About Us
Leadership
NDANO Board of Directors
Our board represents a cross-section of missions and communities from across our state and has a deep commitment to advancing the North Dakota nonprofit sector to strengthen communites and enhance quality of life.
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Gayla Sherman, MSW, President
Gayla is co-executive director of programs & resource development for Charles Hall Youth Services in Bismarck. During the past three decades, she has served several nonprofit organizations throughout the Midwest, as well as in Texas and Kentucky.
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Jim Yockim, Vice President
Jim is the director of the Bethel Lutheran Foundation in Williston. He served as a North Dakota State Senator from 1986-1998 and was a commissioner for the city of Williston from 1984-1988 and 1998-2002.
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Pat Berger, Secretary
Pat has served as the president/CEO of the United Way of Grand Forks/East Grand Forks since 1994 and has spent her entire career working in the nonprofit sector. Pat and her husband, Al, moved to North Dakota from the New York City area in 1990 when he became a Professor of History at the University of North Dakota.
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Jill Gregoire, Treasurer
Jill is executive director of the United Way of Dickinson and has worked in the nonprofit sector for the past seven years. She is a graduate of Montana State University with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education.
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Edie Dahlen
Edie is the director of planning and finance with the Community Violence Intervention Center (CVIC) in Grand Forks. Edie serves on CVIC’s leadership team and is responsible for raising funds, planning and implementing center communications and public relations, and oversees the agency finances and special events.
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Cordell Dick, CPA, CFRE
Cordell is the development director of the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation in Bismarck and Medora. He is a long-serving board member of both NDANO and AFP ND – Northern Plains Chapter.
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Susan Koch
Susan is the finance manager at the Prairie Learning Center in Raleigh. She has been employed there since 1992. Prior to this, she worked as an administrative assistant for the UND School of Medicine in Bismarck.
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Dan Madler
Dan has over 18 years of nonprofit work experience in the affordable housing industry and is currently the chief operating officer for Beyond Shelter, Inc. (BSI) in Fargo. He is responsible for ensuring that development and fiscal operations of BSI continue to meet the needs of the affordable housing market.
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Mitch Monson
Mitch is the executive director of Northwest Venture Communities, Inc (NVCI), a nonprofit organization working to reduce poverty in an eight-county region surrounding Minot. He has served as director of NVCI since 2003 and is a past president of NDANO.
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Martha Keeler Olsen
Martha is a certified life coach and an arts advocate living in Fargo. She served seven years as executive director of The Arts Partnership, was a member of a North Dakota Council of the Arts education task force, served on the committee for the development of Arts North Dakota, and is currently the board chair of the North Dakota Art Alliance for Education and a board member of BisonArts.
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Karel Sovak
Karel is an assistant professor with the University of Mary in Bismarck and is working on his PhD in organizational change and leadership with an emphasis on developing nonprofits. He is also a senior consultant with Horsager Leadership.
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Shelly Weppler
Shelly, executive director of St. Joseph’s Community Health Foundation in Minot, is an executive with 15 years of professional nonprofit management experience, 15 years in the banking business and 25 years of board experience. She ascribes to a philosophy which recognizes and meets the interests and values of donors, in concert with the immediate and long-term needs and hopes of communities.
NDANO Staff
Our staff is dedicated to serving the many constituents of our organization and focuses its energy on providing services to strengthen member nonprofits and raising the voice of the North Dakota nonprofit sector.
