Tuesday - February 17, 2015
Registration & Networking: 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Luncheon & Presentation: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Nakoma Country Club
4145 Country Club Rd
Madison, WI 53711
FREE valet parking for this event!
Speed Networking with Corporate Givers and Foundations: How Money is Allocated to your Organization
A speed-dating style lunch where nine corporate and foundation decision makers will rotate through your table. You can ask them all of your burning questions such as how they choose a charity and what specific non-profits they support. This is a wonderful opportunity to put a face with the name the next time you send a letter out. Get to know these decision makers.
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Panelists:
Elizabeth Barden has been with National Guardian Life Insurance Company as Executive Assistant to President & CEO for the past 3 years. She is also the Corporate Giving Administrator, overseeing NGL’s giving and philanthropy growth. She meets with executive directors and development folks from non-profit agencies, throughout the year, to learn more about their work in the community and their long term goals or special projects. She is from Madison and has worked in the executive assistant field most of her career, with seven years years as human resource manager.
Julie Bauer is currently the Executive Director of the Alliant Energy Foundation. Julie has been with Alliant Energy for 30 years. In her role with the Foundation, she is responsible for managing all of the Alliant Energy corporate charitable contributions, community support, sponsorship and advertising activities, as well as all the programs connected with the Alliant Energy Foundation. Through their Corporate and Foundation giving, Alliant Energy gives about $7 million annually out to the communities within the three states it serves as a utility. The Foundation gives around $3.5 annually. Julie is proud to serve on a few local Boards. She is currently on the Donor’s Forum of Wisconsin Board, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and Boys and Girls Club of Dane County. Julie’s greatest strengths are her creativity, can-do spirit and love for people. When Julie is away from work she enjoys spending time with her husband Rob and two kids Lucas and Jillian and their dog, Redick.
Tom Dott comes to First Business with over 20 years of commercial banking experience serving privately owned companies and not for profit organizations throughout Wisconsin. He graduated from Ripon College in 1990 and enjoyed a four-year college baseball career pitching for the Red Hawks. He is very active in the community serving in several leadership capacities for the United Way of Dane County, including chair of the insurance/finance division for the 2015 annual campaign. Tom has received a number of community awards including Leadership Greater Madison’s Leader of the Year in 2001 and AFP’s Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year in 2010.
Michelle Downer serves as Community Engagement Architect at WPS Health Insurance where she manages WPS’s charitable giving and community relations. She partners with organizations to improve the health and well-being of the communities WPS customers and employees call home. A graduate of UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison, Michelle spent more than 10 years in nonprofit fundraising with past experience at Madison Area Technical College and the University of California, Merced.
Steve Goldberg is Executive Director of the CUNA Mutual Foundation, a position he’s held since 2003. He’s been with the CUNA Mutual Group since 1968 in a variety of marketing and customer service roles. Steve is a native Madisonian. He currently serves on United Way’s Vision Council and on the board of the Donors Forum of Wisconsin. He also chairs United Way’s Capital Fundraising Campaign Committee.
E.G. Schramka CPA, JD, PFS, ABV is currently the executive director of the Irwin A. and Robert D. Goodman Foundation. The Goodman Foundation focuses its giving on the Jewish Community, public recreation and related facilities,and nutrition. Prior to that he was a partner at SVA Certified Public Accountants where he headed up the firm's estate and trust department, focusing his work for over 32 years on tax consulting for high net worth individuals and closely held businesses.
Jeff Schroeter is currently the Sales and Marketing Director for The World's Largest Brat Fest and the Charitable & Community Giving Manager for Metcalfe's Market. Prior to joining Metcalfe's, Jeff was with Capital Newspapers for 42 years, with his most recent titles as Advertising Director and the National and Major Accounts Manager. Jeff has been an integral part of many organizations and boards in the Madison area including Wisconsin Newspaper Association, Ronald McDonald House, Madison Area Crime Stoppers, and the United Way of Dane County to name a few. Jeff's greatest strengths are his creativity, drive and leadership. He thrives on challenges, particularly those which expand his knowledge and expertise and specifically working with 501C3 charitable organizations. Jeff lives in Madison with his wife Gail and dog Bailey. He has two daughters and two son-in-laws, a 4-year-old grandson and a two-week-old granddaughter who all live in the Madison area.
Pam Stampen, has been with American Family Insurance for 21 years and has served in nine roles at American Family, eight of them in leadership giving her a broad perspective on the company and its operation. Pam currently serves as the Leader of the Community Development function, responsible for redesigning American Family’s approach to philanthropy. Pam has also served American Family as HRVP, Integrated Sales and Service VP Corporate Planning Director, Customer Billing Director, and IS Organizational Development Director to name a few. Before coming to American Family, Pam worked for both public and private companies including Ernst & Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Charles Schwab, Stuart James Investment Bankers and Northwest Airlines. Pam’s educational background includes an MBA and MS in Quantitative Analysis both from UW-Madison and a BA from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. Pam is married to her wonderful husband of almost 21 years, John. Pam and John have two sons Jake -19 and Tucker -17 both pursuing careers in the arts. When not following her children around with a video camera and band equipment, Pam enjoys exercising (with John) and gardening (on her own).
Dave Zweifel, Editor Emeritus has been with The Capital Times since he graduated from UW-Madison in 1962, serving as the paper's editor in chief from 1983 to 2008. He was president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council for 15 years, served as a Pulitzer Prize judge in 2000 and 2001, and named to the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2011. A native of New Glarus, Wis., where he grew up on a farm, he serves on several non-profit boards, including the newspaper’s charitable arm, The Evjue Foundation, and is a military veteran, having served on active duty as a field artillery officer in the early 1960s and for 26 years in the Wisconsin Army National Guard where he retired as a colonel in 1993.
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