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Christine Arena is a corporate strategist and the award-winning author of Cause for Success and the new book, The High-Purpose Company. She is the former managing director of Polese Clancy, a former strategy director for Zentropy Partners, and the co-founder of several businesses. Ms. Arena currently heads an initiative that helps companies develop innovative and profitable corporate responsibility programs. She has over a decade of experience leading consumer research, trend forecasting, and marketing initiatives for a range of start-up and Fortune 1000 brands. Ms. Arena is a founding member of the Spirit in Business World Institute and an associate member of the Center for Business Ethics. Arena's work has appeared in BrandWeek, Adweek, and The New York Times. She holds a master's degree in cultural anthropology from NYU and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Phillip Clawson is the founder of Community Matters Group, a corporate social responsibility consulting firm that helps organizations ranging from top-tier media companies to leading national retailers to Fortune 500 energy companies develop strategic corporate social responsibility programs.

Prior to founding Community Matters Group in 2002, Mr. Clawson directed Andersen’s community involvement for the Northeast US where he was able to quadruple their philanthropy and increase local volunteer hours tenfold in two years. Prior to that, Mr. Clawson worked for John Hancock Signature Services, where he successfully made the business case for a policy granting paid time-off for volunteerism. Before crossing over to corporate America, Mr. Clawson had a rich history in the nonprofit sector, working for City Year and then the Points of Light Foundation as the Massachusetts YES Ambassador.

James D. Dawson is President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Boston Private Bank & Trust Company. Mr. Dawson joined the Bank in July, 1996. Prior to joining Boston Private Bank, Mr. Dawson was the Senior Lending Officer and a member of the Senior Management Committee of Andover Bank, a $1+ billion community bank. Earlier in his career, he spent 16 years with Shawmut Bank where he was a District Vice President. His responsibilities included managing a corporate lending group and supervising several branches in the same region.

Mr. Dawson is on the Board of Overseers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Board of Trustees at Endicott College. He is Chairman of the Commercial Credit Committee of Massachusetts Bankers Association and is a Board member of the Artery Business Committee. He is also Past President of the New England Chapter of the Risk Management Association (formerly Robert Morris Associates). Mr. Dawson received his undergraduate degree in mathematical economics from Brown University and his MBA from Boston University.

Carmen Fields has been a fixture in Boston’s journalism community for over 25 years. Her experience includes both print and broadcast journalism; journalism education and media relations. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, she earned a B.A. degree in journalism from Lincoln University (Missouri); a M.S. degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University. She was a part of the Boston Globe team that won Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Boston’s school desegregation. After work at the Boston Globe as a reporter, assistant city editor and later as a columnist, Fields served as reporter/anchor at Boston television channels 7, 4, and 2. She was also an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University. Ms. Fields is currently Director of Media Relations and Corporate Giving for KeySpan Energy New England. Among many awards and citations for professional and civic service, Fields was awarded an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Salem State College in 1992.

Bradley K. Googins, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and holds the position of Associate Professor of Organizational Studies, the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He sits on the review board of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship and is the author of several books and monographs. He serves on the boards of Corporate Voices and the Brazilian research and education center Uni-Ethos. Before joining The Center in 1997, Dr. Googins founded The Center for Work and Family at Boston University and was also a National Kellogg Fellow. Dr. Googins holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy from The Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University, a M.S.W. from Boston College, and a B.A. in philosophy and sociology from Boston College.

Linda Gornitsky, Ph.D. is president and founder of LBG Associates, a consulting firm which specializes in the development of strategic corporate citizenship and community relations programs, benchmarking, community attitude and evaluation studies, image-building/communications campaigns and efficient management practices. Clients include: Altria, Aliant Telecom, AMD, Aramark, BMW, FedEx, Citigroup, International Paper, Moody’s, Neutrogena, Nielsen Research Media, Pitney Bowes, RBC Financial Group and UST. Prior to establishing LBG Associates, Dr. Gornitsky directed a variety of corporate communications programs, developed strategic contributions programs, managed contributions, public issues and public affairs departments and identified new management directions. She developed and managed strategic contributions programs for Citibank and Pfizer.

Dr. Gornitsky is a faculty member at the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College where she designed and teaches courses on strategic contributions and developing signature programs, provides custom training and consults with companies on social investing. She is a member of the SmithOBrien management consulting firm and is on the Board of Advisors of AngelPoints, Inc.

