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Certificate Program:Certificate Faculty
DirectorKathy Postel Kretman, Ph.D., is the Director at Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership. She is also a Research Professor for the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, where she teaches public leadership, and a Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service. Kretman serves on the Advisory Board of the Foundation Center of Washington, DC and the Steering Committee of the national Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition. Kretman previously served on the affiliate faculty of the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Leadership Institute, providing executive training to AmeriCorps and VISTA directors around the country. She has devoted much of her career to public service and the development of emerging leaders in the public and nonprofit sectors. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Public Administration from The George Washington University. Faculty Gary D. Bass, Ph.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of OMB Watch. He is well known for assisting nonprofit organizations in better understanding federal rules affecting their organizations and constituencies and was recently selected as one of the Nonprofit Times Power and Influence Top 50. Prior to founding OMB Watch, Bass was President of the Human Services Information Center, where he wrote two books and numerous articles on human services issues, and published the Human Services INSIDER, a bimonthly newsletter on the politics of federal human services program. He had also served as: Director of Liaison for the International Year of Disabled Persons; consultant on several projects in special education and the mental health of children, youth, most notably, the preparation of the first annual report to Congress on the implementation of the Education of All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142); Special Assistant to Wilbur Cohen, then chair of the Michigan Governor's Task Force on the Investigation and Prevention of Abuse in Residential Institutions; and in juvenile justice and community corrections. Bass received a combined doctorate in psychology and education from The University of Michigan, along with the University's highest award for graduate student teaching and several awards for academic excellence. Bea Boccalandro is President of VeraWorks, a national firm that helps corporate and nonprofit organizations design and evaluate efforts to solve community problems. Her clients include corporations, such as Honeywell and Aetna, and nonprofit and government organizations such as Save the Children, the Corporation for National Service, and the Points of Light Foundation. She authored The Quality Factors for Superior Employee Volunteer Programs and conducted research on Fortune 500 company employee volunteering. She has an M.A. degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a B.S. degree in applied economics from Cornell University. Paul H. Calabrese is a senior manager at Rubino & McGeehin, Chartered, and provides accounting and consulting services to nonprofit and government clients. His nonprofit consultancy focuses on federal grant support. He has assisted nonprofits develop indirect cost rates and improve their internal controls, policies and procedures with respect to their financial management and federal grant compliance. A. Michael Gellman, CPA of Rubino & McGeehin, Chartered has more than 25 years experience in nonprofit accounting working as a financial and management consultant where he focuses on specialized management and advisory services for trade and professional associations, public charities, private foundations, private schools, colleges and endowment based foundations. Gellman has been designing, installing, interpreting and teaching budget and projection based systems for over 20 years. He has conducted numerous seminars and has written articles on budgeting, reserve and investment policies, financial management for nonprofit organizations, fees for services, and board development. Gellman holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Maryland.
Erica Greeley is Deputy Director at the National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA), where she oversees day-to-day operations and manages special initiatives. NCNA is the network of state and regional nonprofit associations serving over 22,000 members in 45 states and the District of Columbia; this is the largest network in the United States providing technical assistance and management support to nonprofits. Prior to her role at Deputy Director, Erica served NCNA as the Director of Strategic Policy Planning. Greeley came to NCNA from The Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership at Georgetown University where she researched nonprofit leadership, collaborations, and advocacy. Her experience also includes serving on local grants committees, running after-school programs for at risk youth, and conducting field research in Africa and Asia. Greeley holds an MPP from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and a BA from Wesleyan University. She currently serves as an adjunct professor to Georgetown's Nonprofit Executive Certificate Program. Valeria Lassiter is principal of Lassiter & Associates. She has extensive experience in fundraising, program and board development, volunteer and event management for corporate, non-profit and faith-based organizations. Previously, she worked with the Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation, Marriott Foundation for People With Disabilities, Howard University, D.C. Baptist Convention, and Colgate Rochester Divinity School. A board member of the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts, she is a member of Leadership Montgomery (Class of 2001) in Montgomery County, Maryland. Lassiter received her B.A. in mass communications from East Carolina University and an M.A. in theology and ethics from Colgate Rochester Divinity School. Douglas M. McCabe, Ph.D., Professor of Management at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, is the author of more than 200 articles, monographs, papers, and presentations delivered at scholarly and professional meetings in the area of employee relations. He has appeared more than 125 times on international, national and local television, and radio programs as the major networks have sought his views on critical issues. His current research focuses on organizational due process, grievance procedures and systems, and ethical and international issues in employee rights. Recipient of The Joseph F. LeMoine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence, McCabe has a Ph.D. in human resource management from Cornell University. Stephen J.J. McGuire, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Management in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Los Angeles. McGuire has taught in the business schools at Georgetown University, The George Washington University (GWU), and the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon. At Georgetown, McGuire’s course was rated the “most useful” of all electives in the M.B.A. program. At GWU, McGuire was awarded the Bender Prize for Teaching Excellence. His research interests include organizational change, organizational entrepreneurship, retention of key contributors, organizational culture, and cross-cultural teams. He holds an M.B.A. from International School of Management in Barcelona and a Ph.D. from The George Washington University. Michela Perrone, Ph.D., is President of MMP Associates, a consulting firm established in 1993 to support the successful development and increased effectiveness of organizations, boards and CEOs in the United States and Europe. She is a Senior Associate for Board Source (formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards), a consultant and trainer for the Washington Council of Agencies, the Maryland Association of Nonprofits, and Innovation Network. Previously, Perrone was the President and CEO of the Joseph P. Kennedy Institute. She has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the U.S. and abroad in governance, board development, and strategic planning.
James Allen Smith, Ph.D., is the Waldemar A. Nielsen Chair in Philanthropy at Georgetown University and teaches in the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership. He is a historian and the author of three books and numerous articles on public policy, philanthropy, civil society, and American cultural policy. His first book, The Idea Brokers, won awards from the National Academy of Public Administration and the American Historical Association. From 2000 to 2005 he served as Senior Adviser to the President of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Prior to joining the Getty, he was the first Executive Director of The Howard Gilman Foundation, a post he held from 1991 to 1999, while working to shape its programs in the arts, environmental conservation, and medical research. In 1993 he helped establish the Center for Arts and Culture, a Washington-based cultural policy research center and served as President of the Center’s Board of Directors from 1993 to 2001. He began his foundation career as a program officer at the Twentieth Century Fund (now The Century Foundation) in 1979. Smith is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colgate University where he earned his A.B. magna cum laude. He received his A.M. and Ph.D. in medieval history from Brown University. David Williamson is Managing Director of in the consulting firm of Bernuth & Williamson, serving nonprofit clients in the areas of strategy, marketing, and communications. He previously served for 13 years in senior management positions at The Nature Conservancy, the nation’s 10th largest nonprofit, including six years as Director of Communications (1997-2002) and terms as Vice President for Marketing and Director of Conservation Marketing. He is an adjunct professor of business administration at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and has lectured on nonprofit management at Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, among others. Williamson, a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, serves in leadership positions on three nonprofit boards in addition to his work with clients. |
