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Board of Directors
Board of Directors
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Kath Connolly
Kath Connolly is an educator who has explored public engagement and creative practice in community-based settings, on college campuses, and in public schools. As the director of partnerships at The Learning Community, a new charter school in Central Falls, RI, she focuses on enriching elementary teaching and learning by connecting the school to the larger community.
Before she joined The Learning Community in 2005, Kath worked for 10 years at the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University, where she created Careers in the Common Good, a nationally recognized program that encourages young people to become community activists and pursue public interest careers. She was also involved in fellowship programs and projects related to public education, the arts, and advocacy.
She has been a designer at a children's museum, a public-policy researcher, the director of a grassroots school-reform network, and a consultant to community groups, schools, and colleges. She appears frequently at conferences and workshops across the country.
She currently serves on the boards of Farm Fresh Rhode Island, BSR 88.1 FM, the Brown University Summer Leadership Institute, and Action Without Borders. She is the founder of a progressive greeting card company, Card Carrying Liberal, and has served on boards and as a volunteer for numerous organizations advocating for civil rights, youth, and the arts.
Kath, a resident of Providence, RI, is a graduate of Brown University and an avid student of paper engineering, bookbinding, and other art forms.
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Ami Dar
Ami Dar is the founder and executive director of Action Without Borders, the organization that runs Idealist.org. Built in 1996 with $3,500, Idealist has become one of the most popular nonprofit resources on the web, with information posted by 65,000 organizations around the world, and over 50,000 visitors every day.
Ami was born in Jerusalem, and grew up there and in Peru and Mexico. At 18, he was drafted into the Israeli army, where he served as a paratrooper in the Lebanese war of 1982. The misery and senseless destruction he saw in Lebanon, combined with the extreme poverty he had seen growing up in Latin America, led him to start Action Without Borders as an organization that would make it easier for people everywhere to take action on the issues that concern them.
Before starting Idealist, Ami worked as a waiter, a translator, and a marketing manager for Aladdin Knowledge Systems, a software company.
In 2000 the Stern Family Fund awarded Ami its annual $100,000 Public Interest Pioneer grant to help support his work with Idealist, and between 2002 and 2005 the NonProfit Times included him in its annual list of the 50 most influential people in the nonprofit sector. In 2004 Ashoka invited Ami to join its global fellowship of social entrepreneurs, and in 2006 he received the Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award from the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University.
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Bob Giannino-Racine
Bob Giannino-Racine is the Executive Director of ACCESS (The Action Center for Educational Services and Scholarships), the leading provider of financial aid advising and scholarships for Boston Public School Students. ACCESS works to ensure that every graduate of the Boston Public Schools has the financial information and resources necessary to achieve their dream of a college education. Since its founding in 1985, ACCESS has provided financial aid information and scholarships to thousands of Boston's students, helping them realize their higher education goals and giving them a better foundation for a successful and productive future.
Bob has 16 years of experience within the Boston nonprofit community. Prior to joining ACCESS, he served as the Vice President of Business Development and Government Relations at Jumpstart for Young Children, a Boston-based national nonprofit organization that engages college-aged young people in service. While at Jumpstart, Bob held several senior level management positions, including three years as Executive Director of Jumpstart Boston—where he oversaw a threefold increase in the organization's impact on the city's children. Bob's previous experience includes being involved in the start-up of a number of other successful nonprofit ventures and a stint in the for-profit sector with Procter and Gamble. As a product of the Somerville Public Schools and a graduate of Harvard College, Bob knows first-hand the need for high quality advising services and the value of scholarship support in making a difference in one's life.
In addition to his work with ACCESS, Bob serves on the Board of Directors of Action Without Borders/Idealist.org—the leading nonprofit career internet site, is a member of the Selection Committee for the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration, and has served as an advisor to the Institute for School/Community Collaboration. Bob also serves an an Alumni Interviewer for Harvard.
Bob resides with his family in Concord, MA.
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Cynthia M. Gibson
Cynthia Gibson is an independent consultant specializing in public policy research and analysis, program development, strategic planning, marketing, and communications for several national nonprofits and foundations. Clients include Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Goldman Sachs Foundation, Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy, National Conference on Citizenship, The Case Foundation, NetAid, Center for Community Change, Academy for Educational Development, St. Anselm College's Institute of Politics, Management Assistance Group, Carnegie Council for International Ethics, Tufts University, Campus Compact, AFS-USA, Ron Brown Scholars Program, and others.
