STEVEN A. MINTER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT, THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION, CO-CHAIR, 2002 IS ANNUAL CONFERENCE HOST COMMITTEE:
The foundation
that I’m proud to represent in this community has been a longtime
supporter and member of INDEPENDENT SECTOR. In
point of fact, my predecessor, Homer Wadsworth, was one of
the, I guess you’d say, co-founders of INDEPENDENT SECTOR,
as was Jim Lipscomb, David Bergholz’s predecessor at The
George Gund Foundation.
INDEPENDENT SECTOR has played a very significant role
influencing events that have happened in the nonprofit sector
in this community, including the establishment of the Mandel
Center for Nonprofit Organizations. There are a number
of us in this room who had the opportunity to work with Brian
O’Connell, the founding executive director of INDEPENDENT SECTOR
with a group that was convened by Morton Mandel that
included The Gund Foundation, Cleveland Foundation, BP, and
others. And we’re very, very proud of what we have here in
Cleveland today.
And we feel privileged that on October 27th-29th, we will be
hosts of the IS Annual Conference. I urge you to put it on your
calendars. I had the opportunity this morning to sit in on the
program committee meeting. We not only want to show off
Cleveland and all that we have to offer, including some very smart
and talented people, but maybe more importantly, I can tell
you, from the planning that is now underway, there’s a lot
we can learn. So I would urge you, my colleagues, to put it on
your calendar.
RICHARD MOYERS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OHIO ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
(OANO); MEMBER,
2002 IS ANNUAL CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE: I do want to thank my colleagues at INDEPENDENT
SECTOR for inviting OANO to be a part of this program. I appreciate it. And I want to welcome you to what I think is going to be an important discussion about something that has broad implications for Ohio’s nonprofit sector.
I also want to remind you about the INDEPENDENT
SECTOR conference, and those of you who are OANO members, I would urge you to attend. I think this is a relatively rare opportunity for many of you who work in local organizations to participate in an important national meeting.
One of the things that I like about working in Ohio, and one of the things that I talk to other people about, is the extraordinary set of partnerships that
OANO, as a state association, has with organizations all over the state.
DAVID BERGHOLZ, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION; CO-CHAIR, 2002
IS ANNUAL CONFERENCE HOST COMMITTEE; IS BOARD MEMBER: This is going to be a wonderful conference. I attended some of the planning meeting this morning, and it’s a very meaty set of subjects that are going to be addressed. It’s a difficult time we’re all facing in this world and in the world at large on a number of fronts, many of which have profound impacts on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. So we’ve got a lot to talk about and a lot to worry about and a lot to think about, and I think we need each other’s comfort and advice and counsel more than ever.
I’ve been attending INDEPENDENT
SECTOR meetings long before I became a board member and was honored to do that a number of years ago, because I always felt that the gap between the applicants and the grantors was always a profound and difficult one and that this was the one place on the national front that we could come together and have at each other in, hopefully, productive ways.
So I think having this event in Cleveland in October is of great significance to me, both as a board member and somebody who’s attended meetings often of INDEPENDENT
SECTOR and who’s deeply concerned about the relationship between philanthropy and the nonprofit world.
PETER B. GOLDBERG, PRESIDENT AND CEO, ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND
FAMILIES; CHAIR, 2002 IS ANNUAL CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE; IS
BOARD MEMBER: The theme for the annual meeting this year is “United We Build,” and it’s a theme that we think
covers many of the issues that we would like to see addressed. It addresses relationships between grantmakers and grantseekers. It addresses issues pertaining to diversity. It addresses the umbrella of key issues pertaining to globalization and international issues.
It enables us to address the relationship between the profit family in the community and the nonprofits. It enables
us to address issues within the community and between our communities, so that a number of very energizing and important discussions are going to take place at this
meeting.
The Cleveland Regional Event took place at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel Tower and City Center, and will be the site of
the 2002 INDEPENDENT SECTOR Annual Conference, October 27-29.
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Steven A. Minter (center), president and executive director, The Cleveland
Foundation, and co-chair, 2002 IS Annual Conference Host
Committee, with colleagues at the event.
Rick Moyers, executive director, Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations, welcomes attendees to the regional event.
David Bergholz, executive director, The George Gund Foundation, and co-chair, 2002 IS Annual Conference Host Committee
From left: Patricia Read, vice president, public affairs, INDEPENDENT SECTOR; Peter B. Goldberg, president and CEO, Alliance for Children and Families, moderator; and Sara E. Meléndez, president and CEO, INDEPENDENT SECTOR, at the Cleveland Regional Event.
From left: Patricia Read, vice president, public affairs, INDEPENDENT SECTOR; and Alice Korngold, president and CEO, Business Volunteers Unlimited.
Goldie K. Alvis, senior program officer, The Cleveland Foundation,
chats with a colleague at the event.
Nicole E. Howell, founder, Broken Connections Inc., directs a question to the panel during the discussion program.
Sara E. Meléndez and David Bergholz greet attendees at the
Cleveland event.
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