speakers

STEVE GUNDERSON

President, Council on Foundations

Washington, DC

Tel: 202-467-0458 (Sarah Thompson, Executive Assistant)

Email: thoms@cof.org

Steve Gunderson is the new President of the Council on Foundations, replacing retiring Dorothy S. Ridings. Read an interview with Gunderson, recently published in Foundation News and Commentary.

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Friday, November 4

8:30am-12:30 pm, Plenary: Building Strong and Ethical Grantmakers

JANNE GALLAGHER

Vice President and General Counsel

Council on Foundations, Washington, DC

Tel: 202-466-6512

Email: gallj@cof.org

Janne G. Gallagher became Vice President and General Counsel of the Council on Foundations in April 2003, after 4 years as deputy general counsel. Prior to joining the Council, Gallagher spent 17 years in the private practice of law, most recently at the Washington, DC law firm of Caplin and Drysdale, where she specialized in the representation of tax-exempt organizations. She is a member of the DC Bar, and of the Exempt Organization Committee of the American Bar Association's Tax Section for which she cochairs the Community Foundations Subcommittee. Recent publications include “The Legal Structure of Property Tax Exemption,” which appeared in the book Property-Tax Exemption for Charities, published by the Urban Institute Press in 2002 and “Been Down So Long It Looks Like UMIFA to Me,” in the March 2003 issue of Foundation News and Commentary. A graduate of Trinity College, Washington, DC, and Boston College Law School, Gallagher also holds a Master of Laws degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.

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ANDRAS KOSARAS

Director of Ethical Standards and Philanthropic Outreach

Council on Foundations, Washington, DC

Tel: 202-

Email: kosaa@cof.org

Andras Kosaras serves as Director of Ethical Standards and Philanthropic Outreach for the Council on Foundations. He is responsible for the development and implementation of the Council's Building Strong and Ethical Foundations: Doing It Right initiative. Prior to joining the Council, Kosaras spent 2 years as a research assistant at Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, assisting Marion R. Fremont-Smith in the completion of her book Governing Nonprofit Organizations: Federal and State Law and Regulation, published by Harvard's Belknap Press in April 2004. He is coauthor, with Fremont-Smith, of "Wrongdoing by Officers and Directors of Charities: A Survey of Press Reports 1995-2002," an article that appeared in the 2003Exempt Organization Tax Review. Kosaras holds a BA in Philosophysumma cum laude from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a JD magna cum laude from the New England School of Law, Boston, where he was a member of the law review. Kosaras is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, the Boston Bar Association's Tax-Exempt Organizations Committee, and the Exempt Organization Committee of the American Bar Association's Tax Section.

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Friday, November 4

Lunch Session: The Rising Trend of Family Homelessness

ELLEN BASSUK, MD

President, National Center for Family Homelessness

Newton Centre, MA

Tel: 617-964-3834

Email: ellen.bassuk@familyhomelessness.org

Ellen Bassuk, MD, is founder and president of The National Center on Family Homelessness, the nation's preeminent authority on family homelessness. As a clinical researcher, psychiatrist, and advocate, Bassuk is at the forefront of research, evaluation, program design, and service delivery on behalf of homeless children and families. Bassuk's extensive research on the impact of homelessness, and the role of violence, trauma, and mental illness in their lives, has made vital contributions to understanding this national tragedy. Her leadership roles on applied research projects include the Worcester Family Research Study, the nation's most comprehensive longitudinal study of sheltered homeless and low-income housed families and their children. Bassuk is currently Project Director for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative's National Collaborative for Trauma-Surviving Homeless Children, directs the National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness, and is Technical Project Director for the federal Chronic Homelessness Initiative. Bassuk is a board-certified psychiatrist and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is a graduate of Brandeis University and of Tufts University School of Medicine, and was awarded an honorary doctorate of Public Service from Northeastern University. Bassuk served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

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Friday, November 4

2:00-3:15 pm, Concurrent Session: The Right Frame of Mind: Communicating your image as a grantmaker

DAWN V. BORGEEST

Sr. Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

United Way of Greater Rochester, NY

Tel: 585-242-6424

Email: dawn.borgeest@uwrochester.org

Dawn Borgeest is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for the United Way of Greater Rochester. She was named to that position in August 2005, after serving as the president and chief executive officer of the Advertising Council of Rochester for 11 yeas. Prior to the Ad Council, Borgeest served as vice president for marketing and resource development at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester for nearly 8 years. Earlier in her career, she served as vice president of communications for United Way of Greater Rochester, one of the highest ranked fundraising organizations of its kind in the country. Her professional portfolio also includes stints as a public relations and development director at a rural hospital in Upstate New York, an editor of a weekly newspaper, and a freelance consumer-experience researcher, and communications strategist and planner. Borgeest has taught marketing, business writing, and public relations at Rochester Institute of Technology and St. John Fisher College; she has lectured at local, regional, and national conferences. In 1995, Borgeest was named one of Rochester Business Journal's "Forty Under 40," in recognition of her professional achievements and community service. She also received the Matrix Awards from Women In Communications, Inc./Rochester, 1997, for outstanding achievement in the field of communications. Borgeest was a nominee for the Monroe County 2004 Athena Award.

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Friday, November 4

2:00-3:15 pm, Concurrent Session: Mission Related Investments: Expanding the philanthropic toolbox

KATE STARR

Investment Officer, FB Heron Foundation

New York, NY

Tel: 212-404-1822

Email: kstarr@heronfdn.org

Kate Starr is an Investment Officer at the FB Heron Foundation. She helps manage the Foundation's $65 million mission-related investing portfolio, after having spent 4 years as a program officer with responsibility for grantmaking and investing in Texas and North Carolina. Prior to joining Heron, Starr worked as a freelance personal finance columnist for Business Week Online, a research associate at microfinance institution PRIDE Tanzania, and as an economics and equity analyst at First Asset Management in Minneapolis. Starr earned a BA in English and Italian from Indiana University, an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins' School for Advanced International Studies, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

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Friday, November 4

2:00-3:15 pm, Concurrent Session: Board Training Workshop

ELIZABETH WILDER

Executive Director, Grantmakers Forum of New York

Rochester, NY

Tel: 585-232-2380

Email: liz.wilder@grantmakers.org

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3:15-3:30 pm, Closing Plenary: Thoughts for the Future

ELIZABETH WILDER

Executive Director, Grantmakers Forum of New York

LINDA LOVEJOY

Board President, Grantmakers Forum of New York

Community Relations Manager, Wegmans Foods Market

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