Kickoff 2017 Non-Profit Member Meeting

Join us as we kickoff 2017 for the more than 100 non-profit members of the Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce!

To kickoff 2017, the Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce is happy to welcome, Dave Edwards, President and CEO of Essex County Community Foundation as our guest speaker! Dave will talk to us about the strong and vibrant state of the non-profit community in Essex County. There is so much good work being done in our region and this is an opportunity to come and hear how the greater Newburyport region fits into the bigger picture of Essex County and beyond!

Light refreshments will be served.  

Dave Edwards Bio: 

Dave Edwards began his term as CEO January 2015. He brings almost 15 years of successful leadership with community foundations and expertise in the nonprofit sector, and over 15 years of higher education administration experience in the Greater Boston area. Before coming to ECCF, he has served for eight years as a principal with Sutherland ~ Edwards LCC, Consultants to Philanthropy, a consulting firm that has worked with over 40 community foundations as well as regional and national nonprofits both nationally and internationally. Before that, Edwards was the founding CEO of the Community Foundation of San Luis Obispo County in San Luis Obispo, CA, where he oversaw all aspects of operations, asset development, marketing and endowment management. During his six-year term there, he worked with the board to grow the Foundation’s total assets from $60,000 to over $23 million. Edwards has deep ties to Essex County. His mother was born in Marblehead and his ancestral grandfather, Francis Norwood, came to Gloucester in the late 1600’s. He holds a certificate in strategic management for nonprofits from Harvard Business school and a master's degree in educational administration from the University of Vermont.