Lt. Governor’s Conference on Service General Session

Shirley Sagawa to keynote Conference Luncheon on Wednesday

SALT LAKE CITY- The Utah Commission on Volunteers, in collaboration with the Utah Nonprofits Association, the Utah Society of Fund Raisers and the Nonprofit Academy for Excellence at the University of Utah, is pleased to host the Lt. Governor’s Conference on Service. In keeping with the conference theme, “Partnering for Impact”, the day has been planned in partnership with various agencies throughout the Wasatch Front.

 On April 20, Lt. Governor Greg Bell will kick off the 2011 Conference on Service general session day with his keynote address, “Partnering for Impact”. The general session day will be filled with over 30 workshops for the 700 attendees to choose from, each of which was chosen to represent the varying needs of conference attendees.

Lt. Governor Bell and the Utah Commission on Volunteers are pleased to announce that the 2011 luncheon keynote speaker will be Shirley Sagawa, co-founder of Sagawa/Jospin Consulting and a fellow at the Center for American Progress. She played instrumental roles in the creation of AmeriCorps, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the Social Innovation Fund. Newsweek magazine names Sagawa a “Woman to Watch in the 21st Century”.

Sagawa will be addressing national service and volunteerism as a strategy during difficult economic times and is scheduled to speak at 12 p.m. Wednesday, April 20. Directly following the luncheon there will be a book signing with Shirley Sagawa, author of The Charismatic Organization: 8 Ways to Grow a Nonprofit and The American Way to Change: How National Service and Volunteers are Transforming America.

“We are thrilled to have such an influential keynote speaker for this year’s Conference on Service,” said Shar Lewis, Executive Director of the Utah Commission of Volunteers. “Shirley is uniquely able to speak to national service and volunteerism in a way that will appeal to all of our attendees.”

Media are encouraged to attend any of the conference’s events. 

 The mission of the Utah Commission on Volunteers, an office of the Lieutenant Governor, is to improve communities through service and volunteering. For more information on the Commission on Volunteers, and various volunteering opportunities across the state, log onto www.volunteers.utah.gov.

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