Creating a Non-Profit Organization: Merging Business Skills with Your Passion
Sarah Cortez has built a fast-growing, entrepreneurial non-profit serving children and youth across the Houston area. Relying on skills learned in a variety of career settings, such as accounting, employee benefits consulting, policing, and university teaching, she has founded an organization that reflects the skills learned in all these arenas.
The organization Catholic Literary Arts, is a fusion of Cortez’s passion as a writer, editor, and professional educator plus her leadership abilities honed through years of service.
Cortez will talk about the visioning process, building a board of directors, forging alliances, and growth in the service industries within the organization’s mission, and the importance of multi-platform delivery of services..
Cortez is a graduate of Rice University with advanced degrees from UT-Austin, and UH-Central. Her teaching spans high school and college, and she is a faculty member at University of St. Thomas. She has been published as a writer over a period of 25 years, with 14 titles to her name. She is an arts columnist for two international journals. She is president and founder of Catholic Literary Arts based in Houston, Texas whose major programs are remarkable for their double-digit annual growth. In 2024, she received three national awards for her own writing from the National Federation of Press Women.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2025 at 6:45 - 8:30 am
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