The economic recession and the contemporary political environment have put both government and nonprofit organizations under severe fiscal pressure. Nonprofits face increasing service demands with more limited resources. Governments are seeking to cut expenditures, limit taxation and find new sources of revenue. This situation has created new tensions between government and nonprofits. Tim Delaney will discuss these tensions, the strategies nonprofits need to pursue to protect themselves, and the public policy issues that must be addressed in order to preserve the viability and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations.

Keynote Speaker: Tim Delaney, President & CEO, National Council of Nonprofits

An attorney with extensive leadership experience in the business, government, and nonprofit sectors, Tim Delaney has served as president and CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits since July 2008. Tim began his career at a large multi-state law firm, where he focused on litigation, media law, and government relations. Appointed in 1995 to be Arizona’s Solicitor General, Tim successfully guided Arizona to win several cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. He later chaired the Transition Team for newly-elected Attorney General Janet Napolitano, who promoted him to the top staff position of Chief Deputy Attorney General. In 2001, Tim left the Attorney General’s Office to create the Center for Leadership, Ethics & Public Service, an independent nonprofit through which he worked with more than 22,000 people across the country championing positive ethics, advancing civic engagement, and promoting democracy.

During his career, Tim has helped nonprofits from a variety of vantage points, including as an attorney, author, board chair, CEO, consultant, founder, incubator, lobbyist, teacher, trainer, and volunteer. Among his many roles, Tim previously served as board chair of Valley Leadership, as adjunct faculty member at a major university teaching courses on leadership and ethics in the nonprofit sector, as a national training fellow for the nonpartisan Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest, and author of a guidebook on nonprofit advocacy.

In the field of ethics and public trust, Tim has served as a prosecutor (helping to impeach a governor and later remove four other elected officials from office), author, legislative drafter (developing Arizona’s Public Service Ethics Act), and consultant and trainer for businesses, governments, and nonprofits.

Panelists:

• Karen Beavor, President & CEO, Georgia Center for Nonprofits
• Douglas J. Hertz, President & CEO, United Distributors
• Ben F. Johnson, III, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Emory University
• Clint Mueller, Legislative Director, Association County Commissioners of Georgia

8:00am-9:00am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00am-11:30am
Keynote Address & Panel Discussion

Sponsors
Alston + Bird
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Foundation Center–Atlanta
Southeastern Council of Foundations
United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta
Woodruff Arts Center

**Please RSVP by email to Tim.Delaney@woodruffcenter.org.

For questions or further information, please contact nonprofitstudiesprogram@gsu.edu.