NGO A Go Go Philip Arca

Lina Sheth partners – to facilitate, coach – offering insights to strengthen organizational effectiveness. She knows leadership transitions and the imperatives of DEIA work for the relevance of our work.
Lina builds on culture and sustainability, all through a lens of equity, inclusion, and belonging. Lina works to support executive transitions both as an Interim Executive Director or transition consultant. She also brings extensive strategy experience to support organizational vision and impact with her clients, while also providing professional coaching to support development to boards and staff.
For over 25 years, Lina has played an executive role as staff or interim executive in multiple sectors from health, human services, affordable housing, racial justice, and public policy both here in the U.S. and abroad. She has broad experience of working within and along with BIPOC communities in these different sectors. Lina holds a Master in Public Health from Boston University and is a Certified Leadership Coach from the Coaches Training Institute. Listen to her wisdom.
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Jan Cohen has been a Consultant, Interim executive, and Trainer who has worked with more than 200 nonprofit organizations over more than 30 years. She has served in 18 Interim Executive positions in nonprofit organizations in the SF Bay Area, especially those with an earned income, workforce development, or disability services focus, during periods of transition in leadership. Her training and consulting focus is customized work sessions and consulting services for nonprofit organizations for diversification of revenue, earned income, and marketing strategy.
Jan partners with Academies for Social Entrepreneurship as the Lead Social Enterprise Trainer & Coach having worked with over 120 participating agencies in customized Social Enterprise Academies. In addition to having worked with over 150 organizations in her own Interim Executive/Consulting/Training business, Jan was the Director of New Business Ventures at HOPE Services for 3 years, an affiliate consultant with CompassPoint Nonprofit Services in the Bay Area for 6 years, a senior consultant with the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs for 5 years, and Chief Executive Officer of Project HIRED, a nonprofit employment service serving individuals with disabilities, for 10 years.
Jan continues her commitment to serving on the Boards of, and volunteering for, local, regional, and national nonprofit organizations. She is a member of the Bay Area Interim Executive Director Group and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Executive Transition and Leadership Committee. She also currently serves on the Board of CalNonprofits Insurance Services, a subsidiary business of California Association of Nonprofits.
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Gayle Hilleke, Executive Director of Kentucky Campus Compact (KyCC), gracefully expounds on over forty years of experience in strengthening communities through work in nonprofits, educational institutions, and government agencies.
KyCC is a membership organization of Kentucky college and university presidents committed to the civic purposes of higher education. As the founding director, Gayle has led KyCC over 15 years in supporting approximately 1000 faculty and staff, 10,000 high school and college students, and 20,000 community members.
Gayle has 27 years of experience supporting the national service program, AmeriCorps. She worked as a state program officer for 3 years at the Ohio Governor’s Service Commission, 9 years at the national headquarters – the Corporation for National and Community Service (now called AmeriCorps), and 15 years as an AmeriCorps sponsor at KyCC. As a sponsor, KyCC focuses its AmeriCorps programs on college access/student success and community impact, placing 150 members annually.
Gayle also works as an adjunct professor in the Northern Kentucky University College of Business master’s program, Masters of Business Leadership and Innovation (MBLI). In the First Year Practicum, Ms. Hilleke teaches strengths-based methodologies for students to use in service-learning projects. In her consulting work, Gayle is a senior advisor for Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub, helping individuals and organizations build social enterprise skills. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Gayle has a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Illinois University and a master’s degree in Organization Development from American University in Washington, D.C.
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Alison Lingane has dedicated her career to enabling business to be a force for good. She is the co-founder of Project Equity, a national leader in the movement to harness employee ownership to maintain thriving local business communities, create quality jobs, and address income and wealth inequality. Her passion for creating quality jobs and an economy that works for everyone was fueled in her early career by her role designing and leading micro-enterprise programs for urban youth.
Alison spent 15 years in senior leadership roles in mission-driven companies that are designed to create human impact at scale. She now brings those scaling lessons back full circle to her work at Project Equity, turning businesses into community change agents through employee ownership.
Alison has her B.A. from Harvard University and her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She has been selected as an Echoing Green Fellow, an Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellow and an Ashoka Fellow.
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Jane Fischberg is an experienced social sector leader with a deep commitment to social justice and dismantling systems perpetuating poverty. She was the longtime CEO of Rubicon Programs, a San Francisco East Bay workforce services organization with a whole-person approach, prioritizing antiracist principles and practices. She led Rubicon through several major changes, including a restructure to sharpen its focus on ending poverty, adopting a theory of change, innovating new service models, and increasing advocacy.
Jane has a deep understanding of workforce development and economic mobility approaches. Under her leadership, Rubicon evolved into a high performing organization well regarded for its whole-person approach, recognized for its establishment of an unequivocal antiracism stance, and with a strong financial position.
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Irene Kao, Executive Director of Courage California, shares her progressive vision, pandemic background noise and all. Happy kid voices sprinkle this conversation about what it means to have a truly representative democracy, courageously committing to transparency, equity and justice.
Irene has helped pursue more than a hundred positive state, local legislative and regulatory outcomes and has led with creativity and tenacity. And with 2021 being an opportunity to define a new normal, her skills and insights are ever more needed. She maintains deep relationships and broad networks with key decision makers in the legislature, the executive branch and with key stakeholders.
Irene joined Courage California, in 2020, as the first woman of color to lead the organization.
She brings more than twenty years of experience working with and advocating for low-income communities of color, including in immigrant and refugee support services, public housing, early childhood education, media, philanthropy and politics.
Prior to joining Courage California, Irene was a strategic advisor to the leadership of California Donor Table, Way to Win, Native Americans in Philanthropy, California Native Vote Project, and Vision Maker Media, focusing on community engagement, program strategy, development, and organizational transitions.
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