Board Book revised

Board Book October 2012

Max de pree center for leadership

Max De Pree: “We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

Leadership Is an Art

Max de pree center for leadership

In This Book Beneficiary Profiles Strategy

2-7 8-25

People

26-35

Financials & Metrics

36-38

contents

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de pree leadership lab champion

kate harris

Kate Harris is executive director of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture, wife

“Seeking to better understand and engage my sense of vocation holistically and coherently in the midst of several compelling but disparate responsibilities is one of the most pressing interests I face as a Christian woman.

The fact that the De Pree Center is giving much-needed attention to the importance and complexity of daily work across sectors through its Leadership Lab initiative evokes nothing less than pure delight from me.�

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to a good man and mother to their three small children. She resides outside of Washington, D.C., in Falls Church, Virginia.

Beneficiary profiles

de pree leadership lab champion Eryc Branham is chief revenue officer for RocketSpace, an

eryc Branham

accelerator for high-growth, seed-funded tech startups. He is an expert in sales and customer relationship management technologies and has launched three companies. Eryc is married to Liz and has 3 children.

“Technology has become so deeply embedded in the fabric of our personal lives, from smart phones to social networks to the touchscreen in the dashboard of my car.

And those of us who are tasked with driving innovation in the technology industry are faced with a balancing act — working in the mechanical, inanimate world of code while living among real, breathing people. The De Pree Leadership Labs bring the human to the forefront of that balancing act — reminding us of the importance of connecting, sharing, inspiring, and mentoring. I am thrilled to be working with the Center to engage with the technology community at-large in keeping a ‘truly human’ perspective.”

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de pree leadership lab champion

claudine covolo Claudine Covolo is the vice president of Wholesale Sales at Trina Turk, a well-known American contemporary brand. She is responsible for providing national leadership in all areas to the wholesale division of the company. Her experience includes sales forecasting, assortment planning, production, margin analysis, and so forth. She has served in this role for six years.

Before coming to Trina Turk, Claudine worked for thirteen years

“The De Pree Center offers a unique opportunity to connect with other peers desiring to be excellent leaders and examples in their industry. I’m excited to be a part of this unique initiative to explore what it means to be excellent leaders in our industry.”

at Nordstrom, a leading US retailer, where she was a buyer for the women’s contemporary area. She also worked as a consultant for start-up corporations in the areas of hiring and orienting teams.

Claudine is a Laker fan, follower of the Tour De France, and connoisseur of fine wines and gourmet food. She lives in Long Beach with her husband, Bob, and lovely daughter, Chloe.

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Beneficiary profiles

de pree leadership lab champion Bob Covolo is an ordained pastor, the author of publications on

Bob covolo

theology and fashion, and a fourth-year PhD student at Fuller Seminary researching the intersection of theology and fashion. When he is not buried in the books he enjoys surfing, gardening and making great espressos. A native of the San

“I know of no other program that takes the real vocations of Christians as seriously as the De Pree Center does.

As an ordained pastor with congregants in the fashion industry, and now as a theologian writing about the intersection of faith and fashion, I’m thrilled to join with others in understanding what it means to be a Christian in this challenging field.”

Francisco Bay Area, he resides in Long Beach, California, with his wife, Claudine, and daughter, Chloe.

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fieldnotes Magazine reader

tara russell Tara Russell is the chief executive officer and founder of Create Common Good, a social + entrepreneurial venture using food to change lives. CCG provides training and employment to refugees and others in need while bringing broader access to fresh, conveniently prepared, local food products. Tara has worked internationally for Fortune 500 companies and NGOs; her work spans process engineering at General Motors in Shanghai, technical sales and marketing at Intel, product development at Nike, and co-founding NightLight International, an organization serving women at-risk in Bangkok, Thailand.

For more about Create Common Good, visit www.createcommongood.org

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“As an entrepreneurial professional balancing a family and deeply passionate and intense work, I’m constantly craving personal development to both further improve my home and work life. Fieldnotes Magazine is a unique blend of both components, central to scaling my enterprise in a spiritual framework that resonates with my core values.�

Beneficiary profiles

fieldnotes Magazine reader Kirk Botula is chief executive officer of the CMMI Institute and

kirk Botula

a managing director at Carnegie Innovations. He has focused on creating flourishing communities through the commercialization of

“Fieldnotes Magazine does something that no other journal has yet had the audacity to consider, which is to take our life’s work seriously.”

technology.

