Katherine A. H. Graham
Katherine Graham is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University. From 1992 until 1996, she was Director of the School of Public Administration. She holds degrees in Political Science from Glendon College of York University and Queen's. Professor Graham's research interests are in the fields of public policy, citizen engagement and the management of government. She has focused these interests on local government and Aboriginal policy. In a more eclectic vein, she served for three years as editor of How Ottawa Spends, the Carleton School of Public Policy and Administration's well known annual review of the performance of the federal government. She is a sought after commentator on public policy issues and has served as an advisor to Canadian governments at all three levels. She has been involved in the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development since its inception. In addition to sitting on the CVSRD Council, she is co-chair of the Steering Committee and Principal Investigator of the Voluntary Sector Evaluation Research Project.
Monica Patten
Monica Patten is President and CEO of Community Foundations of Canada, the member organization for Canada's 158 community foundations. Monica has played an active role in the voluntary sector and was the first Chair of the Voluntary Sector Forum. In May 2005, Monica received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lawson Foundation in recognition of her “extraordinary accomplishments and leadership.” Monica was also honoured by the Public Policy Forum in April 2002 for her contribution to public policy and Canada’s voluntary sector.
Monica is active in several international initiatives that promote philanthropy and strengthen civil society. She Chairs the Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmakers Support (WINGS), a global network of community foundations and other grantmakers. She is active in the Transatlantic Community Foundation Network (TCFN) hosted by the Bertelsmann Foundation; and a Senior Fellow of Synergos. Monica is also a member of the Council on Foundations’ International Committee.
Caroline Andrew
Caroline Andrew is a Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre on Governance at the same university. Her fields of primary research interest include municipal government, urban development, municipal policies in the area of ethno-cultural diversity and women in local politics. Current research projects include being the co-director of the federal team of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded initiative led by Professor Robert Young (University of Western Ontario) on municipal public policy in a multilevel governance context, a comparative study of Montreal and Ottawa on the impact of municipal amalgamations on policies for the management of diversity, a analysis of "best practices" in the local management of diversity and an action research project, funded by Status of Women Canada, involving the City of Ottawa and community-based women's groups.
Recent publications include ‘Evaluating municipal reform in Ottawa-Gatineau: building for a more metropolitan future?’, in E.Razin and P.J. Smith, Metropolitan Governing, Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2006,pp.75-94. Accounting for Culture: Thinking through Cultural Citizenship (co-edited with Monica Gattinger, Sharon Jeannotte and Will Straw, University of Ottawa Press, 2005), "Women as Citizens in Canada" (2004, in Pierre Boyer, Linda Cardinal and David Headon, From Subjects to Citizens, University of Ottawa Press), "Les fusions municipales: ouvertures ou obstacles pour les femmes?" (2005, in Dominique Masson, Femmes et politiques, University of Ottawa Press), "The Urban Legacy of Jean Chretien", Review of Constitutional Studies, 9-1/2,2004.
Current community involvement: Board member of the Lower Town Community Resource Centre and of Inter Pares, Co-chair, Advisory Committee on French-language services of the City of Ottawa, Member, Crime Prevention Council, City of Ottawa.
Rose Anne Devlin
Rose Anne Devlin is a Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, where she is currently the chair. She has had a long-standing interest in the economics of private philanthropy, examining questions like whether volunteering is crowded-out by government spending, does the paid-labour market reward volunteer effort, and the relationship between charitable giving and charitable gaming. More recently, she has been interested in the link between social capital and private philanthropy: does social capital promote gifts of money and time?
Professor Devlin researches in several other areas of applied microeconomics. She has published and written many papers on automobile insurance, property rights and the environment, the economics of the family, and recently, has been actively engaged in several projects on the economics of health.
Josh Greenberg
Josh Greenberg received his Ph.D. in Sociology from McMaster University in 2003. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication and is cross-appointed to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, both at Carleton University. His expertise and areas of publication focus on issues of media representation and access, particularly for resource-poor organizations and groups. He is currently working on a long-term study examining news coverage of the voluntary sector in Canada, and the communications activities and media strategies of non-governmental organizations. This is a project he began as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University.
In addition to his research, Dr. Greenberg serves in an advisory capacity to non-profit organizations on the development, implementation, and evaluation of strategic communication campaigns.
