SPEAKERS
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Diana Aviv, President and CEO
Independent Sector
Diana Aviv is president and CEO of Independent Sector, the national leadership forum for America's nonprofits, foundations, and corporate giving programs. By representing tens of thousands of organizations across the country, Independent Sector advances the common good by leading, strengthening, and mobilizing the charitable community. She is a frequent speaker on trends in and key issues for the sector, such as the financial state of nonprofits, public policies affecting charities and foundations, the role of civil society in democracy, and civic engagement. She has testified several times before Congress and has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and MSNBC.com.
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Susan Raymond, Executive Vice President
Changing Our World
Susan Raymond is a regular international conference speaker on the future role of philanthropy in economic growth and civil society, having worked on philanthropy and economic development projects throughout the United States, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia and Asia. Currently, Susan is Executive Vice President for Research, Evaluation, and Strategic Planning for Changing Our World. She also serves as Chief Analyst for onPhilanthropy.com, a global resource for nonprofit professionals. Widely published, her most recent book Finance for Hard Times: Nonprofit Revenue Strategies in Economic Crisis was released in January. Other titles on philanthropy: Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy: Causes and Consequences of the Transfer of Wealth (2007) and The Future of Philanthropy: Economics, Ethics, and Management (2004).
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Bradford K. Smith, President
Foundation Center
Bradford Smith is president of the Foundation Center, a national nonprofit service organization recognized as the nation's leading authority on organized philanthropy. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants around the world. Before joining the Foundation Center in 2008, Mr. Smith was president of the Oak Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland (US Office located in Portland, ME), a major family foundation with programs and grant activities in 41 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. Prior to joining the Oak Foundation he developed and led the Ford Foundation's Peace and Social Justice Program, the foundation's largest program area.
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Angus S. King, Jr.
Former Governor of Maine and Principal, Independence Wind
Angus S. King, Jr. served two four-year terms as Maine's 71st governor. He took office in 1995 as the only independent governor in the country, and his 1998 reelection was one of the largest margins of victory in Maine's history. During his term as Maine governor he focused on economic development and job creation, education, mental health services, corrections, land conservation and environmental protection, and improvements in service delivery by state government. Governor King's administration accomplished a total rebuild of the state's mental health and corrections systems, major improvements in the state's service capability, a substantial increase in the state's commitment to research and development, the largest increase of lands in conservation in the state's history, and the nationally recognized program to provide laptop computers to every seventh and eighth grade student in the state. He is currently Of Counsel to the Bernstein Shur law firm in Portland, teaches a leadership course at Bowdoin College, serves on the boards of and advises several Maine-based and international corporations, and is a principal of the alternative energy company, Independence Wind. |
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