Belinda Rinker
Community Development Institute and CDI Head Start
Ms. Rinker completed her undergraduate education at Montana State University, and received her law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1982. Until 1998, she maintained a private legal practice in Bozeman, Montana. Her legal career focused on nonprofit organizations and other grant funded entities. She has supported nonprofit activities in the areas of rural economic development, micro-lending, weatherization, affordable housing, youth at risk and early childhood education. She was named Montana’s Woman Small Business Advocate by the Small Business Administration.
In 1998, Ms. Rinker and her family moved to central Nebraska, and presently live in Lincoln, Nebraska. Ms. Rinker is a member of the Montana and Nebraska bar associations. For the past five years, she has served as Human Resources and Legal Manager for Community Development Institute (CDI) and CDI Head Start. Both are nonprofit corporations headquartered in Denver, Colorado. CDI provides consulting services to a wide variety of organizations to support transition management, developing and implementing change initiatives, strategic planning, and conflict/crisis resolution. CDI Head Start provides interim management for Head Start and Early Head Start programs throughout the United States which are facing performance challenges under their federal grant funding.
Ms. Rinker has received extensive training in the areas of organizational development, communication, leadership, coaching and appreciative inquiry. She is certified in the use of appreciative inquiry by the Corporation for Positive Change and recently completed an advanced online course in appreciative inquiry presented by Dr. David Cooperrider. When she isn’t traveling, Ms. Rinker enjoys working from her home office in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she can spend time with her husband, Alan, and children Elizabeth, 17, and Dan, 14.
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