Outside of the office, Ash’s commitment to nonprofit technology remains apparent. He is on the editorial board for NTEN’s online publication, Change, and is the Co-Manager for PDXTech4Good, a joint effort of Net Tuesday and 501 Tech Clubs in Portland. Outside of the nonprofit tech world, Ash is involved with the Wilderness Action Group of South Africa and spends his free time enjoying the outdoors, biking, and playing indoor soccer.

Prior to founding Measurement Resources, Sheri served as the Performance Center Manager for the Ohio Department of Aging, the Deputy Director of Performance Evaluation for the Franklin County Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court, and Associate for the Columbus-based organizational research firm, Decision Support Services, Inc. In addition, Sheri enjoys educating and inspiring others by writing a monthly blog on performance management, presenting at conferences and seminars, and teaching Organizational Behavior and Business Ethics at Franklin University. Sheri earned her M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Central Michigan University and a B.S. with distinction in Psychology from The Ohio State University.

Rod Miller founded Executive Institutional Advancement Exchange to help nonprofits in North America and globally navigate new levels of accomplishment. He has helped secure substantial funds, initiating strategy and execution for campaigns with goal accomplishments in excess of $600 million. He brings more than 20 years accomplishment leading institutional advancement, including at QUT, “Brooklyn Poly” at New York University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and served for seven years as adjunct faculty in fundraising at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy..

The global expert services and advisory firm Executive Institutional Advancement Exchange empowers leadership vision for mission advancement. Whether for education, health, business, public service or discovery, the firm provides communication and funding strategies to navigate new levels of accomplishment – empowering leaders who have vision and commitment.

Barbara Berglund, President of Barbara Berglund Communications, Inc, focuses on development assessments and databased analysis to help non-profits develop strategic annual giving and integrated marketing. Her implementations of resulting direct response campaigns have significantly increased dollars and won fifty awards of excellence for wide-ranging clients, including those in education, healthcare, and the arts.

Mr. Barrett has a wealth of knowledge and experience working with nonprofits, state charities regulators and state sales tax exemption filing offices. He developed a comprehensive suite of nonprofit services that NCR currently provides to legal and business entity clients. These services include corporate filings, charitable solicitation registrations, compliance and sales tax exemption management. He has presented public and in-house CLE seminars on this topic around the country.

With full service offices in key cities from coast to coast and experienced staff dedicated to providing responsive, accurate, cost-effective service, NCR has the resources and expertise to handle your multi-state registration and compliance needs while providing the kind of personalized service usually only found in smaller service providers.

• Vision discovery: connecting to purpose before development of strategy

• Engagement design: how to facilitate interaction internally and with constituents

• Systems and process: from social media to organizational development

• Research, design, and strategy for online communities

• Social media planning for corporate, civic, nonprofit, and educational organizations

• Workshops for leaders seeking to understand big global shifts

• User-centric communications, content, and community design

• Coaching for thought leaders in technology and positive social change

David A. Mersky is the Founder and Managing Director of Mersky, Jaffe & Associates, a firm specializing in financial and human resource development solutions for nonprofits worldwide. Founded in 1991, Mersky, Jaffe & Associates has served cultural organizations, educational institutions, medical and health related enterprises, advocacy and social service organizations, and Jewish communal enterprises on a local, regional, national and international basis.

Dr. Mersky was the chief development officer for the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston—Boston’s Jewish Federation where he was responsible for planning and implementing all the fundraising and marketing of the nation’s sixth largest Jewish community. Prior to serving in Boston, he was the President of Ampal Securities Corporation, an investment-banking firm that raised capital in Europe as well as North and South America for private enterprise in Israel.

Mersky, who is a Reform rabbi, served on the national staff of the then Union of American Hebrew Congregations as the Reform movement’s chief development officer. He was responsible for all resource development and created the Conference of Presidents of Major Congregations.

Now a successful consultant to nonprofits and family-controlled enterprises, David is also a faculty member in the Graduate School at Brandeis University and is director of fundraising management at The Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership as well as Director of Education and Professional Development of the Fisher-Bernstein Institute for Jewish Philanthropy and Leadership at Brandeis. Formerly an adjunct professor in the Simmons College Graduate Program in Communications Management, where he taught strategic marketing planning, Mersky has been a member of the faculty of the Institute for Charitable Giving and a contributing writer to a number of publications, notably the New England Nonprofit Quarterly where he wrote a regular column on major gifts as “The Artful Solicitor.”