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identity statement

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strategy

The Max De Pree Center for Leadership is a catalyst for the truly human practice of work, leadership, and organizational life in businesses, non-profits, and churches

• by generating and curating worldclass, theologically informed academic research and education, • providing life-changing leadership insights and stories through leadingedge media, • and convening innovative gatherings to equip and network leaders.

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fiscal year 2013

strategy Map Money generate a modest annual surplus.

Maintain a three-month cash buffer.

people employ the right people. enable our crew to connect, grow, and contribute. engage rockstar contractors.

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strategy

Build an endowment for leadership chairs and doctoral fellowships.

oUtpUts operational processes

fieldnotes Magazine provides leadership insights and stories through leading-edge media to emerging leaders who want to work and live well.

generate and curate great editorial content.

de pree leadership labs are innovative gatherings that equip and network leaders.

imaginatively design great learning experiences and facilitate them with hospitality. get things done with skill and gratitude.

Build loving relationships with current and potential beneficiaries, partners, and donors.

proJects eVents finances hr

govern with vision and prudence.

oUtcoMe the Max de pree center for leadership is a catalyst for the truly human practice of work, leadership, and organizational life in businesses, nonprofits, and churches.

Board

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output 1

fieldnotes Magazine As many emerging leaders know: Some of us are born to lead, but others have to work at it pretty hard, and still others find out that leadership can just get thrust upon you—whether or not you seek it, whether or not you’re naturally drawn to it.

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But we have questions that often

church or running a committee

implications of networking? And

go unanswered. For instance,

meeting? Is there any real

what about that elusive work-life

how do the principles we see

connection between our Sunday

balance thing?

in Scripture translate to how

activities and how we approach

we think about our work in,

an entrepreneurial venture? What

say, a multinational bank? Does

about making tough decisions?

faith have anything to do with

How can I find a mentor to

managing worship teams at

guide me? What are the moral

strategy

That’s where Fieldnotes Magazine comes in.

Every workday, we publish a

goal. We listen to those who can

about those things that expand

variety of writers, practitioners,

help us expand our theological

our lives and our humanity, like

and thoughtful people with

imagination and begin to apply

movies and travel and art.

insights into what we call the

what we know is true to the

“truly human practice of work,

work we do. We throw out some

leadership, and organizational

intensely practical and simple

life.” We profile people and

practices that help us live and

businesses working toward that

work better. And we even talk

Fieldnotes Magazine is for emerging leaders who want to live and work well.

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output 2

leadership labs “You cannot teach wisdom, I believe, but wisdom is contagious; you can catch it.”

— Calvin Seerveld

Connections with a community of peers who face similar leadership challenges and who share a desire for the truly human practice of work, leadership, and organizational life.

Access to carefully curated content designed to prompt reflection on leadership in a particular domain.

Opportunity for personal transformation, growth in organizational leadership skills and increased capacity to make a cultural contribution.

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strategy

A De Pree Leadership Lab is a

Lab participants:

main-stage presentations, while

To connect to De Pree Leadership

12-month journey with a small

• Receive leadership insights and

nurturing relationships and

Labs, go to http://depree.org/ leadership-labs/.

group of companions in pursuit

stories in their email inbox

making deeper connections in

of wisdom for our work and

every week;

twelve total hours of facilitated

leadership.

• Engage in ongoing

De Pree Leadership Lab conversations over good food

De Pree Leadership Labs are

conversations with a small

organized as cohorts of ten

group of peers, shaped

to twenty leaders on a quest

by common concerns and

for increased effectiveness,

questions, in a “walled garden”

Participation in a De Pree

deeper wisdom, and theological

social media setting;

Leadership Lab includes

imagination. Cohorts are formed

• Are challenged and encouraged

around shared questions and

in regular online video or in-

concerns, shared vocational

person conversations;

domains, or similar seasons of life.

and drinks during breakout times;

registration to the Q conference in Los Angeles, April 15 to 17, 2013.

• Will connect in person at the Q conference in Los Angeles, April 15 to 17, 2013, for inspiring

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leadership labs What will De Pree Leadership Labs look like?

