Meet the Editors
Jerome Tennille
Jerome Tennille is a Corporate Responsibility and Social Impact strategist who works in the hospitality industry and advises on volunteerism independently. His work focuses on designing, planning, and executing corporate employee volunteer programming to create positive social and environmental impact. He has expertise in bringing corporations and nonprofits together to build strategies that help advance long-term community goals and drive employee engagement. Prior to his work in corporate responsibility, he was the Senior Manager of Volunteer Services for Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a national nonprofit that serves military families experiencing loss. Jerome is also a social impact writer, and his work has been featured on Impakter, Business 2 Community Magazine, VolunteerMatch, Nonprofit Information.com and many other outlets. Jerome holds a Master of Sustainability Leadership from Arizona State University and is designated as Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Jerome is also a veteran of the U.S. Navy.
Doug Bolton
Doug Bolton is a trained journalist with experience in print, broad- cast, digital, and all forms of media. He spent thirty years in the media business, including nearly fifteen years as a business journal publisher. In 2011, he was recruited to run a geographic division of what is now the world’s second largest commercial real estate services firm. Community nonprofit leadership roles led Doug to begin working in 2018 with Inspiring Service founders Craig and Michael Young on deploying technology and services to more efficiently and effectively build volunteer ecosystem infrastructure for hands-on service to board-level leadership.
Beth Steinhorn
As president of VQ Volunteer Strategies, Beth Steinhorn partners with organizations and their leadership to increase impact through strategic and innovative volunteer engagement. Beth has authored multiple books and articles on strategic volunteer engagement and helped found The National Alliance for Volunteer Engagement to advance the national dialogue about volunteerism and engagement. Prior to becoming a consultant, Beth worked as an executive director and marketing director with education and faith-based organizations and spent years working with museums as an educator, manager, and anthropologist. She draws upon her anthropology experience still, helping organizations shift their culture to embrace volunteer engagement as a strategy to fulfill mission.
Craig Young
Craig Young is President of the Craig Young Family Foundation and Board Chair/Volunteer Executive Director of Inspiring Service. He serves on numerous other nonprofit boards with annual budgets ranging from modest to nearly three billion dollars. He also serves on the National Alliance for Volunteer Engagement and Encore Network Leadership Teams. Technology companies he founded in the 1980s and 1990s were later sold to Siemens and Apple. Over the last two decades, Craig has parlayed his business success into tangible social impact through a variety of efforts by leveraging his continued interest in technology into creating solutions for what he sees as inane absurdities holding back the independent sector.