Liz Shear
Partial Resume Current Civic activities
Founding member, National Network for Youth Community Youth Development Guide Team. Member, Board of Directors, Community for Sacred Ecology.
Functional summary
Organizational and systems development: Designed, developed and facilitated learning organizations in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Particular emphasis on executive coaching, growing and sustaining boards of directors; fashioning coherent, ethical, and participatory multi-level systems; strategic planning; building positive, and soulful organizational cultures and teams; and creating supportive and efficient organizational structures with appropriate policies and procedures. Fundraising and resource development: Designed and implemented comprehensive resource development systems. Raised over $60 million as part of a resource development team. Have expertise in event planning and production with a particular emphasis on the entertainment industry. Coached and supported philanthropists. Community relations and social marketing: Designed and implemented several long and short-term public relations, community education and advocacy campaigns. Established excellent relationship with local and national media including Parade Magazine, 48 Hours, and National Public Broadcasting System. Was a frequent guest on the air. Public policy: Assisted in the passage of the federal Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Action, many state and local legislative initiatives in affordable housing, community dispute resolution, education and youth development. Facilitation and teaching/learning: Designed and taught in several local and national learning systems. Have deep interest in community learning, collaboration, andragogy, spiritual development, learning communities, self-directed education, ceremony and the technologies of participation and development. Program development and evaluation: Designed, developed, and evaluated over 50 programs for elders, families, youth, foster families, community development, community art and in the arenas of social and
health services, substance abuse prevention, treatment and intervention. Set up short and long term evaluation systems with particular emphasis on results, learning, and replication. Administration and management: Have over 18 years of executive experience in all areas of administration and management. Training and technical assistance: Have assisted emerging and established community-based organizations needed organizational systems including fiscal systems, resource development systems, administrative systems, program management systems, learning systems. Am an expert on policy and procedure development. Currently train trainers in how to design, teach; and facilitate presentations and workshops as well as time management. Teaching/learning: Am adjunct faculty in the nonprofit management masters program at the University of San Diego’s School of Education. I teach Governance and Beyond Collaboration. Affordable housing: Co-designed, developed and funded a model transitional housing effort using a public and private partnership approach, called “Take Wing.” Also acquired affordable housing sites in mid-city. Youth work: Have designed and co-led youth partnership and participation processes in human services, youth development, community development, community youth development, expressive arts and rites of passage. Co-inventor of community youth development national model. Creating joyful and organized spaces: Work with individuals and organizations to fashion original, beautiful and functional offices and homes in a frugal and empowering way. Assisted in physical construction and renovation. The partnership is called Amazing Spaces
Employment
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Alzheimer/s Association: Core consultant to organization including board of directors and executive director; Primary responsibilities include coaching and implementing the results of an organizational culture study I conducted. Urban Corps of San Diego: resource development consultant to emerging capital campaign Naval Training Center Foundation: program development for innovative school in the park including design and community engagement The AjA Project: consultant and facilitator on board and organizational development and executive transitions
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Tribal STAR, SDSU: facilitator and coach in a multi-sector, Native and non-Native collaboration on Indian Child Welfare Act and child protective services. Casa de Amparo: consultant and facilitator on board development. University of San Diego School of Education: adjunct faculty in NonProfit Leadership and Management Program teaching board of director development, governance and the practice of collaboration. USD Annual Institute on Nonprofit Governance: creator and coordinator of annual conference. San Diego Arts Collaborative: facilitated strategic planning process for six young organizations who are forming a partnership. San Diego Grantmakers: supported local host committee's event planning for National Council on Foundation's Annual Meeting of 1800 foundations in San Diego. Native American Nursing Scholars Institute: facilitated annual board of directors' strategic planning retreat. Institute of Cultural Affairs U.S.A.: Focus was joint board/staff strategic planning. Bill Silva Presents, an entertainment promotion company. Focus was strategic planning, organizational development, merger integration, philanthropy and executive coaching.
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National Network for Youth, a membership and advocacy organization. Focus was design, development and evaluation of national community youth development learning system.
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McAlister Institute for Training and Education, a recovery organization. Focus was on overall organizational, board and program development for women and children. Emphasis on creating empowering learning systems for para professional staff and for participants.
