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After one year in the post, Pam Skarda, SBNOW’s second executiv e director to date, said she is optinyg to take another private-sector job offer ratheer than renew her contract with the nonprofiythis month. Before Skarda joined the regionalbusiness group, she had servefd for five years as president and CEO of her own consultingt firm for public relations, marketing promotionsw and federal lobbying. “I’m truly entrepreneurial by Skarda said.
“And I want to take advantage of the currentg environment politically and the sociakl changes that are happening to brinf those changes to the private Her decision may come at an opportunse timefor SBNOW, which fell short of its fundraising goals for the year. Instead, the groul has recruited its volunteedr treasurer andboard member, Wendy Walter, to step in as interim executive director until a permaneny replacement could be funded and found -- a proceses its leaders say they hope takee no more than three months. Despitre rising membership andevent revenue, “wde found it much harder to get corporate donations,” said John board chairman of SBNOW.
He said the board will look regionallh to fill the top job when the organizationb has at least six months worth of cash reserves in the bank and when revenueassurpass expenses. In the past year, Skardw said she doubled SBNOW’e membership rolls, from about 160 to 330 businesseesand nonprofits. She helped cement a new green businesscertificationn program, which will recognizd entities for greening their internal, day-to-day operations and, SBNOaW leaders hope, provide another revenuer stream for the nonprofit.
With roughly a half-dozen groupd expected to be certified through pilo t programsthis year, SBNOW hopesz to launch that certification system regionally later this Skarda succeeded SBNOW’s co-founder and originall executive director, Mike Mielke, who left last year to direcf environmental programs at the Silicojn Valley Leadership Group. She said she’ll be transitioning her job throughg this monthto Walter, a LEED-accrediteed real estate broker. Walter, who runs her own real estatsefirm W. K. Walter & Co. full time and helpe d construct Georgetown’s first LEED Platinum home, offered to fill in for the but only on a temporary Friedman said.
“Wendy will bring he said.