Lisa Guyon has managed the Building Impact program since its inception in 2000, and helped to create Building Impact following 3 years as the Manager of Client Programs and Community Innovation at Paradigm Properties. As her role indicates, Ms. Guyon focuses her time and effort on directing the growth of Building Impact’s portfolio of buildings, organizational development and ensuring maximum community impact. She volunteers as a board member and advisor with a number of local community organizations, and recently served as a Fellow for Social Venture Partners Boston. Ms. Guyon is a lifelong Boston sports fan (read: resilient), lives on beautiful Cape Cod and holds a B.S. in sociology from Wheaton College in Norton, MA.

Karen Holmes Ward is the Director of Public Affairs and Community Services as well as host and executive producer of CityLine, WCVB-TV’s weekly magazine program which addresses the problems, concerns, and accomplishments of people of color living in Boston and its suburbs. Many notables including Minister Louis Farrakhan, Attorney Lani Guinier, Oprah Winfrey and Denzel Washington have been interviewed by Holmes Ward for CityLine.

Ms. Ward also oversees WCVB’s public service and community outreach efforts including the station’s work with Habitat for Humanity and Extreme Makeover: My Hometown, both raising awareness about the need for affordable housing in the Greater Boston area, and WCVB’s first-of-its-kind web-based initiative, Commonwealth 5. This on-line project promotes philanthropy by matching viewer-donors with non-profits via the Internet and has become a national model for other Hearst-Argyle Television stations. CommonWealth 5 was nominated for a National Emmy Award for the 2004/2005.

Lynne Holton Papetti is the Charitable Giving Manager for KeySpan.  Prior to her charitable giving role, Ms. Papetti managed the Company’s community relations activities for a significant part of KeySpan’s service territory.  Her community relations background has been an invaluable resource in Ms. Papetti’s strategic approach to managing the company’s charitable giving program.  Ms. Papetti is responsible for cultivating opportunities that position KeySpan as a responsible corporate citizen. 

Ms. Papetti has been recognized by numerous organizations for her commitment to community service.  Most notably, she is a past recipient of the North of Boston Business and Professional Woman of the Year.  She is a past nominee (twice) of the Lydia Pinkham Award.  This award is given annually to a woman who is recognized for her outstanding business achievements and commitment to community service. Ms. Papetti graduated from Stonehill College with a degree in Communication and studied in London. 

Miriam Katz serves as the manager of State Street Corporation's employee volunteer program in its Massachusetts headquarters, where she has been employed since 2002. In 2002, Ms. Katz founded the Corporate Volunteer Network (CVN) to connect skilled volunteer consultants to the nonprofit community. In 2006, CVN merged with Harbinger Partners to form Common Impact. Through these programs, volunteers use their time, skills and expertise to improve the quality of life in the communities where they work and live.

Additionally, Ms. Katz served as co-president of the Corporate Volunteer Council (CVC) of Greater Boston from 2004 - 2006. She now serves on the National CVC Advisory Council. She received her BA in Psychology from Clark University, and her MBA with a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Boston University. She is an alumna of the Emerging Leaders Program at the University of Massachusetts – Boston.

Thomas Knowlton is Vice President and Head of the Corporate Practice at TCC Group. Mr. Knowlton has worked in the field of Corporate Citizenship since 1995, and has over twenty-five years of experience in management and strategic planning (for-profit and non-profit), program development, and marketing and constituent communications. He has worked with a number of corporate clients, including Pfizer, Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Coca-Cola, Wachovia, Prudential, Altria, Kraft, Marsh & McLennan, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Microsoft, JM Family Enterprises, NewAlliance Bank and Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Knowlton has co-authored TCC Group papers and given presentations on trends and critical issues in community involvement, including employee involvement (“Rediscovering a Strategic Resource: Your Employees”), evaluation (“How Corporate Community Involvement Programs can use Evaluation as a Tool to Maximize Business and Social Impact”), Corporate Community Partnerships and the rating systems for corporate citizenship.

