Experience

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  BelleAire Press, LLC

  • Gainesville, Florida

  • President

    • Jan 1995 - Present
    • Gainesville, Florida
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  John Wiley & Sons

  • United States
  • Book and Periodical Publishing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Editor: Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition (Wiley)

    • 2010 - Present

    “The book’s editor, Tracy D. Connors, has published eight nonprofit management handbooks, an unsurpassed publication record in the field of non-profit management. Now, he has put together another valuable resource. The book provides an excellent reference guide for the volunteer resource manager, non-profit administrator, or university professor has everything the reader could want to know about volunteer resource management …and more!” [The International Journal of Volunteer Administration, XXVIII(3), 29-31]The Volunteer Management Handbook, Second Edition is the only guide you need for establishing and maintaining an active and effective volunteer program.This handy reference offers practical guidance on such essential issues as motivating people to volunteer their time and services, recruitment, and more. Up-to-date and practical, this is the essential guide to managing your nonprofit's most important resource: its volunteers.

  • Editor in Chief, Nonprofit Handbook: Management

    • 1990 - 2012

    Nonprofit Handbook: Management Third EditionNonprofit Handbook: Management (John Wiley, 2003). The first Wiley management handbook for nonprofit organizations to be published in a third edition. The Third Edition adapted the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria for the SRO and established the means for public service organizations for the first time to measure excellence against national standards. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471397997.htmlAuthored: "The Self-Renewing Organization."

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  Norwich University, College of Graduate and Con...

  • Northfield, VT

  • Lead and Core Faculty/Curriculum Development

    • Dec 2013 - Jan 2018
    • Northfield, VT

    Core faculty/lead faculty/On-line Instructor, Master's of Public Administration Program, Charitable-Nonprofit Organization Certification Program.Curriculum development, Charitable-Philanthropic Organization Management Concentration, including: • AD 542 Leading and Managing Sustainable Nonprof...

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  Capella University

  • Ph.D.

    • Sep 2009 - Jun 2013

    Ph.D., Human Services (with Distinction), Specialization in Management of Nonprofit Agencies. Dissertion: TOWARDS A THEORY OF SELF-RENEWED EXCELLENCE FOR CHARITABLE-PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS, Defining and Validating Management Constructs Associated with Organizational Performance Improvement

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  Jacksonville University

  • Alumnus

    • 2013 - 2013

  • Alumnus

    • 2013 - 2013

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  National Defense University

  • Washington, D.C.

  • Editor

    • Aug 2011 - Feb 2012
    • Washington, D.C.

    Served as Editor, “Leading at the Strategic Level,” by Dr. James W. Browning (National Defense University, 2012).

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  University of Florida

  • Adjunct Faculty

    • Aug 2009 - Dec 2009

    Designed and taught graduate/undergraduate students in first volunteer resource management course at University of Florida.

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  BelleAire Press

  • Author: Baited Trap, the Ambush of Mission 1890

    • 2004 - 2006

    Baited Trap, The Ambush of Mission 1890 is the story of helicopter rescue Mission 1890, one of the most heroic—and costly—air rescues of the Korean War. This harrowing Air Force-Navy mission is explained in compelling detail, creating a detailed personal account of what five incredibly brave and determined Air Force and Navy airmen achieved on June 25, 1952 in the infamous “Iron Triangle.” On the second anniversary of the start of the Korean War, four U.S. airmen team up to grab a downed Navy pilot off the side of a mountain that was heavily defended by Chinese Communist troops. Under withering ground fire, Captain Wayne Lear made three hovering approaches in the lumbering H-5 “Dragonfly” rescue helicopter to the spot where Ensign Ron Eaton had flashed them with his survival mirror. Each time the helicopter took hits. Both Lear and his medical technician, SSgt. Bobby Holloway, were wounded.Overhead, Captain Elliot Ayer, How Flight Leader, his wingman, 1st Lt. Archie Connors, and other Mustang pilots from the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing provided covering fire, repeatedly attacking the ground batteries.Finally, after the third attempt under heavy fire, with Eaton on board, Lear nursed the badly damaged helicopter down the valley towards the safety of UN lines that were almost within sight. Seconds later, a lucky hit in the rotor changed the rescue into one of the most deadly missions of the Korean War.The families of the missing airmen entered the surreal, wrenching, bureaucratic world of the Missing In Action. A final section relates the poignant stories of what the families of Mission 1890 went through after it was quiet on the mountain. How they coped with their losses will inspire others.

  • Author: Truckbusters from Dogpatch, the Combat Diary of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing in the Korean W

    • 2003 - 2006

    Truckbusters from Dogpatch is the most comprehensive Korean War unit history yet prepared--over 700 pages summarizing squadron histories and first person accounts—and includes over 1,000 never before published photographs and images, highlighted by the 8 ½ x 11-inch format. Arguably, Truckbusters From Dogpatch is the most authoritative unit history ever prepared on the Korean War.

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  U.S. Navy

  • Captain (Retired)

    • 1957 - 1999

    His U.S. Navy service (Airman Recruit to Captain) included 32 years of active and inactive duty on several ships, Surface Warfare Officer qualifications, duty on numerous senior flag staffs, and several tours of duty on the staff of the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations with...