Education: Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, with majors in both economics and marketing, as well as a juris doctor degree from the University of Toledo College of Law. Thirty years of experience in both for-profit and non-profit business development.
Enterprises:
Directs a freelance collective of artists, designers,
illustrators and writers who provided development, grant writing and research, management,
design and creative services to non-profits. Extensive
experience in grant research, development and procurement, media consulting,
branding and naming, corporate identity, design & promotions.
Social Enterprise
- President of the
Board of Directors of Florida
Impact, the state's senior legislative public policy advocacy
organization. Florida Impact, in partnership with Share Our Strength and
the
Food Resource and Action Center (FRAC), leads the Florida Partnership to
End Childhood Hunger, which serves as an anchor around which more than
50 organizations are committed to working collaboratively to make
Florida the first state in the nation to end childhood hunger by 2015.
- Founding director and President of End Childhood
Hunger, a South Florida non-profit consulting group that advocates for
childhood hunger and nutrition solutions, raises funds for micro-grants and
coordinates local volunteer services to benefit local emerging, niche and
start-up non-profits.
- Former Chairman of the National Advisory Board of Share
Our Strength, the nations leading anti-hunger, anti-poverty organization.
Cultural
- Served on the boards of
directors of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, the Hollywood Art &
Culture Center, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, the Demetrius
Klein Dance Company and ArtServe, the Broward County-funded Cultural Arts
Incubator, serving as Chairman for four of nine years on the board.
During that tenure at ArtServe, helped develop and direct the strategic growth
plan for the organization from a membership of approximately 35 organizations to
over 150 within four years.
- Founding Director and Vice-Chairman of MoNA, the Museum of New Arts, presently located in Denver, Colorado.
