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1000 Cranes Business Consulting/Naomi Takeuchi
Terry Berg

John Brothers

Dagmaris Cabezas

Demetrius Crane

Denise Dahl, MPA

Laura Deitrick

Bob Donmoyer

Rose Mary Fry

Peggy Geisler

Sandy Goff

Philip Hahn

Thomas Hyatt

Pat Libby

Mary McDonald

Bill Musick

Yvonne Petersen

Julia Pierson

Lynda Ramirez-Blust

Eric Schmall

Sandi Timmins

 

1000 Cranes Business Consulting/Naomi Takeuchi
Name: 1000 Cranes Business Consulting
Address: 2530 Meridian Parkway, Suite 200
Durham, NC 27713
Work: 919.806.4932 Fax: 919.806.4301
Website: www.1000cranes.com

Bio: Naomi Takeuchi is founder and president of 1000 Cranes Business Consulting in Durham, North Carolina. She is a strategic planning and leadership consultant assisting organizations through thoughtful business planning, effective communication and organizational development. As a professional member of the National Speakers Association, she regularly presents to executives, board members, senior staff, and consultants nationwide. Naomi has an undergraduate degree from the UC Berkeley and earned her Executive MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With over twenty years of experience working in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, Naomi has taken her wealth of knowledge of high performance, profitable systems and has integrated these concepts into a customized consulting practice specializing in Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.


Terry Berg
Name: Terry Berg Solutions, Inc.
Address: 311 Spruce Avenue
Edgewater, MD 21037
Phone/Fax: 410.974.9695 Cell: 410.507.2811
Website: www.tbergsolutions.net
Bio: Terry Berg has an unusual depth and breadth of experience. During her 8 year career in Development, she has assisted a variety of organizations with strategic planning, fundraising planning, training, grant writing, interim Development office management, and assistance with managing as well as marketing and public relations tasks.  While employed by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Terry led the Development staff to meet an annual fundraising goal of $9 million while helping the organization to meet a $60 million campaign goal.  Her clients are primarily small to  mid-sized nonprofit organizations. 

Her 25 year career in education and training honed the analytic, management, and communications skills required to assess needs and move organizations and individuals forward to achieve their goals.  As Training Manager for Wartsila Diesel of Finland, Ms. Berg traveled widely helping to establish the operations divisions of this global company. Terry is on the faculty of the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations and the Anne Arundel Community College Nonprofit Management Program.  She also provides training through the Community College’s Workforce Solutions Program.  She currently serves on several boards including the United Way Partnership, Family and Children’s Services, and the American Business Women’s Association.


John Brothers

Name: Cuidiu Consulting
Address: 65 Claremont Avenue
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Phone: 718.964.8669
Website: www.cuidiuconsulting.com

Bio: John Brothers is a recognized leader in nonprofit and human/social service management with over 20 years of experience (10 as an executive) in the public service arena. John is currently the Principal of Cuidiu Consulting, a nonprofit and government consulting group working with federal, state and local government and local, state and national nonprofit organizations. John is also a Senior Fellow at the Support Center for Nonprofit Management, specializing in executive leadership.  John is also a professor in Nonprofit Management at NYU's Wagner School for Public Service. He is a former adjunct professor at George Mason University in Nonprofit Finance and Fund Development, and a former fellow with the Children's Defense Fund and the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs. John has a MPA in nonprofit and public management from NYU and a MBA in public policy from American Public University. John has worked with boards in communities across the United States.


Dagmaris Cabezas

Name: Dagmaris Cabezas, MS
Address: Mt. Pocono Professional Building
4 Fork Street
Mt. Pocono, PA 18344
Phone: 570.807.3473 or 888.272.7083 Fax: 888.368.2284
Mailing Address: PO Box 347, Mt. Pocono, PA 18344
Website: www.mares-consultants.com

Bio: Dagmaris Cabezas, M.S. is an executive consultant who provides bilingual (English/Spanish) capacity building assistance, including grant writing, board development, and strategic planning, to nonprofit agencies in Northeast Pennsylvania and throughout the United States.  She is principal of Mares Consultants Nonprofit Services, her own business, and Project Director of Community Partners of the Poconos (CPOP), a capacity building project in Northeast Pennsylvania. Ms. Cabezas is an expert in the field of community relations and fundraising who has worked in top-ranking positions in these areas at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, the City University of New York, and Columbia University's Health Sciences Division.  She currently serves on several key boards of directors. Ms. Cabezas has a degree in psychology from Rutgers University, and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University.  She is a recipient of the Ellen Lurie Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Community Service Society of New York City.

