Come share knowledge and experiences, create a community and identify needs to promote fiscal sponsorship to amplify and strengthen the work of grassroots organizations, non-profit organizations and collectives fighting for equity and quality of life in Puerto Rico. This event is possible thanks to the support of Filantropía Puerto Rico.
This event is in Spanish. Language interpretation will be available (English <>Spanish).
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Schedule and Topics
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Presenters
Susana Sanabria Cruz
Executive Director, ARECMA
Susana, resident of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, has a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with Social Action Research from the University of Puerto Rico in Humacao, and a master’s degree in Community Social Work from the Beatriz Lasalle Graduate School of Social Work of the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. She is executive director of Asociación Recreativa y Educativa Comunal del barrio Mariana en Humacao, ARECMA, INC. In addition, Susana is the social worker who coordinates the program: Conéctate con el ArteXpresión de la Alianza para la Paz Social ALAPÁS, Inc.
Gina Malley Campos
Co-Director, Tabonuco
Gina is a project manager and educator with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras; a master’s degree in Environmental Education from Western Washington University; and earned a certification in Nonprofit Administration from the North Cascades Institute. Her mission is to promote the integral well-being of everyone through actions of a community, environmental and personal transformation nature. Gina currently distributes the practical manual for agriculture, Siembra Boricua!, and is co-founder of the Tabonuco project in Jayuya, Puerto Rico, where she supports the coordination of educational programs with ecological and artistic approaches.
Rosaura Rodríguez Muñoz
Co-Director, Tabonuco
Rosaura is an artist and educator who has a bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Studies and Fine Arts, and a master’s degree in Special and Differentiated Education, both from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. Rosaura works mainly with ink and watercolor, and creates pieces in which botanical illustration, landscape and contemporary everyday stories are manifested. Create comic / graphic narratives and explore the sources of natural pigments. Her artistic work converges with educational work with a focus on social and sensory inclusion. Rosaura is co-founder and co-director of Tabonuco, an experiential ecological and artistic education project in Jayuya, Puerto Rico.
Waldemiro Vélez Soto
Executive Director, ACUTAS
Waldemiro has expertise in project and proposal management, and is responsible for achieving the objectives of the projects under his charge. With a specialty in Political Science and Education, from the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras, is responsible for social networks, graphic art, advertising and communications, as well as being the representative of ACUTAS within the community. Waldemiro is a volunteer coordinator of the Adult School and a volunteer tutor for supervised studies; as well as supervisor and mentor of Team Leaders and Electronic Library. Besides, is in charge of promoting community activities, recruitment, and community participation and activation.
Yamira Flores Rodríguez
Strategic Leadership Consultant
Yamira is passionate about the development, implementation and analysis of the structures that promote the scope of the Mission and Vision in organizations. Yamira did her bachelor’s degree in Communications with a minor in Education, and a master’s degree in Leadership of Educational Organizations, both from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. With more than 15 years of experience in non-profit organizations, Yamira is convinced that true mobility and social justice can be achieved through support for groups organized around education, advocacy and accompaniment.
Ana Elisa Pérez Quintero
Co-Director, La Colmena Cimarrona
Ana Elisa is a farmer and co-organizer of La Colmena Cimarrona in Vieques. She has been an activist for environmental justice and food justice in Puerto Rico since she was thirteen years old, organizing for the protection of the Northeast Ecological Corridor, threatened by mega development. Ana Elisa has facilitated farmer training and established community gardens across the islands, among other grassroots initiatives.
Marilyn López Parrilla
Project Manager, La Colmena Cimarrona
Marilyn was raised in the Jardines de Vieques residential complex. She is a teacher and a sports lover. Marilyn is known for being the # 1 fan of her children: Joyce and Ian. One of her hobbies is painting. Her adventurous spirit allows Marilyn to enjoy life to the fullest. She is always ready to face challenges that help her grow personally and professionally.
