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Facilitator

Jim White, Executive Director
Nonprofit Association of Oregon

Panelists

Brad Russell, Executive Director
Rogue Valley Family YMCA

Dee Anne Everson, Executive Director
United Way of Jackson County

Kathy Bryon, Executive Director
Gordon Elwood Foundation

The Oregon legislature is currently considering three bills, HB2008, HB2009, and SB610, all related to raising the minimum wage in Oregon. There are several different approaches being suggested by lawmakers for a phase-in of the minimum wage over several years. NAO believes the minimum wage is an issue that nonprofits need to pay attention to, discuss, and get involved with. Nonprofits will be affected by changes to the minimum wage and this discussion is geared to help nonprofits understand the opportunities and challenges involved.

NAO completed a survey in March 2015 of the nonprofit community to understand the positions, opportunities, and concerns of nonprofits relative to the proposed legislation. This session will begin with an overview of the issue and survey results by NAO Executive Director Jim White. The overview will be followed by a panel discussion with three Rogue Valley nonprofit leaders; Brad Russell, Executive Director, Rogue Valley Family YMCA, Dee Anne Everson, Executive Director, United Way of Jackson County, and Kathy Bryon, Executive Director, Gordon Elwood Foundation, who will share their perspectives. The panel and gathered nonprofit leaders will have an opportunity for dialogue on the issue, hear different approaches nonprofits are taking, and explore how changes to the minimum wage may affect your nonprofit's staff, services, and business model.

As this is a complex conversation which not all present will have had an opportunity to form an opinion or adopt a position, this session is closed to media coverage.

A pizza lunch buffet will be provided.

About the Presenters

Brad Russell has been the Executive Director of the Rogue Valley Family YMCA in Medford since 2006. Brad received his Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Maine and his Masters degree in Recreation Administration from Springfield College in Massachusetts. He began his YMCA career in Rochester, New York and later taught English as a second language at a YMCA in the country of Taiwan where he met his wife, Stella. Brad then became the Program Director at an ocean-front resident camp in San Diego. He then went on to become the Executive Director of two YMCAs in Monterey County, California. Brad and Stella enjoy the outdoors, travel, a variety of aquatic sports, and time with family, friends and their black lab. Brad also volunteers to help organize the annual Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference and local NAO trainings plus serves on the Gang Prevention Task Force and other community collaborations.

Dee Anne Everson is the executive director of United Way of Jackson County, having been appointed in November 1997. Under her leadership, United Way launched the Day of Caring, WiLL (Women Living Leadership), the Meth Task Force, CAN (Child Abuse Network) and more recently the BIG IDEA, a project focused on 100 percent high school completion for the Class of 2020. Prior to working for United Way of Jackson County, Dee Anne spent 13 years in the corporate financial sector. Making the switch to nonprofits, she became the economist at the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce in 1990 and has been recognized by Oregon Business Magazine as one of Oregon’s 50 great leaders. She was recognized by the American Red Cross as a Community Hero and was awarded the Citizen Peacemaker Imagine Award. She is past president of the Association of United Ways of Oregon and is a graduate of Stanford University’s Nonprofit Leaders Program. Dee Anne serves on numerous committees and boards.

Jim White serves as Executive Director of the Nonprofit Association of Oregon, where he works collaboratively with a statewide board of directors, staff, strategic partners, and the nonprofits across Oregon to build a more visible, influential, and resilient nonprofit sector in Oregon. Prior to joining NAO, Jim worked in the nonprofit sector both domestically and internationally for more than 17 years. Most recently, he served as a senior manager with Mercy Corps. Throughout his career, Jim has worked on some of the most difficult humanitarian and development challenges of our times, in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and North Korea. He is specifically skilled on working to build alliances and partnerships so that communities and organizations have a voice in the issues that are most important to them. He has also worked for the International Organization for Migration and the American Red Cross. Jim earned a BS in Engineering Technology from Temple University and an MA in Central Eurasian Area Studies from Indiana University.

Kathy Bryon serves as the executive director of the Gordon Elwood Foundation, a small independent foundation in southern Oregon. Since 1999, the Foundation has invested over $3 million in grant awards and another half million in staffing support for community development activities to Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, and Curry counties and invested a similar amount in other charitable activities to benefit the communities of all four counties. As executive director for the foundation, Kathy has convened a dynamic learning community of public & private regional funders for the past decade. She serves as secretary for the Jefferson Regional Health Alliance and as a member of the Southern Oregon University President’s Advisory Council and Jackson County Public Health Advisory Council. Kathy is currently a board member for Philanthropy Northwest, an association of philanthropies that invest in Northwest communities. She is an active Fellow of the American Leadership Forum, Oregon Chapter and the appreciative mother of two bright, talented and spirited young men.

When
May 18th, 2015 from 11:30 AM to  1:00 PM
Location
ACCESS Olsrud Family Nutrition Center
2020 Cardinal Avenue
(behind OLD COSTCO location-directly across from Cash and Carry)
Medford, OR 97504
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City Medford
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Topic Advocacy, , Leadership
Presenter Jim White
Event Region Southern Oregon
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