Naomi Kooker is a staff reporter for the Boston Business Journal, a weekly print and online publication that covers Boston's economy. Her beats include corporate philanthropy, nonprofits, hospitality, travel and tourism, and retail. She has written extensively about how Boston area nonprofits are more now than ever applying for-profit business skills and metrics to compete for donor dollars. Ms. Kooker has been a journalist for more than 15 years, writing features and news stories for local and national publication. Her work has appeared in Boston Magazine, The Boston Globe, Saveur, Bon Appetit, The Wine Spectator, Yankee Magazine, Sky Magazine and The Guitar Magazine, London. She earned a B.A., in English Literature from Drew University. Ms. Kooker worked in public relations prior to her editorial career so she has a unique perspective on the story pitch and process.

Elad Levinson, LCSW, is Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Consulting and Services for Interaction Associates. Mr. Levinson's expertise is in the fields of organizational development, learning and development, and human resources. For most of his career, Mr. Levinson served his clients as an independent consultant. Prior to joining Interaction Associates, he held the role of Director of Learning and Development for Management and Employees at Agilent Technologies.

Mr. Levinson is the author of Managing Stress to Increase Productivity, a multimedia program, and has delivered over 10,000 hours of coaching, consulting and training on varied subjects pertaining to change. His special passion is applying the tools and skills of Emotional Intelligence to leadership and human resource development.

Melinda G. Marble is the Executive Director of The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts.  For this private family foundation, she developed One Family Inc., with the goal of ending family homelessness through partnerships and higher education.  Ms. Marble is currently Acting Executive Director of that organization.  She also administers a grant program that funds a wide range of issues affecting families in the Greater Boston area.  She has more than 30 years experience in the nonprofit sector.  Ms. Marble is married to Jay Cantor, a novelist and English Professor at Tufts University, and they have a daughter, Grace.  They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kevin McCall is the President & CEO of Paradigm Properties, a full-service commercial real estate firm, and Paradigm Capital Advisors, a real estate investment management firm. Prior to forming Paradigm in 1997, Mr. McCall was a principal of Aldrich, Eastman & Watch, L.P. where he directed the real estate investment and management for institutional clients and, during the 1980's, was a Partner and Senior Vice President of Spaulding & Slye, a multi-region development company.

Mr. McCall is Founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of Building Impact, Inc., a Boston-based non-profit organization that engages tenants of office buildings and residential apartment communities to be more involved in their communities. In addition to Building Impact, Kevin also serves on the governing boards of The Boston Center for Community and Justice, MetroLacrosse, Hearth, and The Boston Museum Project and the advisory boards of The Irish Immigration Center and Citizen Schools - Boston. Kevin is an active member of the Urban Land Institute and a Board Member of the National Association of Office and Industrial Properties – Massachusetts Chapter. Mr. McCall has an A.B. from Harvard College, an MBA from Harvard University School of Business Administration and is a LeadBoston Fellow.

Guy Morgan is a Research Associate at The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, who conducts in-depth research with corporate professionals to provide analysis and tools for The Center’s 350 Fortune 1000 membership.

Mr. Morgan’s primary focus since joining the Center in March 2004 has been his work with the Global Leadership Network, an initiative helping companies align corporate citizenship with business strategy. Through the course of this work He has managed the translation of a management framework into an online platform to help corporate members better situate their corporate citizenship efforts within their companies’ broader business strategy. Other research includes publications on pertinent topics in corporate citizenship, consultative projects for individual members with respect to corporate citizenship strategy, and work on measurement of corporate citizenship impact.

Kwang Ryu is a Research Associate at The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and a Research Fellow at The Center for Business Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Ms. Ryu’s primary focus since joining the Center has been his work within a Strategic Benchmarking Initiative, an initiative helping privately held companies to better understand social issues and risks from a business perspective, and the Global Leadership Network, an initiative helping companies align corporate citizenship with business strategy. Other research areas include the State of Corporate Citizenship Study and the Center’s Assessment tool on measuring corporate citizenship performance. Prior to joining The Center Ms. Ryu was a researcher at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Martin Schneiderman is founder and President of Information Age Associates, Inc., a Princeton, New Jersey management consulting firm. The company specializes in providing strategic planning, project management and technical consulting services to corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations to enable the implementation and effective use of computer information and communications systems.