Demetrius Crane
Name:  Soldout2Christ Inc. d/b/a Accounting & Consulting for Nonprofits

Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 536872, Orlando, FL 32853

Phone: 407.892.3439 Toll-free: 1.866.276.2700 Cell: 407.552.9717

Email: info@soldout2christ.com

Website: www.soldout2christ.com

Bio:  Demetrius Crane is the founder/president of Soldout2Christ, Inc. which provides accounting and consulting services to nonprofit organizations.  With over 10 years of experience, Demetrius’ expertise is in the growth and financial management of nonprofit organizations.  Demetrius has a BA in Accounting from DillardUniversity and a Masters in Business Administration from NOVASoutheasternUniversity.  Demetrius has worked closely with owners/board members of various nonprofits, such as, churches, schools and charitable agencies with budgets of $100K to $5M.  Her overall mission is to help organizations perform in excellence through internal controls and financial management.

Denise Dahl

Name: Dahl Consulting
Address: PO Box 2005

Glen Allen, VA 23058

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PO Box 81

Blakeslee, OH 43505

Phone: 804.290.8291
Website: www.dahlconsulting.net
Bio: Denise’s experience includes leadership roles in creating programming, grant writing, program implementation, nonprofit management, capacity building, as well as working with both nonprofits (501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6)) and for profits in obtaining government funding.  In addition she is currently the American Grant Writers Association coordinator in Virginia along with involvement with numerous other nonprofit related causes and curriculum.  Denise has worked with all sizes of organizations, from small nonprofit start ups, to companies such as Campbell's Soup.  While working with and within the nonprofit sector Denise has garnered over $1 million in funding for projects.  She has worked with statewide nonprofit organizations such as the Virginia Network of Nonprofit Organizations and innovative social entrepreneurs such as the Phoenix Project.  dnise’s practical experience is augmented by her formal education.  She has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration with a partial focus in the nonprofit arena.  Her education and experience have empowered her to work in the Florida, the Midwest, West Coast and Virginia.  She has also taught at the University level.

Laura Deitrick
Name: University of San Diego
Address: 816 H Avenue
Coronado, CA 92118
Email: lauradeitrick@yahoo.com

Bob Donmoyer
Name: University of San Diego
Address: 3940 7th Ave, Loft 207
San Diego, CA 92103
Email: donmoyer@sandiego.edu
Professor & Co-Director, Institute for Nonprofit Education and Research Leadership Studies
Bio: Dr. Donmoyer has served as a consultant and evaluator for a number of foundations including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Getty Center for Arts and Education, the Ball Foundation, and KnowledgeWorks Foundation. For the latter organization, he recently completed a multi-year study of a foundation-supported community engagement initiative in Cincinnati schools led by the Childrens Defense Fund of Cincinnati. Dr. Donmoyer also has extensive experience within the policy community. His research has focused on the use of research and evaluation results in the policymaking process. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Education and is currently a professor of Leadership Studies at USD.

Rose Mary Fry

Name: Texas Nonprofit Management Assistance Network
Address:
11118 Wurzbach, Suite 303

San Antonio, TX  78230
Phone: 210.558.7016 ext. 302 Fax: 210.558.7020

Website: www.txnetwork.org
Bio:

Rose Mary Fry is a native of Ohio and she received an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from Ohio Dominican College and a graduate degree in Staff and Organizational Development from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.  She has thirty-five years experience in the education, nonprofit, and for profit sectors.  Her current position is as founding Executive Director of the Texas Nonprofit Management Assistance Network, a 501(c)(3) organization that will help identify and meet the needs of Texas nonprofits through work with nonprofit resource centers and academic providers in Texas.  Previously, she was Executive Director of the Nonprofit Resource Center of Texas in San Antonio, the oldest resource center in the state and one of the largest in terms of budget and staff. Her special interests are organizational change, the intersection of the nonprofit and for profit worlds, and facilitation of small and large group meetings.  She has been involved in the nonprofit sector as a volunteer for approximately twenty-five years with particular interest in the arts, education, and women and children’s issues. 

Rose Mary serves as Board President of ACCION Texas, the largest microlender in the country, a board member of Impact San Antonio, a woman’s giving circle,  and a member of San Antonio 100.  Previously she served as Board President of  Impact San Antonio, Texas Public Radio, Say Si, the Hollow at Inwood Homeowners Association, and Chair of the National Alumni Advisory Board for Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio.  She is a graduate of  Class V of the Masters Leadership Program in San Antonio and Bexar County.

