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Putnam Barber
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Office direct line: 206/250-2268
putnam.barber@gmail.com
- 1995- Instructor, Institute of Public Service,
Seattle University
- 2006- Senior Researcher, Action Without Borders // Idealist.Org, New York, NY
- 1994- General Editor,
The Nonprofit FAQ (http://www.nonprofits.org)
(from
2004, the Nonprofit FAQ has been a service of Action Without Borders)
- 2004-2007 Senior
Consultant, Executive Alliance, Seattle, Washington
- 1990-2004 President,
The Evergreen State Society
- 2000 Senior Advisor, Social
Ecology
- 1990 Interim Executive Director,
CityClub
- 1985-1990 Executive Secretary,
1989 Washington Centennial Commission
- 1983-1985 Vice President,
The Coast Consulting Group
- 1981-1983 Manager,
Region X Information System, US Community Services Administration
(Seattle)
- 1979-1981 Director,
Washington State Office of Economic Opportunity
- 1974-1979 Director,
Washington State Office of Voluntary Action
- 1971-1974 Program Manager,
Program Development, ACTION (Washington, DC)
- 1966-1971 Instructor,
Sociology, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
- Director, Thomas C. Wales
Foundation, 2007- ; selection Committee, Passionate
Citizenship Award, 2006, 2007;
Fellowship Committee, 2007.
- Washington State Charities
Advisory Council, Office of the Secretary of State, Chair, 2007-
- Member, Secretary of State's
Task Force on Amendments to Washington's Charitable Solicitations Act
(RCW 19.09), 2006-2007.
- Delegate, National [Nonprofit] Congress,
Washington, DC, October 2006, 2008.
- Director, Washington Attorneys Assisting Community
Organizations, 2003-2007.
- Member, Washington Statehood
Sesquicentennial Commemoration Commission, 2002-2003.
- Participant, Conference on
Accountability for Chinese NPOs, China
NPO Network, Beijing, China, September 20-21, 2002.
- Editorial Board, Nonprofit
and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2002- .
- Advisor, "Principles of
the Law of Nonprofit Organization," American
Law Institute, 2002- .
- Trustee, Municipal League of King County,
2000-2006. (Chair, 2002-2005 ;Vice-Chair
2001- 2002; Chair, Programs and Events Committee, 2001; Chair,
Candidate Evaluation Committee, 1999-2001.) Member, Issues and Ballot
Issues Committees, 2006- .
- Washington State Board on
Geographic Names, Department of Natural Resources, 1993- .
- Visiting Committee, Executive Masters in Not-for-Profit
Leadership, Seattle University, 1998-.
- Member, national advisory
committee, 4Charity, 1999-2001.
- Member, advisory committee
for the certificate program in Nonprofit Management, University of
Washington, 2000- .
- Chair, Government Relations
Committee, Washington Chapter,
Association of Fundraising Professionals, 1999-2000.
- Treasurer, Town Hall Association
(Seattle), 1998-2002 ; Steering Committee,
1996-98.
- Association for Research on Nonprofit
Organizations and Voluntary Action, Administration Committee,
1996-7; 1998 Annual Meeting Local Arrangements Committee, 1997-98.
Bylaws Revision Committee, 2006.
- Chair, Steering Committee,
State Level Nonprofit Policy Agenda project, Northwest Nonprofit
Resources, 1994-1995.
- Nonprofit Advisory Committee,
Office of the Secretary of State, 1994.
- Board of Directors, CityClub (Seattle), 1984-1990; 1992-97, vice
president 1995-97.
- Graduate school: University
of Pennsylvania (Sociology, Population Council Fellow); MA 1966.
- Undergraduate: Haverford
College (English, Economics); BA 1963.
Publications
- Review of Three Books Dealing
with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Its Relation to Nonprofits. Nonprofit
and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol 36,
no. 3 (December 2007); pp. 750-3.
- "Tending the Commons:
Charities Reform in Britain and the United States at the Start of the
21st Century, Exempt Organization Tax Review, vol. 55, no. 2
(February 2007); pp. 203-214. (See below.)
- "Trust, But Cut the
Cards," Nonprofit Online News Journal (March 2006).
Reprinted in Journal of the DMA Nonprofit Federation, vol. 9,
issue 3 (Sept. 2006); pp. 1, 11-13.
- Review of Neighbor Power:
Building Community the Seattle Way by Jim Diers
(University of Washington Press, 2004) in ARNOVA News v. 34,
no.3 (Fall-Winter 2005).
- Nonprofits in Washington 2004, Nonprofits in Washington
1999, Nonprofits
in Washington
(1994).
