Dan Pallotta, Author of Uncharitable and Founder of Pallotta TeamWorks

Dan Pallotta is the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, which invented the AIDS Rides and the Breast Cancer 3-Days. 182,000 people participated in these epic, grueling pilgrimages, and raised $556 million - more money raised more quickly for these causes than any private event operation in history. The company was the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. Dan will be speaking about his highly acclaimed new book from Tufts University Press entitled, Uncharitable. The book goes where no other work on the nonprofit sector has dared to tread. Where other books suggest ways to optimize performance within the existing paradigm, Uncharitable suggests that the paradigm itself is the problem and calls into question our most fundamental canons about charity. Dan is a crusader for giving charity equal economic rights with the for-profit sector  - leveling the playing field, so that the great causes of our time can be on a level playing field with the gigantic consumer brands, and so that the sector might be able to focus on great aspirations instead of low short-term overhead. Former United States Senator Gary Hart has said that, "Uncharitable should make us all take two steps back and imagine a new philosophy and theory of charity itself.  This is nothing less than a revolutionary work.”

Dan's most recent book, Uncharitable was released in late 2008 is available for sale at: http://www.uncharitable.net or on Amazon.  Stanford Social Innovation Review calls Uncharitable "the new manifesto for nonprofits."

To learn more about Dan visit: http://www.danpallotta.com/

Faron D. Kelley, Director of Marketing for Disney Parks

Faron Kelley is a 19-year veteran with The Walt Disney Company who has spent the majority of that time involved with the development of new product and new business launches.
 
After beginning his career with Walt Disney Entertainment as a production manager and producer, he joined the launch team for the Town of Celebration and served as the driving force behind many of Celebration's early Special Events and marketing concepts.
 
In 1998, he returned to Walt Disney World to lead a series of ad hoc teams on the development and execution of multiple property-wide celebrations, including: New Years Eve 1999, 100 Years of Magic, Magical Gatherings and the Happiest Celebration on Earth. After a brief stint leading the marketing work for Adventures by Disney, he was tapped to lead the work on property-wide celebrations for Disney Parks, including the Year of a Million Dreams and the recently launched Free on your Birthday campaign.

He currently serves as the Director of Marketing for Disney Sports Enterprises. Faron is a graduate of Iowa State University, with an MBA from Indiana University.

 

Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins

Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins is a PhD candidate, consultant, blogger, and pink-haired uber-geek! Over the last few years, Sarah has helped dozens of schools and businesses learn to wrangle with what social media and virtual worlds have to offer. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She is the coauthor of Second Life for Dummies and dozens of articles.

To learn more about Sarah visit: http://www.intellagirl.com/.

  

Rebecca Ryan, Founder, Next Generation Consulting 

Rebecca Ryan is a human sparkplug.  As founder of Next Generation Consulting, she's led the conversation in the United States about how to attract and engage next generation citizens (to cities), workers (to workplaces) and patrons (to the arts.)  Rebecca was named the 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the 2006 Communicator of the Year by Women in Communication. You may have seen her at American for the Arts (Milwaukee), Arts Midwest (Columbus), Grantmakers in the Arts (Atlanta) or Arts Presenters (New York City.)

 

To learn more about Rebecca visit http://www.rebeccaryan.com/