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Accordia Global Health Foundation Names Dale Mott Vice President

August 4, 2010, Washington, DC  – Accordia Global Health Foundation’s President Dr. Warner Greene and Executive Director Carol Spahn announced today that Dale Mott has been selected Vice President for Development and Communications. Mott will lead Accordia’s team responsible for defining and implementing communications strategies and securing contributed funding critical to advancing the organization’s mission to fight infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.

“Dale brings 18 years experience in non-profit fundraising and public relations to the Accordia team,” noted Dr. Greene. “Dale’s creativity and passion are what we need to scale-up Accordia’s work in sub-Saharan Africa.”

Most recently, Mott served as Vice President for Major Gifts for the Sister to Sister Foundation, a non-profit health foundation dedicated to preventing heart disease in women. Prior to Sister to Sister Foundation, Mott served as National Director for the global poverty fighting organization, CARE. At CARE, Mott developed “Sheila’s I Am Powerful Challenge,” a national challenge grant program that successfully matched a $4 million investment from CARE Global Ambassador, businesswoman and philanthropist, Sheila. C. Johnson. Mott also executed CARE’s 2007 and 2008 I Am Powerful Retreats, which engaged several of America’s most influential women leaders in the fight against global poverty. Ivelisse Estrada, Senior Vice President, Univision; Donna Shalala, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services and current President of University of Miami; and Ingrid Saunders Jones, Senior Vice President for The Coca-Cola Company, were among participants.

Mott served as Associate Director for External Affairs for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art from 1998 to 2004, Director of Development for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (Detroit, Michigan) from 1998 to 2000, and as Director of Development for Penumbra Theatre Company, one of the United States’ premiere African American equity theatres, from 1995 to 1998. He has also held positions with the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party and Minnesota State Government.

Mott holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with High Honors from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. His honors thesis, The Black Middle Class in the 1990s: A Conversation on Assimilation and Acculturation in America, was presented to the Mid-South Sociological Association. Mott attended the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota where he was a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow.

Mott is very active with several Washington, DC-based non-profits including the Human Rights Campaign and the Sitar Arts Center.