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Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Time: 6:00-8:15 pm
Location: The Junior League of Austin - 5416 Parkcrest, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78731
Registration fee: $35
Guest Speaker: Randi Shade, Austin City Council Member
Online registration is closed. Walk-up registrations are welcome tonight at The Junior League of Austin.
- Mingle with more than 100 other business professionals, and discuss nonprofit board service with business and community leaders.
- Meet more than 20 diverse nonprofits looking for talented professionals like you to serve on their boards.
Join us if you are Business Professional or a Community Leader…
- Looking for a Link to nonprofit organizations
- Who wants to Learn more about the gift of volunteering
- With a desire to Live a better life by serving on a board of directors
Nonprofit Networking Gallery: During the Board Summit, you’ll have the chance to meet with more than 20 local nonprofits looking for board members just like you. These organizations span issue areas from basic needs and education to the arts and environment. So whether you know what kind of organization you want to get involved with or not, there will be something here for you! See the list of participating nonprofits.
Randi Shade
Austin City Council Member
Randi Shade was elected to the Austin City Council Place 3 in May of 2008. She has lived in Austin for more than 18 years, working in the public, private and nonprofit sector. Randi has served as the Executive Director of the Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation, and as CEO of Charitygift, an Internet company she founded in 1999 and sold to a publicly traded company in 2005. Randi’s career in public service includes four years in the Governor’s Office (1992 – 1996) as the founding Executive Director of the Texas Commission on Volunteerism & Community Service, during which time she launched and managed the AmeriCorps program statewide. Under Randi’s leadership Texas was awarded more money than any other state ($55 million). Randi also worked as a fundraising coordinator on the successful 1990 Ann Richards gubernatorial campaign and has also previously worked for City Year, Teach for America, and Procter & Gamble. She is a Plan II Honors graduate of the University of Texas, where she was elected to serve as student body president. Randi later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Randi has always been an active community volunteer and has served on the boards of the Association of Women in Technology – Austin, Austin Clean Energy Initiative, Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation, Central Texas Better Business Bureau, Foundation for Women’s Resources Committee of the Board, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Austin, OneStar Foundation, PeopleFund, Sigma Delta Tau Sorority’s Texas Education Foundation, TexChange, Texas Hillel Foundation, UT Commission on 125, and the Volunteer Center (now Hands on Central Texas).
Randi and her partner, Kayla Shell, an attorney and Dell executive, live in the Clarksville neighborhood and are the proud parents of a toddler son named Ethan.