(SAN FRANCISCO, November 12, 2012) — Independent Sector members elected two new board members and re-elected four directors to the IS Board. The elections were part of the Annual Business Meeting held in conjunction with the 2012 Annual Conference in San Francisco, Calif. 

The new directors are Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez, president and CEO of Goodwill of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin County and Julie Floch, partner of EisnerAmper, LLP.

“It is an honor to welcome these two new members to the IS Board of Directors,” said Kelvin Taketa, president and CEO of Hawai’i Community Foundation and chair of the IS Board. “These impressive leaders will contribute to important conversations and decisions about issues facing the entire nonprofit and philanthropic sector. I’m looking forward to an outstanding year of service with these accomplished professionals.”

“I am excited to work with such a remarkable group of leaders from the charitable sector,” said Diana Aviv, president and CEO of Independent Sector. “This group’s commitment, vision, and expertise will help lead Independent Sector through another year in which we tackle some of the sector’s most pressing issues. I would also like to express our gratitude to those directors who are concluding their terms of service.”

Four board members have also been re-elected:

• Irene Hirano Inouye, President and CEO of The U.S.-Japan Council
• Lorie Slutsky, President of The New York Community Trust
• Kelvin Taketa, President and CEO of Hawai’i Community Foundation
• Michael Piraino, CEO of National CASA Association

The board also acknowledged the service of its retiring members, Brian Gallagher, president and CEO of United Way Worldwide, and Rey Ramsey, president and CEO of TechNet.

Biographies of new members are as follows:

Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez joined Goodwill Industries as president and CEO in March 2004. Known for her dynamic leadership style, and with over 15 years of executive management experience spanning the non-profit, philanthropic, public and private sectors, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez has a track record of catalyzing change within organizations and leading them toward greater innovation, accountability and responsiveness. Prior to joining Goodwill, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez was Vice President of Silicon Valley’s Omidyar Foundation, the Director of San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF), the Founder and CEO of San Francisco’s Every Child Can Learn Foundation, Executive Director of Intergovernmental and School-linked Services at the San Francisco Unified School District, and Assistant Director for Budget and Planning for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College. Deborah serves as Chair of the East Bay Community Foundation. She also serves on the Advisory Board for the John Gardner Center at Stanford University and on the Steering Committee for the Noe Valley Ministry Center for Community in San Francisco.

Julie Floch is a partner in the Not-For-Profit Services Group at Eisner, LLP and is responsible for coordinating the planning and administration of engagements in the firm’s not-for-profit practice. She is experienced with the application of federal and state tax laws, as they relate to not-for-profit entities, as well as with the requirements of federal regulations relating to clients who receive government funding. Julie is an advisor to the Frances L. & Edwin L. Cummings Memorial Fund and serves on the Audit Committee of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law (Shriver Center). In addition, she is a founding member of the Alliance for Nonprofit Governance and served on the Internal Revenue Service’s Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities, a role which included providing input for the “redesigned” federal Form 990. She has a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton, with graduate studies at Baruch College/CUNY.

To read the biographies of our current board members, visit IndependentSector.org/board_bios

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Independent Sector is a nonprofit, nonpartisan network of approximately 600 charities, foundations, and corporate philanthropy programs, collectively representing tens of thousands of charitable groups in every state across the nation. Its mission is to advance the common good by leading, strengthening, and mobilizing the nonprofit and philanthropic community. To learn more about Independent Sector, please visit: IndependentSector.org