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2012 Million Dollar Women Symposium

Wednesday, November 14, 2012
8:00-11:30am

Hawthorne Hotel Salem, MA 

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The 7th Annual Million Dollar Women Symposium

A panel of women led non-profits with over $1,000,000 in revenue.  

November 9, 2011
8:00-11:30am

Hawthorne Hotel Salem, MA 

$35 includes full breakfast

The Enterprise Center recognizes that non-profits are a major part of the business community and economy of the North Shore. That is why this year the Million Dollar Women Symposium is going to highlight women who have founded or who are at the helm of million dollar non-profit organizations. If you’re currently in the non-profit sector, serve on the board of a non-profit, have ever dreamed of running or creating a non-profit yourself, or if you have friends in the non-profit sector this is the meeting for you! 

This year the Enterprise Center highlights women at the helm of non-profit organizations with gross revenues of more than $1,000,000. They’ll share the challenges they faced and overcame on their way up the not-for-profit ladder—or over the bridge from the for-profit world. They’ll answer your questions, drawing on their own experience and wisdom. Most important, they’ll empower you with the message that has made them and their organizations successful. Millions and Missions–how to have it all! Please Click Here to Register!


 

Panelists:

• Margo Casey, Executive Director, North Shore United Way
• Tiziana C. Dearing, CEO, Boston Rising
• Annie Harris, Executive Director, Essex National Heritage Commission
• Lynn Margherio, Founder and CEO, Cradles to Crayons
• Dr. Patricia Maguire Meservey, President, Salem State University
  

Every one of you can be a million-dollar woman! 

Sponsored by Beverly Cooperative Bank

2011 Panelists  

Annie Harris
Annie C. Harris is the Executive Director of the Essex National Heritage Commission, the non-profit, management steward for the Essex National Heritage Area.  The Commission’s mission is to preserve and enhance the heritage area’s significant resources.

Annie was a founding member of the Commission and vocal proponent for the creation of the Essex National Heritage Area.  The Commission accomplishes its work in partnerships with the National Park Service and more than 250 regional organizations and historic sites throughout Boston’s North Shore and Lower Merrimack Valley.  The Commission’s activities include annual preservation and interpretation grants, regional heritage events, historic preservation advocacy, trails and greenway planning, cultural tourism promotion, and general advocacy for the heritage resources of one of the oldest settled regions in the nation. 

Annie also serves in a national leadership position with the Alliance of National Heritage Areas in Washington, DC as its treasurer and a member of the Executive Committee.  Prior to establishing Essex Heritage, Annie served as the executive director of The Salem Partnership, a public-private economic development coalition of business and community leaders.  Before entering the non-profit world, Annie worked for many years in real estate development and finance with a specialty in historic preservation and adaptive re-use.  Her real estate redevelopment projects include Harbor Lofts in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and the executive offices of the American Woolen Company in Andover, MA which are currently luxury condominiums.

Annie has been active for many years in civic and community organizations around Salem and the North Shore.  Currently, she serves on the City of Salem Zoning Board of Appeals and the Harbor Plan Committee.  She has served as a member of the North Shore Medical Center Community Leadership Council, the Great Marsh Coalition, the Essex County Community Foundation Environmental Stewardship Forum, MAPC's North Shore Task Force, Governor Romney’s Northeast Regional Competitive Council,  MBTA’s North Shore Major Investment Study Steering Committee, Salem Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Destination Salem Board of Directors, Salem Rotary, Salem State College Foundation Board, Board of Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Award Committee for Human Rights and Social Justice, Federal Street School Council, and was one of the founding members of the Foundation for Salem Public Education. She served for 12 years on the Salem Historical Commission - six years as its chair, and for two years was President of Chestnut Street Associates, Inc., one of the oldest non-profit historic preservation organizations in the country.

Annie has lived in the McIntire Historic District in Salem, MA for more than 30 years.   She moved to the Boston area to study at MIT where she graduated with Master of Architecture degree and later received her MBA from Harvard University.  She currently resides in a Greek Revival house with her husband Andrew Lippman, Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director of the Media Lab at MIT, Cambridge, MA.  They have one daughter, Julia, who “loves history” but is currently in law school.

Lynn Margherio
Founded in 2002, Cradles to Crayons (C2C) is an innovative Boston-based nonprofit organization that equips homeless and in-need children up to age 12 with the basic essentials – clothes, books, school supplies, footwear, baby equipment - they need to feel safe, warm, ready to learn and valued. The C2C model mobilizes communities of plenty on behalf of communities of need, recycling and reusing high-quality children’s goods, and engaging thousands of youth and adults in tangible service activities that benefit local children.

Lynn brings to Cradles to Crayons more than 20 years of business consulting, public policy and nonprofit experience. As Executive Vice President of the William J. Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative, Lynn helped launch and build President Clinton’s program to assist countries in the developing world to plan and implement large-scale HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs. The procurement services operation, which Lynn oversaw, negotiated agreements that reduced prices of key AIDS drugs and tests by 50-90% off the world’s lowest market prices, achieving global savings of hundreds of millions of dollars. 

As a business strategist, she has advised Fortune 500 companies on growth strategies, competitive positioning, and investment/acquisition opportunities. Her career has also included public policy roles at the national and state levels. From mid-1997 to mid-1998, she directed the U.S. Commerce Department team that produced The Emerging Digital Economy report, the first U.S. government report to describe and measure the impact of information technology and the Internet to the longest peace-time expansion in history. In 1993 and 1994, Lynn served as a senior member of the health care reform team in the Clinton White House. She was honored with the Boston Business Journal award as an Extraordinary Community Leader in 2011.  Additionally, Cradles to Crayons was awarded the prestigious Neighborhood Builder Award from Bank of America in 2011.

Lynn graduated from Georgetown University. She currently resides in Cambridge with her husband and children.

Dr. Patricia Maguire Meservey
Elected by a unanimous vote of the university's board of trustees, Dr. Patricia Maguire Meservey became the 13th president of Salem State University on July 29, 2007.

The former provost and academic vice president of Suffolk University in Boston, Dr. Meservey is recognized for her work in the advancement of teaching excellence, promotion of faculty scholarship and academic and administrative strategic planning. Prior to Suffolk, Dr. Meservey served as vice provost for faculty and budget at Northeastern University, where she had previously held positions that included professor of nursing, special assistant to the president and interim vice provost for enrollment management. Dr. Meservey also served as executive director of the Center for Community Health Education, Research & Service, and the national director of the Community Partnerships in Graduate Medical and Nursing Education Initiative. Both initiatives were funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. 

Dr. Meservey provided leadership in the transformation of nursing and medical education, bringing students into the fields of community health and primary care. Her work with the neighborhood health centers of Boston provided learning opportunities for students, and improved health care options for patients and community members. She is published in the fields of nursing, health professional education and health policy.

Dr. Meservey holds a PhD in higher education administration from Boston College, an MS in parent-child health nursing and a BS in nursing, both from Boston University, and a diploma in nursing from Faulkner Hospital. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing

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