- Solutions for Wall Street may
not fit nonprofits," Puget Sound Business Journal supplement
"Governance and Accountability Come to the Nonprofit Sector,"
February 17-23, 2006, p. 10a.
- "Accountability: A
Challenge for Fundraisers and Charities" (editor), New
Directions in Philanthropic Fundraising, vol. 31 (March 2002).
Indianapolis: Indiana University Center on Philanthropy.
- Occasional columns, Advancing
Philanthropy, the journal of the Association of Fundraising
Professionals.
- Occasional columns, The Chronicle of Philanthropy,
listed on the
TESS website.
- "Putting Your
Organization on the Internet....Who's in Charge?" (Summer 1996);
"A Web Wanderer's Guide," (Winter
1997), Grantsmanship Center Magazine.
- With others, Fundamental Practices for
Success with Volunteer Boards of Non-Profit Organizations
(1981).
- "Community Networking --
Tools for Routine Tasks," "Virtual Communities and Real
Communities," and "A Guide
to Email for Elected Officials".
Photos, Hopvine Pub,
Seattle, January 5-31, 2007.
Recent presentations and
appearances:
- "Tending the
Commons: Charities Reform in Britain and the US at the Start of the
21st Century," presented at the meeting of the Association
for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Chicago,
November 17, 2006.
- "Public Policy Issues
Affecting Nonprofits," All About Boards, Tacoma, Washington,
November 3, 2006.
- "The Charleston
Principles Revisited" (with Mark Pacella,
Assistant Attorney General, Pennsylvania). Public Meeting, National
Association of State Charities Officials, Nashville, Tennessee,
October 16, 2006
- "Ethical Issues in
Representing Nonprofits" (with Judy Andrews), The
Law of Nonprofit Organizations, Washington Law Institute, October 13,
2006; (with Beth McCaw), December 7, 2007.
- "A View from the
Nonprofit Sector," Governance and Accountability Come to
the Nonprofit Sector, seminar sponsored by the Puget Sound
Business Journal. February 22, 2006.
- "Current Legislative
Events: Tracking the Turmoil in Washington," (with LaVerne Woods
and Mike Ricchio), 2005 Not-For-Profit
Conference, Washington Society of CPAs, November 30, 2005.
- "Accountability and the
Public Trust," plenary at the 2002 meeting of the Association for
Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Montréal, PQ, November 14,
2002; presenter and moderator.
- "A
Self-Discipline System for Chinese Nonprofits." Conference
organized by the China NPO
Network, Beijing, September 19 & 20,
2002. Participant.
- "Fundraising in
Turbulent Times," (moderator) the Forum at the Evans School,
University of Washington, February 27, 2002.
- "Nonprofits After September 11" (panel), 2001 Annual
Conference, Association for Research
on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Miami, November
29, 2001.
- "Graduate Degree
Programs in Nonprofit Management," 2001 Not-for-Profit
Conference, Washington Society of CPAs,
November 5, 2001.
- Panelist, "At the Speed
of Light: Online Philanthropy and Resources Serving the Public Good"
(closing plenary), Independent
sector Spring Research Forum, March 15-16, 2001.
- "Internet Fundraising:
The Public Policy Picture," presenter, Northwest Development
Officers Association Annual Conference, Seattle, February 15, 2001.
- "Extending the Learning
Community," presenter, Association for Research on Nonprofit
Organizations and Voluntary Action, 2000 Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
- Interview with James Walker,
ABC World News Tonight, included in a story on online charity
broadcast July 3, 2000.
- "The Promise - and the
Perils - of ePhilanthropy," keynote
address, Annual Forum, Charities Review Council of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, June 27, 2000.
- "Profiling Nonprofits
State by State," moderator and presenter, Association for
Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, 1999 Annual
Meeting, Arlington, VA.
- "The New Era of
Accountability: Challenges for Nonprofits and Regulators,"
keynote address, 1999 Conference of the National Association of
Attorneys General and the National Association of State Charities
Officials, Charleston, SC. October 1999.
- "New 990 Disclosure
Regulations," United Way of King County. August 1999.
- "Funding Technology
Initiatives," Nonprofits and Technology, Seattle, January 1999
- "Nonprofits and the
Internet," Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants,
Sea-Tac, December 1998
- "The Varieties of Online
Experience: Nonprofits in a Wired World," ARNOVA Annual Meeting,
Seattle, November 1998
- "Can Nonprofits Save the
'Net?" INDEPENDENT SECTOR Annual Meeting, 1996.
Born: Boston,
Massachusetts, 1940.
Married to Valerie Ward Lynch.
May 2008
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