Lukenbill & Associates

Helping Nonprofits Grow

Community Work

I have founded several nonprofits, served as an executive director on several occasions, provided training to many boards of directors, facilitated many strategic planning sessions, developed several communication and marketing strategies, written and edited many grants, and raised several million dollars.

You can get a good sense of the type of work I do through what I am currently doing with two nonprofit organizations I founded. One to address a pressing local need to help the American River Parkway which is struggling with severe financial and public safety issues; and the other to address a national crisis in criminal rehabilitation -- a horrible failure in which 70% of the people being released from prison return within three years.

The American River Parkway Preservation Society (ARPPS) http://www.arpps.org/ was founded in 2003, for which I serve as the volunteer treasurer and work under contract as the Senior Policy Director.

The work with ARPPS involves performing all of the tasks associated with maintaining a small nonprofit policy advocate organization; fund development, board development, daily blogging http://parkwayblog.blogspot.com/ , monthly e-letters, quarterly newsletters, and periodic planning papers for members; annual organizational and research reports for the public http://www.arpps.org/annualreport.html and organizational strategic planning http://www.arpps.org/strategy.html .

The Lampstand Foundation http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/ was founded in 2003, for which I serve as the president and involves much the same work, with the addition of authoring one book annually, published by Chulu Press, a Lampstand imprint. The daily weblog is the Catholic Eye http://catholiceye.blogspot.com/

I have also served on several government appointed commissions, addressed community forums, had articles published, and presented conference papers. Here is a sampling since 2004.

March 2004: Commentary, (City Voices) Inside Arden News Magazine: The Heart of Sacramento, Let's Protect the American River Parkway Before it's too Late

September 2004: Talk, Criminal & Gangmembers Anonymous Prison/Public Forum: Mule Creek State Prison: Criminal Rehabilitation & Reentry

August 2006: Commentary, (City Voices), Inside Arden News Magazine: Our Emerald Necklace, Why We Need Gold Rush Park

November 24, 2006: Guest Editorial, Sacramento Union Newspaper: The American River Parkway, The Case for Nonprofit Management

October 26, 2007: Guest Editorial, Sacramento Union Newspaper: The Auburn Dam Helps the Parkway

January 2008: Paper/Panel Presentation, Conference of the Western Society of Criminology: Criminal Reentry and Criminal Reformation http://www.sonoma.edu/ccjs/wsc/conference.htm

January 2008: Article, Practicing E-Zine: OD, The Natural Language of Human Service Nonprofits, Congruence and Opportunity http://www.odnetwork.org/publications/practicing/backissues.php

April 10, 2008: Commentary, Sacramento Bee Newspaper: Scatter Homeless Housing; Don't Concentrate Sites http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/850545.html

July 2008: Book Review, Journal of Markets & Morality (Acton Institute) of the book Criminal Justice and the Catholic Church by Andrew Skotnicki (2007) http://www.acton.org/publications/mandm/mm111.php

August 2008: Appointed to the Interagency Council on Homelessness. http://www.communitycouncil.org/homelessplan/

September 2008: Commentary, Rancho Cordova Post: Parkway Plan Update http://www.ranchocordovapost.com/2008/09/14/guest-commentary-parkway-plan-update/

March 2009: Interviewed by Inside Arden magazine and published as Preserving the Parkway: Association wants a Joint Power Authority formed to confront challenges http://www.insidepublications.org/images/stories/Publications/0309%20(Mar)/Inside%20Arden%20March%202009%20issue.pdf

March 2009: Work quoted in article in Theology Today, Volume 66, Number 1, April 2009. By the Secret Ladder: Christian Mysticism and Liberation of the Imprisoned, by Andrew Skotnicki. (pp. 33-44) http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/

June 8, 2009: Article, Viewpoints, Rancho Cordova Post: History Punctuates Change & Parkway Funding http://www.ranchocordovapost.com/2009/06/08/history-punctuates-change-parkway-funding/

November 2009: Article, Sacramento Bee Newspaper: Another View: A Nonprofit Should Run the Parkway http://www.sacbee.com/325/story/2311020.html

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