Speakers For ECIVC 2010

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Keynote Speakers:

Connie Pirtle, Founder & Director of Strategic Nonprofit Resources

Connie Pirtle is the Founder and Director of Strategic Nonprofit Resources, a Washington, DC, area firm that serves nonprofit organizations in all areas related to volunteerism. She has 20 years of experience working with trustees, volunteers, volunteer program managers, executive directors, and senior staff members on effective community engagement.

Prior to forming her company in 1997, Connie was Vice President for Volunteerism at the American Symphony Orchestra League for 10 years, where she was responsible for programs and services for orchestra boards and volunteers. Her primary responsibilities included creating annual conference sessions, board development and volunteerism publications, conducting board self-assessment programs, a national newsletter, and regional seminars and workshops.

Connie’s current services include capacity building seminars and workshops, board development retreats and workshops, board self-assessments, volunteer program assessments, and facilitated planning events. Every service is customized to meet her client’s needs and expectations most effectively. Some of her current clients include The Supreme Court of the United States, The Newark (NJ) Museum, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and The Konzerthaus in Berlin, Germany. Connie lectures occasionally at the Georgetown University Center for Public & Nonprofit Leadership, and she is a faculty member for Washington State University’s Volunteer Management Certificate program. Connie also writes an online volunteer management advice column. “Ask Connie” appears monthly at www.VolunteerToday.com.

Connie is an active volunteer, serving as a board member of the American Association for Museum Volunteers, where she was Executive Editor for AAMV’s 2007 book, Transforming Museum Volunteering: A Practical Guide for Engaging 21st Century Volunteers. She also serves as an editorial reviewer for International Journal of Volunteer Administration; a member of the Stewardship Council for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy; Chairman of Managers of Volunteer Programs in the Arts; a nonprofit career counselor for The Women’s Center in Vienna, Virginia; and a survey volunteer for The National Zoo.

Tim Miles, Senior Partner with Wizard of Ads

Tim Miles helps small business owners do more with less. He advises and helps develop strategic marketing plans for clients from Hawaii to Maine in the states and from Calgary to Halifax a little farther north.

A senior partner with the strategic planning and message development firm, Wizard of Ads, Tim has created ads of all shapes, sizes, and colors. A world-class copywriter, his words have won customers in eight countries, and his thoughts have been published in Radio Ink, Radio And Production, and Direct Magazine, and he serves as a contributing editor for American Small Business.

In 2005, his son was diagnosed with autism and since then, Tim has learned to separate the truly important from the merely urgent. His paying clients help to subsidize Tim's volunteer and fundraising efforts with more than a dozen small not-for-profit organizations near his family's home in Columbia, Missouri. He loves to speak at conferences and to colleges and universities about what makes people do the things they do.

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Session Presenters:

Lois Barnhart, Serve Illinois
Kellie Anderson, Urbana Schools and Parkland College
Laura Huth, doGood Consulting
Sheri Seibold, University of Illinois Extension
Judy Taylor and Cathy Blunier, University of Illinois Extension
Megan Holland and Brian Barnes, Carle Hospital
Pete Moore, The Baby Fold
Shay Simmons, McLean County Health Department
Lauren Smith, Champaign Schools
Larry Wilson, University of Illinois Extension