Barry Silverberg has 30 years of diverse leadership, management, resource development and communications experience within the nonprofit arena as both a professional and volunteer leader.

A resident of Austin, TX since 1995, Barry hails from New York, where he served the Syracuse Jewish Federation for 20 years; 15 as its Executive Vice-President. Prior to becoming the founding Director of the ACC Center for Community-Based and Nonprofit Organizations, Barry served as Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Austin, where he provided professional leadership for the development of the Dell Jewish Community Campus. In addition to serving as the Director of the Center for Community-Based & Nonprofit Organizations at Austin Community College (which he helped found), Barry is an adjunct faculty at the New College of St. Edward's University where he developed and teaches a course on Nonprofit Management. He also serves as President of the Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations (TANO) and as Chair of the Service Learning Advisory Committee at Austin Community College.
Currently, Barry serves on the Board of Trustees of PROJECT OUTREACH! Early Breast Care, Education, Screening & Advocacy, Inc. as Chair of its Governance Committee; as a Board member of the Austin History Center Association; on the Advisory Council of the River City Youth Foundation (RCYF); on the Planning Committee of Communities Connecting for a Better Tomorrow; as a member of ACC's College-Wide Professional Development Committee (CWPDC); as Chair of the Nominating and Strategic Planning Committees of the Central East Austin Community Organization (CEACO); and as co-Managing Editor for Strategic Creativity, a journal for nonprofits affiliated with the ACC Center for Community-Based & Nonprofit Organizations.

Barry also serves on the Community Council of the Community Action Network, representing Austin Community College; and on the Project Advisory Committee of the Training Better Board and Committee Members Project of NAMI Texas. In addition, he is a cofounder and serves as co-Director of the First World Library Literary Society, whose mission is to disseminate, as widely as possible, literature available in the public domain. As a Managing Editor for Nonprofit and Organizational Development series, and member of the Board of Advisors of the First World Library, Barry leads the company's effort to produce high quality books and other resources in the area of nonprofit management and leadership, and organizational development.

Barry is a graduate of Leadership Austin Class of 2000 and was the initiator and chair of the Interreligious Fund for Kosovar Refugee Relief and Resettlement conducted under the auspices of Austin Metropolitan Ministries, now known as the Austin Area Interreligious Ministries. He also helped initiate and serves on the Nostra Aetate Award Committee at St. Edward's University.

In other Austin leadership roles, Barry served as President of Summer Wonders (a camp for gifted and talented children); on the 1999-2000 Austin Community College Citizen Advisory Council; Chair of the Communications, Personnel and Executive Search Committees of the Austin Jewish Community Day School; on the United Way/ Capital Area's 2000 New Initiatives Committee; the Central Texas Chapter of the American Red Cross Board of Directors (where he served as Chair for Leadership Education; on the Board of the Greater Austin Quality Council (GAQC), as a Baldridge Award Examiner; and Vice-president for Communications for the Austin Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). He also served as a judge for selection of both the Texas Department of Health and Texas Department of Human Services annual Outstanding Volunteer Awards.

Barry is co-authoring several books on nonprofit topics including Meetings that Make the Difference: Holding Effective Meetings (with Dr. Garry McDaniel), and The Credible Leader: How Successful Leaders Achieve Results (with Dr. Garry McDaniel). In addition, he is Managing Editor for the First World Library's Nonprofit Leadership and Organizational Development Series. In that capacity, he serves as editor for Achieving Success Through Disagreement: From Conflict to Cooperation by Dr. Garry McDaniel and Planning Your Agency's Future, a.k.a. Strategic Planning by Michael Dore..

In addition, Barry speaks at conferences and is sought after by agencies for his workshops and presentations on Strengthening Boards by Clarifying Roles, Responsibilities and Expectations; From Introvert to Networker; Encouraging the Heart: Recognizing and Motivating Volunteers and Staff; Strategic Creativity: Getting Results With Few Dollars; and other topics.

Barry served as Publisher of The Jewish Outlook (newspaper) for Central Texas. He also helped found and served as publisher of The Jewish Observer (newspaper) for Central New York for over 15 years.

While in Syracuse, NY, Barry was a founder and president of the Syracuse Area Interreligious Council, where he worked extensively on broadening ethnic, racial and religious involvement on such critical issues as discrimination, racism, Interreligious understanding, human and civil rights, refugee resettlement, transitioning ex-offenders, housing, food bank, and hunger relief. He initiated and served as the chair of three community-wide efforts that raised approximately $200,000 for hunger relief in Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda, among In addition, Barry served on the Board of Trustees and Capital Development Committee of the Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York; as chair of the Finance and Program committees of the Onondaga Pastoral Counseling Center; as Vice-president and Board member of the Americanization League of Syracuse and Onondaga County; as a member of Thursday Morning Roundtable (a weekly forum of select business, civic, religious, political, educational and social service community leaders); and as an Advisory Board member for the New York State Voluntary Enterprise Commission.

Nationally, Barry helped pioneer the computerization of Jewish Federations across North America as the founding chair of the Council of Jewish Federations' National Computer Committee. He also served on the Council's Management Services Committee.

Active in the Association of Jewish Community Organizational Personnel, Barry served as Chair of its Professional Development, Constitution and By-laws, and Publications Committees. He authored a regular column on management literature, entitled POSDCORB, in its newsletter.

For enjoyment, Barry created and published for several years a periodic journal entitled Beyneynu (pronounced bay-nay-new), which means "Between you, me and the gatepost" in Hebrew. Beyneynu sought "to enlighten, to expand personal horizons, to make connections among ideas, and to cause the "aha: feeling that unleashes the curiosity and creativity with us all." It published reflections and personal essays on a variety of topics that relate to its stated mission.

Barry has authored a number of published and unpublished articles on nonprofit leadership and management issues. He was recognized in the mid-1980s as a Syracuse Herald American (newspaper) Mover and Shaker in Religion, a recognition of leaders under 40 years of age (at that time!). He is also the recipient of the Esther and Joseph Roth Award for Outstanding Jewish Community Leadership for his service in Central New York.

Summing up his career in Central New York, Barry is proudest of the Syracuse Herald American newspaper features (An Examined Life, Thoughtful Local Jewish Leader Take His Leave) and editorial (Farewell To A Class Act) published on his leaving the area for Austin, TX.