During his forty year career, he has trained thousands of professionals and volunteers who have raised hundreds of millions of dollars. In private business, he has counseled management on issues ranging from strategic marketing planning to sales force training and development. He advises families on the creative use of philanthropy for business and estate planning as well as transmitting enduring values from one generation to the next.

At Mersky, Jaffe & Associates, we create the most effective resource development solutions for nonprofit organizations. Working faster, simpler and in partnership with our clients, we provide quality planning and fundraising consultation, executive recruitment, volunteer training and professional development services. In all our work, we strive to inform and inspire as well as empower people and organizations to be their best – both personally and professionally.

At Mersky, Jaffe & Associates, we:

•invest in the success of our clients;

•believe a talented, dedicated, enthusiastic and mutually respectful leadership team is central to our clients’ ability to achieve their goals and advance their mission;

•maintain an atmosphere of integrity and the highest professional standards through teamwork, personal development and recognition of accomplishment;

•value imaginative thinking and creative change, because innovation continually improves the services we provide our clients;

•treasure personal relationships within MJA as well as with our present and past clients;

•embrace new technologies to stay at the forefront in service to the nonprofit community;

•assist our clients in maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with their members, donors, funders, vendors, volunteers, board and staff leadership who work with us to achieve their mission and fulfill their vision; and

•pledge that each of our clients will benefit by the direct involvement of the principals of the firm in their endeavor.

At Mersky, Jaffe & Associates, we assure the success of the nonprofit organizations we counsel by joining with our clients in their exemplary dedication to the public good. We enable them to thrive and prosper in any philanthropic environment, today and in the future.

Known for the quality of our consulting, Mersky, Jaffe & Associates continuously invests in our own professional development. Thus, we endeavor to be the most experienced and skillful in the field, dedicated and committed to the best practices of our craft. Providing expert consulting and planning services to cultural, educational, medical, advocacy, religious and social service organizations, we offer our knowledge and passion in support of nonprofits around the world.

NEO Law Group is a San Francisco-based law firm and Certified B Corporation that focuses its representation on nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations on corporate, tax, and governance issues.

Cheri Weissman has been working for and with nonprofits since 1984. After several years as a fundraiser at a Chicago nonprofit, Cheryl moved on to become an account manager for a national software company. Working exclusively with nonprofits, Cheryl developed and delivered software training programs, performed various data-related services, organized and hosted users groups, provided on- and off-site consulting services and provided input into software updates. In 1993, believing she could more efficiently serve the nonprofit community without the overhead of a larger company, Cheryl founded CJW Consulting & Services, Inc.

Cheri Weissman is the founder and president of CJW Consulting & Services, Inc. Cheryl has 25+ years of experience with fundraising, the nonprofit community and its associated software.

Judith Katz began her nonprofit career learning about the legal framework surrounding the sector, as an assistant to corporate attorneys specializing in tax-exempt organizations. She then took an opportunity to engage her passion for human rights at the ACLU of Illinois. She cut her teeth on immigrant rights issues through her friendships with Oaxacans that she met through her love of marathoning, and ended up taking three years to learn Spanish and permaculture in Oaxaca, until the riots in 2006. Judith deepened her learning of open space conservation issues while working within the US Department of the Interior and the SCA in Nevada and Washington State.

While in Washington, Judith began sharing her passion for NVC, sometimes also called empathic communication, a process developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg. Her first sharings were with a Toastmasters Club, and then grew to include church groups, government workers, change agents, and nonprofit organizations.

After moving to California, Judith co-founded the Connection Action Project, which works to integrate social action, empathic communication and spirituality into the mainstream. Judith is also the part-time Development Director at Bay Nature Institute. She graduated from the Alameda County Leadership Academy in March, 2011, and is a leader in organizing her neighborhood disaster preparedness team.

Judith received her Bachelor’s Degree in Pre-law Humanities at Michigan State University in the Honors College, and was summa cum laude in her Nonprofit Management Master’s program at Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies.

