The Maine Association of Nonprofits Board of Directors is made
up of leaders from the nonprofit and business sectors. They
represent the broad diversity of MANP's membership and contribute
significant amounts of time, talent and energy to ensure the
growing vitality of the nonprofit sector in Maine.
Tom Davis
Board President , SKILLS, Inc.
Kathryn Davis
Board Vice-President, United Way of York County
Peter Montano
Board Treasurer, MacDonald Page & Co
Jennifer Hutchins
Board Secretary, USM, Muskie School
Kevin Baack
William Floyd
Genesis Loan Fund
Anna Kent
Tom McAdam
Kennebec Behavioral Health
Katherin O'Grady
Unum
Jim Pierce
Independence Association
Nat Putnam, Esq.
Eaton Peabody
Cathy Ramsdell
Friends of Casco Bay
Jane Richmond
The Nature Conservancy
Sarah Standiford
Maine Women's Lobby
Tracy S. Michaud Stutzman
Maine Crafts Association
Peter Taylor
Maine Community Foundation
Deb Whitworth
Lebel & Harriman, LLC
Tom Davis, Board Chair, Davis is the CEO of SKILLS Inc., a newly minted agency that resulted from the merger of two- long standing service providers, Sebasticook Farms from Pittsfield/St. Albans and Ken-A-Set Association from Waterville and Skowhegan. SKILLS Inc. is a business-oriented agency providing support services to adults with developmental disabilities across Kennebec and Somerset counties. The agency operates a number of social enterprise businesses including a hardwood sawmill, a boarding kennel, an industrial recycling center and several thrift stores.
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Kathryn S.B. Davis, Vice-President, joined United Way of York County as CEO/President in July of 2005. No stranger to York County, she served as President of Laudholm Trust and Chairman of the Management Authority of the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve for 7 years. Prior to serving Maine’s environmental community, Kathryn worked in the for profit sector as UNUM’s Director of Corporate Communications and the UNUM Charitable Foundation. Taking an active role community building in Maine for over 25 years, Kathryn has provided philanthropic support and volunteer board leadership for established nonprofits as well as for new organizations created to meet emerging social needs.
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Peter
Montano, Treasurer, is a Director with MacDonald Page &
Co, an accounting firm with offices in Portland, Augusta and
Camden, and has been a member of the firm since 1994. Peter
is a member of the firm’s Accounting and Auditing Committee,
and is responsible for managing the nonprofit sector of the
firm and coordinating training and CPE for its nonprofit staff.
He also served on the Maine Association of Nonprofits Group
Services Committee.
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Jennifer Hutchins, Secretary, is the Director of Communications and External Affairs for the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. She has 14 years of experience in marketing, communications and public relations for nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining the Muskie School, she served as the Director Marketing for the Portland Stage Company and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center.
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Kevin Baack, Phd,recently retired as the Executive Director of Goodwill Industries of Northern New England, a position he held since 1977. Prior to joining Goodwill, Kevin was the Director of the Maine Bureau of Mental Retardation, and he remains active in organizations concerned with people with disabilities. Kevin currently serves on the Board of Directors of Delta Dental Plan of Maine, and on the Board of Trustees of the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.
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William Floyd has served as Executive Director of the Genesis Community Loan Fund since June 2007. A federally certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), the Genesis Fund, which is located in Damariscotta, provides innovative financing by soliciting low-interest investment loans from individuals, churches, corporations and foundations, then re-lending the money to nonprofit organizations. Genesis Fund loans help groups developing affordable housing and community facilities assist underserved neighborhoods across Maine. Prior to working at the Genesis Fund, Bill served as Housing Director for Shalom House, Inc. in Portland from 1999 to 2006. There he developed and managed supported housing and rental assistance programs for more than 600 people with serious mental illness. In the 1990s Bill worked for the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services as the Director of the Office of Housing.
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Jennifer Hutchins, is the Communications and Outreach Coordinator for the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. She has 14 years of experience in marketing, communications and public relations for nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining the Muskie School, she served as the Director Marketing for the Portland Stage Company and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center.
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Anna Kent most recently served as the Coordinator of the New Girls Network, a philanthropy development program of the Maine Women's Fund, and is a graduate student in public policy and management at the Muskie School of Public Service at USM. Since 1988 she has run programs and events in many nonprofit organizations and academic institutions, most recently the Muskie School, the Institute for Civic Leadership, and the Mitchell Institute. Anna worked previously as a Staff Assistant at Harvard University and a Union Organizer at Harvard, Tufts University, and UMass Medical Center. Her family lives in Portland and Five Islands.
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Tom McAdam is the Chief Executive Officer of Kennebec Behavioral Health, a nationally accredited community mental health center providing a wide range of mental health services for over 11,000 clients in Kennebec, Somerset and Waldo Counties. Prior to this position Tom served as Primary Care Director at Martin’s Point HealthCare and as Rehabilitation Medical Outpatient Director at New England Rehabilitation Hospital. He lives with his wife Jolene and daughter Flannery in Portland.
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Katherin O'Grady, is Assistant Vice President of Underwriting for UnumProvident. She has been employed at UnumProvident for 24 years, where she has held a variety of positions in claims administration, customer service, product development and project management. She is currently responsible for the development of UnumProvident’s rating and proposal systems.
