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Roxanne
Spillett
President & CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Roxanne Spillett,
President & CEO of Boys
& Girls Clubs of America, will accept
ACM's Great Friend to Kids Award on behalf
of the organization. During the award ceremony, Spillett
will provide a keynote address about the recently launched
Impact 2012, a five-year strategic plan that positions
BGCA more powerfully than ever as an advocacy organization
of national scope and influence.
Spillett has
led BGCA through a period of major expansion, implementing
a growth strategy that doubled the size and scope of
the Boys & Girls Club Movement and tripled its revenues
during the last eight years.
Under Spillett’s leadership,
BGCA has created generation-changing initiatives in
education, technology and diversity. The organization
has also significantly enhanced efforts to help Clubs
increase their capacities in technology, human resources,
and board and resource development. Her proudest accomplishments
include uniting Clubs behind a common agenda and raising
hundreds of millions of dollars to support the Boys
& Girls Club Movement.
In recognition of her numerous achievements,
Spillett was selected as one of the “Power 50”
by The Non-Profit Times for three consecutive years.
She also received the Excellence in National Executive
Leadership Award presented by the National Human Services
Assembly, an association of leading nonprofits in the
fields of health, human and community development, and
human services. In July 2006, Newsweek cited Spillett
and BGCA as one of “15 People Who Make America
Great,” part of the magazine’s annual Giving
Back Awards.
Spillett earned her bachelor’s
degree in education from the State University of New
York, and did graduate work in guidance and counseling
at St. Lawrence University. She also studied public
health administration at Hunter College in New York.
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Greg
Mortenson
Cofounder of Central Asia Institute and Pennies for
Peace
Co-Author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission
to Promote Peace… One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson is the co-founder of
nonprofit Central
Asia Institute, Pennies
For Peace, and co-author of Three Cups
of Tea, which has been a #1 New York Times
bestseller for 83 weeks since its January 2007 release
and was Time Magazine’s Asia Book of The
Year.
Mortenson was born in Minnesota in
1957. He grew up on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
(1958 to 1973), where his father Dempsey, founded Kilimanjaro
Christian Medical Center a teaching hospital, and his
mother, Jerene, started the International School Moshi.
He served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Cold
War (1977-1979), where he received the Army Commendation
Medal, and later graduated from the University of South
Dakota (1983) and pursued graduate studies in neurophysiology.
On July 24, 1992, Mortenson’s
younger sister, Christa, died from a massive seizure
after a lifelong struggle with epilepsy. In 1993, to
honor his sister’s memory, Mortenson climbed Pakistan’s
K2, the world’s second highest mountain in the
Karakoram range. After K2, while recovering in a local
village called Korphe, Mortenson met a group of children
sitting in the dirt writing with sticks in the sand,
and made a promise to help them build a school. From
that rash promise, grew a remarkable humanitarian campaign,
in which Mortenson has dedicated his life to promote
education, especially for girls, in remote regions of
Pakistan and Afghanistan. As of 2008, Mortenson has
established more than 78 schools in rural and often
volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which
provide education to more than 28,000 children, including
18,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed
before.
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Rebecca
Flora
Senior Vice-President, Education
& Research of the U.S. Green Building Council
Rebecca Flora, Senior Vice-President,
Education & Research at the U.S.
Green Building Council (USGBC) will replace
her colleague, Richard Fedrizzi, as the closing keynote
speaker.
Flora directs USGBC's far-reaching education program
and expanding research initiatives. Rebecca has been
deeply involved in USGBC's growth and development as
an active volunteer, providing leadership to USGBC's
board as outgoing chair, to the core committee of LEED
for Neighborhood Development, and as chair of the host
committee of Greenbuild 2003 in Pittsburgh.
She has served on the Pittsburgh
Civic Design Coalition, the University of Pittsburgh's
Mascaro Sustainability Initiative's advisory board,
and the boards of Phipps Conservatory and the Pittsburgh
Partnership for Neighborhood Development. Additionally,
she has been an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon
University's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management.
A LEED AP, Flora holds a master's
degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute & State University and a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Environmental Science from Plattsburgh
State University of New York.
In 2000, Flora served as Competition Advisor for the
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh's Design Competition
of Ideas to select an architect for the museum's expansion,
for which it would earn LEED certification.
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Salons
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The Impact of Play on Future
Grownups
Wednesday, April 29, 2:15 p.m.–3:30
p.m.
In this salon, child development
experts will discuss the lifelong impact of play —
from how childhood play builds resilient adolescents
and adults, to how play helps children develop 21st-century
skills necessary for the future workforce. Museum professionals
will learn about research findings on play and human
development that can support the value of children’s
museums, as well as inform the design of museum exhibits,
environments and programs to maximize play’s potential.
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Young Minds and Media Technologies
Wednesday, April 29, 4:00 p.m.–5:15
p.m.
Children are growing up in a
world where media is constantlypresent and constantly
evolving. Television programming, online experiences
and electronic gaming have great potential to provide
educational benefits, yet there is also emerging research
on their harmful effects on children’s development
and health . Hear both sides of the story from experts
studying media’s impact on children . Learn how
children’s museums can embrace media technologies
while responsibly providing a healthy environment for
children.
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Measuring Economic Impact
Wednesday, April 29, 2:15 p.m.–3:30
p.m.
Children’s museums and other
nonprofit organizations can have substantial effects
on the economic well being of individuals, families
and communities. Increasing commerce is one very direct
way, but other ways of influencing the economic health
of a community include increasing access to public benefits
and important services that no other organization provide.
To measure this impact, museums must identify good indicators
— ones that are action-focused, measurable and
simple. Experts will discuss how to effectively measure
a museum’s social, economic and environmental impacts
on its community and how to use that information to
build support for the museum.
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Management in a Challenging
Economy
Wednesday, April 29, 4:00 p.m.–5:15
p.m.
Tough economic times mean nonprofit
leaders must look critically at their budgets, struggle
with immediate and long-term decisions and think creatively
about new ways to generate revenue and support. How
can museums achieve sustainability while staying true
to their mission? Experienced consultants in nonprofit
management and strategy will present creative ideas
for museums to look internally and externally to keep
afloat, and even flourish, in today’s economy.
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