CHHSM: A Congregation

CHHSM, the Council for Health and Human Service Ministries of the United Church of Christ, is a congregation of faith and hope.

Sharing the Same DNA: How For-profit and Faith-based Corporations are Converging

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CHHSM 2010 Annual Meeting: Opening Plenary

Riess Potterveld
Dr. Riess Potterveld began as the tenth president of Lancaster Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion on July 1, 2002. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and has standing in the Lancaster Association of the Penn Central Conference of the UCC.

Dr. Potterveld teaches courses in transformational leadership and the practical skills of ministry. He preaches and speaks widely throughout the Middle Atlantic region on issues of church and society and offers workshops on the interface between spirituality and art.

Under Dr. Potterveld’s leadership, Lancaster has developed an ecology of theological education that offers learning opportunities to youth, lay leaders, congregations, newly ordained pastors, and seasoned pastors in addition to persons enrolled in regular degree programs. Over 2,500 persons from North Carolina to New York study in LTS’ special programs each year.

Prior to LTS, Riess served for ten years as Vice President and Dean of Pacific School of Religion, a seminary of the United Church of Christ in Berkeley, California. He previously served as senior minister of The Congregational Church of Northridge, California for 18 years and was the co-founder and president of The Valley Shelter, a large multi-service shelter for homeless people in the San Fernando Valley for three years beginning in 1986.

Riess graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he earned a B.A. in religion. After being named a Booth Ferris Fellow by the Rockefeller Theological Foundation, he attended Yale University Divinity School. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Yale, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Claremont Graduate University in philosophy of religion.

Riess is married to Tara Potterveld, a sign language interpreter for the Deaf and sculptor and they share four adult sons.

“Yes. You Do Make a Difference”

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CHHSM 2010 Annual Meeting: Keynote

Keynote Speaker Kathryn Jo Lincoln
Kathryn Jo Lincoln is Chair of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, a leading non-profit resource for key issues related to the international use, regulation, economics and taxation of land. Through high-quality education, research and demonstration projects, the Institute works to improve public dialogue and decisions about land policy. Ms. Lincoln’s expertise includes marketing for both non-profit and for-profit corporations, asset allocation and program development. She has played a crucial role in the strategic direction of the Institute, has developed educational programs and worked extensively with impact measurement.

Ms. Lincoln is associated with her family’s corporation, The Lincoln Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio, a progressive, national leader in sustainability, and is a member of the Lincoln Electric Holdings Board of Directors. She is a Trustee of the Chautauqua Institution, a Director of the Chautauqua Foundation, and serves on the Board of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. She also is a member of the Board of the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training in the Republic of China, which has honored her for her land policy work twice in the past four years.

Ms. Lincoln is a graduate of Hollins University and she received her MBA from the College of William and Mary. Her interests include singing professionally. She lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona, with her two children.

Stewardship of Resources for Mission Sustainability

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CHHSM 2010 Annual Meeting: Cain Brothers Plenary Session

Amy Hayman, Managing Director, Cain Brothers

Amy, who joined Cain Brothers in 1998, brings more than 20 years of corporate and investment banking experience to her clients. During her tenure as an investment banker in senior living, Amy has completed over 65 long-term care transactions totaling over $2.5 billion in par value. Amy has experience in the management, structuring, and financial analysis of a variety of senior living transactions, including enhanced and unenhanced issues, multi-facility system obligated group financings, bond tenders, advanced refundings, restructurings, repositionings, start-up and expansion project financings, as well as structuring interest rate swaps. Amy also has experience completing valuations of senior living providers and is active with mergers, acquisitions and sales within the senior living industry. Amy is a frequent speaker at health care conferences across the country. Amy is currently is a member of the Financial Advisory Panel for CARF/CCAC.

Before joining Cain Brothers, Amy served as Vice President at B.C. Ziegler and Company, specializing in senior living finance. Prior to that, Amy spent seven years in corporate banking.

Amy grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. She received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Joe Mulligan, Managing Director, Cain Brothers Joe Mulligan, managing director in Cain Brothers St. Louis office, joined Cain Brothers’ Senior Health and Housing Group in 2008 and is located in the firm’s Saint Louis office. Prior to joining the firm, Joe worked as an investment banker for A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. and Wachovia Securities, where he coordinated their senior living finance practice nationally. In addition to his banking and origination experience at A.G. Edwards, Joe sat on their Derivatives Committee and also helped establish that firm’s underwriting criterion, bond marketing processes, and surveillance procedures for senior living financings nationally.

During his tenure as an investment banker, Joe has raised more than $2.5 billion in tax-exempt and taxable transactions for clients in 29 states. He has a diverse clientele that includes single-site CCRCs; multi-site CCRC systems; stand alone skilled nursing, assisted living, dementia and senior housing providers; mental health organizations; long-term acute care hospitals; rehabilitation hospitals; sub-acute care facilities; acute care hospitals; specialty hospitals; and human service providers.

Joe grew up in Saint Louis and received a BS and an MBA from Saint Louis University.

Why Going Green is Better than Bingo

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CHHSM 2010 Annual Meeting: Concurrent Session

Dan Peerless
Experience has shown that going green can fight climate change, save money and activate residents in retirement communities. Learn how to start a greening program and implement your ministry’s sustainability programming to engage and empower your residents.

Dan Peerless is Associate Director of Gray Is Green – the National Senior Conservation Corps. He received his BA from Hanover College and a Master of Environmental Management degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He has worked with a variety of environmental non-profits, including The Nature Conservancy, at the local, national and international levels.

We are Part of Something Larger than We Imagine

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Dr. Riess Potterveld preaches from First Park Congregational UCC in downtown Grand Rapids.

The Congregation of Health and Human Service Ministries

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Bryan Sickbert contemplates the future of CHHSM during the business meeting of the 2010 CHHSM annual meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan.