Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute Faculty

Session IV Faculty
Session IV Seminar Descriptions

Legal and Ethical Issues for Leadership
Donald W. Kramer, Esq. Mr. Kramer is chair of Nonprofit Law at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP in Philadelphia. He has more than 30 years of experience dealing with the concerns of nonprofit organizations, not only as a lawyer, but also as a teacher, writer, publisher and board member. He has worked with nonprofits of all types and sizes, helping structure start-up situations and restructure multi-organizational health and educational systems. He counsels on a wide range of nonprofit corporate structure and governance, private and community foundations, continuing care retirement communities, exempt organization taxation, low income housing tax credit transactions, real estate, charitable giving and other nonprofit issues. Mr. Kramer is the editor and publisher of Don Kramer's Nonprofit Issues®, an electronic newsletter of "Nonprofit Law You Need To Know"(www.nonprofitissues.com). He has represented numerous nonprofit organizations in multiple matters of corporate restructuring to protect assets and centralize strategic planning and implementation. Mr. Kramer serves as a member of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations. He teaches nonprofit law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is a regular lecturer for several other organizations. Mr. Kramer is the director of the Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement and the Planned Giving Council of Greater Philadelphia. He also serves on the Board of the Octavia Hill Association, a corporation providing housing primarily for moderate income families in Philadelphia.

Board Governance
Ann Schmieg, MBA, MSS, MLSP, is currently the Director of Children and Youth with the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, responsible for overseeing all of the organization’s children and youth programs and grant-making.   She originally joined United Way in 2003 as Director of Capacity Building and New Ventures, where she authored United Way’s Promising Practices.   Prior to joining the United Way, Ann worked as a Senior Consultant at the La Salle University Nonprofit Center providing training, technical assistance, and capacity building consulting services to small to mid-sized nonprofit organizations focusing her work on board development and strategic planning.  Ann has served on numerous nonprofit boards and community groups including Merion Mercy Academy, Norwood-Fontbonne Academy, the YWCA of Philadelphia, and Camp Fire Boys and Girls.   Currently she serves as Board Chair for the Commonwealth Youth choir.  She is on the Advisory Board for the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.

Ann holds a Master’s Degree in both Social Science and Law and Social Policy from the Graduate School of Social Work at Bryn Mawr College.  She received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, with a focus on marketing and a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in marketing and management from La Salle University.   She is also an adjunct faculty member at St. Joseph’s University Erivan K. Haub School of Business.