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Beaconfire CEO Elected to Board of Influential Nonprofit Technology Group
Falls Church, Va, December 23, 2004 —
Beaconfire Consulting CEO and strategy consultant Lynn Labieniec has
been elected to the Board of Directors of N-TEN, the Nonprofit Technology
Enterprise Network. This membership group based in San Francisco plays a major
role in linking individuals and organizations working to help nonprofits
understand and use technology more effectively.
Labieniec has been helping the nonprofit sector apply technology to its
business operations since 1980. She has developed technology strategies for the
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research Foundation, United Way of America, Planned
Parenthood, and other clients. Before co-founding Beaconfire, Labieniec served
on Commerce One's Nonprofit Leadership Team and was a leader within Commerce
One's project management skill track.
Prior to that, Labieniec was a founding partner of RivCom Limited, a United
Kingdom-based consultancy firm specializing in applying XML technologies to
knowledge and information management problems. She also held management
positions at Blackbaud Inc. and Riverside Software Inc., where she focused on
helping corporate and private foundations effectively implement and integrate
grants management and employee gift matching software. She started her career at
IBM's Corporate Headquarters in Armonk, NY, where she worked on many projects
with the corporate philanthropy department, including leading the technology
development of IBM's employee gift matching program.
Labieniec's first term on the N-TEN Board runs through 2007. For a full list
of N-TEN board members, visit www.nten.org/board.
Among its major activities, N-TEN sponsors an annual Nonprofit Technology
Conference, regional conferences throughout North America, an online directory
of technology service providers for nonprofits, nonprofit technology networking
groups, and other resources to help nonprofits make more effective use of
technology.
About Beaconfire
Beaconfire Consulting serves the nonprofit community with interactive markeing and fundraising, web design and development, internet strategy planning, and technology evaluation services. Beaconfire has guided some of the world's leading nonprofit organizations to achieve something remarkable with Web technologies. Results that shine..
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