Mark Culver

Mark Culver is a Senior Program Coordinator with the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership (MCNL) at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.  In this capacity, he supervises the MCNL’s Nonprofit Resource Center & seminar facility, coordinates MCNL’s nonprofit educational programming, and works with nonprofits on specifically designed projects (facilitation, focus groups, evaluation & surveying, planning, board governance, etc.).  Here are some nonprofits he has recently worked with: Missouri CASA (Marshall, MO), Greater Kansas City Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Friends of the Kansas City Library,  First Hand Foundation, Kansas City Repertory Theater, and Twelfth Street Heritage Development Corp.

Mark has worked on and off for the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership since 1993. He started off as a Graduate Research Assistant while he attended the Masters in Public Administration in Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.  While in school he was hired on as a full-time Administrative Coordinator for the Midwest Center from 1994 to 1996.  In 1996, Mark and his wife moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so his wife could complete her Family Medicine residency.  While in Pittsburgh, Mark worked for the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force in the development office for a year and then was promoted to Office Manager for the remaining time he was there.  After his wife’s residency was complete, they moved back to the Kansas City area where he was hired back at the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership as a Program Coordinator for Community Building Initiatives.