Joshua Avedon
Co-founder & COO, Jumpstart Labs
- Joshua Avedon has a BA from UC Berkeley in Mass Communications and a nonprofit MBA American Jewish University. Joshua is a CLI-certified facilitator, a 21/64 certified philanthropic consultant, and a member of the Selah Leadership Network, and was recently named an American Jewish World Service Global Justice Fellow. He is a co-founder of IKAR.
Shawn Landres
Co-founder & CEO, Jumpstart Labs
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/shawnlandres
- Shawn helps community leaders expand what they know, adapt how they think, and redefine what is possible. A researcher, essayist, and network curator, and member of the Los Angeles County Quality & Productivity Commission, Shawn advises a number of socially minded startups, including Hub LA, InVenture, and The Mother Company.
About Jumpstart Labs:
- Jumpstart’s unique combination of research, convenings, and funding enables creative changemakers to realize their own visions and advance the common good. Leaders turn to Jumpstart for analysis and forecasting based on original research reports, including Connected to Give (2013). Jumpstart designs and facilitates collaborative summits that connect, inform, and empower leaders with the capacity to create meaningful change in their communities. Through fiscal sponsorship, Jumpstart delivers resources to new initiatives that are reshaping community life.
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/jmpstrt
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/jmpstrt
- Website: http://jumpstartlabs.org
Devorah Brous
Founding Executive Director, Netiya
- As a frontlines organizer in Israel/Palestine for 15 years, Devorah founded Bustan, a environmental justice NGO. Since moving to LA in 2008, she completed Master Gardener and Composter programs and became certified in Bio-intensive gardening and Permaculture design. Devorah and her husband raise two little people, and four happy hens.
About Netiya:
- Netiya is an interfaith network that advances urban agriculture in our faith-based institutions. Netiya cultivates gardens on unused institutional land to tithe nutritious food, and organizes community to seed a more just and resilient food system.
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/netiyaLA
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/netiyaLA
- Website: http://www.netiya.org
Marie Condron
General Manager, Hershey Cause Communications
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/mariecondron
- Marie Condron is General Manager of Hershey Cause Communications. Her 17 years of communications leadership includes creating Bank of America’s first blog, rebranding the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce, and launching the Cash for College project. Condron helped establish the Downtown L.A. Neighborhood Council and serves on the UNITE-LA board.
About Hershey Cause Communications:
- Hershey Cause Communications is a mission-driven strategic marketing and communications agency that creates positive social change on behalf of companies, foundations, nonprofits and the public sector. Based in Los Angeles, the agency also provides communication tools and training to over 20,000 nonprofit organizations in over 25 countries.
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/causecomm
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/CauseCommunications
- Website: http://www.hersheycause.com
Ron Galperin
Controller, City of Los Angeles
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/rongalperin
- Ron Galperin is the 20th Controller of the City of Los Angeles. He previously chaired the L.A. City Commission on Revenue Efficiency (CORE). The son of immigrants and the first Neighborhood Council member elected to citywide office, Ron has served his community as part of several non-profit boards and as a cantor.
About City of Los Angeles:
- The City Controller, an independently elected citywide official, is the taxpayers' watchdog and the City's chief auditor and accountant. The Controller's job is to investigate and publicly report problems with city departments, increase governmental efficiency and save taxpayer money by improving operations, conduct financial and performance audits of all city departments, offices and programs, monitor and report on all matters relating to the City's fiscal health, keep the City's official financial records, and supervise all expenditures of city.
- Website: http://controller.lacity.org/index.htm
Shane Goldsmith
President & CEO, Liberty Hill Foundation
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/shanegoldsmith
- Shane Murphy Goldsmith is the President and CEO of Liberty Hill Foundation. She served previously as Liberty Hill’s Vice President and Director of Programs. Before joining Liberty Hill, she was Executive Director of PATH Ventures; prior to that, she served as a senior advisor to then-City Council President Eric Garcetti.
About Liberty Hill Foundation:
- Liberty Hill's Motto is Change. Not Charity. Charity is important. But Liberty Hill creates lasting change by reforming policies, introducing new standards and safeguards and advancing equality and opportunity for every Angeleno. We invest in community organizing -- the process of bringing people together and helping them realize their power. Liberty Hill identifies leaders on the ground, strengthens their work through grant investments and intensive on-the-job training, and builds strategic alliances. See http://www.libertyhill.org/aboutus/approach
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/libertyhill
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/libertyhill
- Website: http://www.libertyhill.org
Nancy Harris
Executive Director, Holman Community Development Corp
- Nancy Harris has over 15 years experience in the faith based non-profit arena. She has served as a Board Director, Board Chair and currently serves as Executive Director of Holman Community Development Corp. She oversees fund development, program management and strategic direction for the organization.