What follows is a sampling of the kinds of De Pree Leadership Labs in development. We are also developing a blended lab for non-profit/for-profit organizations, labs for the worlds of finance, food and global trade, and one for business leaders in East Africa.

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Fashion How does a robust theology of creation, the human person

the everyday work of a fashion

experience that addresses these

magazine writer or photographer,

and other questions that arise for

or a professor at a design school?

leaders in this challenging field.

and the imagination inform

The De Pree Center is working

the everyday work of an

with lab champions Claudine and

executive or a designer in the

Bob Covolo – a fashion industry

fashion industry? How does the

sales executive, and a pastor and

knowledge that human beings

doctoral student working on a

are called to both culture making

theology of fashion, respectively –

and cultural discernment affect

to customize a year-long learning

strategy

kate harris Technology The De Pree Center is working with Eryc Branham, one of our board members and an executive developing a technology incubator in San Francisco, to customize a lab for people in the San Francisco Bay Area working in technology.

As Eryc writes: “Those of us who are tasked with driving innovation in the technology industry are faced with a balancing act - working in the mechanical, inanimate world of code while living among real, breathing people. De Pree

Leadership Labs bring the

think theologically about the

Kate Harris, executive director of

human to the forefront of that

relationship between calling and

the Washington Institute of Faith,

balancing act - reminding us of

constraints? How do you bridge

Vocation, and Culture, has given

the importance of connecting,

the world of screens and the world

much thought to these questions.

sharing, inspiring, and

of bodies? What does it mean for a

The De Pree Center is working

mentoring.”

mid-career woman executive to be

with her to convene a group of

fully engaged in “the truly human

women who are living lives in

practice of work, leadership, and

which these questions are urgent,

organizational life”?

and to build a custom learning

Women Executives Imagine you are a woman in your mid-thirties or –forties.

experience that will provide

Perhaps you’re married or not.

both thought-provoking content

Perhaps you are raising small

and significant relationships.

children, or teenagers, or, from a

Participants in the Women

distance, young adults at college

Executives lab will wrestle with

or early in their careers. And you

these issues alongside their peers.

are responsible for leadership in government, a business, or a non-profit. How do you

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Output 2

Leadership Labs Your Church

Most De Pree Leadership Labs

Center staff will personally

consist of distributed groups

facilitate the opening session of

connecting mostly through

the lab over dinner or drinks, and

email, social media, and

will also present at or facilitate

videoconferencing. But the De

one or two further in-person

Pree Center is also working on

sessions on-site. These groups

building partnerships with large

continue to interact through

churches or local groups of

email and social media every

churches to design and present

week, but where distributed labs

custom-built labs for groups of

engage in video sessions, church

forty or more participants who

partnership groups meet in

want a more local, face-to-face

person.

learning experience. De Pree

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Strategy

Max de pree center at work

operational processes “What we do is always a consequence of who we intend to be.� — Max De Pree, Called to Serve

In order to achieve our outputs: We generate and curate great editorial content.

We imaginatively design great learning experiences and facilitate them with hospitality.

We get things done with skill and gratitude.

We govern with vision and prudence.

We build loving relationships with current and potential beneficiaries, partners and donors.

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Max de pree center at work

operational processes We generate and curate great editorial content.

readers, stretching the boundaries of how they conceive of their work and helping them to think in fresh, creative ways. Generating content requires reading a great deal of content, so Alissa is always scouring the web, talking to potential contributors and readers, and trying to discern the needs, ideas, and issues that lie behind the questions that people are asking -

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For Alissa Wilkinson, editor of

of the daily work of publishing

from Facebook statuses and blog

Fieldnotes Magazine, the most

the magazine comes in generating

posts to emails, phone calls, and

challenging and rewarding part

ideas that will be most helpful to

Tweets.

strategy

We imaginatively design great learning experiences and facilitate them with hospitality.

For Cory Willson, who provides

learning environment that

oversight to the Leadership

allows each participant to take

Lab project, the key to success

initiative for their own learning

requires listening attentively to

progress. Our role in these labs

lab participant’s responses and

is to facilitate the group learning

discerning their unspoken needs.

process, curate the best leadership

As a team, we are developing

and theological resources

creative ways of cultivating

available, and provide ample

and supporting a unique online

opportunities for reflection,

interaction, and practice.