The Connection Action Project is a regional network of engaged leaders integrating spirituality, empathic communication and social action. CAP has produced a series over events over the last year and a half promoting reconnection to each other and nature through dialogic processes, and art. The project also offers workshops, meditations and consultations to individuals and organizations.

LinkedIn is a business-related social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of March 2011, LinkedIn reports more than 120 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian and Turkish. Quantcast reports LinkedIn has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally. In June 2011, LinkedIn has 33.9 million unique visitors, up 63 percent from a year earlier.

Jennifer Darrouzet has spent the last eleven years helping nonprofits reach, retain, and inspire new donors – using the latest technologies. Her experience informs the R&D of Convio’s Common Ground platform for small and growing nonprofits.

Common Ground, by Convio, is software helping small and medium-sized nonprofits grow community support – from individual donations, grants, volunteers, and more.

After a 25 year career in New York, Charlotte Tomic moved with her husband to Miami Beach and started her own public relations firm, Tomic Communications. She previously worked for the major international marketing communications company, GolinHarris, as Manager, Media Relations, Worldwide Practice, and previously led the news department of St. John’s University in New York. She earned an MBA from St. John’s and taught at the undergraduate level. She is also a past-President of New York Women in Communications, the premiere association for professional communicators. Charlotte has served on numerous nonprofit boards, and was deeply involved in the fight against Big Tobacco in the 70s and 80s in New York.

Tomic Communications is a Miami-based public relations agency that marries strategic and creative work to maximize results for its clients. Our staff consists of only senior-level communications professionals that have more than 10 years of experience, providing the best and hardest working experts money can buy.
With more than 30 years of experience in both public and media relations, our agency prides itself in cultivating media contacts in all industries that generate positive outcomes for our clients.

Claudette Rowley, MSW, CPCC is a coach, consultant and author – and expert in helping individuals and organizations resolve internal and external conflict. She consults and coaches internationally, guiding professionals, corporations and non-profits through results-oriented career, leadership and organizational development initiatives. Claudette is an experienced Myers-Briggs Type Indicator practitioner and facilitates individual development and team building sessions using the instrument. Author of the book Embrace Your Brilliance: How to Align Yourself with Your Unique Potential and co-author of the book A Guide to Getting It: A Clear, Compelling Vision, her articles have been published in hundreds of online and print publications. Prior to launching her coaching and consulting company MetaVoice, Inc. in 2000, Claudette worked in the public and private sectors, specializing in leadership and program development. She holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Michigan, a professional coaching certification from the Coaches Training Institute, and has completed additional training in organizational development and relationship systems coaching.

MetaVoice is a coaching and consulting company helping individuals and organizations resolve conflicts, so they can move into alignment for growth and evolution. I believe when individuals and organizations understand the conflicts that hold them back and the alignment that moves them forward, they are able to identify the right direction and the right methodology to achieve the right result for them. I offer executive, leadership and career coaching and organizational development consulting. I also have a specialty in leadership and career assessments and their application for resolving internal and external conflicts and identifying strengths in individuals and teams.

Cheryl J Weissman has been working for and with nonprofits since 1984. After several years as a fundraiser at a Chicago nonprofit, Cheryl moved on to become an account manager for a national software company. Working exclusively with nonprofits, Cheryl developed and delivered software training programs, performed various data-related services, organized and hosted users groups, provided on- and off-site consulting services and provided input into software updates. In 1993, believing she could more efficiently serve the nonprofit community without the overhead of a larger company, Cheryl founded CJW Consulting & Services, Inc.

CJW Consulting & Services, Inc. (CJW) is dedicated to preserving the institutional memories of nonprofit organizations. CJW founded in 1993 to help non-profit organizations make the most effective use of their software resources. Cheryl Weissman, CJW’s President, has 25+ years of experience with fundraising, the nonprofit community and its associated software. Cheryl’s background, along with her commitment to providing affordable, high-quality services, allow CJW to provide high-quality consulting and services at prices designed to fit your budget. CJW Consulting & Services, Inc. offers a wide variety of services, including on-site and on-line software training, data analysis, consulting and temporary staff replacement, all tailored to your specific needs. To date, CJW has assisted nonprofits in over 30 US states and 4 Canadian provinces.

