Jose Contreras (Trainer)
retired in 2009 from the United Way of San Antonio & Bexar
County as Senior Vice President, Partners for Community Change. Foremost among his
accomplishments is United Way’s adoption of Targeted Community Impact, comprising
volunteer-driven initiatives designed to mobilize community to deal with root causes
instead of focusing on the symptoms of pressing human conditions.
Mr. Contreras is a skilled public speaker, trainer and group facilitator. His expertise in
nonprofit board development has its roots in the challenges and successes he
experienced in the first half of his professional career; first as executive director for the
Camino Real Health Planning Agency in the 1970s, followed by ten years as executive
director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Antonio.
Mr. Contreras graduated from St. Mary’s University and is a fellow of the United Way of
America/Annie E. Casey Foundation Family Strengthening Fellowship at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a Qualified Trainer of the
Technology of Participation (www.ica-usa.org)