The yearlong learning journey begins with cohort formation and team building followed by preparation for the Q conference

forward to facilitating the labs and assisting participants as they explore new ways in which they can engage creatively and theologically in the world of work.

and a final phase in which each participant focuses on their own project that incorporates what they have learned. Cory looks

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Max de pree center at work

operational processes We get things done with skill and gratitude.

The team at the Max De Pree

to feel valued and receive gracious

and touch,” as Max De Pree is fond

it means to be truly human and

leaders and organizations grow

Center works hard behind the

treatment. We are grateful

of saying. We do our best to live

what a truly human practice of

in wisdom and theological

scenes to ensure that our work

for each and every connection,

out our beliefs and put our values

work looks like. We do this in

imagination and do good work.

is done well and on time, and

acknowledging that all the people

into practice, paying attention

house during our weekly team

that every new connection

we encounter or serve help us

to differences between what we

meetings when we spend time

or continued relationship

fulfill our calling.

say and what we actually do — so

learning about each other and

much easier said than done!

discussing values, aspirations,

experiences the De Pree touch. We want everyone who encounters one of our team members — whether they are a delivery person, CEO, or pastor —

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As we have grown in number and talented newcomers have joined

We are also grateful for the

us, we continue to emphasize the

opportunity to serve in the area

importance of “connecting voice

of leadership and explore what

strategy

and obstacles. And we share our findings and wisdom through Fieldnotes Magazine and Leadership Labs, helping

We govern with vision and prudence.

An advisory board that has

monthly teleconference meeting

if the work of the Max De Pree

The Max De Pree Center is

delegated powers from the

with our executive director.

Center is on mission, and board

grateful for the generous gift

meetings often include lively

of time, wisdom and resources

discussions and stimulating

provided by our outstanding

exchanges of perspective as

board members.

Board of Trustees at Fuller Theological Seminary governs the Max De Pree Center. The board of advisors meets twice a year in person and once via teleconference. Additionally, our chair and vice chair conduct a

Board meetings involve times of fellowship, worship and relationship building with staff and stakeholders, as well as attending to the serious business of the board. The identity statement serves as a guide in determining

board members deal with issues related to “the truly human practice of work, leadership, and organizational life.�

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operational processes We build loving relationships with current and potential beneficiaries, partners, and donors.

For the Max De Pree Center

that we do at the De Pree Center —

and building relationships

in-person meetings. We work

for Leadership, fundraising is

people who have a passion for “the

with them through Fieldnotes

hard to warrant their trust as we

friendraising. Our revenue model

truly human practice of work,

Magazine and De Pree Leadership

invite them to invest some of their

focuses on paid registration for

leadership, and organizational

Labs, through events like our

resources in advancing our shared

De Pree Leadership Labs, but

life” — and who have the financial

biannual De Pree Leadership

passion.

these revenues are not projected

means to support that passion.

Lunches, and by investing

to cover all of our operating costs in FY13. This means that we must cultivate relationships with people who love the same things

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Our fund development model thus consists of identifying and attracting these sorts of people

strategy

significant portions of the executive director’s time in the cultivation of these relationships through public speaking and

In FY13, we are presenting two

Association and Jill Bauman

De Pree Leadership Lunches,

of Imagine LA. The second, on

both at the University Club in

February 15, 2013, has as its

Pasadena, California. The first, on

theme Non-Profit Leadership and

October 1, 2012, has as its theme

Innovation and our speakers are

Collaborative Leadership for the

Eric Stowe of A Child’s Right and

Common Good: Bringing Together

Jacquelline Fuller of google.org.

Civic and Faith Community Leaders, and our speakers are Kevin Palau of the Luis Palau

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de pree center staff & contractors

Alissa Wilkinson teaches at The King’s College. She received an MA in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU and is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at Seattle Pacific University. She previously edited Comment, was on staff at International Arts

kristin Baldauff

alissa Wilkinson

assistant editor, fieldnotes Magazine

editor, fieldnotes Magazine

Movement, and worked as a business analyst on Wall Street.

Her writing frequently appears in publications including Christianity

Today and Books & Culture. She Kristin Baldauff is a graduate of

New Hampshire. She and her

and her husband, Tom, live in

Grove City College, where she

husband, Dan, live in Pittsburgh,

Brooklyn.

worked as a tutor in the Writing

Pennsylvania, where she currently

Center. Previously, she edited for

works for the Elmhurst Group.