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Jim Pierce has been the CEO of Independence Association, a Brunswick based organization serving individuals with disabilities, since 1976. He is currently the state representative to ANCOR, a national trade organization focused on the delivery of supports and services to people withmental retardation; the Treasurer of Coastal Trans Inc.; the Chair of theMACSP education committee; afounder and trustee of the Maine Trust for People with Disabilities: a founding member of the MidCoast Collaborative for Access to Transportation, and is involved with several other organizations or committees in various capacities. He has a 25 year old daughter and lives in Topsham.
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Nat Putnam, Esq., is a partner with the law firm of Eaton
Peabody in Bangor. His practice areas include estate and tax
planning, charitable giving, elder law, and estate and trust
administration. In addition, a significant portion of his practice
is devoted to representing nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations
throughout the state. He has formed numerous nonprofit corporations,
regularly advises nonprofit clients on a broad range of issues,
and has helped organizations develop planned giving and charitable
gift annuity programs.
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Cathy Ramsdell is Executive Director of Friends of Casco Bay, a marine stewardship organization located in South Portland, which was founded in 1989 to improve and protect the environmental health of Casco Bay. A Certified Public Accountant and marine ecologist, Cathy has served nonprofits and businesses in a variety of executive, scientific, board, and consulting roles. Prior to joining Friends of Casco Bay in May 2003, Cathy’s consulting practice helped chief executives, nonprofit boards, business owners, and family foundations with financial, professional and organizational development. She has run retail businesses and worked as a public accountant. Her earliest work was in evolutionary behavior and ecology: she conducted field research on seabird populations in Alaska, sea turtles nesting on Georgia beaches, and marine mammals in the Gulf of Maine. Cathy is a board member of Mainewatch Institute and is Trustee Emeritus of College of the Atlantic.
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Jane Richmond serves as the Director of Operations for The Nature Conservancy in Brunswick. She joined the Conservancy in 1997 from private industry, where she had over 20 years of experience in positions in general management, marketing and sales at the Swedish conglomerate A.B. SKF. She graduated from the Executive Management Program at Darden U.VA. and holds a B.S. degree from Skidmore College. She serves as a board member of the Diversity in Hiring Coalition, and is an avid gardener, artist, hiker and snowshoe enthusiast.
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Sarah Standiford has served as the Executive Director of the Maine Women's Lobby and its sister organization, the Maine Women’s Policy Center since 2003. She oversees the public policy development, research, and organizing efforts of these two multi-issue women’s organizations that have been dedicated to expanding opportunities for all Maine women and girls for nearly 30 years. In her position, Sarah represents the needs of Maine women in the areas of affordable health care, reproductive privacy, economic security, and freedom from violence and discrimination to policymakers and the media. She has several appointments representing women including on the Governor’s Council on Jobs, Innovation, and the Economy, the Maine Jobs Council and the Commission to Study Livable Wages. She serves on the board of Consumers for Affordable Health Care Coalition, the Maine Chapter of the American Association of University Women, and the Abnaki Girl Scout Council.
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Tracy S. Michaud Stutzman is the Executive Director of the Maine Crafts Association, where she is currently overseeing the development of a Maine Craft Center and an Associates Degree in Traditional and Contemporary Craft in Maine’s Community College system. Prior to this position, Tracy, a native of rural Maine, founded the Maine Highlands Guild and served as its Executive Director. During her tenure at the Guild, which recently merged with the Maine Crafts Association, she received State and National recognition as the winner of the 2003 National Social Venture Competition sponsored by Columbia University, Hass Business School at Berkeley, and the Goldman Sachs Foundation and sat on Maine’s Governor’s Council for the Creative Economy and the Governors Council on Quality of Place. She is a leader in the Realize!Maine Youth Initiative, was chosen for Mainebiz magazine’s “NEXT” list in 2005 and won the Governors Award for CDBG Administrator of the Year in 2007. Tracy is an adjunct professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine and represents Maine on the Northern Forest Sustainable Economy Initiative and the National Center for Civic Education. She is a member of the board of directors of the Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft, and is a member of the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council.
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Peter Taylor directs the competitive grants program
at the Maine Community Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation
in April 2002, Peter served as an associate dean of students
at Bates College, where he worked in different capacities in
the Dean of Students Office for seven years. Peter’s background
also includes experience in the nonprofit sector through his
work as former board president of Maine Arts, Inc., board chair
of the Maine Commission for Community Service, and vice president
of the board of directors for the Penobscot Arts Center.
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Deb Whitworth, SPHR,
is Managing Director for Human Resources Consulting Services at Lebel & Harriman, LLP, an independent insurance and investment brokerage firm, located in Falmouth, Maine. As managing director for Lebel & Harriman’s newest division, she brings over 25 years of human resources management experience with her as she consults with for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Deb serves on the board of several nonprofits and has had a book on employee supervision published entitled, You’re Hired, You’re Fired—A Manager’s Guide to Employee Supervision. Deb also is a member of MANP’s SkillBuilder faculty, presenting various workshops on human resources related topics.
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