Our Boards

 

Opening Doors has a Board of Directors and two Advisory Boards.

 

 

Our Board of Directors

 

The Board of Directors is responsible for the overall management of the agency’s finances and programs. It supervises the Executive Director and ensures that agency policies and program requirements are properly implemented and fulfilled. The board also has recently undertaken to promote the agency and its programs by making personal presentations to business organizations, faith based groups, community-based organizations and community leaders. Current board members are:

 

Jack Adolphson
Regional Lay Director, LCMS CA-NV-HI District
State of California Project Manager, Business Continuity Planning, Retired
Representative, ODI Advisory Committee

 

Diane M. Mahoney, Board Chair
Partner, Immigration Law Offices of Mahoney & Tomlinson, P.C.

 

Joan A Markoff
Chief Legal Counsel, California Department of Personnel Administration

 

Deborah Lowe Muramoto
Director, Fund Development and Marketing, California Capitol Financial Development Corp.

 

Estelle Saltzman
Principal, Runyon Saltzman Einhorn

 

Karen F. Taranto
Private Consultant, Health Care Plans and Operations

 

Linda Ziegahn
Community Engagement Coordinator, UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities and the Clinical and Translational Science Center

 

Our Faith Community Advisory Board

Opening Doors’ Faith Community Advisory board had its beginnings when our organization was an arm of the Interfaith Service Bureau before it incorporated as an independent non-profit. Historically, the board has focused on refugee resettlement, but over the years the need for a link between all of our programs and the faith communities has become increasingly apparent.  Currently the board is in a revitalization mode with the goal of better linking Opening Doors’ work with the various faith communities of the Sacramento area.  It is doing this for the purpose of enlisting community support; better understanding the issues faced by human trafficking survivors, refugees, and other clients; and informing potential participants of our programs.

 

 

Our Prosperity Project Advisory Board

 

The Prosperity Project Advisory board helps Opening Doors better understand how to best serve Sacramento’s low-income and ethnic communities with our financial programs and to maintain accountability to these communities.  Its members are from the various ethnic communities and geographic regions of Prosperity Project participants.  Its goals include: help Prosperity Project maintain strong ties with the community; deliver guidance to Prosperity Project on community needs, desires and preferences; provide inputs regarding loan product design and marketing as well as training and counseling design and marketing; and furnish the community with information about Prosperity Project programs and loan products.