Amy Main Morgenstern brings 30+ years of diverse experiences in the nonprofit, public and private sectors to Main Stream Enterprises, which she established in 1990.  Her roles on all sides of the table -- as a staff person, board member and officer, foundation director, political and strategic adviser, and guest lecturer -- contribute to Amy’s insights and counsel about how leaders, organizations and their boards can be most effective.

 

Amy helped create and managed each aspect of the Volunteer Trustee Institute at Business  Volunteers Unlimited where she provided education and training to new board members and assisted more than fifty nonprofits with their board needs.

 

Amy served as Marketing Manager at Campaign Designs, Inc. and Research Analyst at the Benjamin Rose Institute where she was part of a nationally funded team studying family caregiving for the aged.  Amy began her nonprofit career providing direct services as a

Music Therapist at the Cleveland Music School Settlement.

 

Amy was invited to deliver commencement remarks to CWRU's 2023 Mandel School graduates, where she received the Distinguished Service Award. She was a reviewer of Mario Morino’s book Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity  and is a member of the Leap of Reason Ambassadors Community.  She is a member of the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers and BoardSource.      

Long active in volunteer leadership positions, Amy currently serves on the Board of the Mt. Sinai Health Foundation,  Board and Executive Committee of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, and Treu-Mart Fund Board.  Amy is also a member of the AIDS Funding Collaborative Advisory Committee.

 

Previously, Amy was President-elect of Menorah Park Center for Senior Living, Treasurer and Co-Chair of the Mt. Sinai Health Foundation’s Grants Committee, an Executive Committee member of the philanthropic sector’s Fund for Our Economic Future, and when co-located in San Francisco, Governance Committee Chair of the KIPP Bay Area Schools Board. Amy was the Community Relations Committee Chair and an officer of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, as well as a panel review member of the Cleveland Foundation’s Innovation Lab.  Among other boards on which Amy has served are NorTech, local NCCJ (now The Diversity Center of NEO), Yale Bulldogs on the Cuyahoga, and the Beit Shean Community Foundation in Israel.  Amy is a graduate of Leadership Cleveland and the Wexner Leadership Seminar.

 

In 1999 Amy created the idea for and co-led the first Cleveland Rape Crisis Center’s successful biennial Sing Out event for which she was honored in 2004.  She received the Human Relations Distinguished Leadership Award from The American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Kane Memorial Award for Young Leadership.  Kaleidoscope Magazine  honored Amy in its 2001 “Women Who Give Back” issue.

 

Education

◊  MBA, Weatherhead School of Mgt., Case Western Reserve University (admitted to honor society Beta Gamma Sigma)

◊  MSSA, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University

◊  Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy, Florida State University (admitted to honor society Phi Kappa Lambda)

◊  Northwestern University's School of Music, Voice Major (1972 – 1974)