Conference Information
2009 Nonprofit Human Resources Conference Keynote Speakers
Robin L. Robin
Director of Human Resources
Girls Incorporated
Presenting: Monday, October 5, 2009
8:00 am - 9:30 am
"HR's Response to the Nonprofit Economic Crisis"
Robin L. Robin is a 19-year veteran of Human Resources and Information Technology for nonprofit organizations. She is currently Director of Human Resources for Girls Inc, a research-based education program that challenges societal messages about girls' values and potential, and prepares them to lead successful, independent, and fulfilling lives. Before that, Robin was Director of Human Resources and Operations for Citizens Committee for New York City. Her expertise includes benefits and compensation management, compliance, unemployment, management training, personnel policies, employee relations and recruitment, database development and management and network administration.
Robin is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the Executive Committee for PANO, and the Diversity and Inclusion Council and HR Council for the National Assembly for Human Services.
Phyllis Segal
Vice President
Civic Ventures
Presenting: Monday, October 5, 2009
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
"Leveraging the Encore Talent Pool as an Asset for Nonprofits"
As vice president of Civic Ventures, Phyllis Segal leads initiatives to expand encore careers as a human talent source for meeting society’s most pressing needs. These initiatives include action-oriented research, such as the 2008 MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Encore Career Survey and Survey of Nonprofit Employers;developing new pathways, such as encore fellowships; and promoting the idea, through the Encore Opportunity Awards program and other activities.
She also serves as a Trustee of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, is co-founder of the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program at Brandeis University, and teaches on the Executive Education Faculty of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard and Sloane School at MIT. She recently served on President Obama’s Transition Team, and in her earlier career, was the founding Legal Director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Robert L.E. Egger
Founder and President of
DC Central Kitchen, Inc.
Presenting: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
8:00 am - 9:30 am
"Begging for Change: How HR Can Help Nonprofits Be Responsive, Efficient and Rewarding for All "
Robert Egger is the Founder and President of the DC Central Kitchen, where unemployed men and women learn marketable culinary skills while foods donated by restaurants, hotels and caterers are converted into balanced meals. Since opening in 1989, the Kitchen has distributed over 20 million meals and helped over 700 men and women gain full-time employment.
While Robert still maintains a day to day presence at the Kitchen, he devotes much of his time nationally, as the Director of the V3 Campaign (www.v3campaign.org), which is working to get the voice, value and votes of the nonprofit sector recognized in every election in America.
Robert’s book on the non-profit sector, Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient and Rewarding For All, which was released in 2004 by HarperCollins, received the 2005 McAdam Prize for “Best Nonprofit Management Book” by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.
Robert speaks throughout the country and internationally and writes blogs and editorials to share his ideas about the nonprofit sector and the future of America. To check out Robert’s most recent speaking schedule, blogs, and editorials, please visit www.robertegger.org.
Paul Schmitz
President & CEO
Public Allies
Presenting: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
"The Nonprofit Sector Workforce and the Obama Administration: Getting Our Voices Heard "
Paul Schmitz founded Public Allies Milwaukee in 1993, and has served as CEO of Public Allies since 2000. Paul
writes and speaks often ontopics of national service, civic engagement, community building, diversity, leadership, nonprofit workforce development, and social entrepreneurship.
Paul currentlyserves asChair of the Nonprofit Workforce Coalition, Co-chair of Voices for National Service, a faculty member of The Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University, and a board member of the UW-Milwaukee Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management. As a private volunteer, Paul co-chaired the Obama campaign’s civic engagement policy group and was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Team. Paul graduated phi beta kappa from UW-Milwaukee in 1994 with a degree in political science, and received their “Graduate of the Last Decade” alumni award. He was also a Next Generation Leadership Fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation. He lives with his three children Maxwell, Maya and Olivia, in Milwaukee.