PublishingWorks, Inc. in Exeter,

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people

Christy is a public relations consultant who works with arts, faith, and culture organizations

Jamin Ver Velde

in many different places. She

graphic designer

spent over a decade working as a professional actor, and

Jamin is creative director at

still appears in the occasional

Brand New Web & Creative

short film or play, most recently

Development and graphic artist at

“Steel Magnolias.� She loves

Dordt College. He enjoys merging

worship ministry, devotional

logic with aesthetics through

writing, and cooking dinner for a house full of friends as often as possible. Christy and her very tall husband, Karl, live in Seattle with their adorable dog, Jonah.

christy tennant krispin leadership lab facilitator

sensible design. When not doing graphics, he and his wife, Kate, are taking photos of their four kids or searching for historical architectural elements to repurpose. He designed this book.

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de pree center staff & contractors

stephanie struck executive assistant Stephanie recently graduated from Fuller Seminary by completing a dual master’s degree program in Intercultural Studies and in Theology and Ministry,

Joel lueb

focusing on International Development and Urban Studies.

Bigger dot

After growing up in the Midwest, Stephanie believes she is truly

Joel is an entrepreneur who

man: he and his wife, Dorien, have

a California girl at heart and

has worked in the graphic

4 children and have fostered 13

can often be found at the beach

communications industry for

children. For more information,

outside of work hours.

over 25 years and printed this

see: www.biggerdot.com.

book. Joel is also a true family

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people

catherine Beaton creative director

scott cormode senior fellow

Scott is the Hugh De Pree

in congregational contexts, in

Professor of Leadership

nonprofit organizations, and in

Catherine’s love of beauty, color

Pree’s vision for beauty, grace,

Development at Fuller Seminary.

the larger world of work. He and

and sunshine has been indelibly

joy and meaning in the workaday

He founded the Academy of

his wife, Genie, are parents to

shaped by her time in Hawaii.

world. She is married to Rick and

Religious Leadership and is the

teenage daughters Elizabeth and

Growing up in a multicultural

they enjoy ocean sports, art and

founding editor of the Journal of

Donley.

environment has helped her feel

architecture, and travel.

Religious Leadership. He worked

at home wherever she has lived

with the Program on Non-Profit

and worked in Asia, Europe and

Organizations at Yale University,

North America. At the Center,

where he received his doctorate.

she has been inspired by Max De

He writes on Christian leadership

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de pree center staff & contractors cory Willson director of leadership development

laura gossman director of operations

Cory received his MBA from Cal

Evangelical Interfaith Dialogue

Poly San Luis Obispo and his MDiv

journal [http://cms.fuller.edu/

Laura is a native of Boston. After

for homeless single mothers.

parent with her husband, Adam, in

from Fuller Seminary, where he

EIFD]. Cory will wed his fiancee,

completing her MA in Cross

Laura is convinced that the more

February 2013.

is now pursuing his PhD. He has

Monica, in December 2012 and

Cultural Studies at Fuller, she

organizations rehumanize their

worked as an adjunct professor of

they are looking forward to

served 5 years as a chaplain

practice of work, the greater the

business and as pastor for young

making their home in Long Beach.

and vocational director at Hope

wholeness for all involved. Laura

adults. On nights and weekends,

Gardens, providing stability

is excited to become a first-time

he serves as the editor of the

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people

Gideon is responsible for ensuring that the Center stays on mission as a “catalyst for the truly human practice of work, leadership, and organizational life,� that we have the right people working towards

Walter c. Wright, Jr.

that outcome in an accountable and highly motivated way,

senior fellow

and that we have the financial resources our mission demands.

Gideon and his wife, Angela, are learning how to parent their two wonderful young adult daughters

gideon strauss

on the East Coast while living on

executive director

the West Coast.

A minister, manager and

in Vancouver for 12 years. He is

mountaineer, Walt served 12

the author of five books exploring

years as executive director of the

the intersection of leadership,

De Pree Center. Ordained by the

mentoring, mountain climbing

Evangelical Covenant Church, Walt

and calling. Walt lives in Pasadena

was part of the management team

with Beverly, and enjoys their four

of Fuller Seminary for 18 years,

grandchildren.

and president of Regent College

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Warren Van genderen

de pree center Board

Warren is a serial entrepreneur who has founded 32 businesses.

