A frugal approach to managing our financial resources characterizes World Neighbors financial strategy. Our annual operating budget is approximately $5.5 million, which is invested in people, not things such as expensive construction and material aid.
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Who's Who at World Neighbors
World Neighbors was incorporated on Sept. 12, 1952, as a private, charitable, not-for-profit corporation. A volunteer board of trustees, whose members come from throughout the United States, contribute their time and expertise to govern World Neighbors. Trustees are elected for a term of three years.
World Neighbors operations are led by the president and CEO, who is ably assisted by a coordinating team composed of seven senior staff members. The World Neighbors staff includes: 18 team members located in the United States, including San Francisco, Florida and at the Oklahoma City headquarters; 75 team members in the field who are from the areas where they work; more than 50 local partner organizations that help to train volunteers and leaders; thousands of volunteers in Asia, Africa and Latin America and Caribbean.
Learn about our 2011-2012 Board of Trustees
2011-2012 Officers
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Chair - David Bearden *
Investment Banker, Retired
Kentfield, California
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Vice Chair - Doug Watson, Ph.D. *
Professor of Literature/Culture, Retired
Shawnee, Oklahoma
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Secretary - Mindy Galoob *
Director of Finance & Operations
Children's Creativity Museum
San Francisco, California
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Treasurer - Gordon Perkin, M.D. *
Senior Fellow, Retired
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, Washington
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Sam Allison
Executive Vice President
CTW, LLC
Waco, Texas
Tommy Barrow
President
Tom Barrow Company
Atlanta, Georgia
Edna Daniel, M.D.
Anesthesiologist
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Leslie Hudson, Ph.D.
Community Volunteer
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Carl James
Clinical Sales Specialist
Transgenomic, Inc.
San Antonio, Texas
Joellen Lambiotte*
Independent Consultant
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fred Nunes, Ph.D.*
Management Consultant
Silver Spring, Maryland
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Maxwell Owusu, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Steve Schomberg, Ph.D.*
Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement and Institutional Relations (Retired)
University of Illionois at Urbana-Champaign
Iowa City, Iowa
Tim Smith
Senior Vice President
Walden Asset Management
Boston, Massachusetts
Marnie Taylor
President and CEO
Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Carol Wall
Consultant
Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts
Renée Wilder
Director of Research and Strategic Planning
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
Washington, DC
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Learn about Melanie Macdonald, President and CEO
.jpg) Melanie Macdonald joined Oklahoma City-based World Neighbors in 2004 as the organization’s first female president and chief executive officer. With a committed vision to growing the organization both domestically and internationally, Macdonald has instituted a significant expansion program to increase World Neighbors profile, expand the program work around the globe and build a sustainable financial base for the organization’s future.
Macdonald is a member of the board of directors and the executive and nominating committees of InterAction, the Washington D.C. based umbrella organization for international development organizations. She is a past recipient of the Woman of the Year award in Peterborough, Canada for her outstanding contribution to the advancement of women, and was also a 2007, 2008 and 2009 Journal Record Woman of the Year Honoree in Oklahoma City, having also being inducted into their Circle of Excellence. Macdonald has authored her first book, The Executive Woman’s Journal: a practical handbook for senior staff leaders of not-for-profits.
Macdonald brought a wealth of experience to World Neighbors with almost 30 years of experience in nonprofit management. Since beginning her tenure at World Neighbors, she has visited almost all of World Neighbors current program areas and has met hundreds of the people whose lives have been transformed through this stunningly successful work.
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Learn about our Coordinating Team
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 Erin Engelke, APR
Vice President Marketing and Communications
eengelke@wn.org
As vice president of marketing and communications for World Neighbors, Erin Engelke, APR manages the organization’s national and international public image, special event fundraising activities, media relations, corporate outreach and a dynamic marketing team. During her time with the organization, she has implemented and managed a comprehensive strategic marketing and branding plan, elevating the organization’s brand awareness with key markets throughout the United States. She has also visited World Neighbors programs in Guatemala and is passionate about the work the organization is doing to address hunger, poverty and disease throughout the world.
Prior to joining World Neighbors in the fall of 2004, Erin held several communications positions in the Oklahoma City area, including serving as director of public relations at Smith and Associates Advertising where she managed the public relations and marketing needs of several local, national and international clients including B.C. Clark Jewelers, CMP Corporation and Capital Abstract & Title Company. She also served as the marketing coordinator for MidFirst Bank, Oklahoma's second largest privately-owned bank.
Erin received a degree in public relations and advertising from Oklahoma Christian University and is an active member of the Junior League of Oklahoma City, Public Relations Society of America and is board member and past-president of the Association of Women in Communications (AWC). She is frequently tapped to speak on issues relating to branding, non-profit marketing, management and work-life balance.
She was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from Oklahoma Christian University and completed her accreditation in public relations (APR) through the Public Relations Society of America.
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 Scott Killough, Ph.D.
