AlfredoVergara-Lobo
Principal
Vergara-Lobo Associates
P.O. Box 12281, San Francisco, CA 94112-0281
Phone:
Fax: (415) 585-2712
With backgrounds in education, social work, organizational change, and recreation, Alfredo brings years of experience with non-profit and public entities domestically and abroad to his work with organizations and individuals. He received his MSW from the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and his BA from San Francisco State University.
Alfredo has taught in public and private schools the United States and Latin America, and has guest-lectured for the schools of Social Work and Social Welfare at San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley respectively. A popular speaker and presenter, he has trained and presented to hundreds of audiences throughout the country and abroad in English and in Spanish, including the train-the-trainer series “Institute for Nonprofit Consulting” (INC), which prepares nonprofit consultants for successful careers in the sector.
Throughout his tenures as senior consultant at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and La Piana Associates, Alfredo has trained and consulted with hundreds of nonprofits, foundations, and government entities domestically and abroad, in English and in Spanish in the areas of strategic planning, board development, strategic partnerships, and cultural competence.
An expert in nonprofit partnerships, he was a founding consultant for the Strategic Solutions project, a national initiative to advance the field of nonprofit partnerships and fine tune knowledge and practice in that area.
As a certified coach, Alfredo has worked with nonprofit and public sector leaders to assist them in accomplishing their organizational and individual goals. He is a principal coach at Prism Coaching, a consortium of six multicultural coaches who provide culturally aware coaching services.
Published work
§ “The M Word: A Board Members Guide to Mergers – How, Why and Why Not to Merge Nonprofit Organizations” © 2005, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services.
§ “Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide and Workbook” © 2005, John Wiley and Sons. Contributing author.
§ “Crossing Borders, Sharing Journeys: Effective capacity building with immigrant and refugee groups” © 2006, Fieldstone Alliance. Contributing author.
§ “Cultural Competency in the Nonprofit Sector: Starting the Conversation” © 2009, Fieldstone Alliance. Contributing writer.
Carmen Canto Young, MSW, MPH
Senior Associate
Vergara-Lobo Associates
112 N Avenue 66 No. 4, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Phone: (323) 646-7598
cantoyoung@yahoo.com
With backgrounds in public health, social work, organizational capacity-building, research and evaluation, and cultural competence, Carmen brings years of experience with nonprofits, universities, and government to her work at Vergara-Lobo Associates. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California in Los Angeles, and obtained double master degrees in Social Welfare and Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
As a researcher and evaluator, Carmen has lead capacity-building projects with groups in the areas of children, youth and families, health, HIV/AIDS, mental health and education. As a consultant Carmen has provided training and capacity-building services to help clients write their goals and objectives for program implementation and evaluation planning, and presentations at meetings and conferences to present project evaluation results. The unique combination of her interdisciplinary skill allows her to provide consulting services that take into consideration, administrative and fiscal aspects, in addition to a rigorous yet customer-paced focus on demonstrating and documenting program implementation through evaluation planning, tracking, and reporting.
As a trainer, she has provided learning opportunities in staff development, evaluation planning, structured interviews in longitudinal research, and evidence-based curricula.
Being a fully bilingual / bi-cultural immigrant in English and Spanish and having completed a good portion of her work on issues related to Latino communities, Carmen enjoys working in groups and community settings and has been involved with community groups such as Latin Pride and the Latino Equality Alliance. Her belief is that much of the work with community based organizations needs to still be represented in the literature so that the achievement and accomplishments are recognized and the needs of the community more appropriately resourced.