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County of San Diego, Health and Human Services Agency. Worked with the Director and key staff to create a countywide resource development effort and to facilitate a world café on sustainability. Also worked with the Community Action Partnership Advisory Board on strategic planning, community planning and program development.
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State of California, Office of Child Abuse Prevention, Juvenile Crime Prevention Program, a statewide initiative with 12 grantees, the purpose of which is to reduce juvenile crime. Focus was a retrospective evaluation of the training and technical assistance system and model documentation.
2002-present: University of San Diego, Institute of Nonprofit Education and Research in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences. Adjunct faculty board development, nonprofit governance, the practice of collaboration and facilitative leadership. Amazing Spaces, "a practical approach to the art of living," San Diego, California. Work with colleague to create functional and joyful homes and work places 1996-1998: Bill Silva Presents, San Diego, California. Major national music promotion company. Core consultant. Primary responsibilities included differentiating and
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articulating the organizational systems, creating administrative and personnel systems, institutionalizing a management team and strategic planning capacity, designing profit tracking system and executive coaching. 1995-1999: National Network for Youth, Washington D.C. Core faculty. Co-designed, facilitated, and evaluated the Community Youth Development Learning Resource Team, a 35 member learning community who represented the cutting edge of youth development work in the United States. From 1980-1995 held a board leadership positions for Western States Youth Services Network and the National Network for Youth, two organizations dedicated to public policy, education, and advocacy on behalf of and with at risk youth. 1995-1996: Childrens’ Initiative, San Diego, a collaborative effort among the public, private, and voluntary sectors dedicated to changing conditions for young people and the systems that affect them. Acting Executive Director. Responsibilities included collaboration development; creating a budgeting, organizational, policy, evaluation structure. 1979-1995: San Diego Youth and Community Services, Inc., a premier 29 year old non-profit organization with an annual budget of $6 million, 181 staff and 461 volunteers. Guiding principles are empowering youth, strengthening families, creating healthy alternatives, developing communities, establishing collaborative partnerships, and respecting each and every one. Executive Director. Major areas of responsibility included agency and institutional development; board and auxiliary development and maintenance; public and community relations; public policy development and legislative advocacy; marketing and fundraising; operations; financial management; quality of service planning and evaluation; opportunity management; facility development and maintenance; staff supervision and development. 1975-1979: Community Congress of San Diego, a major advocacy and learning network of human service organizations, grassroots coalitions and individuals. Core faculty of the College for Community Learning and Associate Director of Training and Development. Responsible for design, facilitation and evaluation of multi-ethnic leadership development as well as small business and community-based administrative educational programs. Designed curricula, competency-based learning evaluation systems, codirected administrative and program development efforts. Sat on editorial board of C/O, Journal for Alternative Human Services. 1969-1973: YMCA Project Oz, Human Development Department, San Diego, one of the first residential crisis intervention systems for runaway teens and their families. Founding staff member, crisis and family counselor, director
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Education
1999: New College of California, Masters in Leadership and the Humanities. Thesis: Learning Large: A Spiritual Development Learning System for Youth Workers and Youth. 1970: United States International University, completed coursework for a Masters in Human Behavior. 1964: Monmouth College, New Jersey, Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages. 1961: Universite de Strasbourg, France, Certificate in French Studies. 1961: Pembroke College, Brown University, Rhode Island.
Partial list of publications
San Diego Business Journal, “Stop in the Name of Love: Making a Case for Nonprofit Governance,” February 2008. California State Office of Child Abuse Prevention Juvenile Crime Prevention Program, “Training and Technical Assistance Component, Final Evaluation Report,” Summer, 1999. California State Office of Child Abuse Prevention Juvenile Crime Prevention Program, “Model Documentation Report,” January, 2000. New Designs for Youth Development, “Learning Large: Reclaiming the Sacred in Youth Work,” May, 2000. New Designs for Youth Development, “Community Youth Development”, 1995 Child Welfare League of America, Hughes and Sara Jarvis
“The New Story”, 1995 with Della
“Cost Model Study for the Juvenile Diversion Programs: Final Report for the County of San Diego, Community Action Partnership”, 1997 junior writer with Nancy Smith
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