John M. (Jack) Cornman

Jack Cornman has had extensive experience in nonprofit strategic planning, program development, and management as executive director of The Gerontological Society of America and the American Anthropological Association (membership organizations), and the National Rural Center (a policy analysis/advocacy organization). He has served on numerous boards and committees of nonprofit organizations and public sector advisory committees, and currently serves on the board of the Consultants Consortium of the National Capital Area and is president and founder of the Alliance of Housing Solutions.

Mr. Cornman was press secretary, legislative assistant, and speech writer for two U.S. Senators, managed a successful Congressional campaign, and has advised numerous county-level election campaigns. He is co-author of two books—a case study of a nonprofit organization and a policy primer on intergenerational relations. He is also co-author of a number of journal articles on containing health care expenditures, ethical and societal issues raised by the aging of populations, and on the social contract and intergenerational relations.

Roy R. (Rip) Coffin

Roy R. Coffin has had extensive experience in the management of change and organizational development in government, churches, and nonprofits. He spent 15 years as an interim pastor serving Episcopal congregations. This transition management work frequently entailed the cultivation of skills for the resolution of organizational disputes. In earlier work with the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and other federal agencies, Mr. Coffin was involved in all aspects of program planning, budgeting, and evaluation, disciplines which he has adapted to work with churches and nonprofits. In 1999, Mr. Coffin became a Johns Hopkins Fellow in Change Management. He previously received an MBA from the University of Michigan.

He was a founder and a past president of the Interim Ministry Network (a professional association of practitioners of interim ministry); he continues to serve that organization as an educator/trainer for its two-week training course “Basics for Transitional Ministry.” He also collaborated in the development of an advanced three-week course, “A Church Transition Consultants Program,” which he and a colleague now own. He has recently served as board treasurer and led a strategic planning effort of an early childhood care center in Northwest Washington, DC.

Barbara K. Kincaid

Barbara K. Kincaid has worked as a senior development professional in higher education, academic medicine, and advocacy and direct service nonprofits since 1986. In both large and small organizations, she has directed foundation relations and individual giving programs, including annual support campaigns and major and planned gifts. She has worked directly with donors, converting modest annual fund gifts to six-figure major gifts, and helped train volunteers for gift solicitations. She has also helped small, single source fund-raising programs diversify and expand their funding bases.

Her marketing experience is extensive in politics and the nonprofit sector. In the late 1970s, Ms. Kincaid developed and ran a nationwide public education campaign for rural people called “the most prestigious of its kind” by Cornell University and “a Nobel prize for rural folks” by Country Journal. Ms. Kincaid previously was a speech writer and press secretary on Capitol Hill.