Sandy Goff, CFRE

Name:  Hill Country Memorial Hospital Foundation

Address: PO Box 1339

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

Phone: 830.990.6628

Website: www.hcmhs.org 

Bio:  Sandy Goff is a native of Texas.  She is CFRE and a recognized leader in nonprofit management with over 26 years of experience, the last 13 years as an executive managing healthcare foundations.  She specializes in strategic fundraising, financial management, captial campaign readiness and “overall best practice” management.  She currently serves as a board member on the Texas Nonprofit Management Assistance Network  and has been active with the North Texas Non Profit Management Association and the Estate Planning Council.  She is a member of the National Committee on Planned Giving, the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals.  She is currently completing a 52 hour course as a certified financial gift planner and has qualified to take the FAHP exam.  She has a proven fund development resume as a professional as well as an extensive volunteer background in fund raising.  This experience has enabled her to speak the language from “both sides of the fence”.


Peggy Geisler

Address: 411 North Street
Easton, MD 21601
Phone: 410.310.5969
Website: www.pmgconsulting.net

Bio: Native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Graduate from University of Maryland BA in psychology and Salisbury State University with MA in Psychology. Peggy has worked in the field for and with non-profits for well over 17 years in the fields of Mental Health, Education, Local Government and Youth Development. She started PMG Consulting LLC in August 2006 when asked to serve as a key consultant for Nemours Health and Prevention Services a Division of Nemours Foundation in developing a coalition and launching it into a non-profit. She has worked extensively cultivating and leading community mobilization projects in both Delaware and in Maryland and understands every facet of non-profit and community based work.  She has served as a National Trainer for Boys and Girls Clubs of America for several years during her 10 years of service with Boys and Girls Clubs of Delaware. Community service and volunteerism has been a key component of Peggy's personal life serving in a leadership capacity for Soroptimist International of Seaford, Inc. for over 11 years serving in a leadership role for 9 of them. She is the current Consulting Director of the Sussex Child Health Promotion Coalition with over 160 Partners in Sussex County working to promote 360 degrees of children's health. Training and Workshops offered by her are both high energy and engaging. PMG Consulting Prides itself in understanding that you and your organization can get services in a multitude of ways and by a multitude of people. PMG feels that how those services are offered and by whom makes a world of difference in reaching your organizational and personal goals.

Philip Hahn
City: West Seneca, NY 14224
Phone: 716.480.8883

Bio: Mr. Phil Hahn has over 30 years management experience in industry, and over 10 years experience in non-profit board leadership and management. He has expertise in the areas of Business Process Management, Operational Excellence methods and standards, Group facilitation, Project Management, and Telecommunications Engineering. Phil retired from Verizon Inc. in 2003. He is Past-president of the board of the Buffalo Alliance for Education, and a member of the Executive Board of the Western New York Chapter of the Verizon Pioneers, which is a member of the TelcomPioneers. Mr. Hahn is an active school volunteer, involved in various educational initiatives and community activities. Mr. Hahn holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Buffalo, an MBA from St. Bonaventure University, and completed the Administrative Management Certification Program from the Institute for Nonprofit Agencies, University of Buffalo, School of Social Work. He is President of PNH Associates, a Management Consulting firm advising non-profits and other organizations.

Thomas K. Hyatt

Name: Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal

Address:1301 K Street, N.W. Suite 600 East Tower
Washington, DC 20005

Work: 202.326.5039 Cell: 301.509.0300 Fax: 202.336.5239

Website: www.sonnenschein.com

Bio: Tom Hyatt is a Partner at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP and is based at the firm’s Washington, DC office.  His practice focuses on corporate and tax-exempt organization issues for nonprofits.  He represents organizations including public and private hospitals, academic medical centers, provider associations, advocacy groups, educational organizations, associations of nonprofits, and membership organizations in such matters.  He frequently works with nonprofit governing boards and board committees to address such issues as regulatory compliance, fiduciary duty, conflicts of interest, bylaws development and revision, senior management compensation and benefits, CEO transition, fund raising, lobbying and political campaign activity, board development, membership matters, corporate restructuring, mergers and joint ventures.

