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University of Michigan/ELI Lead Faculty - 2009 Dione Alexander — Site Director, Midwest Office, Nonprofit Finance Fund Alexander has oversight of lending and consulting services, foundation and corporate relations, business development, and community outreach for Midwestern states for Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), a community development financial institution that specializes in providing financial and advisory services to social enterprises. Prior to joining NFF in 2006, Alexander spent six years as a department executive with Charter County in Wayne, Mich. Additionally, Alexander has served as vice president, national corporate lending for Comerica Bank, as a business consultant under contract with the U. S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Eastern Michigan University, and as the president and CEO of a regulated revolving loan fund. She currently serves on the board of directors of Northern Initiatives and Simon House. Diana Aviv — President and CEO, Independent Sector As the leader of Independent Sector, the national leadership forum for America’s nonprofit organizations, foundations, and corporations, Aviv is a noted expert on the major issues affecting the national nonprofit community. Aviv is a frequent speaker on emerging trends within the sector, the financial state of the nonprofit community, public policies affecting charities and foundations, the role of civil society in democracy, and civic engagement. Aviv joined Independent Sector in 2003 after spending nine years at United Jewish Communities, she was also formerly associate executive vice chair at the Jewish Council of Public Affairs, director of programs for the National Council of Jewish Women, and director of a comprehensive program to serve battered women and their families. Aimée Eubanks Davis — Chief People Officer, Teach For America Beginning her tenure with Teach For America in 2002, Eubanks Davis helped to grow the organization’s presence into Miami and Philadelphia, as well as doubling Teach For America’s presence in New York City. In 2005, Eubanks Davis became the chief people officer and she has overseen the organization’s staff growth from 200 to more than 800; worked on the development of a comprehensive competency model for staff recruitment, selection, performance management, and learning and development; and ensured that the human assets team is positioned to fuel the growth and success of Teach For America through being a strategic business partner to organizational leaders and teams. Eubanks Davis was a 1995 Teach For America corps member and taught sixth grade social studies and language arts in New Orleans. Charles R. Eisendrath — Director, University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Fellows After reporting and editing jobs with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Baltimore Evening Sun, and Time, Eisendrath joined the University of Michigan as a journalism fellow. After his fellowship, Eisendrath began running the Journalism Master’s Program. His articles and comments on media topics have appeared frequently in publications such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, and other media outlets. His academic writing and television work include The World Press Encyclopedia and Columbia Journalism Review, and two five-part educational television series: “City Desk” and “Foreign Assignment: USA.” The Knight-Wallace Fellows in journalism draws top talent from across the U.S. and abroad and is fully endowed. Peter Goldberg — President and CEO, Alliance for Children and Families Goldberg is president and chief executive officer of the Alliance for Children and Families and its parent holding company, Families International, Inc. The Alliance represents more than 370 nonprofit child- and family-serving organizations. Alliance members serve millions of individuals annually in thousands of communities, providing services ranging from residential care for children to community centered prevention and intervention programs to economic self-sufficiency initiatives. Goldberg also serves as CEO of Ways to Work, another subsidiary of Families International. Ways to Work is an innovative program that provides modest loans to low-income workers to help pay for expenses that could interfere with their ability to keep a job or stay in school. Before joining Families International in 1994, Goldberg held a variety of positions in the corporate and philanthropic field and in the public sector. He has been selected by The NonProfit Times as one of the 50 most influential people in the nonprofit sector six times since 1998. Robert Jones — President and CEO, Children’s Aid and Family Services For the past 22 years, Jones has served as the executive with Children’s Aid and Family Services, one of the largest human service providers in northern New Jersey. Under the leadership of Jones, the agency has experienced unprecedented growth, including a comprehensive range of programs focusing on the changing needs of children and families. Jones helped develop the successful Alliance member benefit, Resource Development Services, which includes a comprehensive manual, listserv, and annual fund development conference, among other benefits. Jones also contributes a column on fund development to the Alliance for Children & Families Magazine. A member of the Alliance’s board of directors, Jones was the 2003 national recipient of the Alliance’s Samuel Gerson Nordlinger Child Welfare Leadership Award. John Kenyon — Nonprofit Technology Strategies Kenyon has been providing advice, teaching, and writing about effective uses of technology for more than 18 years. His current consulting practice concentrates on strategic uses of appropriate technologies with a focus on leveraging the Internet. He is the co-author of both The eNonprofit: a guide to ASPs, Internet Services and Online Software and the Nonprofit Quarterly article “A Decade of Online Fundraising.” Before returning to private practice in 2005, Kenyon served as training and consulting manager at Groundspring.org/Network for Good, helping organizations effectively use the Internet. He is an adjunct professor for the University of San Francisco Master of Nonprofit Administration degree program where he teaches the technology course. John Tropman – Professor, University of Michigan, School of Social Work and Ross Business School Tropman holds a Ph.D. in social work and sociology and has spent his career at the University of Michigan teaching nonprofit management courses at the School of Social Work, organizational behavior and human resources management courses at the Ross School of Business, effective decision-making and creativity in the university’s executive education program, and leadership and other material at the executive education program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is a widely published author in the field and is currently researching “executive calamity”— executives who go down and take the whole organization with them. Tropman has worked as a consultant with for-profit corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit human service organizations, including helping organizations and their boards with strategic planning, environmental scans, and developing product/service profiles. Betsy Vander Velde — President and CEO, The Family Conservancy Having been in the family service field since 1979, Vander Velde began her career as a school social worker and director of admissions/discharges at a residential treatment center for developmentally disabled youth. She then joined Family and Children’s Service in Kansas City, Kansas and advanced into several leadership roles. She was named president and CEO of The Family Conservancy, Kansas City, formerly Heart of America Family Services, in 1994. In 2003, Vander Velde was chosen as the Not-for-Profit Administrator of the Year by the Greater Kansas City chapter of the American Society for Public Administration. Vander Velde has spoken nationally on “Best Practices Community-Building,” board governance, mergers, fund development, and organizational and cultural change. Lynn P. Wooten — Clinical Assistant Professor of Strategy, Management, and Organizations, University of Michigan, Ross Business School 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 M.B.A. 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. Ari Weinzweig — Co-Owner, Founding Partner, and CEO, Zingerman’s Community of Businesses While attending the University of Michigan as an undergraduate, Weinzweig began washing dishes in a local restaurant and soon discovered that he loved the food business. Along with his partner Paul Saginaw, Weinzweig started Zingerman’s Delicatessen in 1982 with a $20,000 bank loan, a staff of two, a small selection of great-tasting specialty foods, and a relatively short sandwich menu. Today, Zingerman’s is an Ann Arbor institution—an organization of eight distinct businesses with a 450-person staff and annual sales approaching $30,000,000 a year. Zingerman’s was instrumental in the founding of Food Gatherers, a perishable food rescue program that delivers over a million pounds of food to people in need. Jeffrey Zaslow — Columnist, The Wall Street Journal As the author of the Moving On column for The Wall Street Journal, Zaslow focuses on life transitions. While The Wall Street Journal covers the heart of the financial world, Zaslow tends to the hearts of its readers, covering topics such as finding a spouse to losing a job, or a child’s first crush, to an older adult’s last wishes. In September 2007, after attending the final lecture of terminally ill Carnegie Mellon University Professor Randy Pausch, Zaslow featured Pausch’s remarks in his column, sparking a worldwide phenomenon. This led to Zaslow co-authoring with Pausch the current international bestseller The Last Lecture. The book is a #1 New York Times best-seller, and more than 4 million copies are now in print in the United States alone. |
