Using Your Leadership Skills for Good: Non Profit Panel Recap

June 08, 2017 

Using Your Leadership Skills for Good: Non Profit Panel 

FountainHead RI’s Jason Dodier provides the opening remarks

Panelists preparing to begin answering questions

FountainHead RI Co-Founders David Almonte and Jason Dodier alongside Richard Lappin, founder of Providence Promise, which aims to support students within the Providence Public School system have access to higher-education opportunities, regardless of their financial resources

Moderator Jill Pfitzenmayer, PH.D. providing an overview of the Rhode Island Non Profit space

On Thursday June 8th, the FountainHead RI events committee was honored to lead the first in a series of panel sessions focused on using leadership skills for good within the Non Profit space. The the host and moderator was none other than Jill Pfitzenmayer, PH.D. (@RIFoundation) who is the Vice President of the Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence at the Rhode Island Foundation. Joining Jill on the main stage were three distinguished panelists beginning with Stephen Hourahan, (@StephenHourahan) who is a leader in the Rhode Island Non Profit community, currently serving as the Chief Advancement Officer of Family Service of Rhode Island, where he is responsible for all aspects of public relations, marketing, and branding for a $25 million organization serving 20,000 Rhode Islanders.  Stephen also serves as the Executive Director of AIDS Project Rhode Island, a division of Family Service, which provides a caring and comprehensive array of supports for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Next up was Erica Busillo Adams, (@EricaBusAdams) an incredibly passionate non profit executive and currently the Director of Development at the Autism Project. Erica is also the Co-Founder and CEO of (step)mom: v,  sits on the Boards of Directors of Fusionworks Dance Company and The CSPH, and was selected as an “Emerging Nonprofit Leader” by the Rhode Island Foundation in 2014 and a “Woman to Watch” in Social Services by Providence Business News in 2017.

Lastly, our very own Co-Founder Nick Denice (@FountainHeadRI) rounded out the panel with his experience as a millennial sitting on the Board of Directors for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island where he serves on the Finance Committee and as Vice Chair of the Audit Committee.  Blue Cross is Rhode Island’s leading health insurer with over 400,000 members and revenues of $1.7 billion annually.

The discussion was lively with very unique viewpoints among the candidates that they would express through a series of questions delivered throughout the discussion and lively Q&A session to finish.

For more information, or to be connected with our panelists, please email our events team: Events@FountainHeadRI.org