About Holman Community Development Corp:
- Our mission is to provide resources for the development of human potential, spiritual, social and economic growth, there by expanding employment, housing and educational opportunities. We provide workforces development training and employment to inner city minority youth ages 14-18. We also provide education and volunteer opportunities to the faith based community around the issues of the reintegration of our female veterans. We serve minority populations in mid and south Los Angeles
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/holmancdc
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/holmancdc
- Website: http://www.holman-cdc.org
Hyepin Im
President & CEO, Korean Churches for Community Development
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/hyepin
- Hyepin Im is a Presidential Appointee on the CNCS Board and CEO of KCCD . She has been on CNN, LA Times, and Washington Post and spoken at numerous conferences including the White House. She was featured in LA Magazine and also invited by President Obama to discuss Immigration Reform.
About Korean Churches for Community Development:
- To advance the Asian-American community’s participation, contribution, and influence through faith-based and community partnerships. Key programs include advocacy, leadership & capacity building, homeownership, foreclosure prevention, financialy prevention, digital literacy, youth job training, disaster readiness, Affordable Care outreach. KCCD is a national nonprofit involved in empowering churches to leverage their resource by building capacity, leadership, and partnerships in economic development and serving as a bridge between the Korean/Asian American community and the greater community at large.
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/kccd3300
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KCCD3300
- Website: http://www.kccd.org
Allison Lee
Executive Director, American Jewish World Serice
- Allison Lee is the Executive Director of AJWS, Southern California. She started the Los Angeles office of AJWS in 2008, and has over twenty years of nonprofit organizational experience focused primarily on development and communication services for an array of nonprofit organizations.
About American Jewish World Serice:
- Inspired by the Jewish commitment to justice, American Jewish World Service is the leading Jewish human rights and development organization working to realize human rights and end poverty in the developing world. AJWS pursues lasting change by providing financial support to local grassroots human rights organizations working in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and by mobilizing American Jews in the U.S. to advocate for policies that will benefit people in the developing world.
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/ajws
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AJWSLosAngeles
- Website: http://www.ajws.org
Brie Loskota
Managing Director, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture
- Brie Loskota is interested in how religious groups change, and make change in the world. She researches the evolving landscape of different religious communities in the US, builds the capacity of faith communities for social change, and creates partnerships between government agencies and faith communities.
About USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture:
- The USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture is a research and training center focused on understanding the roles of religious groups in the public square, and equipping those groups with the resources to act for the common good. Since 1996, CRCC has overseen $30 million in funded research and programming in over 35 countries. CRCC's newest project, launching in January 2014, explores religious creativity and innovation in Los Angeles and Seoul, South Korea.
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/usccrcc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usccrcc
- Website: http://crcc.usc.edu
Tara Roth
President , Goldhirsh Foundation
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/taranellroth
- Prior to her role as president of the Goldhirsh Foundation, Tara bridged the worlds of media and philanthropy as founding COO of GOOD where she launched the Pepsi Refresh Project. Tara is a member of the LAnSync Bell Commission, and serves on the boards of 826LA, Imagination Foundation, and SCG.
Shauna Nep
Social Innovation Manager, Goldhirsh Foundation
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/shaunanep
- Shauna Nep has a background in program development, and in mobilizing online and offline engagement. She previously worked in programming at the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College and as program director of the Woolly School Garden Program. She has a master’s degree in bioethics from NYU.
About Goldhirsh Foundation & LA250
- The Goldhirsh Foundation connects the dots between the best emerging innovations and the financial, social, and human capital to make them thrive. We exist for social innovators and are run by social innovators. We find smart people doing creative things, and we give them the tools to do them better.
LA2050 is an initiative to create a shared vision for the future of Los Angeles, and to drive and track progress toward that vision. We achieve this through research and reporting, online and offline events, and capital development. Spearheaded by the Goldhirsh Foundation, LA2050 has looked at the health of the region along well-defined indicators, and made informed projections about where we’ll be in the year 2050 if we continue on this current path.
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/goldhirshfdn, http://twitter.com/LA2050
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/la2050
- Website: http://www.goldhirshfoundation.org, http://www.la2050.org
Nadia Roumani
Executive Director, the Muslim Giving Project
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/NadiaRoumani
- Nadia Roumani is a Lecturer and Fellow at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, where she is applying design thinking to philanthropy and launching the Muslim Giving Project – an online philanthropic platform for American Muslims. Nadia is also the director of USC's American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute.