Vice President Learning and Innovation
skillough@wn.org
Scott Killough is the vice president for learning and innovation at World Neighbors. He has nearly 25 years of experience in participatory agricultural and rural development management, having worked and lived in several countries.
His background in rural development is based on a particular focus around livelihoods and agriculture, including field experience and expertise in program development and management, agricultural extension education systems, and sustainable agriculture practices within the tropics.
From 1990 to 2006, Scott worked with the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (based in the Philippines). During that time, he held management positions in the Asia regional center, the headquarters, and the natural resources and agriculture program units, including Director of the Regional Center for Asia and Vice President.
Throughout his time at IIRR, he was involved in programmatic activities, including oversight of community-based field projects, coordination of international workshops and trainings, publication and documentation activities and technical assistance assignments for agricultural project/program management. He worked in a number of countries in Central America (Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua), Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Philippines & Vietnam), East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda), and South Asia (India, Bangladesh and Nepal), as well as other countries. In the early 1980s, Scott lived in Guatemala for three years and worked in community-based livestock development projects and as a technical trainer for para-veterinary technicians.
Scott completed a Ph.D. with the University of Reading in the U.K and he holds a Master’s degree in International Agriculture and Rural Development from Cornell University, and a B.S. degree in Agricultural Economics (and Political Science) from Oklahoma State University. Scott is an American citizen and is fluent in Spanish.
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 Robert Lachance
Vice President Finance
rlachance@wn.org
Robert began his role as vice president finance at World Neighbors with more than 25 years of experience in various financial management roles with Pfizer Inc. He has worked all over the world including Nigeria, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Morocco and Turkey.
Before joining World Neighbors, he served as Finance Director for Pfizer’s Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovation Center in San Francisco, Calif. Prior to his 18 year tenure with Pfizer, Robert was an audit Manager with Coopers & Lybrand. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
Robert's primary responsibilities at World Neighbors are ensuring efficient and effective financial management by overseeing World Neighbors capital assets, supervising financial and departmental policies and procedures and serving as a member of the World Neighbors management team.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Robert graduated with a MBA degree in Business Finance with honors and received his B.A. degree in Psychology, both from the University of Dallas. He also received an Advanced Professional Public Certificate in Public Accounting from St. John’s University in New York.
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 Chris Macoloo, Ph.D.
Regional Area Vice President Africa
cmacoloo@wn.org
As regional area vice president Africa, Chris develops and manages the area programs and represents World Neighbors in East and West Africa through strategic networking, partnership and collaboration.
Prior to joining World Neighbors in 2003, he served as a consultant for many development organizations on diverse issues such as program evaluation and organizational capacity assessments. Chris also worked for five years in Kenya as a program officer and deputy country director for SNV/Netherlands Development Organization. Before that he had worked for two years as a program officer for Intermediate Technology Development Group, an international development agency with headquarters in the United Kingdom, where he was responsible for shelter policy and programs in Kenya.
Chris brings to World Neighbors over seven years of professional development experience in a multi-cultural environment of international non-governmental organizations, as well as over ten years of university teaching, research and publication at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University in urban geography and planning. He is a Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society.
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 Chris Price
Vice President Field Support
cprice@wn.org
Christopher Price began working for World Neighbors in October 2005. He moved to Oklahoma City from Denver, Colorado, where he served as the executive director and founder of Global Diversity Alliance, Inc. while consulting for a local anti-violence program. Chris also served as the anchor consultant on a national AIDS program in Ecuador for the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and spent many years working for a major not-for-profit organization in the area of sexual health and rights where he managed a regional program consisting of 27 partners in 12 countries. Chris has extensive organizational development, program development, program evaluation, advocacy and management experience working in partnership with nongovernmental and community-based organizations, as well as, public sector agencies in 17 countries. He started his career serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer for an appropriate technology program working in collaboration with Costa Rican farmers. Chris has a MA in International Affairs, a BA in Political Science and is fluent in Spanish.
As the vice president field support at World Neighbors, Chris guides and coordinates the development, monitoring and evaluation of regional strategic plan objectives. He is responsible for strengthening the provision of support to the field, improved compliance by the field with organizational requirements and annual review and analysis of regional and departmental budget submissions. Chris directly supervises the regional associate vice presidents for the Africa, Asia and Latin America and Caribbean regions and works in close consultation with the departmental vice presidents (VPs) in coordinating support to the field.
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 Shibesh Regmi, Ph.D.
Regional Area Vice President Asia
sregmi@wn.org
As Regional Associate Vice President, Shibesh is responsible for World Neighbors programs in India, Indonesia, Nepal and Timor Leste.
Shibesh has 28 years of experience in community-based development, with an emphasis on gender as a crucial component of social change. With experience with both local and international development organizations, Shibesh has provided leadership to innovative programs that address rural poverty and build the capacity for people to advocate for themselves.
Having earned his Ph.D. in Gender and Development from the Institute of Irrigation and Development Studies, University of Southampton, Shibesh has also served as the chair of the Nepal Association of International Non-Governmental Organizations and other groups that build solidarity and learning among progressive organizations.
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