Your Town Alabama: Designing Our Future

Special Program For Professional Advisors

Participants will also learn about The Walker Area Community Foundation, and the various giving options it has available, such as advised charitable funds that allow donors to direct contributions to charities of their choice. CHS Activity Center (204 East 19th Street-Jasper) No charge, but registration is required as seating is limited. Please contact Erin Tumlin at the NRCA Offices in Birmingham at (888) 466-4777 ext. 31 to register.  A light breakfast will be served. Wayne Carmello-Harper is the president and principal consultant for Guidant Consulting, Inc. He has worked for the past twenty years as a director of planned giving, executive director of a hospital foundation, overseen the conversion of nonprofit hospital assets, and headed a community foundation. Under his leadership, Wayne has raised millions of dollars in planned gifts, established solid and enduring endowment programs, managed the day-to-day operations of charitable institutions and carefully implemented the charitable goals of individuals, families and businesses. Wayne has a track record of professional development since earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in theology. He has completed the National Planned Giving Institute at the College of William and Mary and the Leadership in Philanthropy program at Stanford University. Wayne is a member of the National Planned Giving Council and a board member of the Alabama Planned Giving Council. He is past president of Alabama Giving, a statewide association of private and public foundations, and has recently completed his service on the Alabama Governor’s Commission for Faith Based and Community Initiatives.