Katrina (Kate) Pugh is author of Sharing Hidden Know-How (Jossey-Bass, Wiley, 2011), and is president of AlignConsulting, a firm that helps for-profit and nonprofit organizations plan business and technology change by channeling insight into action. She formerly was VP of Knowledge Management for Fidelity, Senior Technical Program manager for Intel Solution Services, and held leadership roles at JPMorganChase and PwC Consulting/IBM. Kate is on the Advisory Board of Knowledge Management Institute of Canada and Mitokine Bioscience, formerly Concord Academy, and is a lecturer at Columbia University’s Information and Knowledge Strategy Masters’ program.

AlignConsulting helps organizations channel insight into action. Putting conversation back into the center of strategy and knowledge-transfer, we work closely with our clients to harness untapped knowledge to solve business problems. Whether your organization is experiencing a transition, seeking strategies to accelerate innovation, making knowledge management and social media initiatives more productive, AlignConsulting can help.

Marcia Bloomberg worked in the nonprofit sector in Cleveland, Ohio and as an independent consultant in Massachusetts, she was frustrated by the lack of a one-stop-shop that features a listing of the consultants, coaches, grant-writers, web designers, executive recruiters, trainers, attorneys, accountants and others who serve nonprofit organizations. So out of her own need and the need of others, she created NonProfit Direct to connect nonprofit organizations to the resources they need to succeed. She spent 25 years in the nonprofit sector, first in New England and then in Ohio and knows firsthand the challenges faced by nonprofit leadership: philanthropic development, board governance, employee supervision and training, communication with constituents, and more. She has worked as a professional within the Jewish and general communities, including The Family Place in White River Junction, VT, the Dresden School District in Hanover, NH, the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland and the Cleveland Hillel Foundation. Her positions included grant writing, government relations, annual campaign, volunteer and professional development, board training and employee hiring, training and supervision. She graduated from Brandeis University with a BA in English and American Literature and a MA in Jewish Communal Service. She is also a certified Empowerment/Life coach with accreditation from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC).

The Bloomberg Group was founded in 2007 to provide coaching and consulting services to nonprofit organizations. NonProfit Direct: The NonProfit National Resource Directory was created in December 2008. There are now 225+ listed specialists, almost weekly teleseminars, a monthly e-newsletter and a nonprofit membership option.

Tina Cincotti is the founder of Funding Change Training & Consulting. Funding Change helps nonprofits raise more money from individual donors – your most reliable and sustainable source of funding. Our approach focuses on building relationships and communicating with supporters – not simply soliciting. With 13 years experience in fund development, Tina specializes in improving donor relations, building and strengthening donor programs, creating development plans, and training and coaching boards and staff new to fundraising. Through her consulting, she helps groups develop the tools and skills to improve donor retention, attract new supporters, and create communications that will have a greater impact. Tina is on the Board of Directors of Women In Development, and is also a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, the Nonprofit Consultants Network, and maintains a consulting affiliation with Third Sector New England.

Funding Change helps grassroots nonprofits raise more money from individual donors – your most reliable and sustainable source of funding. Our approach focuses on building relationships and communicating with supporters – not simply soliciting.

Here are some examples of the different types of projects Funding Change could help you with:

* Increase the involvement of your board in fundraising

* Start an individual giving program or an annual fund

* Optimize your online giving

* Create a strategic fundraising plan

* Design a major gifts campaign

* Build stronger relationships with your donors

* Design and write your direct mail appeal package

* Identify new supporters

* Set up a database to maximize your donor contact

* Improve your donor relations

* Boost the impact of your organizational newsletter

Kelly Sheetz is currently the Director of Development Services and Operations at North Park University. Her professional career in higher education has spanned the last 16 years. She transitioned into professional fundraising as the Phonathon Coordinator at North Park University. While in this position, their call center increased donor participation numbers by 14%. Her skills in hiring, training and leading individuals through the solicitation process as well as her knowledge of constituent databases helped her create a more effective, efficient Phonathon program at North Park. In her current role as Director of Development Services she is responsible for all management and operations of the Raisers Edge database at North Park University.

Founded in 1891 by the Evangelical Covenant Church, North Park University is located on Chicago’s north side and enrolls 3,200 students from around the country and the world. At North Park, excellence implies not only a deep tradition in the liberal arts and the Christian faith, but also a spirit of innovation, reaching out to serve and to learn from the dynamic community around us.