Pamela Davis, CEO of the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California, is a bit of an anomaly — a woman atop an insurance company. Her leadership style involves compassion and humility and she founded the nonprofit when everyone said she would fail. She is also passionate about the environment — about “caring as deeply about other living things as you do about yourself” — and, with the NIA board, helped build a three-story, net-zero building on Santa Cruz’s Westside. Now, NIA is opening the building’s community room — a large conference room with an outdoor, landscaped terrace — to any local nonprofit that needs a space to meet. It even has turtles.