Pat Libby
Name: University of San Diego
Address: 4330 Argos Drive
San Diego, CA 92116
Email: plibby@sandiego.edu
Program Director for Nonprofit Leadership & Management Leadership Studies
Bio: Pat Libby, Clinical Professor, created and directs the Nonprofit Leadership and Management master's program and co-directs the Center for Nonprofit Research. A Boston native, she has worked as a CEO, board member, and consultant to numerous nonprofits since 1978. Her last executive management position was as President/CEO of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations which she developed into a nationally recognized organization responsible for leveraging hundreds of millions of dollars in public and private investment for CDCs. In addition, she taught Nonprofit Management for eight years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a lecturer at San Diego State University where she taught courses in both Nonprofit Management and Business Ethics. Pat holds a graduate degree in Urban Planning from MIT.

Mary McDonald
Name: University of San Diego
Address: 433 Nutmeg St, Apt 4
San Diego, CA 92103
Email: marymc@sandiego.edu
Assistant Professor
Mary McDonald teaches both master's and doctoral level courses in Leadership Studies, primarily in the Nonprofit Leadership and Management Program. She is also collaborating with faculty and students on nonprofit sector-focused research and evaluation projects. Mc Donald was previously the director of the Community Research Institute (CRI) at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI. In that capacity she was regularly involved with both community-based and university-based research in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. Her most recent research, "International Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies Education -- Creating Sustainable Social Change," was presented at the International Society for Third-Sector Research Conference in Barcelona, Spain this past July. McDonald grew up in western Michigan and earned her Ph.D. at Michigan State University in Family and Child Ecology in 2002. Prior to her graduation, she worked with nonprofit organizations in a number of capacities, including serving as the director of the Muskegon Family Coordinating Council, the executive director of Every Woman's Place in Muskegon, and development manager at Hackley Hospital, also in Muskegon.

Bill Musick
Address: 1050 Bishop St. #542
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: 808.942.0405 Fax: 888.942.0409
Education: B.S. in Management, MBA, post graduate international studies
Bio: Bill Musick is principal of Tower Hill Resources, an affiliate of The Corridor Group.  He has a special interest in working with chief executives and boards of directors of all public benefit organizations to achieve new levels of effectiveness in governance and leadership.

Bill has over 20 years of experience in health care operations management, project management, and financial and systems analysis.  He is an expert in feasibility analysis of hospice care centers and strategic positioning of health care services.  After a career in banking, where he was Vice President of Systems Integration for one of the country’s largest financial institutions, he has worked extensively with the continuum of healthcare services, bridging inpatient hospital services and a variety of community-based services, especially hospice and services to people living with HIV.  Bill has consulted and provided interim leadership for hospices across the country. He has managed two end-of-life care facilities in San Francisco, serving as Executive Director during the capital campaign and construction of one of the two facilities.  He presents nationally on issues related to board development and end of life care facilities.

Bill is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the U.S. Air Force Academy.  He has completed additional graduate studies as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.  He has served on the boards of St. Luke’s Hospital (San Francisco), Sutter VNA & Hospice Foundation, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation; and as an appointee to the California State HIV/AIDS Planning Group.

Yvonne Petersen

Name: Beyond Visions Foundation

Address: PO Box 6518

St. Thomas, Virgin Islands 00804

Phone: 340.771.5556
Website: www.beyondvisions.org

Bio: Executive Director of the Beyond Visions Foundation, Yvonne brings 21 years of experience in nonprofit management & operations. Beyond Visions Foundations provides a variety of services to the nonprofit sector in St. Thomas including serving as a fiscal agent and providing fiduciary sponsorship, funding research, grant writing, program development, and assistance in filing for tax exempt status. She holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of the Virgin Islands.

Julia Pierson
Address: 4107 Roland Ave

Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: 410.258.8878
Website: www.jpconsultingsolutions.net

Bio: Julia Pierson, M.S.W., uses a solutions-focused approach to empower her consulting clients to achieve their goals.  Her expertise includes program & project development, capacity building, advocacy, strategic planning & program evaluation, organizational development, and grant writing. Julia is a seasoned nonprofit executive with over 20 years experience building and operating affordable housing, community development and human services programs. For 12 years, Julia was the executive director of Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation, a community and faith based housing development and social services nonprofit in Baltimore. At GEDCO, she took the role as lead developer for Stadium Place, an affordable retirement community and YMCA built on the site of the former Memorial Stadium.  She is an accomplished project manager who completes projects on budget and on time. Her keen problem solving skills bring clarity and resolution to complex issues. Julia’s consulting clients work on critical social issues, such as youth and adult homelessness, workforce development, housing for people with disabilities, and successful aging.


