About the Sponsoring Organizations
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the U.S. Recognizing that strong families and strong neighborhoods are interdependent, the Casey Foundation is supporting broad strategies for neighborhood development and family transformation in twenty-two urban communities around the nation through its Making Connections initiative.
For more information about the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Making Connections initiative visit the website or contact:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Tel: (410) 547-6600
Email:
webmail@aecf.org
Web:
http://www.aecf.org/initiatives/ntfd/making.htm
The Charter Friends National Network (CFNN) is a project of the Minnesota-based Center for Policy Studies in cooperation with Hamline University. Founded in early 1997, CFNN's mission is to connect and support state-level charter school organizations - mainly non-profit resource centers and associations of charter school operators.
The Charter Friends National Network, St. Paul, MN
Tel: (651) 649-5479
Email:
info@charterfriends.org
Web:
http://www.charterfriends.org
About the Author:
Frank Martinelli, president of the Center for Public Skills Training in Milwaukee, has been providing training and management assistance to nonprofit organizations and public agencies since 1976. Frank has a special interest in charter school start-ups by nonprofit youth and family serving organizations and has assisted in the planning of three such charter schools in Milwaukee.
Areas of expertise include volunteer management, strategic planning facilitation, designing and leading high priority meetings and conferences, board and staff retreats, and forging community collaborations and alliances. Frank is also a member of the faculty of The Learning Institute, a national joint venture of the Society for Nonprofit Organizations, United Way of America, and the University of Wisconsin-Extension designed to deliver training through a range of emerging technologies.