Bernard Ross
The Management Centre
London, UK
Bernard Ross is Director of the Management Centre (=mc), a leading consultancy and training organization working solely for value-driven organizations worldwide.
His areas of expertise are strategic thinking, change leadership, innovation and organizational transformation. He works with senior teams and boards developing strategic capacity. He also acts as a personal coach to a number of CEOs of large NGOs and INGOs.
He has worked for over 20 years with non-profit organizations helping them transform their performance. His customers include most of the major UK charities and many leading INGOs - ranging from Oxfam to UNICEF and from WHO to Amnesty International.
His work has taken him to almost 40 countries. Among his recent projects are:
- guiding the planning, governance and change processes for Amnesty International's worldwide strategy
- facilitating a major review of the US Public Broadcasting Service to develop new business models to reflect changing demographics.
- developing strategic planning materials and private sector income strategies for UNAIDS in Africa and South America
- working with UNICEF International and Greenpeace on their global innovation strategies
- helping Sightsavers International develop a global strategy using the balanced scorecard methodology
Bernard co-authored Breakthrough Thinking for Non-Profit Organizations with Clare Segal. This book was voted Best Non Profit Book in the USA 2004- the first time Europeans have won this award. His new book The Influential Fundraiser was published by Wiley in December 2008.
He has most recently co-authored The Influential Fundraiser with Clare Segal. Following its launch in the US, the book has been selected as one of the top five nonprofit books for 2009 by the New York Times online resource, About.com.
He has also co-authored the largest study to date of INGO governance in 2008- Re-Imagining INGOs published by =mc and sponsored by WaterAid and Sightsavers.
He is a regular keynote speaker on international platforms such as the Association of Fundraising Professionals (USA), the Institute of Fundraising (UK) and Resource Alliance.
You can contact him at b.ross@managementcentre.co.uk. Or visit the =mc website at www.managementcentre.co.uk.
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Ken Hackett
President
Catholic Relief Services
2009 NCDC Good Samaritan Award Recipient
Ken Hackett is president of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), one of the world's most effective and efficient relief and development agencies. He oversees operations in more than 100 countries, with a global staff of nearly 5,000.
A native of West Roxbury, Mass., Mr. Hackett graduated from Boston College in 1968. Upon graduation, he joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to serve in Ghana.
Mr. Hackett joined CRS in 1972, starting his career in Sierra Leone. He has served CRS in posts throughout Africa and Asia, as well as in a variety of positions at CRS headquarters. He was the Regional Director for Africa, guiding CRS' response to the Ethiopian famine of 1984-1985. He supervised operations in East Africa during the crisis in Somalia in the early 1990s. Mr. Hackett has led CRS since 1993.
Under Mr. Hackett's leadership, CRS went through a significant institutional transformation. In 1993, he launched a strategic planning exercise to help clarify the mission and identity of CRS. Shortly thereafter came the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The killing of more than 800,000 people over a three-month span led CRS officials to reevaluate how they implemented their relief and development programs, particularly in places with heightened ethnic conflict and socioeconomic inequities that often lead to violence. After an extended period of institutional reflection and prayer, CRS incorporated a justice-centered focus in all its programming, using Catholic social teaching as a guide.
During Mr. Hackett's tenure, CRS has embarked on a concerted effort to engage the U.S. Catholic community in its work around the world. As part of this strategy, CRS established the U.S. Operations division in 2002 with a mission to foster global solidarity among U.S. Catholics. In addition, lay people were appointed for the first time to the CRS Board of Directors.
Mr. Hackett has received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Boston College, Villanova University, Siena College, the University of San Diego and New York Medical College. In 2004, Mr. Hackett was named a Knight Commander of the Papal Order of Saint Gregory the Great, one of the highest Papal honors.
He has served as North America President of Caritas Internationalis, the confederation of humanitarian agencies of the global Catholic Church. He is currently a member of the boards of the Pontifical Commission Cor Unum, the Vatican body that coordinates the Church's charitable work; Migration & Refugee Services - U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; International Policy Committee - U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; and the Africa Society. He has served on the advisory committees of the Time Global Health Summit; Woodrow Wilson Institute, Committee on Failed States; Changing the Present; a non-profit corporation operated by Important Gifts, Inc.; and the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, and was recently named to Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's International Advisory Council.
Since 2004, Mr. Hackett has served on the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a federal effort to increase aid to countries that demonstrate a commitment to ruling justly, investing in people and encouraging economic freedom.
Mr. Hackett lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children.
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Jerold Panas
Jerold Panas, Linzy and Partners
Chicago, IL
Jerold Panas is Executive Partner of Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners-one of the nation's most highly regarded firms in the field of campaign services and financial resource development. A major force in the industry, the firm has served over 1900 client-institutions since its founding in 1968. Dr. Panas was Senior Vice President of Westminster College in Princeton, New Jersey. Before that, he was Executive for Administration and Finances for the National Council of YMCAs, responsible for the work and development of 400 Associations on the East Coast. He has served as a member of the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Consultants, the Association of Management Consultants, and chairman of the board of directors of the National Health Care Board. He is a member of the board of the Council of Independent Colleges.
A frequent platform speaker, Dr. Panas is also a regular contributor to professional journals. His books are considered the most significant in the field. One is an all-time best seller (eleventh printing) and three are considered classics. Because of the prominence of the firm and the impact of his writing, there are few who have had a greater influence in the history of the profession. Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners serves a wide variety of clients in the arts and cultural field, educational institutions, hospitals and medical centers, community, and social service organizations.
In addition to its national recognition, the firm has provided campaign services for the University of Oxford (UK), Forman Christian College (Pakistan), the American Hospital in Paris, France; the American College of Greece in Athens; Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos in Cuernavaca, Mexico-the largest orphanage in the world; the American British Hospital in Mexico City; and over a hundred organizations in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Dr. Panas is founder of Decision Research Institute, one of the nation's largest firms in market research, needs assessment, attitude surveys, and marketing strategy for nonprofit institutions. He is also founder and chairman of the board of the Institute for Charitable Giving, one of the most significant providers of training in philanthropy. He is a Life Trustee of the American College of Greece.
Jerold Panas has been professionally involved in fundraising and financial resource development for over forty years. He combines this understanding and experience in the field with a special talent for strategic planning and volunteer development. He has been related directly, in a planning or supervisory capacity, to most of the major programs of the firm.
Sr. Georgette served as a member of the Independent Sector's Public Policy Committee and represented NCDC on the Noncash Coalition. She also remains actively involved in postal reform issues and recently testified before the Postal Regulatory Commission on behalf of the charitable sector. Sister also collaborates with other leadership groups within the Catholic community and has spoken at the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM), the National Association for Treasurers of Religious Institutes (NATRI), and the Catholic Charities USA Ministry Conference. She will be speaking at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in 2008. She has also spoken at the Association for Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and at the Independent Sector conference.
