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News: Beaconfire CEO Labieniec to chair nonprofit technology association.
Seattle, WA, March 27, 2006 —
Lynn Labieniec, CEO of Beaconfire Consulting in Arlington, VA, was elected Board Chair of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (N-TEN) at the organization’s annual board meeting on March 25th. As chair, Labieniec will oversee the association’s activities to bring nonprofit organizations together with technology vendors, and consultants to advance charitable efforts to provide social services and achieve social equity and opportunity, a healthy natural environment, or the challenge and illumination of art.
“Our entire profession is entering a period of rapid growth and evolution, and nonprofit organizations need a forum like NTEN more than ever to stay on top of their game,” Labieniec said. “It’s a great time to step up my involvement in the organization.”
N-TEN connects diverse constituents who share a common goal of helping nonprofits use technology more effectively. Organizational and individual members include nonprofits, technology support organizations, consultants, and vendors, who want to identify peers, connect with clients, develop professional support networks, and share information and resources. N-TEN programs include national and regional conferences, an online directory of service providers, workshops and webinars, and other online resources.
Lynn Labieniec is a 20 year veteran of the technology industry and has served as CEO of Beaconfire Consulting since helping found the company in 2001. Beaconfire is a full service Internet consulting firm, providing web design and development, interactive marketing and fundraising, Internet strategy and planning, and software evaluation service to nonprofit organizations. Beaconfire clients include charities and advocacy organizations such as Heifer International, the American Civil Liberties Union, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the American Lung Association, the Trust for Public Land, and many others.
Before co-founding Beaconfire, Lynn served on Commerce One's Nonprofit Leadership Team, as well as a leader within Commerce One's project management skill track. Previously, Lynn was a founding partner of RivCom Limited, in the United Kingdom, a consultancy firm specializing in applying XML technologies to knowledge and information management problems.
She has also held various management positions at Blackbaud Inc. and Riverside Software Inc., with a particular focus on helping corporate and private foundations effectively implement and integrate grants management software.
Lynn's career started at IBM's Corporate Headquarters in Armonk, NY, with bringing operational efficiencies to the Corporate Support Programs department. Over the next six years at IBM she progressed into the programming career track and, among other projects, led the development effort of IBM's employee matching gift program.
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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