About
Building Movement Project Team
May 31, 2005, 16:17

The Building Movement Project is led by a small, highly committed Project Team located across the country, and three staff members in New York.

Project Team

Linda S. Campbell
Linda S. Campbell works on BMP's Social Service and Social Change project, with groups in her community of Detroit Michigan, and throughout the US and Canada. Linda is an Independent Consultant providing consulting and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations in strategic planning; program planning and development; nonprofit start-up; board training and leadership development. Prior to her consulting work, Linda served in a variety of senior and executive positions in the nonprofit and government sector. She has provided technical assistance in capacity building to a variety of community and faith based nonprofit organizations. Linda served as Executive Director for one of NYC oldest AIDS service organizations, Minority Task Force on AIDS; and as Senior Director at the Michigan Public Health Institute and the National Center for Health Education. She has also served as a founding board member for several community based nonprofits beginning in 1985, and during the past two years, has provided planning assistance and to local African American health institute initiatives in Michigan. Linda holds a Masters Degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan. Contact Linda at lstewart22 -at- aol.com

Helen S. Kim
Helen is an independent consultant, providing consulting and training assistance to community-based organizations in strategic planning, constituency development, community organizing, and fundraising. Prior to her consulting work, Helen worked with Asian Immigrant Women Advocates and Applied Research Center, Oakland, CA. She is an affiliated consultant with the National Community Development Institute and the French American Charitable Trust, and is also an adjunct faculty member at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Helen received her B.A. in History from Carleton College and J.D. from University of Minnesota Law School. She was awarded the Working Woman Award by Women Organizing to Reach Koreans and Sundiata Acoli Freedom Award by Youth United for Community Action.

Kim Klein
Kim Klein is the founder and publisher of the bimonthly Grassroots Fundraising Journal, which is celebrated its 25th birthday in 2006. She is also the author of the classic Fundraising for Social Change (fifth edition, 2006), Fundraising for the Long Haul, Ask and You Shall Receive, and Fundraising in Times of Crisis. She and Stephanie Roth edited Raise More Money: The Best of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal. She is the featured writer for the e-newsletter of Grassroots Fundraising, with her column of answers to questions posed by readers called "Dear Kim." In addition to writing for her own publications, she has contributed many articles to the leading books, periodicals and websites in the field of fundraising. Widely in demand as a speaker, Kim has provided training and consultation in all 50 states and in 21 countries.

Her work with Building Movement is allowing her to explore a interest in the idea of the commons - what do we and what should we own in common? What should be available to everyone? Parks, libraries, the internet, sidewalks, sewers, clean air and water, need to be more closely stewarded. Kim is in the research and development phase of creating workshops on the commons and on fair and equitable tax policy. She also writes and speaks regularly on the war on terrorism and its chilling impact on dissent. Kim believes that the nonprofit sector has a critical role to play in the creation and maintenance of a democratic society. She also channels some thoughts of her cat, Jack Daniels, in a column that appears irregularly for the website.

Robby Rodriguez
Robby is originally from Southern California by way of Tucson, Arizona. He is the Director of the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP). As a Cornell undergraduate student, he interned with SWOP during the summer of 1996. After becoming a full-time organizer with SWOP in 1997, he has helped to organize New Mexico communities around issues of youth criminalization, environmental, economic and social justice. He is currently a member of the Corrales Air Quality Task Force and past chair of the Youth Leadership Development Campaign of the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ). Robby has also participated in the movement for social justice at the regional, national and international level by representing SWOP and the SNEEJ at various conferences and meetings and by participating in and conducting trainings throughout the United States and internationally.

Emery Wright
An Atlanta native, Emery has a background in youth development, community organizing and popular political education. As a founder and director for the Nia Project, a black youth development and community building organization, he spent five years working with young people from Boston, coastal South Carolina and Atlanta. Emery also helped to form and facilitate a Black Studies course in Boston’s South Bay Prison and has volunteered with other initiatives nationally and internationally for social and economic justice. Currently Emery is based in Atlanta and Program Director at Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide, which does popular political and economic education for movement building with groups and organizations locally and nationally.

Frances Kunreuther - Project Director
Frances Kunreuther directs the Building Movement Project, which works to strengthen U.S. nonprofits as sites of democratic practice and advance ways the nonprofit sector can build movement for progressive social change. She has written numerous articles and is co-author of From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change (Cornell, 2006) and the forthcoming, Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership (Jossey Bass, Fall 2008). Frances is also a senior fellow at the Research Center for Leadership and Action at NYU and spent five years at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. She headed the Hetrick-Martin Institute for lesbian and gay youth, and was awarded an Annie E. Casey Foundation fellow for this and her previous work with immigrants, homeless families, domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, and substance users during her thirty years in the nonprofit sector.

Caroline McAndrews - Director of Leadership and Communications
Caroline McAndrews joined the Building Movement Project in September 2004. She directs the work on generational changes in leadership, and is responsible for the development of products that can be distributed throughout the country, coordinating BMP communications, including the development of columns, podcasts, and reports. Prior to Building Movement, Caroline was a member of the economic security team at the Ms. Foundation for Women, where she provided funding, technical assistance, and networking opportunities to nonprofits across the country working with women to start small businesses, organize for workers rights, and develop leadership in labor unions. Before working at Ms., she served as the IDA Program Coordinator for Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition, a low-income housing developer in Redwood City, California.

Trish Tchume - Director of Civic Engagement
As the Director of Civic Engagement for the Building Movement Project, Trish Tchume supports the Project’s ongoing work of integrating social change values and practices into nonprofit service organizations. Prior to joining the Building Movement Project in April of 2008, Trish served first as a Campus Organizer and then as a Community Outreach Manager for Action Without Borders/Idealist.org. Additionally, she serves as a member for the national board of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network. Through each of these roles, Trish has had the privilege of helping to strengthen the social justice work of inspiring individuals and nonprofit organizations by connecting them with resources and networking opportunities.