2012 National Conference

Vice President

Jane Donahue joined Deaconess Foundation as vice president in December 2004. She has over fifteen years of experience in youth development and nonprofit management including managing programs for Henry Street Settlement and Prep for Prep in New York City, and serving as a consultant for organizations such as The Riverside Church, Public/Private Ventures and Bank Street College of Education. In St. Louis, she was a founder of College Summit-St. Louis. Jane currently co-chairs the St. Louis Regional College Access Pipeline Project; serves as chair of the region's grantmaking association, Gateway Center for Giving; and served on the Mayor's Afterschool for All by 2010 Taskforce. Donahue holds a bachelor's in American Studies from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) and received her master's from Harvard Divinity School.

Senior Program Officer

Clark McCain is senior program officer at The Coleman Foundation, Inc. He developed two of the Foundation’s primary initiatives: the Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows Program which funds educators who embed self-employment concepts within college courses across many disciplines, and Intersect for Ability, a network of organizations serving individuals with developmental disabilities which develops staff training, lifestage transition and other programs. Previously, McCain held several finance and procurement strategy positions at Kraft Foods and was Chair of the Kraft Employee Fund Leadership Council. He holds a bachelor's in economics from Northwestern University and a master's of business administration from the University of Michigan.

Senior Vice President, Programs

Allison Williams is senior vice president for programs and is responsible for the oversight of Wyman Center’s regional youth development services, including the Wyman Teen Leadership Program and Wyman Teen Outreach Program. Williams has worked with Wyman for over a decade and has overseen agency program evaluation, supervised a variety of youth development and community-based programs and managed a local partnership with social service agencies. Her work on Wyman’s TOP national replication has included training, follow-up support to partners and systems building.

Williams earned a bachelor’s from Saint Louis University and a master’s from Boston College, both in social work, and holds a Missouri clinical social worker license. Currently, she is a social work field instructor for Saint Louis University, Washington University in St. Louis, and University of Missouri – St. Louis and an adjunct faculty member of the Brown School of Social Work.