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| URBAN STRATEGIES EXECUTIVE PROFILE
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| Karen Gotzler, Urban Strategies COO
kgotzler@urbanstrategies.biz
Karen Gotzler , Urban Strategies COO, served on the Core Team for The Denali Initiative, a social enterprise development project of
Manchester Craftsman’s Guild, a 3‐year national fellowship program for executive directors funded by Kauffman and Kellogg
Foundations in the mid‐1990’s. She continues to teach at UWM School for Continuing Education and consult around the country on
social enterprise and nonprofit income diversification.
Teaching and facilitating is a particular pleasure of Karen’s. She conducts classes on strategic planning and social enterprise for
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) School of Continuing Education (SCE), Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee and Wisconsin
Community Action among others. She has made scores of presentations to university classes, Association of Fundraising
Professionals and Agency Executive Groups and individual boards of directors.
Karen served on the Implementation Committee for the national Council on Foundations’ Standards for U.S. Community Foundations
and developed the Donors Forum of Wisconsin guide to standards for Community Foundations.
While President & CEO of the Urban Economic Development Association of Wisconsin, Karen led a membership and
provided technical assistance and program evaluation in affordable housing, commercial revitalization, neighborhood
development and workforce concerns. Karen’s work for many years as program and executive staff in direct service and
intermediary nonprofit organizations. | |
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