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After one year in the post, Pam Skarda, SBNOW’s second executive director to date, said she is opting to take anotherr private-sector job offer rather than renew her contrac with the nonprofit this Before Skarda joined the regionalbusiness group, she had servexd for five years as presidentt and CEO of her own consulting firm for publixc relations, marketing promotions and federal “I’m truly entrepreneurial by nature,” Skarda said. “And I want to take advantagde of the current environment politicallhy and the social changes that are happening to brin g those changes to theprivate sector.
” Her decisionj may come at an opportune time for SBNOW, whichh fell short of its fundraisinb goals for the year. Instead, the group has recruitefd its volunteer treasurer and board Wendy Walter, to step in as interijm executive director until a permanent replacement could be funded and founc -- a process its leaderes say they hope takes no more than three Despite rising membership and eventg revenue, “we found it much harder to get corporatde donations,” said John Friedman, board chairman of SBNOW.
He said the boards will look regionally to fill the top job when the organizatio n has at least six monthsw worth of cash reserves in the bank and when revenuessurpassw expenses. In the past year, Skarda said she doublee SBNOW’s membership rolls, from about 160 to 330 businesseand nonprofits. She helped cementy a new green businesxcertification program, which will recognizer entities for greening their internal, day-to-day operationsw and, SBNOW leaders hope, provide another revenue stream for the nonprofit. With roughly a half-dozen groupsx expected to be certified through pilor programsthis year, SBNOW hopesw to launch that certification system regionally later this year.
Skardaz succeeded SBNOW’s co-founder and original executive Mike Mielke, who left last year to direcf environmental programs at the Silicon Valley Leadershi p Group. She said she’ll be transitioning her job through this month to a LEED-accredited real estates broker. Walter, who runs her own real estate firm W. K. Walterd & Co. full time and helpecd construct Georgetown’s first LEED Platinum home, offered to fill in for the but only on atemporarhy basis, Friedman said. “Wendy will bring he said.