Previously he served as an executive, primarily in the financial services industry.

Warren is married to Martha and has four adult children.

eryc Branham Eryc is chief revenue officer for

sales and customer relationship

RocketSpace, an accelerator for

management technologies and has

high-growth, seed-funded tech

launched three companies. Eryc is

startups. He is an expert in

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married to Liz and has 3 children.

people

richard Mouw Richard is the president of

with Mormons: An Invitation to

Fuller Theological Seminary.

Evangelicals. He lives in Pasadena

He is a prolific author, and his

with his wife, Phyllis, who

most recent book is Talking

keeps active in seminary life.

William p. (Bill) robinson Bill is president emeritus of Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. He is

rob tribken

the author of Leading People

from the Middle: The Universal

Rob is the president and founder

and Enterprise. Rob is married to

of Bestfresh Foods, Inc., a

Laurie and has two adult children.

provider of fresh packaged foods

Mission of Mind and Heart and Incarnate Leadership.

Bill is married to Bonnie.

to retail chains. He also launched and manages the Center for Faith

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de pree center Board

Jody d. Vanderwel chair Jody is president of Grand Angels

She is a member of the Fuller

in Holland, Michigan. Previously,

Theological Seminary board.

she was corporate counsel and

Daughter to Max De Pree, Jody is

then vice president for Corporate

married to Dave.

Giving at Herman Miller, Inc.

Uli chi Vice chair

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Uli is founder and chair of

that simplifies complex decision

Computer Human Interaction, a

making for consumers and

software company that develops

businesses. He is married to Gayle,

3-D, virtual reality software

his wife of 37 years.

people

Max de pree

our namesake Max De Pree was CEO and

became one of the most admired

Max and Esther live in Michigan

chairman of the board of Herman

companies and best places to

and have four children,

Miller, the design- and people-

work in the U.S., and Max received

13 grandchildren (plus 7

conscious furniture manufacturer.

numerous accolades from within

grandchildren-in-law), and 5

Son of the company’s founder,

and outside of the business

great-grandchildren.

Max spent his entire working

community.

career at the company, where he introduced people-centered management practices based upon ahead-of-his-time ideas about the human person and what it means to create and enjoy meaningful work. Under Max's tenure, highly profitable Herman Miller

mentors to both his personal and

Seminary, where he served on the

In May 2012, the De Pree Center

Max shared his wisdom on

professional development over

seminary board for forty years. In

commissioned a video in Max’s

organizational leadership as an

the years, Max has become a

1994, fellow board member and

honor. View it here:

author and speaker. After more

much beloved mentor by investing

chair Sam Reeves gave a generous

http://youtu.be/Frg0Urf3A-E.

than 25 years, Leadership Is an

heavily in the lives and leadership

gift to Fuller for the creation of

Art is still considered one of the

of others.

the De Pree Center in honor of

best business books on the topic.

Realizing the importance of key

With his wife, Esther, Max has been deeply committed to Fuller

his good friend Max and his artful leadership.

