Join us at Tri-Valley Nonprofit Alliance’s online Forum 2020 - Learn with Us, Lead with Us - where we dive into deep and relevant conversations with our panelists to address diversity, equity and inclusion in our organizations, businesses, boardrooms and beyond. We'll explore how to adopt and expand these organizational core values to forge stronger and healthier communities for all.

 Tri-Valley Nonprofit Alliance’s 2020 Forum welcomes key leaders in the Black community as they engage in an open and honest dialogue addressing systemic racism and its effect on people of color throughout society. Panelists include Harold Roundtree, President/CEO of UNCLE Credit Union; Jackie Bouvier Copeland, PhD, Founder of Black Philanthropy Month and Founder/CEO of The WISE Fund; and James Head, President/CEO of the East Bay Community Foundation. The discussion will be moderated by Caretha Coleman, Chairman of Dignity Community Care.

This facilitated conversation will explore biases, how we identify them, and their impacts on people and their communities if gone unrecognized. Learn with us as we hold important conversations about social justice in a nonjudgmental environment. Lead with us to define imperative and measurable goals and outcomes to guide organizations and communities in their efforts to make a positive impact within the Black Lives Matters movement.

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About our Panelists

Caretha Coleman, Moderator
Chairman, Dignity Community Care

Caretha Coleman is a director, adviser, executive coach, community advocate and volunteer. Starting out at Hewlett Packard, Caretha has spent 40 years in the technology industry working with start-ups and early stage ventures in the areas of organization strategy development and executive coaching and effectiveness. She served as Chief Human Resources Officer for Software Publishing Corporation, where her leadership was instrumental in pioneering one of the first successful desktop computer software businesses.

Ms. Coleman is Chairman of the Board for Dignity Community Care and is a member of the board of Viridis Learning. She is an adviser to Illuminate, an early-stage VC firm focused on enterprise, cloud and mobile computing. She was also a founding member of the The Angels Forum.

Ms. Coleman’s nonprofit interest centers on work focused with underserved populations. She chairs the board of The Leverage Network (TLN) and is a board member of KIPP Schools in the Bay Area. She is a national board member of Facing History and Ourselves; a member of the Board Emeriti of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; on the advisory board of the Ravenswood Health Clinic as well as the Black Economic Alliance.

An advocate for women and minorities in business, Caretha demonstrates her commitment to mentoring young professionals and entrepreneurs across the country. She has been recognized as one of the Bay Area’s Most Influential Women by the San Francisco Business Times as and Outstanding Director for the Silicon Valley Business Journal. She was also named a Visionary Leader by the SF Chronicle for her work in diversity. An American Leadership Forum Fellow, Caretha is a recipient of the YMCA’s Red Triangle award recognizing their highest level of volunteer. Additionally, Caretha was recognized with the Black Enterprise Trailblazer Award in 2016  and was nominated as a Visionary Leader in the Bay Area for her work towards creating a more diverse community inside and outside of the workplace.

Jackie Bouvier Copeland, PhD, Panelist
Founder, Black Philanthropy Month
Founder and CEO, The WISE Fund

A social and environmental justice leader, Dr. Jackie Bouvier Copeland is Founder and CEO of The Women Invested to Save Earth (WISE) Fund, an innovation enterprise, supporting grassroots Black and Indigenous women climate change innovators in Africa, Brazil, Australia and the USA.  Founder of Black Philanthropy Month, a global campaign to document, celebrate and promote African-descent giving, social investment and venture funding that has reached 17 million people, she also is an award-winning social change visionary, recognized as a HistoryMaker by the US Congress for her impactful civic contributions. Trained as an anthropologist and urban designer, her life mission is to promote the wellness and rights of humanity and the planet that we all share.  Visit thewisefund.org for more background.

Other key roles have been COO of the Anita Borg Institute of Women and Technology, where she continues to serve as a senior advisor.  She also has served as COO of Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County; CEO of the social equity enterprise, Copeland Carson & Associates; African Women's Development Fund USA executive director; US Bank Private Client Philanthropy Services vice president and managing director; COO of Twin Cities RISE!; and The Philadelphia Foundation’s program vice president.

An occasional professor, curator, and blogger, she is a frequently sought-after keynote speaker.  Her books and articles on a wide range of business ethics and social sector issues are influential in multiple fields.  Dr. Copeland serves on the board of advisors of Uncharted Power, a novel alternative energy company founded by Nigerian-American inventor, Jessica O. Matthews.  She is also founder and chair of the Pan-African Women’s Philanthropy Network, one of the USA’s oldest Diaspora Philanthropy Networks created in 2003 with a coalition from Minneapolis, MN that now has membership from over 30 countries.

Among her proudest social justice contributions is the initial design of My Brothers’ Keeper, an Obama Administration legacy initiative to advance equality and the life opportunities of low-income US men and boys of color.

Jackie holds two masters degrees, one in urban design and the other in cultural anthropology, with a Ph.D. in anthropology, all from the University of Pennsylvania. Specializing in the US, Africa and South Asia, her undergraduate degrees are from Georgetown University’s liberal arts and foreign service schools in literature and African studies. She also studied African history, culture, languages and religion at Nigeria’s University of Ife under Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka.

Harold Roundtree, Panelist
President & CEO, UNCLE Credit Union

Harold Roundtree is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Prior to joining UNCLE in 2011, Harold served the credit union and banking industries in various leadership roles.

Harold is a Vice President of the African American Credit Union Coalition (West Region Chapter), Treasurer of the Livermore Chamber of Commerce, Advisory Committee Member of the Credit Union Executives of Northern California, and has previously served on boards and advisory councils for the Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce, Shapiro Group (California Credit Union League), the Council for Inclusion in Financial Services (CIFS) and Northern California CUES Council.

Harold attended Boise State University on a full athletic scholarship and graduated from California State University – East Bay with a degree in Business Administration. He holds an MBA  from Golden Gate University and is a Certified Chief Executive through the Credit Union Executives Society.

James W. Head, Panelist
President & CEO, East Bay Community Foundation

James W. Head is the President & Chief Executive Officer of the East Bay Community Foundation. Before coming to the Foundation in 2014, he served for 10 years as Vice President for Programs at The San Francisco Foundation, where he spearheaded initiatives on race, equity, poverty, housing, economic development, and youth development.

James has more than 30 years of experience in philanthropy, nonprofit management and technical assistance; community and economic development; and public interest and civil rights law. Prior to joining The San Francisco Foundation, he was president of the National Economic Development and Law Center for 18 years.

Additionally, he served as legal counsel of the California Community Economic Development Association and has been a member of numerous foundation advisory boards, including the Open Society Foundation of New York and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation of Michigan. James served as a Commissioner on the Port Authority of Oakland from 2008 through 2015; leading the Commission as President from 2010 – 2011.

James holds a juris doctorate from the University of Georgia School of Law. He has been an adjunct professor at University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law, University of California at San Francisco’s Hastings School of Law, and University of Santa Clara’s School of Law.
James has lived in Oakland with his wife, Bernida Reagan, for more than 25 years.