William B. (Nick) Niccolls, Current NGO Activity
<><> CROOKED TRAILS
[] www.CrookedTrails.com.
[] W.B. Niccolls, Board Member, Finance Committee, Outreach
[] HQ: Seattle, WA, USA
[] VISION: Community Projects. Education. Travel. New Friends.
[] MISSION: Crooked Trails is a non-profit, community-based travel organization helping customers and partners understand themselves and the planet on which they live – its environment; its cultures; at Home through lectures and events; Globally through Service Projects, Home-Stays and Responsible Travel.
[] MOTTO: “What is needed? Make it happen”
[] IN-COUNTRY ACTIVITY: “Community Based Tourism”. Community selected work projects around the world, home-stays, & cultural exchanges with partner villages. Donor Trips to their NGO Projects.
[] “AT HOME” ACTIVITY: Events & presentations by Crooked Trails founders and visiting Crooked Trails Partners.
<><> UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON GLOBAL SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP COMPETITION (GSEC)
[] http://bschool.washington.edu/gsec/.
[] W. B. Niccolls, Advisory Council & Team Mentor
[] Social-Entrepreneurship business plan competition open to business schools around the world for projects around the world.
<><> INTERCONNECTION
[] www.InterConnection.org
[] W. B. Niccolls, Outreach Coordinator
[] Gather, refurbish, & deliver surplus computers to partner schools & NGO's anywhere
<><> GROWING WITH BOOKS
[] www.GrowingWithBooks.org.
[] W. B. Niccolls, Board Member
[] Proposed children’s library in Zarka (15 km SW of Aman, Jordan). Rana Madanat, Founder.
<><> SEFRIOUI-BADISSY FOUNDATION
[] www.SBFoundation.net
[] W. B. Niccolls, Acting Executive Director
[] Aquire, refurbish & deliver surplus computers to partner high schools throughout Africa.
Ross, Marin County, CA., is my home-town. Marin has succeeded in preserving small towns, rural land use, and open-space adjacent to the world-class city of San Francisco.
<> Seattle, an attractive, cosmopolitan, small city and my home of 30 years, is also on the edge of both viable agricultural land uses and true wilderness -- the Olympic Mountains and the Cascade Mountains.
I enjoy examining the overlap of Economics, Environment, Health, Human Rights, and Cultural Relations through involvement in multi-disciplinary partnerships in Business, Academia, Government, Science, and NGO's.
<><> BORN & RAISED
[] Ross, California, 17 miles north of San Francisco.
[] I formed a lifelong affinity for the outdoors; biking through the dairyland of Marin County and camping in the redwoods of the Coast Range and pines of the Sierra Mountains.
<><> EDUCATION
[] MBA (Finance), University of Washington. BA (Political Science), Stanford University.
<><> PROFESSIONAL
[] Extensive commercial real estate and real estate finance.
[] Also general business consulting (start-ups, M&A, and business development).
<><> NGO & NON-PROFIT ACTIVITY
[] I have enjoyed working with a wide variety of NGO’s, business organizations, & community groups:
- Geotourism
- Social Entrpreneurship
- Bridging the Digital Divide (esp. Africa)
- Historic Preservation (Pioneer Square, Seattle)
- Downtown Urban Development (Seattle)
- Community Development (Pangasinan, the Philippines)
- Rural Land Use Conservation (King County, WA, USA)
- Educating, Training & Employing Mentally Handicapped Youth & Adults
Travel:
My wife, Carmena, and I, have visited over 20 countries around the world. Among our favorite destinations have been Belize, China, Cyprus, Lebanon, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Trinidad & Tobago.
