The Nonprofit Spotlight Speaker Series was established in 2016 due to a high level of interest by our students in learning more about the many nonprofit organizations in our community and how they, as future nonprofit professionals, can effectively lead organizations such as these.
The next event in the series will be held:
Thurs., April 4, 2024, 6:30 p.m., Rachel Kerns, executive director, Habitat for Humanity of Portage County, will speak. Brad Knife, Re-Store manager, will also be in attendance, along with Kaleena Gharky, community director. A family that has been served by Habitat for Humanity may accompany her.
Location - Henderson Hall Room #201
The following nonprofit organizations have presented to our university community:
- 2023 Ronald McDonald House Charities, Northeast Ohio
- 2019 - Family & Community Services, Inc.
- 2018 - Hope United and the Summit County Felony Drug Court Turning Point Program
- 2018 - World Relief
- 2017 - Collaborative to End Human Trafficking
- 2016 - Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank
- 2016 - International Institute of Akron
- 2016 - Battered Women's Shelter and the Rape Crisis Center of Summit and Medina Counties
Any students who would like to be a member of the Nonprofit Spotlight Speaker Series Planning Committee can contact Kathy Bergh at kbergh@kent.edu.