What does it take to keep a good thing going? Non-profit organizations, founded with specific needs in mind, have to move and shift in order to evolve successfully. Join our conversations with Deborah Walters and Jane Gallagher of Safe Passage, and Nat May, executive director of SPACE Gallery, and learn what their organizations have been doing in order to offer lasting benefits to the community.
Guests
Deb Walters and Jane Gallagher
Deb Walters is on the board of directors at Safe Passage. In the summer of 2014 Deb will be kayaking from Maine to Guatemala to tell the story of the children and families living in a Guatemalan garbage dump. Along the way she hopes to raise money to build a school in Guatemala. Jane Gallagher is a Program Manager with Dietel Partners, a philanthropic advisory firm. Jane has spent many years volunteering and working for Safe Passage. Her family has helped two Guatemalan students through school, and she has been part of five support team trips to volunteer in Guatemala. She is the co-chair of the Casco Bay Friends of Safe Passage.
Nat May
Nat May is the executive director of SPACE Gallery in Portland, a nonprofit contemporary arts venue. Nat is also the founder of the Bakery Photo Collective, and has served on the boards of the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance, Portland’s Downtown District, Creative Portland, and he is on the Contemporary Arts Committee of the Maine Arts Commission.