Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership
Faculty and Staff
Nora Silver is Director of the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and an Adjunct Professor at Haas. She teaches Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations, Social Sector Solutions (S-cubed), Introduction to Nonprofit Organizations (undergraduate), and Cross-Sector Collaboration. In addition she is the faculty sponsor for two speaker series: Education Leadership, and Private Philanthropy: Investing in Social Change.
As director of the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership at Haas, Silver oversees all instruction and fieldwork, including the Berkeley Board Fellows program, Oakland Small Schools Residency, Education Leadership Case Competition, Haas for Students, and internship and career advising for students interested in the nonprofit and public sectors.
Before coming to Haas in 2003, Silver founded and directed a nonprofit collaboration of foundations to strengthen community service, served as executive director of a domestic violence organization, taught Spanish in an inner city junior high school, taught at community colleges and universities and nonprofit training programs, conducted research on the nonprofit sector, and worked as a psychotherapist in private practice. She holds a Ph.D. in organizational and clinical psychology, and is the author of At The Heart: The New Volunteer Challenge to Community Agencies as well as numerous papers and articles. Her current research interest is community involvement in different ethnic communities.
As an organizational consultant, she has worked with hundreds of organizations worldwide--including nonprofits, businesses, governments, foundations and universities--on strategy and organizational development, collaborations and mergers, community involvement, board and executive development, and disaster response. She has consulted with leaders in government and business to help build strong social service sectors internationally in Singapore, Japan, Denmark, and Canada. As a senior trainer for Leader to Leader Institute, she has consulted with nongovernmental organizations around the world in organizational self-assessment and cross-sector collaboration, including Hong Kong Junior Chamber of Commerce, Office of the Governor of Hawaii, and Alaska Association of Nonprofits.
Tom Courtney teaches Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations. He is an experienced consultant and trainer in the field of nonprofit financial management and accounting. For over two decades Courtney has held senior management positions in the nonprofit sector. He was the Chief Financial Officer for Yosemite National Institutes, an environmental education organization; Director of Finance for East Bay Agency for Children, a multifaceted human services agency; and Assistant Dean of John F. Kennedy University's School of Management. Courtney has taught over 2,500 nonprofit employees and volunteers in financial management and accounting. He has authored several articles for the nonprofit field including: "Ratio Analysis - A Tool for Understanding a Nonprofit's Financial Condition", "Determining Client Service Costs: A Guide for Managers", and nonprofit ethics case studies. He received his Master of Public Administration degree in nonprofit organization management from the University of San Francisco and holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration with a focus on accounting from Drake University. He currently also holds graduate faculty positions at the University of California at Berkeley's Schools of Social Welfare and Public Policy, and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Francisco's Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management.
Kathleen Fletcher teaches the Nonprofit Boards course in the MBA Program. She is Acting Director and a faculty member at the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management. Fletcher has over 20 years experience consulting with nonprofit boards, and has published numerous articles on board and executive relations. She received her Master of Nonprofit Administration and her Ed.D. in Education from the University of San Francisco. Her research interests are on the effective functioning of nonprofit boards.
Kim Klein is a fundraising practitioner, trainer and writer who teaches the Marketing and Fundraising for Nonprofit and Public Organizations course. She is the author of Fundraising in Times of Crisis, Fundraising for Social Change, Fundraising for the Long Haul, Ask and You Shall Receive, and the founder and co-publisher of the "Grassroots Fundraising Journal". Her company, Chardon Press, maintains an extensive web site--www.chardonpress.com. She is also the Series Editor for the Chardon Press Series of Jossey-Bass, a division of Wiley and Sons. She is widely in demand as a speaker, has worked in all 50 states and 16 countries. She is best known for adapting traditional fundraising techniques to the needs of small nonprofits.
Lynne LaMarca Heinrich is a Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, where she teaches the Nonprofit Boards course. Heinrich has provided services to the nonprofit sector for more than 20 years. She has served museums, educational institutions, performing arts organizations, foundations, environmental organizations, and health and human service agencies independently and as an affiliated consultant with the firm of Marts & Lundy, Inc. She has worked closely with faculty, boards, staff, and donors to provide strategic planning and advancement services, board leadership training, and counsel for organizational change. She has also served as the Executive Director of the Stern Grove Festival Association and Director of Development at the Exploratorium.
James Lincoln is Faculty Research Director for the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership. Lincoln serves Haas as the Mitsubishi Chair in International Business and Finance, Professor in the Haas Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. His primary research and teaching interests include organizational design and innovation, Japanese management, and inter-organizationalnetworks. Lincoln is co-author of Japan’s Network Economy: Structure, Persistance, and Change, and Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the US and Japan. He is an editor of The State of California Labor.
Debbie Ng is the Program Developer at the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership. She oversees the experiential learning opportunities including the Berkeley Board Fellows Program, Haas for Students, Silicon Valley Social Venture Partners Fellowships and Social Sector Solutions (MBA 292N). She also oversees the marketing and nonprofit alumni relations for the Center.
Prior to coming to Haas, Debbie spent ten years in the nonprofit and education sector working in the areas of youth development, cultural based programming and civic engagement with organizations such as The Urban Service Project, Chinatown Beacon Center, The Volunteerism Project and Saint Mary’s College of California. She also has a media arts background and produced the award winning film, Kieu.
Frances Van Loo is the founder of the Nonprofit and Public Management Program at the Haas School. A Professor Emeritus of the Haas Business and Public Policy Group, Van Loo was honored with the campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching at Haas. She taught in executive education programs for business, government, museum and religious institution managers, and among other courses in the MBA program, the popular Economies of the Public and Nonprofit Sector.
