Since becoming a grants professional in 1997, Stacey Abate has raised over $26 million from all types of foundations and government agencies. Stacey has been a grants consultant since 2000 and is the...

Deanna Ackerman is the founder of Advanced Development Executives a fundraising consulting firm that provides expert advice and development services to support charities in reaching their fundraising...

Tesse Akpeki is the Director of Tesse Akpeki Associates Ltd. She works closely with boards and staff to assess the needs of organisations based on their mission and goals. She has a unique understand...

Over fifteen years of experience in consulting to nonprofit organizations. I have a master’s degree in public administration. I am a member of the Association of Nonprofit Specialists and a contr...

Toby Amir Fox is Corporate Citizenship Consultant at Nationwide Insurance. Prior to that, she was the Grants Manager for Girl Scouts – Arizona Cactus-Pine Council, Inc. (Phoenix, AZ) where she wa...

Deb Anderson is a community leader with a diverse background that spans health care, human resources, education, and the voluntary sector, specializing in community development, volunteer management...

Abra Annes is a leading charity auctioneer in the Bay Area, Napa Sonoma, and Los Angeles. Her consulting firm, Generosity Auctions, services dozens of charity events each year and raises millions for...

With over thirty years of experience working with individuals who care about the world, Susan is an intuitive strategist. She helps people feel good about themselves and create purposeful connections...

Todd Baker is Vice President and Senior Strategist for Milwaukee Direct Marketing. For more than 33 years, he has helped some of the top charities in North America, assisting them in the development o...

Betsy Baker trains entrepreneurs that desire to work for themselves to employ winning grant writing techniques and consulting strategies to make them a huge success! She also assists nonprofits that s...

Amy Belanger provides social change services, including consulting, coaching, and creatives. For over 25-years, she has guided large and small nonprofit organizations, advocacy campaigns, and other...

Vinay Bhagat is Chief Executive Officer of TrustRadius. He is an entrepreneur passionate about tackling big problems. Vinay conceived TrustRadius after experiencing challenges when buying enterprise s...

In Memorium

Susan O’Donnell Black, CFRE is the author of Help! They Want Me to Fundraise!: A Nonprofit Fundraising Manual for Beginners (CharityChannel Press).

Susan began Allene Professional Fundrai...

Cecilia Blanford serves as Senior Grants Coordinator for the Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas (DSMC-UT) capital campaign. Cecilia has worked with The Seton Fund since June 2011...

Danny W. Blitch II is an original GPC, receiving the credential in 2008. He serves as the Grants Manager for the City of Roswell, Georgia, where he is responsible for a municipal grant program which h...

Jean Block began her nonprofit career when she was thirteen years old, raising money through a backyard carnival for CARE. She was hooked.

Jean has served as board leader, chief executive, and devel...

Over her 20+-year career in the nonprofit world, Maryn has been an on-staff program developer and grantwriter; a independent grants consultant (winning more than $42 million for her clients over 10 ye...

Eva Booker Nevarez St John, founder and President of Creative Consulting Solutions, draws on her diverse background and experiences to assist nonprofits, foundations, municipalities, tribal nations...

Julie Seewald Bornhoeft, MA, CFRE has been raising funds for nonprofit organizations for more than 13 years. Ms. Bornhoeft has extensive experience in funder identification, proposal development, gran...

Acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of Conscious Governance, risk and strategy in the USA, Asia and Australia, Steven Bowman has transformed the prevailing understanding of the meaning of governanc...

Drayton Boylston is Founder and Managing Partner of The Boylston Group, which specializes in business coaching services in the areas of management, sales and leadership. Mr. Boylston is a member of...

Peter Bruer has a degree in political science from the University of Toronto, and a background in community organizing and advocacy. He was first trained as a mediator in 1992, and in 1996 he was hire...

Mike is a partner in the firm of BWB Solutions. His practice focuses on improving the capacity of organizations to solve their own problems. Mike facilitates and serves as a resource for nonprofits ad...

