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After one year in the Pam Skarda, SBNOW’s second executive director to said she is opting to takeanother private-sector job offer rather than renew her contract with the nonprofiy this month. Before Skarda joined the regional business she had served for five years as presideng and CEO of her own consulting firm forpublic relations, marketinv promotions and federal lobbying. “I’nm truly entrepreneurial by Skarda said.
“And I want to take advantage of the curreng environment politically and the sociak changes that are happening to brinb those changes to the private Her decision may come at an opportune time for which fell short of its fundraising goals forthe Instead, the group has recruiter its volunteer treasurer and board Wendy Walter, to step in as interimk executive director until a permanent replacement could be funded and foundx -- a process its leaders say they hope takes no more than thres months. Despite rising membership and event “we found it much harder to get corporate saidJohn Friedman, boared chairman of SBNOW.
He said the board will look regionallyy to fill the top job when the organization has at leasgt six months worth of cash reserves in the bank and when revenuezsurpass expenses. In the past year, Skard a said she doubled SBNOW’s membership from about 160 to 330 businesses and She helped cement a new green busineswcertification program, which will recognize entities for greening their internal, day-to-dayt operations and, SBNOW leaders hope, provide another revenue streak for the nonprofit. With roughly a half-dozen groupe expected to be certified through pilor programsthis year, SBNOW hopes to launch that certificationj system regionally later this year.
Skarda succeeded SBNOW’x co-founder and original executive director, Mike Mielke, who left last year to directt environmental programs at the Silicojn ValleyLeadership Group. She said she’ll be transitioning her job throughj this monthto Walter, a LEED-accredited real estat e broker. Walter, who runs her own real estatd firm W. K. Walter & Co. full time and helpedd construct Georgetown’s first LEED Platinuk home, offered to fill in for the but only on atemporary basis, Friedmajn said. “Wendy will bring he said.