Board of Directors

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Edgar S. Cahn

Founder & CEO

Co-Chair of the TBUSA Board

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Fulbright Scholar; PhD, JD; Special Counsel to Attorney General Robert Kennedy; Special Assistant to Sargent Shriver, Office of Economic Opportunity; Co-Founder, National Legal Service Program; Co-Founder and Co-Dean, Antioch School of Law (now David A. Clarke School of Law); Creator, Time Dollars; Author, No More Throw-Away People. For a more complete biography, please see Meet Our Founder.

 

Pauline Wiessner

Prof. of Anthropology, University of Utah

Co-Chair of the TBUSA Board

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Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Ethology; Areas of interest and ongoing research: the evolution of altruism and reciprocity and risk, reciprocity, and social networks among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and Enga of Papua New Guinea.

 

Lisa Conlan

Parents Support Network Rhode Island

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Robert Egger

Founder and President

DC Central Kitchen

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Founder and President of the DC Central Kitchen; founder of Kitchens INC. Chair: Mayor’s Commission on Nutrition & Board of Street Sense. Member: Mayor’s Housing Task Force; Board of the Food Systems Leadership Institute. He was the Co-Convener of the 2006 Nonprofit Congress. Recognitions: Non Profit Times list of the “50 Most Powerful and Influential Nonprofit Leaders of 2006”; 2005 Volunteers of America Community Service award; 2004 James Beard Foundations Humanitarian of the Year award; Oprah Angel; a Washingtonian of the Year; a Point of Light; one of the Ten Most Caring People in America, by the Caring Institute. He is also a 13-gallon donor to the American Red Cross. Robert’s book on the non-profit sector, Begging for Change, The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient and Rewarding For All, was recently awarded the 2005 McAdam Prize for “Best Nonprofit Management Book” by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.

 

Badi Foster

President & CEO

Phelps Stokes Fund

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President and CEP of the Phelps Stokes Fund. Former professor and university administrator (Princeton, U. Mass, Rutgers, Harvard and Tufts). Former corporate executive and hospital administrator.

 

Renee Marver

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Renee is the co-founder of theMembership Organized Resource Exchange/MORE system now operating in several neighborhoods of St. Louis as a program of the Grace Hill Settlement House. Until her recent retirement, Renee was responsible for the management of a broad range of neighborhood programs – including Head Start services and the Member Organized Resource Exchange/MORE. MORE is the basis for Grace Hill’s delivery of all programs, services, and activities, as well as, for planning future programming. Neighbors use the MORE TB exchange to secure needed services, save cash and build neighborhood capacity & caring communities. Renee is active in several advocacy, political and educational organizations.

 

Mark McDonough

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From 2004-2006 Mark funded—and was heavily involved in—the creation of Community Weaver, the Time Banking web-based software. In his own local community, Mark has spearheaded the pilot of a regional Time Bank model where members take on and rotate the coordinating role. Mark's chief passion is creating community. It is his belief that communities are the locus of social change. We rarely change our values in isolation. It usually involves becoming part of a new peer group who provides new insights and support to act differently. Thus if you want to change the world, create communities that reinforce new values.

 

Muriel Nolen

The Coalition for the Homeless

 

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MA – Gerontology, Adult Education and Counseling. Currently providing program support for La Casa Shelter in Washington, DC. Before moving into her current position, Ms. Nolen helped establish the Columbia Community Exchange in Columbia, MD. Ms. Nolen’s areas of expertise include human services program planning and development; consultation, technical assistance, development and implementation in the areas of: new program initiatives, grant and proposal writing, research development and program coordination; volunteer recruitment, training and retention; fundraising, staff management, supervision and evaluation. Publications include: Eldercare Volunteer Corps: Volunteer Care Management Program, DC Office on Aging; The Service Credit Volunteer System Manual, (Volumes I – IV), Greater SE Community Hospital Press; “The Service Credit Volunteer System,” The Crusader

 

Stephanie Rearick

Coordinator

Dane County Timebank

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Coordinator, Dane County Time Bank. Co-owner of Mother Fool's Coffeehouse, which she and her husband have run for over 11 years. She received media and strategy training during her six-plus years with the international environmental organization Greenpeace (1989 - 1995), having served as local office director of the Madison office for two of those years. In 1995 she helped to form Madison Hours local currency and continues to volunteer with the program. From 2000 to 2004 she served on the steering committee of the local independent political party Progressive Dane, serving as party co-chair from 2002 - 2004.

 

Ruston Seaman

World Vision

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Sheryl Walton

Community Building Consultant

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Sheryl Walton, MPH, is a community health educator specializing in supporting residents, parents, community groups, and agencies seeking to build on the assets and strengths of low-income, multi-cultural communities to improve health and quality of life. Areas of experience include planning, training, and technical assistance in the broad field of community-based public health, with an emphasis in resident leadership development and engagement, root causes of racial and ethnic health inequities, community-based participatory research and evaluation, policy and media advocacy, economic development and health, and community organizing. She prides herself on integrating community residents’ perspective with public health prevention methodologies. Co-author of “Building Local Government and Resident Partnerships to Improve Health: Lessons From the Field,” in Community Organizing & Community Building for Health