Tom Butero, a consultant and trainer to both nonprofit and for-profit organizations, hold a masters degree in social work from George Williams College in Illinois and is a Licensed Independent Clinica...

Robin L. Cabral, MA, CFRE is an outsourced development professional with close to twenty-five years’ experience. She provides her clients value-added interim development staffing and consulting s...

Amy Cahner is a principal, along with Susan U. Donahue, in the consulting firm Cahners & Donahue Associates, which is dedicated to strengthening nonprofit organizations by helping boards of directors...

Esther Cantu retired from United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County as Director of Volunteer Programs, where she worked for fifteen years. Prior to United Way, she worked as the Resource Coordina...

Alexis Carter-Black is the first-ever director of development and state-community relations for Noble Research Institute. Alexis brings more than 20 years of development and granting experience to...

Marian Casey is passionate about providing innovative and effective education for all learners. For more than twenty years, Marian has relied upon her consulting, operating, and governance experience...

Nancy Church, CPA writes and consults as Not-for-Profit Accounting Help. Her mission is to be a resource for accounting and finance staff at nonprofit organizations, assisting them in improving their...

Elizabeth (Betsy) Clarke is the founder and President of the Juvenile Justice Initiative. Prior to developing the Juvenile Justice Initiative, Betsy served as Juvenile Justice Counsel for the Offic...

Barbara Clemenson, CPA, CFRE has worked most of her life in the nonprofit sector. For seven years she was Director of Finance and Administration at The City Mission, a gospel rescue mission, in Clevel...

Alice Collier Cochran, M.Ed has been consultant in the field of organization effectiveness for over twenty years.

She currently focuses on developing college leaders, facilitating inclusive strategi...

Roberta Cooke is a development and funding consultant who specializes in creating new opportunities for educational and not-for-profit organizations. She brings to the table extensive knowledge of how...

Tom has been the Resource Development Officer of the Community Services Consortium for nine years and has been involved in raising nearly eight million dollars for various programs and services delive...

Stephanie Cory, a consultant to nonprofit organizations, has dedicated her career to the nonprofit sector since 2003. She has served as an executive director for a health advocacy organization as well...

After twenty years of successful writing, publishing (fifty-two titles), and nonprofit administrative experience in Christian ministry and church administration, Neva Coyle formed Neva Coyle & Associa...

Florence has nearly thirty years experience in the not-for-profit sector including twenty years in fund development. She has held development positions and consulted with organizations in nine cities...

Becky founded D’Swain Associates in November 1999 to provide consulting services for the nonprofit sector and its professionals. Services include strategic planning, agency assessment and eval...

Lynne T. Dean, CFRE is Managing Associate of Dean and Associates and Director of Institutional Advancement at Northwest Vista College, a part of the Alamo Colleges system in San Antonio, Texas...

Sam Deep launched his leadership development career in 1986 after 15 years of teaching and administration at the University of Pittsburgh. Since then he has spoken in front of more than 200,000 people...

Sarah Diamond Burroway is Director of External Relations at Ohio University Southern. Her work focuses on growing the community relationships and bringing resources to the Southern Campus of the un...

Stacy Dieter is Corporate Development Officer for the American Diabetes Association's New York City office.

Previously she served as vice president of resource development for Dress For Success...

Debbie DiVirgilio is the President of the Faith Based Nonprofit Resource Center. Her professional credentials include:

• Certified Governance Trainer through BoardSource
• Grant Professional Certified
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I've worked in the nonprofit sector for almost 30 years, in organizations ranging from small, local, issue-focused groups, to a nationally known economic development agency. My experience encompasses...

Marilyn Donnellan, MS, has more than 35 years experience as a nonprofit CEO and consultant. She served in organizations ranging in size from a single-staff nonprofit with a $150,000 annual budget to o...

While a graduate student at the University of Miami, Katherine Driskell (Felts) served as the interim Executive Director of a small non-profit organization.  She helped that organization refocus on...

Karen Eber Davis is a leading authority on income growth strategies for nonprofits. She helps leaders generate the ideas, resources, and money they need to fulfill their goals and create extraordinary...