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Budget Income Statement

FY ’12 Actual Jun-Dec 2011

Jan-Jun 2012

FY ’13 - First-half Estimate FY ’12

July-Sept 2012

Oct-Dec 2012

FY ’13 - Second-half Estimate

FY ’13 1st Half

Jan-Mar 2013

Apr-Jun 2013

FY ’13 2nd Half

FY ’13 Total Estimate

May 20 Budget

Operating Revenues $51,100

$153,300

$204,400

$153,300

$153,300

$306,600

Royalties/Sales

$3,497

$6,618

$10,115

$2,500

$2,500

$5,000

$2,500

$2,500

$5,000

$10,000

Honorariums

$7,733

$14,612

$22,345

$5,000

$5,000

$10,000

$5,000

$5,000

$10,000

$20,000

$2,000

$2,000

DP Leadership Labs1

Travel Reimbursement

$750

$750

$1,500

$750

$750

$1,500

$3,000

$38,059

$38,059

$76,117

$76,117

Andringa Gift3

$25,000

$25,000

$50,000

$25,000

$25,000

$50,000

$100,000

Special Projects

$15,478

$15,478

$30,955

$15,478

$15,478

$30,955

$61,910

TFF Commitment: HDP Chair

$5,625

$5,625

$11,250

$5,625

$5,625

$11,250

$22,500

OFA Ops Budget Reserve2

Donation Revenues

TFF Commitment: DPC Ops Other Gifts and Grants4

$17,848

$100,000 $22,500

$7,500

$7,500

$15,000

$7,500

$7,500

$15,000

$30,000

$30,000

$98,750

$116,598

$76,015

$76,015

$152,029

$68,038

$68,038

$136,075

$288,150

$893,620

$295,126

$15,916

Asset Transfers DPC Core Funds (TFF)

$212,979

$372,249

$585,228

$213,454

$81,672

$295,126

HDP Chair Fund (TFF) ROI

$60,000

$67,500

$127,500

$18,068

$18,068

$36,137

$18,068

$18,068

$36,137

$72,274

$74,916

BootJack

$7,733

$7,500

$15,233

$3,750

$3,750

$7,500

$3,750

$1,855

$5,605

$13,105

$17,185

$15,429

$3,750

$3,750

$7,500

$3,750

$3,750

$7,500

$21,319

$21,180

$466,048

$436,466

$902,514

$308,758

$306,863

$615,622

$1,524,501

$1,190,746

Eagles CHI TOTAL REVENUES

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$511,000

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$309,790

$569,229

$879,019

financials & metrics

Expenses

FY ’12 Actual Jun-Dec 2011

Jan-Jun 2012

FY ’13 - First-half Estimate FY ’12

July-Sept 2012

Oct-Dec 2012

FY ’13 - Second-half Estimate

FY ’13 1st Half

Jan-Mar 2013

Apr-Jun 2013

FY ’13 2nd Half

FY ’13 Total Estimate

May 20 Budget

projects Barna

$250,000

Avodah

$3,560

$3,560

$7,120

$3,560

$3,560

$7,120

$14,240

$14,240

DP Leadership Labs

$6,500

$6,500

$13,000

$6,500

$6,500

$13,000

$26,000

QLA13

$12,500

$12,500

$25,000

$12,500

$12,500

$25,000

$50,000

$50,000

Fieldnotes Magazine

$11,918

$11,918

$23,835

$11,918

$11,918

$23,835

$47,670

$60,000

Church Transitions (SC)

$18,750

$18,750

$37,500

$18,750

$18,750

$37,500

$75,000

Salaries & Benefits

$197,102

$323,423

$520,525

$207,092

$174,875

$381,968

$174,875

$174,875

$349,751

$731,718

$610,506

doctoral Fellowships

$25,500

$22,500

$48,000

$7,500

$7,500

$15,000

$7,500

$7,500

$15,000

$30,000

$45,000

General Operations

$39,587

$197,462

$237,049

$51,983

$51,983

$103,966

$51,983

$51,983

$103,966

$207,931

$161,000

$262,189

$543,385

$805,574

$319,803

$287,586

$607,388

$287,586

$287,586

$575,171

$1,182,559

$1,190,746

$47,601

$25,844

$73,445

$146,246

$148,881

$295,126

$21,173

$19,278

$40,451

$341,943

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TOTAL EXPENSES NET INCOME / (LOSS)

Assets (End of Period)

1.

2.

3.

4.

DPC Ops & 6820

$355,722

HDP Chair

$1,445,476

BootJack

$13,105

Eagles

$366

CHI

$6,319

TOTAL ASSETS

$1,820,988

Based upon 21 participants recruited each month @ $2,500 each from Sept 2012 - June 2013.

As of 6/30/12, current cash balance in Ops budget in OFA. An 8-year gift of $100,000 per year. 25% allocated towards DPC operating budget. 75% towards Dr. Scott Cormode and Church Transitions project.

This FY13 estimate will provide a 3-4 month buffer for operating expenses plus cost of 2 Leadership Lunches. May 20 proposed figure higher due to all operating expenses and special projects to be covered by gifts and grants.

5. General Operations includes supplies and services, rent and parking, travel, hospitality, brand development, web and media.

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Long-term Financial Goals 1. A modest surplus 2. A three-month buffer for operational expenses 3. Endowed chairs and doctoral fellowships

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