THE GLOBAL VOLUNTEER PARTNERSHIP - Key Persons

Jack Hawkins - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • President
  • Founding Board Member of the Building Bridges Coalition
Jack Hawkins, responsible for the organization's overall management and strategy, has played a key role in the recent growth of national volunteer service. From 2003 to 2009, Hawkins served as director of Volunteers for Prosperity (VFP), a Bush Administration initiative to promote international voluntary service by skilled American professionals that helped to mobilize nearly 120,000 Americans as volunteers abroad through a network of over 300 US nonprofits and companies. VFP became law through the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act signed by President Obama on April 21, 2009. Previously, Hawkins held senior positions in nonprofit management, telecommunications, international consulting and banking. He holds a BA in political science from the University of Pittsburgh and received a master's degree in international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Hawkins is a founding board member of the Building Bridges Coalition, a Minneapolis, MN-based nonprofit consortium of leading organizations working collaboratively to promote the field of international volunteering, and serves on the HOPE Global Board of Advisors of Operation HOPE, Inc., a financial literacy nonprofit based in Los Angeles, CA.

John Hecklinger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
John Hecklinger participates in the general governance of the organization. As chief program officer of Global Giving Foundation, a leading online philanthropy, Hecklinger is recognized for his expertise utilizing social media and technology to connect grassroots social entrepreneurs and NGO partners directly with funding sources. Previously, he directed Global Giving Foundation's corporate partnership efforts. After receiving his English degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Florida, Hecklinger served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Central African Republic, teaching Literature and Linguistics at the University of Bangui.

William T. Lovern - EVP, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Executive Vice President
Bill Lovern, responsible for the organization's financial matters and operations, has been a successful investment banker who spent his entire career either managing debt securities or advising those that do. He began his career trading and marketing government securities for The Bankers Trust Company on Wall Street. He later worked for Goldman Sachs in Philadelphia, specializing in financial futures and options as well as the rapidly developing market for mortgage-backed securities. Returning to New York, Lovern worked for Smith Barney and then for the Japanese investment bank, Nomura Securities International, as a capital markets advisor to international fund managers and leveraged investors. Bill Lovern has been active in numerous charitable and community causes. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia and has completed coursework for a master's degree in business administration from New York University.