About the Muslim Giving Project:
- The Muslim Giving Project (MGP) aims to support American Muslims’ charitable needs. MGP provides American Muslims with the tools and resources to identify projects that excite them, and a platform where they can make secure charitable donations. MGP is comprised of i. the Muslim Giving Project Fund, an online portal housed at a community foundation, that will curate monthly projects by or for Muslim communities, and ii. the Muslim Giving Project blog.
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/MuslimGivingPro
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Muslim-Giving-Project/668487743180334
- Website: http://themuslimgivingproject.org
Murtaza Sanwari
Board Chair, UMMA Community Clinic
- Murtaza Sanwari is an Assistant Administrator at Kaiser Permanente LA Medical Center. He has nearly 20 years experience in the healthcare industry, including strategic planning, market strategy and development, hospital acquisitions and partnerships, contracting, and medical group operations. He received his Masters in Public Health from San Diego State University.
About UMMA Community Clinic:
- UMMA Community Clinic exists to promote the well-being of the underserved by providing access to high-quality healthcare for all, regardless of ability to pay. UMMA envisions itself as part of a larger network of institutions addressing the health and well-being of the underserved and indigent, mindful of the cultural, spiritual, social and economic realities that impinge upon them and the traditional barriers to accessing care.
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/Ummaclinic
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/UMMA-Community-Clinic/155816815511?sk=info
- Website: http://www.ummaclinic.org
Varun Soni
Dean of Religious Life, Office of Religious Life, University of Southern California
- Varun Soni is the Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California (USC). He holds degrees in religion from Tufts University, Harvard Divinity School, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Cape Town, as well as a law degree from UCLA School of Law.
About Office of Religious Life, University of Southern California:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/uscreligiouslif
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/USCOfficeofReligiousLife
- Website: http://orl.usc.edu
Javier Stauring
Director, Office of Restorative Justice of the Archdiocese of LA
Director, Healing Justice Coalition
- Javier Stauring is Co–director of the Office of Restorative Justice of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Javier is also Co-founder and Director for Healing Justice Coalition, an interfaith coalition of faith based organizations in California who are involved in juvenile justice reform.
About Office of Restorative Justice of the Archdiocese of LA, and Healing Justice Coalition:
- Healing Justice Coalition is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, economically diverse coalition of faith based organizations that provide support for and advocate on behalf of children and families involved in Los Angeles County’s and California’s juvenile justice system. Our membership includes Protestants of several denominations, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists and Sikhs. Because we are faith communities, we believe in the strength of the human spirit, the possibility of repentance and redemption.
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/........
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HealingJusticeCoalition
- Website: http://www.healingjusticecoalition.org/
Paul Vandeventer
President & CEO, Community Partners
- Paul Vandeventer heads Community Partners, a nonprofit he co-founded in 1992 to help foster, launch and grow creative solutions to community challenges. Skilled at strategic thinking, he published "Networks that Work" to strengthen multi-organizational collaboratives. He writes and speaks extensively on civil society and striving to achieve strong, caring communities.
About Community Partners:
- Community Partners offers privileged civic insight, essential services, and a strong dose of intelligent passion to help foster, launch and grow creative solutions to community challenges. Over 21 years, hundreds of individuals, groups, foundations and other institutions have worked alongside Community Partners to shape new civic and social ventures, powerful coalitions, and major philanthropic initiatives benefiting Southern California. Today, Community Partners works with upwards of 150 projects and initiatives, managing $26 million in annual revenues.
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommunityPrtnrs
- Facebook:
- Website: http://www.CommunityPartners.org
Rev. Mark Whitlock
Executive Director, USC Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/IAmPastorMarkW
- Founder of the FAME Renaissance at First AME Church, Los Angeles. We created 4000 jobs, started 300 business, transformed the lives of three hundred gang members, built two commercial buildings, help four hundred people own a home, and raised $400 million dollars. Currently, teaching faith leaders community engagement.
About USC Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement:
- The Center draws on the social, spiritual, and leadership capital of churches and the broader faith community to promote economic development and civic engagement in low-income neighborhoods. The Center honors Rev. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray’s three-decade-long legacy of working for the betterment of Los Angeles. The Murray Center is currently training community leaders through the Faith Leaders Institute, a capacity building and leadership transformation program in Boyle Heights, Long Beach, Santa Ana, and South L.A..
- Website: http://crcc.usc.edu/initiatives/murraycenter/