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Alison Goldberg, Karen Pittelman & Resource Generation Alison Goldberg has worked for a number of nonprofits and within her own family foundation to promote social and economic justice. She joined Resource Generation’s (RG) staff after the organization she created and directed, Foundations for Change, merged with RG. Her previous publications include “Opportunity of a Lifetime: Young Adults in Family Philanthropy” for the National Center for Family Philanthropy’s Passages Series and “Social Change Philanthropy and How It’s Done” for Foundation News & Commentary. Contact her at
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Allison Fine Allison H. Fine is a social entrepreneur and writer dedicated to helping grassroots organizations and activists implement and sustain social change efforts. She is the founder and past executive director and president of Innovation Network, Inc. (InnoNet), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping nonprofits better plan and evaluate their services and programs. She can be reached at afine@afine.us or www.afine.us.
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Chip Heath & Dan Heath Chip Heath is a professor of organizational behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He can be reached at chip.heath@stanford.edu. Dan Heath is a consultant at Duke Corporate Education and a former researcher at Harvard Business School. He is co-founder of Thinkwell, a new-media textbook company. Contact him at dan.heath@dukece.com. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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Gow Pettey, CFRE, MNM, is principal of J.G. Pettey & Associates (www.jpgconsulting.com), a consulting
firm serving foundations and nonprofits. She is an adjunct professor at the
University of San Francisco, where she has taught courses in fundraising and
strategic planning for many years. She is also the current chair of the
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Susan U. Raymond, Ph.D. and Mary Beth Martin, Esq. Susan U. Raymond, Ph.D., is senior managing director of Research, Evaluation and Strategic Planning for Changing Our World, Inc. and its philanthropy division, Archimede Philanthropy Partners. She has extensive experience in research, analysis and planning, most recently with the New York Academy of Sciences. Prior to this, Raymond was a project officer at the World Bank and a senior consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development and to various private organizations, including the Carnegie Corporation, specializing in healthcare and international economic research.
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Thomas A. McLaughlin Thomas A. McLaughlin has more than 30 years of experience as a nonprofit professional, trade association executive and management consultant. He is a nationally recognized expert in nonprofit mergers and alliances, financial management and strategic positioning, as well as a nonprofit consultant with Grant Thornton, LLP in Boston. He can be reached at thomas.mclaughlin@gt.com. Nonprofit Strategic Positioning: Decide Where to Be, Plan What to Do
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