Dale
Fitch

 

Peter
Goldberg
 

 

 

Robert
Jones




 

 

Daniel
Magnuson

 

Clara Miller

 

 

John
Tropman

 

Betsy
Vander Velde

 

 

Lynn
Perry Wooten

 

2007 EMI FACULTY

Dale Fitch is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan. Fitch has a broad range of social work experience. He has practice interests in human services administration, community practice, and policy. Recent projects involve the design and development of web-based management information system that facilitates inter-organizational case management.

Peter Goldberg is President and Chief Executive Officer of Alliance for Children and Families and its parent holding company, Families International, Inc. Alliance members serve millions of individuals annually in thousands of communities, providing a vast array of services ranging from residential care for children to community centered prevention and intervention programs to economic self-sufficiency initiatives. Prior to joining the Families International group of companies in 1994, Goldberg held a variety of positions in the corporate and philanthropic field and in the public sector.

Robert B. Jones, Ph.D., president & CEO of Children’s Aid and Family Services in Paramus, New Jersey, brings three decades of experience in the not-for-profit sectors of family service, mental health and child welfare. Jones holds leadership positions in numerous national and regional professional and volunteer organizations. A regular contributor to the Alliance for Children and Families Magazine, he has authored several papers and articles as well as presented on a variety of philanthropic, board governance, mental health and family service issues.

Daniel O. Magnuson is the executive director of the Counseling Center of Milwaukee, Inc. Magnuson brings more than 25 years of experience in human services at both the local and national levels. He previously served for 10 years in various executive positions with the Alliance for Children and Families, including president of Ways to Work, Inc., and director of national programs for the Alliance.

Clara Miller. We often ascribe management problems to lack of know-how, capacity or planning. While these are important, there’s a “capitalization” side that applies as well. This side goes beyond financial deportment—i.e., audits, board reports and budgeting—to address nonprofit organizations at the enterprise level. What is the key business? Business dynamics? Cost structure? How do these elements contribute to or undermine effectiveness, management and growth? Clara Miller describes conceptual aspects of nonprofit (and for-profit) enterprise, answering the “why” behind many syndromes in the sector. Miller’s presentation offers a framework to help both sides of the grant desk develop a realistic and affirmative enterprise-level response to the financial challenges of growth and operational sustainability that nonprofits commonly face.

Sue Ann Savas (not pictured) currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. In addition, she provides program evaluation consultation to a number of private and public agencies. She has extensive experience evaluating federally funded community-based research intervention projects. Sue Ann provides expertise in the areas of program design, evaluation planning, use of qualitative and quantitative methods, outcome measurement, and evaluation reporting for program improvement. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on techniques for building evaluation capacity within organizations.

John Tropman is a professor in the University of Michigan Schools of Social Work and Business Administration. He also directs the University of Michigan’s joint Master’s in Social Work/Business Administration degree program is and the author of over 90 books and articles in the area of nonprofit management.

Betsy R. Vander Velde has worked in the family service field since 1979. As Executive Vice President of Programs at Family and Children Services in Kansas City, Missouri, she played an instrumental role in the subsequent merger of the two family service agencies of Kansas and Missouri. In December 1994, Vander Velde was named President and CEO of The Family Conservancy, formerly Heart of America Family Services. In May 2003, she was chosen as the Not-for-Profit Administrator of the Year by the Greater Kansas City chapter of the American Society for Public Administration. In May, 2006 she received a Kansas City Sprit award for her service to the community.

Vander Velde currently serves on the national board of the Alliance for Children and Families, co-chairing their Public Policy Committee and as a member of its Resource Development Services. 

Lynn Perry Wooten joined the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 1998. She earned her B.S. in accounting from North Carolina A&T State University, an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and her Ph.D. from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Wooten’s research projects focus on sources of organizational effectiveness that are embedded in human capital. Her research has been published in academic journals, such as the American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Management Inquiry and Sex Roles.