Barry Silverberg

Director, Center for Community-Based & Nonprofit Organizations at Austin Community College President & CEO, Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations Consultations, Technical Assistance & Presentations

Barry Silverberg has over 35 years of diverse leadership, management, resource development and communications experience within the nonprofit arena as both a professional and volunteer leader. Currently he leads the Center for Community-Based & Nonprofit Organizations at Austin Community College (ACC CCBNO) , and the Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations (TANO), serving as a coach, mentor, consultant and community resource within the Nonprofit Sector of Central Texas and throughout the State. He shares his experiences, insights and perceptions at Conferences, organizational leadership gatherings, with individuals considering careers in the Nonprofit Sector, and as a session leader within the ACC CCBNO; having provided "technical assistance" (including consultations, strategic thinking leadership gatherings, incorporations, etc) to well over 140 organizations, done dozens of presentations, and serves as resource to the United States Department of State for whom he shares is insights on the nonprofit sector with foreign Delegations in Austin under the auspices of the International Hospitality Council of Austin.

Barry is adjunct faculty at St. Edward's University's New College where he has long taught a course on Nonprofit Leadership and Management. He also serves as Chair of the New College Advisory Council at St. Edward's University and Managing Editor, Nonprofit and Organizational Development at Groundbreaking Press.

Barry is passionate about promoting “strategic creativity”, fostering greater understanding and appreciation of the Nonprofit Sector as a Sector distinct from the Corporate/ Business and Government/ Educational Sectors. He is a strong advocate of promoting creativity, credibility and ethics throughout society; but especially within the Nonprofit Sector.

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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 in 2000, 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.

Together with Linda Young, Special Assistant to the President for Governmental and Community Affairs at Austin Community College, Barry has fashioned the Center for Community-Based & Nonprofit Organizations at Austin Community College into a statewide resource now used by thousands of organizations and people engaged in the nonprofit sector, locally as well as throughout the State of Texas. The Center's management of the Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations is one example of the Center's depth and breadth.

The Center has been recognized as a 2003 Bellwether Award Finalist at the Community College Futures Assembly. for its excellence and its innovative approach in Using Strategic Creativity and a Partnership of Business and Community College to Meet Workforce Needs of the Nonprofit Sector. The Center has become a primary information and referral resource for individuals and agencies interested in or engaged within the nonprofit sector of Central Texas.

Barry has been recognized for his work on behalf of the Nonprofit Sector by the Austin Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals which awarded him their Special Recognition Award in 2006.

In 2004, Barry was a finalist in the Ethics in Business Awards co-sponsored by the Samaritan Center and St. Edward's University's Center for Ethics and Leadership. The same year, he was recognized for his role in mentoring Impact Austin by being one of the first recipients of their For Pete's Sake Award. Previously he was the 2003 recipient of the Austin Young Lawyers Association Liberty Bell Award, "presented to a non-lawyer who has made a significant and selfless contribution to the community. This award recognizes dedication to community service that promotes a better understanding of the principles of American government and strengthens the effectiveness of the American system of freedom under law."

As an adjunct faculty at St. Edward's University's New College, Barry where developed and now teaches the course on Nonprofit Leadership and Management; part of the New College's Nonprofit Management Certificate Program. He is currently Chair of the Advisory Council for New College at St. Edward’s University.(New College News, Winter 2006).

Currently, Barry serves as President & CEO of the Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations (TANO), having previously served as its President. He has also served as the Executive Director of the international American Creativity Association, where he also served as the 2005 & 2006 International Conference Chairs. He also served as the President of the ACA Austin chapter, In addition, Barry was the co- Publisher of Creative Pulse Magazine, now resting creatively.

Barry also serves on numerous Boards of Directors and Advisory Councils. His civic service includes being Board Advisor to Community Weaving & Family Support Networks International; and current and past service on leadership bodies of Samaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care, Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, River City Youth Foundation (RCYF),as the Higher Education Sector's representative on the Community Resource Council of the Community Action Network and on the Planning Committee for the 2006 Nonprofit Organizations Institute of the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reflecting his commitment to organizational integrity, Barry served as the last president of the Central East Austin Community Organization (CEACO), leading the organization's leadership to close the organization with all the dignity it deserved for its decades of service to Austin's citizens. He has also served on the Board of Directors of University of Texas Center for Performance Excellence, on the Planning Committee of Communities Connecting for a Better Tomorrow, chair of the Learning Opportunities Committee for the 2003 and 2004 Governors Volunteer Leadership Conferences sponsored by the OneStar Foundation (previously known as the Texas Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service; on the Blue Ribbon Panel for 2003 and 2004 Annual Governor's Volunteer Awards;on the volunteer recognition selection panels for the Texas Department of Health and Texas Department of Human Services; on the Project Advisory Committee of the Training Better Board and Committee Members Project of NAMI Texas, and contributed to the resulting manual for Board members; 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 on the 2007 Peer Panelist Review Committee for the Capacity Building Level II Grants for the City of Austin's Cultural Arts Division of the Economic and Redevelopment Services Office.

As Project Director for the Adult Literacy Organizational Training Project (ALOTP), Barry designed the program to enhance the organizational capacity for adult literacy programs throughout the State of Texas. The 18 month, $385,000 grant received from the Texas Education Agency is a comprehensive effort that includes a variety of resource materials being produced by the Center. Copies of those materials are available upon request at the ALOTP's web site; including a series of audiotapes and CDs of (edited) ALOTP presentations. Some of these, including Barry's presentation on Building Effective Boards of Directors, can be listened to at www.austincc.edu/npo/alotp/audioresources.htm

Barry is also the founder and co-Managing Editor of the Center's quarterly, web-based journal of Strategic Creativity.

Barry is Associate Publisher and Managing Editor for a new magazine, Creative Pulse. He is a cofounder of First World Library and its Managing Editor for Nonprofit and Organizational Development series. He collaborated on two books: Conflict to Mediation, A Process for Mediating Group Differences with Dr. Garry McDaniel; and Thinking Strategically Within Nonprofits, Every Organization Is Created For A Purpose, Thinking Strategically Will Achieve That Purpose with Michael Dore. He wrote the Foreward to The Courage to Lead, An Essential Guide for Volunteer Leaders, Board Trustees, and Public Servants by Robert Floyd.

A graduate of Leadership Austin Class of 2000, Barry 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.

Prior to his career at Austin Community College, 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.

During his 23 year Jewish communal service career, Barry traveled often to Israel. In addition, he learned a great deal about Eastern and Western Europe through visits to Rome, Warsaw, Krakow, Vienna, Prague; and the former concentration camps of Theresienstadt/ Terezin, Mauthausen, Auschwitz-Birkenau - visits which left abiding impressions.

Barry created, and, for several years, published 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.

Barry is married to Marcia Silverberg, Senior Vice-president for Human Resources and Organizational Development for the Seton Healthcare Network. Together, they have two teenage children, Sharon and Mark.

Barry speaks often at local and statewide conferences and is sought after by agencies for his workshops and presentations on Strengthening Boards by Clarifying Roles, Responsibilities and Expectations; Encouraging the Heart: Recognizing and Motivating Volunteers and Staff; Strategic Creativity: Imagining Credible Meetings; and other topics (see below) . He can be reached at bsilverb@austincc.edu or at (512) 223-7076.

Consultations, Technical Assistance & Presentations

Center and/ or Barry Silverberg in the News

Austin Chapter, Association of Fundraising Professionals Special Recognition Presentation (1/24/06)

Barry Silverberg Photos - Portrait - Informal (as above)