Carl Nicholson
Carl Nicholson has been Executive Director of the Catholic Immigration Centre since 1994 as well as Executive Director of the Catholic Immigration Centre Foundation since 1996. Carl has an extensive background in the not-for-profit sector in leadership positions (28 years) and has maintained his own successful fundraising management consulting company since 1989. Carl sits on several local Boards and committees: including being co-chair of both the Community and Police Action Committee (COMPAC) and the Outreach Recruitment Project Steering Committee of the Ottawa Police Service; chair of the United Way/Centraide Ottawa Impact Council on Immigrants, as well as Treasurer of LASI (Local Agencies Serving Immigrants). He also sits on the Advisory Board of Chin Radio International Ottawa; the Board and Executive Committee of Watercan; and is a founder of MOST (Making Ottawa Safe Together).
Martha Nixon
In September 2003, Martha Nixon left the Canadian Public Service after close to thirty years service. Her most recent experience was four years as Assistant Deputy Minister, Operations for Immigration and Citizenship Canada. Throughout her career, Martha has had broad experience in a variety of social programs and policy areas, much of this with Human Resources Development Canada (now HRSD). These include labour market, employment, learning and literacy, student loans, immigration and refugees, disability programs and work with relationships between government and the voluntary sector. Martha began her career serving with CUSO in India. A McGill graduate, Martha has a BA in sociology and anthropology. As a member of her community, Martha has been involved with board work in the CS Coop, the Hospice at May Court as well as in church work.
Susan Phillips
Dr. Susan Phillips is Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University and Senior Scholar with the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development, also located at Carleton. She has published extensively in the areas of federalism and social policy, citizen engagement and models of shared governance, the voluntary sector and urban public policy. For the past five years, Susan has served as the co-director of the Voluntary Sector Evaluation Research Project, a Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) project supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Max Bell Foundation. She has served as an Associate Editor of Canadian Public Policy, an editor of How Ottawa Spends, and is a member of the editorial board of the Philanthropist. She is also a Senior Academic Fellow with the Canadian School of Public Service and has been a Policy Advisor to the Voluntary Sector Initiative, national voluntary organizations, urban governments and a variety of federal departments.
Lipa Roth
Lipa Roth has been active in the voluntary sector for over 30 years. He is currently on the board of several small organizations and has served in a variety of capacities including president, treasurer and fundraising chair. Prior to his volunteer participation, he served as executive director of a community organization and, in the distant past, of a student organization.
Working in a number of government settings, including Ontario Women's Directorate and, prior to that, Employment & Immigration Canada, Lipa developed projects based on partnerships between government, nonprofits, employers, professional associations and unions. These partnership projects addressed a range of areas including job creation, community development, employment equity and nonprofit capacity building. Currently, Lipa Roth works at the Citizenship Branch, Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration to help strengthen Ontario's non-profit sector as well as relationships between Ontario's public service and non-profits.
Timothy T. Simboli, PhD
Tim Simboli has spent all but the first six years of his life in the Ottawa-Carleton Region. His educational training has focused on research in Psychology and he received his Doctorate from Carleton University in 1995. He has written and presented on youth issues, program evaluation, and voluntary sector management. Tim's work has been mainly in community based service agencies. In his 29 years in the field he has been the Director of a Residence for Young Offenders, the Senior Clinical Supervisor with a youth counselling organization, and the Director of Operations with the Boys and Girls Club. Tim is currently the Executive Director of the Family Service Centre of Ottawa-Carleton, a position he has held since 1995.
Paula Speevak Sladowski
Paula Speevak Sladowski has been a practitioner in the voluntary sector for 24 years, in a variety of capacities, in both community-based and institutional settings. She has worked as a case-aid, intake worker, group facilitator, seniors' activities director, and program director. After seven years as Executive Director of Volunteer Ottawa, Paula joined Volunteer Canada to develop a Volunteer Centre Development Team. As chair of the Coalition of Ontario Voluntary Organizations, she has been active in the movement to build cohesive voices and capacity building services in the broader voluntary sector. Paula has graduated from the Masters of Management in National Voluntary Sector Leadership, in the McGill-McConnell Program.
Paula Speevak Sladowski is the Managing Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development. |