Mr. Schneiderman has assisted grantmakers worldwide to streamline their operations and to design, evaluate and strengthen their philanthropic programs. A major focus of his recent work has been the use of the Internet and integrated Web-based technologies. Some of his professional background and experience highlights include serving as the Chief Information Officer for the Rockefeller Family Office. Responsible for all systems supporting estate planning, investment management, global securities trading, venture investments, trust management, legal services, insurance, and family philanthropic programs; assisting 100+ foundations and corporate giving programs to improve and evaluate their programs and global operations by selecting, upgrading and implementing integrated information systems; designed and implemented the award winning MarcoPolo Education Foundation’s search engine - the most accessed Web site worldwide that provides vetted curriculum and materials for educators; and serving as Technology Editor and regular contributing writer for the Council on Foundations publication FOUNDATION NEWS & COMMENTARY with a readership of over 25,000.

Caleb Solomon became an assistant managing editor of The Boston Globe in February 2003.  He is responsible for the paper’s business and economics coverage, including the daily Business section. He also oversees the Globe’s Real Estate, Autos, and BostonWorks sections. Mr. Solomon was also selected as a fellow in the first year of the Sulzberger Leadership Program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, a program to train leaders in the news business as they tackle their companies’ most critical business challenges.

Mr. Solomon spent nearly two years in Brussels for The Wall Street Journal Europe, first as the Networking editor overseeing a section devoted to technology, media, marketing and management. He was named page one editor and assistant managing editor of the Journal Europe in November 2001.  Prior to that, he spent almost four years as editor of The Wall Street Journal/New England, a weekly section he launched devoted to breaking regional news.  Caleb previously had headed Texas Journal, the regional section in Texas for The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Solomon graduated from Columbia College in 1980 with a B.A. in English, and he received a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Kerry H. Sullivan is a Senior Vice President for Bank of America’s Philanthropic Management grantmaking solutions team which is responsible for national grantmaking. Ms. Sullivan has over 18 years of experience in endowment management, charitable trust administration, and private foundation grantmaking. She began her career at Bank of New England as Manager of the Endowment and Foundation Group and subsequently managed the Massachusetts Foundation and Endowment Department for Fleet Bank. Currently, Ms. Sullivan leads a team that is focused on meeting the grantmaking and fiduciary needs of private foundations, as well as developing and implementing national best practice approaches.

Ms. Sullivan is recognized as an expert in the field of charitable giving to institutions supporting secondary and higher education. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for Associated Grant Makers. In addition, she serves as Chair of the Associated Grant Makers Summer Fund – a donor collaborative that raises over $1 million annually to support summer programs that benefit Boston’s inner city youth. Ms. Sullivan is also an active participant in Boston Beyond and the Extended Day advisory committee of Massachusetts 2020. Other Board appointments have included Boston Partners in Education, the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, and The Clipper Ship Foundation.

Ms. Sullivan has a BA in English from the College of the Holy Cross-Worcester, Massachusetts, and earned her MBA from Boston College, Carroll School of Management.

Peter York is Vice President and Director of Evaluation at TCC Group. Mr. York specializes in: designing and implementing evaluations of multi-site initiatives, community building initiatives and social programs; conducting strategic reviews of best practices to inform the development and implementation of grantmaking strategies; and providing technical assistance to grantees around evaluation, program design and strategic planning. At the firm, Mr. York leads the firm’s evaluation work with private and corporate philanthropies, and nonprofit organizations. Recent corporate work includes leading the evaluation of signature programs for corporations like Wachovia, Pfizer and Gap, as well as leading processes to develop evaluation systems for corporations like Prudential. Mr. York has conducted presentations and workshops throughout the country to funders and nonprofit leaders on the topic of evaluation, and written reports and articles about evaluation approaches and substantive lessons learned (e.g., "Implementing a Theories of Change Evaluation in the Cleveland Community-Building Initiative" (Coulton, Milligan, York and Register. 1998); in, New Approaches to Evaluating Community Initiatives, Vol. 2: Theory, Measurement and Analysis. Aspen Institute (New York); "Evaluating Capacity-building Efforts for Nonprofit Organizations." (Connolly and York, 2002). OD Practitioner, Vol. 34 (4)). In the Summer of 2005, Fieldstone Alliance published his book A Funder’s Guide to Evaluation: Leveraging Evaluation to Improve Nonprofit Effectiveness.

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