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Leadership

2011 - 2012 MEND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

	Officers
Chair	Adriana Barrera, PhD, LA Community College District
First Vice Chair	Susan Ng, Kaiser Permanente
Treasurer	Steve Brown, Fiesta Plaza Nutritional Products
Secretary	Maritza Recinos, LA Dept. Public Social Services
Past Chair	Ron Villafana, State Compensation Insurance Fund (retired)
	Standing Committee Chairpersons
Volunteer Development Co-Chair	Ed Rose, Lockheed (retired)
Volunteer Development Co-Chair	Susan Blumenfield, DSW, Hospital Administrator (retired)
Fundraising Events Liaison	Sharon Ulmer, RN, HRN Services Inc.
Fundraising Proposals Co-Chair	Marge Terhar, Writer
Fundraising Proposals Co-Chair	Richard Boehmer, Esq., O'Melveny and Myers (retired)
Fundraising Facilities Co-Chair	Steve Brown, Fiesta Plaza Nutritional Products
Fundraising Capital Campaign Co-Chair	Ed Rose, Lockheed (retired)
Management, Budget and Planning Co-Chair	Ron Villafana, State Compensation Insurance Fund
Management, Budget and Planning Co-Chair	Paul Collins, Collins Insurance Services
Public Relations Co-Chair	Diane Medina, ABC7
	Members-at-Large
	Gigi Gomez, Community Volunteer
	Robert Mayers, ESE Corporation (retired)
	Shaun Sarkissian, Wells Fargo Bank
	Carolyn Rose, LVN, Kaiser Permanente (retired)
	Ward White, American Int'l Engineering and Manufacturing
	EX OFFICIO
	Marianne Haver Hill, MEND, President and Chief Executive Officer
	Jenny Gutierrez, MEND, Chief Operating Officer
	Maggie Torres, MEND, Director of Programs and Service
	Scott Mikels, MEND, Controller

 

2012 Council of Executives

Honorable Howard Berman
Honorable Alex Padilla
Honorable Felipe Fuentes
Honorable Zev Yaroslavsky
Honorable Richard Alarcon

Thomas E. Backer, PhD, Executive Director, Human Interaction Research Institute
Peter V. Haight, Retired CEO, Fiduciary Trust of California
Arnold Kleiner, General Manager, ABC7
Cary Lefton, CEO, Agora Reality and Management

David Lillington, PhD, President, Spectrolab, Inc.

Walt Mosher, PhD, Founder, Precision Dynamic Corporation
Mary Rosas, Senior Director, Alliance, Affordability and Access, PhRMA
Sr. Colleen Settles, OP, D. Min, Chief Mission Integration Officer, Providence Health and Service
Marla Vazquez, Vice President , Wells Fargo
Kevin Walsh, PhD, Consultant
Michelle Crozier Yates, Vice President, Warner Bros. Entertainment

 

2011 MEND BOARD MEETING SCHEDULE

• Saturday, March 26, 2011 – 4 – 5:15 PM
• Saturday, March 26, 2011 – 5:30 – 8:30 PM Volunteer Recognition Dinner/Board        Installation
• Tuesday, May 24, 2011 – 5:30 PM
• Saturday, June 11, 2011 Annual Bd/Staff Retreat (time TBA)
• Tuesday, July 26, 2011 – 5:30 PM
• Tuesday, September 27. 2011 – 5:30 PM
• Tuesday, November 15, 2011 – 5:30 (THIRD Tues due to Thanksgiving the 4^th wk)
• Tuesday, January 24, 2012 –5:30 PM
• March 2012 meeting date TBA (held in conjunction with annual Volunteer Dinner)

2011 MEND ANNUAL FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY CALENDAR

• Oscar Night America Party Feb 27
• Raffle at Volunteer Dinner March 26
• Stop Summer Hunger Campaign June and August
•  Basketball Camp June 27-30*
• Poverty Conference June 15
•  Neighborhood Birthday Party/Open House for MEND – July or August* 
• First-Ever Fall Fundraising Raffle --  October 
• Holiday Direct Mail Campaign November and December – TBA
• E-Waste Recycling Event – Date TBA