Gloriann Sacha Antonetty Lebrón
Writer and founder of Revista Étnica
Gloriann Sacha is an Afropuertorican writer, communication strategist and professor. She is the founder of Revista étnica. For more than 15 years she has been working in communications for non profits and in advertising/ public relations agencies. As a writer, she has published the collection of poems: Hebras. In addition to having stories published in the anthologies: Cuentos de Huracán, Maraña of Tejedoras de Palabras, Palenque: Puerto Rican anthology of thematic “negrista”, antiracist, Africanist and afrodescendant. She has also published in the Academia magazine of EDP University, Boreales, Letras Magazine of the UMET, Afroféminas among others. She has been a communications professor at Universidad Sagrado Corazón (where she graduated from), and also at the Universidad del Turabo. Gloriann won the social enterprise award of EnterPRize 2017. Have received recognition for her communication work with a Silver Anvil of PRSA, Gold award in SME Digital Awards and Honorable Mention of the Gautier Benítez Poetry Contest of 2014 for her poetry book Hebras. She is a member of the Colectivo Las Ancestras, Poesía Afroversiva and Collective Ilé.
Thaddeus Squire
Chief Commons Steward, Social Impact Commons
Thaddeus has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit management field, focusing on arts and cultural heritage. Following government relations work for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, he went on to found Peregrine Arts, a multi-arts producer, and Hidden City Philadelphia, among other curatorial projects. His significant work in nonprofit resource sharing began in 2010 as founder of CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia, the first comprehensive fiscal sponsor focusing on arts and heritage, which manages more than 120 independent organizations. Thaddeus’s creative practice is focused on systems design for nonprofit resource sharing, in particular practices based in commoning and commons management principles. His work is grounded in the fields of American Pragmatism, Common Pool Resource Economics, Cooperative Management, New Localism and the Applied Behavioral Sciences, which are among the fields he writes about under the blog site Join the Commons. Additionally, he has deep expertise in the history of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, nonprofit management, fine and performing arts, heritage preservation, and museum sciences. Thaddeus holds degrees from Princeton University, the University of Leipzig (J. William Fulbright Fellowship), and the Mendelssohn Conservatory of Music & Theatre.
Asta Petkeviciute
Chief Financial Steward, Social Impact Commons
Asta has over 20 years of experience with a focus on strategic financial management, diverse use of technology, and organizational capacity development for non-profit organizations globally. Her background includes managing a $200 million portfolio of health systems strengthening activities across 20 countries globally; leading one of the largest fiscal sponsorship programs in the U.S., which supported over 90 different organizations nationally; and providing strategic management consulting to small and medium organizations nationally and internationally as part of Fiscal Management Associates (FMA). Asta has a Masters of Business Administration degree from Heller School, Brandeis University and a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business from Champlain College. Asta’s expertise is focused towards leading teams through strategic financial and organization management challenges with the key focus on operational efficiency and effectiveness while strengthening organizational sustainability, diversifying business models, use of data for decision making, and meeting complex donor compliance expectations.
Raquela Delgado Valentín
Grants and Operations Director, María Fund
Raquela is a social worker and feminist activist who has a doctorate in philosophy with a specialty in Social Policy and Program Administration from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. Raquela has 18 years of experience working in the non-profit sector; 13 of which she has dedicated to working in feminist organizations, coordinating services and supporting the creation of social development programs for women survivors of gender violence. Since April 2018 Raquela has been leading the administrative, operational, strategic and grant-making work at the Maria Fund. In her spare time, she loves going to the beach and spending time with her tribe.
Toni Moceri
Director, Sponsors Projects Program, Allied Media Projects
Toni is the Director of the Sponsored Projects Program, which has provided fiscal sponsorship to over 150 projects making media for liberation in Detroit and nationally. Toni joined AMP to lead the Sponsored Projects Program in 2016. Since then, the program has provided essential administrative services and facilitated access to over $20 million of funding to help our network of sponsored projects make the radical practical and realize new liberatory ways of being. Toni brings two decades of nonprofit and public service experience to AMP, including elected office. Toni believes it’s our collective responsibility to create a world in which we can all thrive.
Josh Sattely
Special Counsel, Social Impact Commons
Joshua has over 10 years of experience at the intersection of fiscal sponsorship and the law, most recently serving as Legal Director at TSNE MissionWorks (f.k.a. Third Sector New England), where he developed and led MissionWorks’ regulatory, contract, and compliance programs and served as an expert resource on the organization’s legal structure and risk management. Additionally, he advised the organization and fiscally sponsored groups on matters of governance, acquisitions, spinoffs and business venture development. Josh sits on the board of Healthy Places by Design and previously was a Steering Committee member of the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors. Prior to joining MissionWorks in 2009, Josh earned his Juris Doctor at Vermont Law School and LLM in Commerce and Technology at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