Lynda Ramirez-Blust
Name: LSRB Consulting LLC
Arlington, VA
Work: 414.793.6622
Website: www.lsrbconsulting.com
Bio: Lynda S. Ramirez-Blust is owner of LSRB Consulting LLC and is committed to enhancing the financial management, accounting, and governance knowledge and understanding of nonprofit board members, management teams, staff, and volunteers. Lynda has nearly 13 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations in various capacities including board member, treasurer, CFO, external auditor, consultant, and volunteer. Prior to forming her own company, Lynda was the leader of the not-for-profit sector practice of a half-billion risk management consulting firm. In that capacity she assisted nonprofits and associations with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOA) compliance, risk-based assessments of their financial and accounting processes and improving their governance infrastructure. Through this work she has written articles and whitepapers as well as delivered a number of presentations on the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on the government, education, and not-for-profit sectors. Lynda served as the CFO of Share Our Strength, a $20 million nonprofit headquartered in Washington, DC where she oversaw all finance, human resources, IT, and office administration activities and facilitated the development of the board finance and audit committees. She was also in the external audit and business consulting practices of Arthur Andersen. She currently serves on the Audit Committee for NACCRRA. Lynda holds a CPA license in both Wisconsin and Virginia and is a certified project manager.

Eric Schmall
Name:
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

Address: 323 West Broadway, Suite 501
Louisville
, KY 40202
Work: 502.618.5329 Cell: 502.417.0018 Fax: 502.317.2677
Website: www.cnpe.org

Bio: Eric has been in consulting and management for 35 years. For 20 of those years he worked as a management analyst, manager, and later as director of a Fortune 100 firm’s (Providian Corporation) telecommunications systems. While at Providian Eric was the only employee to have twice won that organization’s highest associate honor, The Values in Action Award, for his leadership, teambuilding, and successful collaborative efforts.

After his tenure with Providian, Eric continued his career as a senior research analyst with a consulting firm, working as an organizational development specialist. During that time he completed formal training in Innovative Associate’s organizational learning process. He obtained his official Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the Project Management Institute in 2000. 

In 2001 Eric joined the Center for Nonprofit Excellence as Director of Consultation. Since that time he has successfully facilitated dozens of board and staff retreats, taught workshops on governance, planning, change, and project management, conducted team-building seminars, coached boards on improving their performance, and coordinated strategic planning processes for numerous nonprofits in the Louisville Metro, and Southern Indiana region. 

Eric has published over a hundred articles on management issues and has been a contributing columnist to Louisville’s Business First publication. He has taught as an adjunct professor in systems theory in Indiana University’s MBA program and taught courses in Bellarmine University’s nonprofit certification program. 

In 2006, Eric earned his designation as a licensed consultant with the Standards for Excellence Institute, an association committed to raising the level of ethics and accountability in nonprofit organizations.

Sandi Timmins

Name: Primary Resource Group

Address: 1000 Fell St #602
Baltimore, MD 21231
Phone: 410.327.0954
Website: www.primaryresourcegroup.com

Bio: Founder of Primary Resource Group, Sandi Timmins is recognized in the business and non-profit community as an innovator in helping organizations design effective infrastructure, in working with staff to develop business skills, and in mentoring and coaching senior managers. In addition, she works with non-profit boards and Executive Directors to improve the structure of the board and its relationship with the organization. By first clearly identifying the purpose of the organization and the unique needs and expectations of the people it serves, she is able to define the work flows, the staffing, skills and performance standards required to ensure that the service provided is exceptional, and to define the Board support necessary to meet objectives.
Ms. Timmins’ experience includes management positions in the retail industry and with the Baltimore Sun newspaper. In 1985 she joined USA TODAY during the newspaper’s launch establishing a national customer service center to handle a rapidly growing customer base. Her success was based on her ability to respond to continually changing needs of not only the customers being served, but the company as well. Her background in management in high volume, fast paced retail environments enabled her to develop staff that takes pride in the quality of the work and in the contribution made to the company while keeping pace with growth and change. The result was the creation of a model operation that hosted over 300 visitors a year from a wide spectrum of companies both here and internationally.
Ms. Timmins founded Primary Resource Group in 1996. Working with the owners and presidents of small to mid-sized companies and non-profits, she helps them uncover root causes of problems and inefficiencies in their organizations. Through assessment, strategic planning, and implementation that includes oversight, training and coaching, Ms. Timmins’ services have consistently helped clients reach objectives. Clients represent the media, service, retail, non-profit, high-tech and government agencies. She is on the Board of Directors of Hope for Kenya’s Kids, and is actively involved in charitable organizations.

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