Staff

Dave Feldman, Executive Director

Dave Feldman is the CEO of Livability Project LLC (www.livabilityproject.com), an organization that provides structure and tools to help communities develop sustainability initiatives. Through Livability, Dave leverages his entrepreneurial experience, international economic development expertise, and passion for sustainability to implement socially responsible, ‘green’ community development projects that can be replicated worldwide.

Prior to Livability Project, Dave was Consul, Trade & Investment at the British Embassy. His role as head of the largest economic development agency in the world was to help US companies operate successfully in the United Kingdom and to support UK companies exporting to the US. He managed a team covering multiple sectors and was directly responsible for a portfolio that included information technology and renewable energy.

Earlier in his career, Dave served as VP of Sales and Marketing for a wireless software company and was Principal of Global Growth Strategies, a team of international consultants providing strategic and market planning to the global IT industry.

Dave holds an M.B.A. from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland in International Management and Finance. He is a graduate of Leadership Montgomery (’06) and is currently on the Board of Sustainable Business Network of Washington (SB NOW).

Dave Heffernan, Director of Communications

Dave is a marketing communications professional and community builder with over 25 years of experience working with nonprofits and consulting firms for the federal government.  Before joining Bethesda Green, Dave was Marketing Director for 40Plus of Greater Washington, a job-search support nonprofit, where he created a blog that attracted over 10,000 hits in one year.  As VP of Public Affairs for the Center for Education Reform, Dave coordinated and supervised communications, marketing and public affairs activities, increasing media coverage by 20 percent.

Earlier in his career, Dave was Managing Editor at the Children's Defense Fund, where he led an editorial and production team that created over $1 million in publication sales annually. Dave also supervised multi-million dollar outreach contracts with FDA and NIST as a Project Manager with SciComm, a small, Bethesda-based consulting firm.

Dave holds a B.A. in Journalism from George Washington University and serves on the Board of Directors for the Maryland Energy and Sustainability Cooperative and for 40Plus of Greater Washington.  He's also been known to play piano and sing classic rock and bluegrass songs in local bars and at random parties up and down the East Coast.

Amy Kincaid, Development Manager

The founder of ChangeMatters, a firm that helps leaders of social enterprises build stability and growth through improved strategy, planning, fundraising, and earned income, Amy brings to Bethesda Green career experience guiding medium-sized and small social-purpose organizations -- especially in times of intensive growth and transition. Having raised well over $65 million for nonprofits, she has advised leaders in hundreds of organizations, worked on several start-ups and turnarounds, and developed local businesses-nonprofit collaborations.
 

Previously, she directed development at First Nations Development Institute, IREX, and grantseeking at Center for Women's Business Research, and worked with non-governmental organizations in Central and Eastern Europe. She has presented hundreds of times on organizational planning, strategy, program design, and resource development success, and for many years, has served on the faculty of the Social Action and Leadership School for Activists, teaching classes in fundraising, planning, capacity building, and turnarounds. Early in her career, she was a grantmaker for the first foundation based in the former Soviet Union and a nonprofit sector lobbyist for Independent Sector.

An analyst, artist, and advocate for progressive organizations, Amy currently serves on the Board of Directors for Pyramid Atlantic, exhibits collage, and curates the alternative gallery and performance Space 7:10 at Kefa Café in Silver Spring. Born and raised in Kansas City, MO, Amy brings a passionate desire to connect and promote local resources through scalable, effective, and sustainable activity.