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 BIO: TERRIE TEMKIN,
Ph.D.
Terrie
Temkin, Ph.D. is the president of NonProfit Management Solutions, Inc.,
an international consulting firm with clients in England, Australia and Africa. An award-winning
speaker and an engaging group facilitator, she brings more than 30 years
of nonprofit management and adult education experience to her work.
For five years Terrie authored the biweekly “On Nonprofits”
column in the Miami Herald, a
column that is currently published by chapters of the Association of
Fundraising Professionals. She
has written three books – The Effective Retreat Planner: A Guide
for Trustees and Planners, A Nonprofit’s Guide to Using Consultants
and Getting Value from Consultants: A Practical Guide for Trustees –
and has chapters in three others – Secrets
of Successful Boards: The Best from the Nonprofit Pros, Secrets of Successful Fund Raising: The Best from the Non-Profit Pros,
and Secrets of Successful Retreats: The
Best from the Nonprofit Pros. She
has written and presented numerous papers. Her articles are found in
such publications as Advancing
Philanthropy, Board Member, Bottom Line Personal, Community Jobs, Consulting
Today, Enhance, e-Volunteerism, Journal of Voluntary Action Research,
Nonprofit Boards and Governance Review, Nonprofit Nuts and Bolts, Nonprofit
World, and Strategic Governance.
She is on the editorial board of Nonprofit Boards and Governance
Review. For more than three years Terrie wrote and published
the quarterly newsletter Nonprofit
Management Solutions, as well.
Besides working with her own clients, Terrie is a
principal in another firm, CoreStrategies for Nonprofits, Inc., that
offers integrated governance, planning, fund development, and PR, marketing
and public policy services.
She regularly works with the various nonprofit management
support organizations. She has
completed train-the-trainer programs for both BoardSource – Critical
Components of Effective Governance – and the Drucker Foundation – Board
Self-Assessment. And, she is
an adjunct faculty member for Florida Atlantic University’s Master’s
Degree in Nonprofit Management.
For nine and a half years, Terrie served as executive
director of the largest, most productive district of Women's American
ORT, a national organization that supports a worldwide network of vocational
schools. Prior to that she served
as a special events fund raiser for the American Heart Association—Greater
Los
Angeles Affiliate; a program director
for the Wisconsin Region of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization; and
a trainer for Hospital Learning Centers, a national seminar company
that targeted the allied health professions.
From 1989 - 2002, in addition to her other professional responsibilities,
Terrie served as an adjunct professor for Nova Southeastern University in its
school of Professional
Management.
Among her major projects she designed a curriculum
for a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Leadership at Barry University, co-designed
a curriculum for an Associate's Degree in Volunteer Program Management
at San Diego Community
College, and co-authored a comprehensive
volunteer program manual for directors of volunteer programs.
In 1996, Terrie coordinated both the tri-county Directors Of
Volunteer Services Conference in South Florida, and a statewide conference
— Shaking Up the Nonprofit: Business
As It’s Never Been Done — which her company co-sponsored.
Terrie's experience with nonprofits includes her own
participation as a volunteer. Most
recently she served on the executive committee and board of her local
American Cancer Society unit as well as on the Division's Volunteer
Task Force and the Field Operations Committee.
She made presentations at the 2001 and 2002 Volunteer Leadership
Kickoffs and was involved in planning the 2001 event as well.
Among her past affiliations she served on the B'nai
B'rith Youth Organization's Adult Region and Council Boards, and is
a past president of that latter board. She
also served on the Education Assessment Team of the Broward Community
Resources Coordinating Council, on the Broward County Displaced Homemaker,
Single Parent Advisory Committee, on the Miami Christian School’s Advisory
Committee, and on the Florida Education and Employment Council for Women
and Girls. She was appointed to the latter by the Florida Commissioner
of Education, and served two years as chair of the Public Information
Committee. She worked with Business Volunteers for the Arts (BVA) —
Miami, serving as education chair. She
was on the boards of the (then) Jewish High School and the Business
and Professional Women's Network of the (then) South Broward Jewish
Federation. Her responsibilities
with the latter organization included serving as both program chair
and co-chair of the board. She
was an active participant on the Jewish Women International’s national
strategic planning committee that determined the course of the organization
for the new millennium. Finally, she is a past first vice-president
of Directors of Volunteer Services of Broward County.
Terrie has been recognized frequently. Most recently, she was selected by Women in
Communication as Woman of the Year (2002) in the Nonprofit Communication
category. Previously she won
the ArtServe 1999 Encore Award for Business Volunteer for the Arts.
She was selected Outstanding Teacher, 1984, by the Communication Department
at the University of Oklahoma. In addition, she has been listed in:
Who's Who in Wisconsin; Outstanding Young Women of America; Who's Who in American Women; Who’s
Who in Education, and The
International Who's Who of Professionals.
Her professional success even at an early age won her a place
in career writer Peggy Schmidt's 1981 book, Making
it Big in the City.
Terrie has her Bachelor's Degree in Public Speaking
from Ohio University; her Master's in Interpersonal Communication from
the University of Illinois; an Education Specialist's in Administrative
Leadership — Adult Education from the University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee;
and her Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from the University of
Oklahoma.
A member in good standing of the Society for Advancement
of ConsultingSM (SAC), she has completed a certification
process that speaks to her ethics and professionalism. She keeps current through her memberships
in the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, the Association for Research
on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the Association
of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the Association for Volunteer Administration
(AVA), BoardSource, Charity Channel, Directors of Volunteer Services
(DOVS), the Florida Association of Nonprofit Organizations (FANO), and
the Society for Nonprofit Organizations.
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