Jo Kenny has run an organizational developmental consulting practice for nonprofits since 1991, including serving as a senior adjunct faculty member of the Gill Foundation’s Training and Capacity Building Department.

AWARDS/HONORS

• New Mexico Anti-Defamation League, 2004 Distinguished Public Service Award
• Human Rights Alliance, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005 Person of the Year Award
• Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission, 1993 Woman of the Year Award

Author/Editor

Author, “Fear and Humor in Prevention Campaigns,” in Paalman, Promoting Safer Sex, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1990.

Author, “Why Coping with AIDS is a City Issue,” Western City Sept. 1988: 39+

Author, “The Shortcut Home,” in Caignon and Groves, Her Whits About Her—Self Defense Success Stories by Women, Harper & Row, 1987

Co-author and editor, “When One Drink Is Too Much,” a 40-page paper detailing the effects of alcohol abuse and addiction on women, 1987.

Co-editor, Lavender Reader, quarterly newsmagazine, 1984 to 1994.

Script-writer and co-producer of I Could Die Here, a 40-minute documentary slide presentation on the health care needs of women incarcerated in jails and prisons throughout the US.  Documentary purchased by the Federal Bureau of prisons and the American Friends Service Committee.

Co-editor and co-author of Santa Cruz Women’s Health Center Newsletter, quarterly publication, 1979 to 1986.

Trainer/Curriculum Development

2001 – 2005, Senior Adjunct Faculty, Gill Foundation, Denver, Colorado. 

Taught fund and organizational development 3 to 6 hour classes in communities across the U. S. on an average of once a month from 2001 to 2003.  Also served as one of four primary faculty members at an average of six yearly regional and national training conferences until 2005.  

2004 – 2005, Designer and Author, Gill Foundation

Designed and Co-authored the following 3-hour curriculums:

• Asking People for Money Face-to-Face
• Fundraising Fundamentals

2004 – 2005, Designer and Author, Gill Foundation

Co-authored (with five others) the following 3-hour curriculums:

• Build a Better Board
• Dive into Development Training
• Super Special Events
• Nitty Gritty of Getting Grants
• Be Strategic, Get a Plan
• Conquer a Capital Campaign
• Ready, Set, Raise!
• Build Your Base: Direct Mail and Telemarketing

• Incorporate Corporate Sponsorship
• Recruit and Reward Volunteers

2004 Author

Co-authored (with one other) a 2 to 3-hour curriculum:

• We’re in This Together: Fundraising and Program Planning for Collaborations, Coalitions and Partnerships

2002 Author

Authored 3-hour curriculum:

• On the Road to Full Inclusion: Working with and Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities

1993

Authored a 20-hour training curriculum:

• Grant Writing from A to Z.