Previously, Gibson served as a program officer at Carnegie Corporation of New York in the area of Strengthening U.S. Democracy, overseeing two national subprograms in Strengthening the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector and Youth Civic Engagement, both of which she developed. During that time, she authored two publications—From Inspiration to Participation: Strategies for Youth Civic Engagement and (with Peter Levine) The Civic Mission of Schools—that became standards for the civic learning field and the basis of a national advocacy campaign and federal legislation for better school-based civic education.
Earlier in her career, Gibson was a consultant on nonprofit and philanthropy strategic planning, research and communications for a variety of foundations and organizations, including Annie E. Casey Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Open Society Institute, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, National Institute of Health, and Citizens Committee for Children. Gibson also has served in senior staff positions at the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, the Ms. Foundation for Women in New York, and the Partnership for Democracy (formerly The Youth Project). As an associate at People for the American Way, Gibson produced several videos with television producer Norman Lear and created the nation's first videotape library on ultrafundamentalism.
In addition to speaking and publishing widely on nonprofit strategy, citizenship, education, philanthropy, and social policy, Gibson teaches at the New School University's Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy; is a senior fellow at Tufts University; and has served on numerous advisory committees, selection panels, and boards, including The Nonprofit Quarterly, Public Allies, and the Center for Voting and Democracy. In 2003, Gibson was selected by the NonProfit Times in its "Power and Influence Top 50 Leaders."
Gibson has a B.A. in psychology from Pennsylvania State University (Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude); an MSW from Catholic University of America; and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. The topic of her dissertation focused on nonprofit advocacy, membership, and representation ("In Whose Interest: Do National Nonprofit Advocacy Organizations Represent the Under-Represented?").
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Stephen D. Kahn
Stephen D. Kahn is a partner in the New York office of the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
Steve has practiced all areas of intellectual property law for more than 30 years, including litigating patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark disputes and extensive involvement in counseling and transactional matters.
Steve has litigated patent suits concerning electronic control systems, computer software, and manufacturing systems and has been involved in the application of patents to new areas such as the internet and financial services and products. In that connection he represented a party in Mopex v. Chicago Stock Exchange et al., a case involving a patent allegedly covering a financial instrument and a process for trading that instrument.
In addition to his patent experience, Steve has been extensively involved in the use of copyright and trade secret law to protect computer software and has litigated several cases in this area of law, including Computer Associates v. Altai.
On the counseling and transactional side, Steve has had significant involvement in intellectual property and related issues arising in the context of the internet, e-commerce, and electronic signatures. He has also negotiated and drafted many computer software development and licensing agreements and outsourcing agreements.
Steve taught a course entitled "Special Problems in Patent Law" as a Visiting Lecturer at the Yale Law School; he has lectured on computer software protection at Yale and at the Stanford Law School; and he recently completed a term as Chairman of the Committee on Information Technology Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is the author of several articles on the subjects of intellectual property protection of computer software, negotiating and drafting agreements involving computer software, and the internet and privileged communications.
Steve's academic background is as follows:
Yale University, B.E., Mechanical Engineering (summa cum laude) (1964).
Yale Law School, LL.B. (1968).
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Rusty Stahl
Rusty Morgen Stahl is founding executive director of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy. EPIP is a national network of young and new philanthropic professionals that seeks to strengthen the next generation of grantmakers, in order to advance effective social justice philanthropy. Rusty was part of a group of foundation professionals, trustees, and donors who started the group together in 2001 after meeting up at the Council on Foundations conference. Rusty took on the role of coordinating the group while working his foundation job. He is grateful to Urvashi Vaid, Christopher Harris, and Mike Edwards for enabling him to pursue this idea while working for them.
Before beginning work for EPIP in 2002, Mr. Stahl worked as a Program Associate at the Ford Foundation in the Governance and Civil Society Unit. At Ford, he was honored to support a team engaged in grantmaking that aims to expand social justice philanthropy, increase the impact of community organizing, and nurture the nonprofit sector.
Rusty holds a Masters of Arts in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University, the first such liberal arts-based degree program. Rusty arrived at the Center after having the great luck of being selected for the Jane Addams Fellowship, which is no longer in operation. During his graduate studies, Rusty volunteered in the Indianapolis community, and was one of the founders of the Central Indiana Jobs with Justice coalition. As an undergraduate at The George Washington University, he worked as an AmeriCorps member serving local senior citizens, and volunteered in a variety of political, social, and economic justice efforts.
Stahl serves as a board member of Changemakers, a national public foundation that supports innovative social change philanthropy. He sits on the board of Idealist.org, the global nonprofit web portal. He is a member of advisory committees for the Third Millennium Philanthropy and Leadership Initiative (a project at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy) and The Grantmaking School (a project housed at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University).
Mr. Stahl lives in New York City. He is originally from Philadelphia, PA.
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