Online Roundtable for Executive Directors: Leading a Nonprofit During Covid-19 - 07/15/2020 - C0405 

  

 

  

  

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Registration Fee: $10.00

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 Facilitator:

Susan W. Hayes:  

From 1996 to 2015 Susan Hayes served as president & CEO of ReSurge International (formerly Interplast, Inc.) where she ushered ReSurge through a strategic evolution from a direct service organization to one also educating overseas medical professionals and building permanent surgical capacity in developing countries.

Hayes came to ReSurge with 16 years of management, fundraising and media experience in public broadcasting and previously was a political science instructor at Syracuse University and the University of South Carolina and a policy analyst at think tank Syracuse Research Corporation. 

She has served on a number of nonprofit boards throughout her career and currently serves on the boards of the SPOON foundation, the National Captioning Institute, and Good Karma Bikes.  Her honors include a 1998 Outstanding Women of Silicon Valley award, a 2002 Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award, a 2012 Silicon Valley Business Journal Health Care Heroes Award; and the 2015 William C Lazier Leadership Award from ReSurge International.

Hayes holds BA and MA degrees from the University of South Carolina in government & international studies, an MA in political science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and completed PhD coursework in political science at the Maxwell School.  She is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School Business Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders.

Hayes was actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa from 1973 to 1990, and has pursued a lifelong commitment to eliminating racism and promoting women’s rights. In retirement she provides pro-bono counsel to a variety of domestic and international nonprofits 

CEOs leading the discussion:

Jim Santucci, Executive Director

Since 2013, Jim has served as the Executive Director of Kara, a grief support agency in Palo Alto, established in 1976.  As a past recipient of Kara's services, Jim has a passion for ensuring that those in the community navigating loss receive compassionate and caring support. In addition to his chief executive responsibilities, Jim is a group facilitator for parents who have suffered the loss of a young child and serves annually as a counselor at Camp Kara (a bereavement camp for children and teens). His non-profit service also includes time with Children's Health Council in Palo Alto and over 19 years of operations management for two faith-based organizations.  Jim also served in the US Army as an Infantry officer and is a Certified Public Accountant. 

Andrea K. Urton, Chief Executive Officer 

Andrea joined HomeFirst in March 2015 after serving as the agency's Interim CEO. She received her MS in Clinical Counseling Psychology from San Jose State University in 2001 and her license as a Marriage Family Therapist in 2005.  Andrea has spent her career striving to provide the highest quality, innovative and culturally competent services for youth and families in Santa Clara County's highest risk communities. She has a strong passion for diversity and inclusion and has brought this passion to the agencies she has supported. Andrea is keenly grounded in service to those persons experiencing homelessness or marginalized by lack of housing. Prior to HomeFirst, Andrea was the Program Coordinator for Gardner Family Care Corporation Prevention & Early Intervention Services, a Clinical Director for FamiliesFirst, the Chief Operating Officer for Alum Rock Counseling Center as well an Adjunct Lecturer for Santa Clara University, where she worked to increase awareness around issues of diversity and inclusion, organizational sustainability and implementation of industry best practices.  Her personal and professional goals are to ensure that everyone has the cultural and linguistically capable resources and supportive services that allow them to thrive.

Mishelle Rudzinski, Executive Director

Mishelle is co-founder and Executive Director of SPOON, an NGO empowering caregivers to nourish children highly vulnerable to malnutrition because of disability and lack of family care. Under Mishelle’s leadership, SPOON is leading sustainable change in feeding and nutrition policy and practice so these underserved communities are not left behind. With a background as a pediatric speech-language pathologist specializing in communication and feeding of children with severe disabilities, Mishelle has dedicated her career to ensuring that underserved children have access to best practice and cutting-edge solutions. From 1999-2009, she worked at Emanuel Children’s Hospital in Portland where she developed and ran a clinic that provided nonverbal children with communication technology. When she realized that critical tools were not available for these children, she developed an online solution, SwitchClimber.com. Similarly, at SPOON, Mishelle encourages her team to take risks so children often excluded from intervention benefit from best practice and innovation. Mishelle has two daughters and spends an inordinate amount of time at barns and ballet studios waiting for them.