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Matthew Mahan
Director, Nonprofit Relations & Business Development, Causes
Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 8:45 A.M. - 9:45 A.M.
Matthew Mahan directs nonprofit relations and business development at Causes, which provides organizing tools for individuals and nonprofit organizations. One of the largest applications on Facebook, Causes supports over 100 million users, 350,000 user-created cause communities, and 12,000 official nonprofit partners. Causes users have raised over $18 million dollars for nonprofits in its two and half years of existence. Over the past year and a half, Matthew has spearheaded the development of new communication, advocacy, and fundraising tools for nonprofits, as well as new outreach and educational programs. He has presented on social media, nonprofit fundraising, and online organizing at Wharton, the Stanford Office of Development, Duke's Fuqua School of Business, the Council on Foundations, Google, and most recently, the Convio Summit in Austin, TX.
Matthew joined Causes after teaching middle school through Teach for America and building irrigation systems in Bolivia while on a Rockefeller Fellowship. Matthew graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where he served as student body president and wrote an honors thesis on the state of liberal arts education. He is a native of Watsonville, a farming town on California’s Central Coast.
Dan Adams
President and CEO,
Cal Farley
Friday, January 29, 2010 | 8:45 A.M. - 9:45 A.M.
Dan Adams has been with Cal Farley’s since 1996, and has served as President and CEO since June, 2005. He lives in Amarillo with his wife of 28 years.
Dan, one of six children, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and traveled around the world with his parents who were missionaries for the Methodist Church. As a youngster, he attended schools as far away as France and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He attended boarding school in northern Zambia, and was taught at U.S. schools in Nashville, Tennessee and Farmington, New Mexico. He graduated from high school in San Angelo, Texas in 1975.
Dan received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas in 1983; and his Master of Science degree in Social Work at the University of Texas, Austin, in 1991. He has performed "field faculty" work for the Schools of Social Work at UT-Austin, UT-Arlington, Lubbock Christian University, and is an adjunct professor at West Texas A & M University in Canyon.
Dan's work experiences have included direct care, teaching, and case management with youth in residential settings. He has held management and senior level nonprofit leadership positions for the past 18 years. In 2009, Dan received the Charles I. Wright Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Texas School of Social Work.
His public service experience includes his current board membership as the Vice President for the Texas Alliance for Children and Family Services. He recently was appointed by Governor Rick Perry to the Committee on Licensing Standards, and has been the president of school boards of trustees for two districts — one of which was Boys Ranch Independent School District. He also serves as a member of the University of Texas, School of Social Work Advisory Council.
Dan's life experiences, from his childhood to his career in social services, have been about mission-focused work with youth and families. His life experiences have served as a strong foundation for his role as President and CEO of this organization.
