Sharlene Goode is an independent fundraising consultant who has worked with nonprofits in the healthcare, education and community service sectors. Her career was launched in a solo directorship at a fledgling organization.Turning the organization around through a strong developmental program and subsequent successful capital campaign, she went on to transform many nonprofit programs. A founder of the Foundation for Youth in Ellicottville, NY, she developed the concept and funding for this innovative community-based partnership. She has since provided leadership as an independent consultant to many smaller nonprofits, YMCAs, community colleges, and as a “personal trainer” for developmental executives. Her program for solo and small-shop practitioners with limited resources aims at training and then integrating the best practices of fundraising toward the advancement of major gifts, annual and special campaign needs into the overall operational program. Sharlene’s expertise is in campaign management and feasibility studies for mergers and partnership programs.
For the past nine years, Rosemary Linsider has been director of development and now Executive Director of the Daughters of Sarah Jewish Foundation, the fundraising arm of Daughters of Sarah Senior Community in Albany, NY. With the assistance of one development associate, Rosemary is responsible for major gifts, an annual fund campaign, two holiday direct mail appeals, a major fundraising event, a major donor event, and the development of a planned giving program. During her first five years, Rosemary also coordinated a successful $5.5 million capital and endowment campaign . Previously, Rosemary was director of institutional advancement for the Hebrew Academy of the Capital District, where she initiated the first formal development office for the school, having been a volunteer there for many years. She also was a grant-writer as associate director of the Foundation for Long Term Care. Rosemary is the secretary of the Hudson-Mohawk AFP Board.
At present, Jean utilizes her more than 15 years experience in fundraising as a consultant to emerging palliative care programs, and as Chair of the fundraising board of Birch Family Services in New York. Previously, in more than eight years at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, she established and maintained a one-person development office for the Department of Geriatrics and the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, where she handled everything from developing a database to researching prospects, preparing proposals, producing annual reports, annual appeals, special events, and lectures, creating an advisory board, and cultivating major donors and securing major gifts including multi-million dollar endowments -- all on a shoestring, in a part-time position, and with the help of a single dedicated volunteer. She brings ingenuity, humor, and years of experience to the discussion of fundraising in a one-person development shop.
The Summit will take place at NYU's Kimmel Center located at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The Kimmel Center is just minutes away from subway and train lines (see directions below). The full address is: Kimmel Center Eisner & Lubin Auditorium 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 Directions by Subway Lexington Avenue Subway (6 Train) Local to Astor Place Station. Walk west on Astor Place to Broadway, then south on Broadway to Waverly Place, and west on Waverly Place to Washington Square. Broadway Subway (R,W Trains) Local to Eighth Street Station. Walk south on Broadway to Waverly Place, then west on Waverly Place to Washington Square. Sixth or Eighth Avenue Subway (A, C, E, F, V Trains) Express to West Fourth Street-Washington Square Station. Walk east on West Fourth Street or Waverly Place to Washington Square. Seventh Avenue Subway (1 Train) Local to Christopher Street-Sheridan Square Station. Walk east on West Fourth Street to Washington Square. By Bus Fifth Avenue Bus Buses numbered 2, 2A, 3 and 5 to Eighth Street and University Place. Walk South to Washington Square. Bus numbered 1 to Broadway and Eighth Street. Walk south on Broadway to Waverly Place and west to Washington Square. Eighth Street Crosstown Bus Bus numbered 8 to University Place. Walk south to Washington Square. Broadway Bus Bus numbered 6 to Waverly Place. Walk west to Washington Square. By PATH Train Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) To 9th Street Station Walk south on Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) to Waverly Place, then east to Washington Square. By Car From Brooklyn Take the Manhattan Bridge. Off the Bridge, take Canal Street West to Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue). Take 6th Avenue North to West 4th Street and travel East to Washington Square. From Queens Take the 59th Street Bridge. Travel West to Fifth Avenue. Turn South on Fifth Avenue. Fifth Avenue ends at Washington Square. From Staten Island Take the Staten Island Express across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge crossing into Brooklyn. Take the Belt Parkway (West). Continue on the Belt Parkway to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (East). Take the Manhattan Bridge exit and follow the instructions above to Washington Square. From the Bronx, Westchester County, and Upstate N.Y. Take The New York State Thruway (I-87), which becomes the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx. Continue to the Willis Avenue (Third Avenue) Bridge. Then cross to the FDR Drive in Manhattan. Travel South on FDR Drive to Houston Street, then west to La Guardia Place and North 3 blocks to Washington Square. From New Jersey by way of the New Jersey Turnpike Holland Tunnel: Travel North on the Avenue of the Americas (also known as 6th Avenue) to West 4th Street. Turn Right onto West 4th Street to Washington Square. Lincoln Tunnel: Travel East to 5th Avenue; turn Right, going South. Fifth Avenue ends at Washington Square. From George Washington Bridge Take the Henry Hudson Parkway South to 14th Street. Then East to 5th Avenue. Turn South on 5th Avenue which ends at Washington Square. From Long Island Take the Long Island Expressway (also known as the L.I.E. or I-495) to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. Drive East on 37th Street to 5th Avenue. Take 5th Avenue South to Washington Square
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