Speakers.
Our members have had the honor of learning first-hand from local experts who are dedicated to the issues we have studied and supported over the last several years:
- At-Risk Seniors - Giving Cycle 2010-2011
Arlene Kershaw, Easter Seals/Seniors Count - Manchester
Kathleen Otte, Dept. Health and Human Services, Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services
Christine Eaton, Dept. Health and Human Services, Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services
- Women and Economic Security - Giving Cycle 2009-2010
Katie Merro, NHCF and former head of Women's Policy Institute
Stefany Shaheen, Chair of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women
Rachel Rouillard, Former Executive Director, Women's Policy Institute
Linda Douglas MS Ed., LADC, NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence - Children at Risk - Giving Cycle 2008-2009
Ellen Fineberg, The Children's Alliance of NH
Katie Branch, Department of Children Youth Families
Jackie Cowell, Early Learning NH
Kim Firth, Program Director, Endowment for Health
Keryn Kriegel, Families First Health and Support Center
- Affordable Housing and Homelessness - Giving Cycle 2007-2008
Chris Sterndale, Executive Director, Cross Roads House
Dick Ingram, Executive Director, The Housing Partnership
- Environment on the Seacoast - Giving Cycle 2006/2007
David Borden, Environmentalist & NH State Representative for Rye & New Castle
Roger Stephenson, Clean Air-Cool Planet
Brian Hart, Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire
Other speakers who have generously shared their time to educate us on philanthropy and Seacoast area needs include:
Anne B. Gass, ABG Consulting
Kim Firth, Endowment for Health
Dr Susan Lynch, First Lady of New Hampshire
Robin Albert, Director of the United Way of the Greater Seacoast's Volunteer Action Center
Maryellen Burke and Peter Lamb, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Amy Ellsworth, The Philanthropic Initiative
Jill Schiffman and Marianne Jones, The Women's Fund of New Hampshire
