J.A is a strategic leader with 15 years of experience managing complex programs for national nonprofits in the education field. From 2014-2019, J.A led implementation and innovation for a portfolio of national literacy programs for BookTrust, the UK’s leading children’s literacy nonprofit. She was promoted to Head of Programs in 2017, where she reported to the CEO, led a team of 8 and reached 2.5M families with the gift of 3.4M books in their child’s first year. From 2011-2014, J.A led participation and outreach at the National Centre for Circus Arts, where her efforts resulted in a 6% increase in the number of young people taking part in circus arts across the UK. In addition to 9 years in senior leadership roles in national nonprofits, J.A worked at Deloitte consulting, providing program management support and analysis for private-sector and nonprofit clients. She has an MBA from Cass Business School, a Master’s in Education from the University of Reading, and a Bachelors from the University of Leeds.

L.S. (Springfield, VA) has 25+ years of experience in proposal production and design, graphic design, and desktop publishing, both working remotely and on site. She is a UI and print designer, specializing in providing both custom graphics and graphics reflecting specific branding, RFP, and other standards. Most recently, L.S. has worked as an Independent Contractor, working in both MAC and PC deadline-driven environments. She has produced infographics; supported UI design; migrated html websites to WordPress; developed proposal graphics and covers, business cards, brochures, logos, letterhead, and corporate branding; and created templates for presentations. Prior to this L.S. was the brand manager and designer for XLA, where she led the re-design of the company website and maintained the migration of proposal files to a SharePoint proposal library. She worked for CSC for four yeas as a proposal graphics and electronic publishing  contractor and for BearingPoint in electronic pulbishing. She is proficient in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Muse, WordPress, MS PowerPoint, and MS Word.

K.M. is an operations professional with business analysis, project management, sales support, and HR support experience. This experience includes 20 years working for tech giants Cisco and Sun  Microsystems, where she held various positions and received promotions. Most recently, K.M. was placed by FlexProfessionals at a small technology firm where she worked with executives to develop and implement a business development tool, research new business opportunities, oversaw business development reporting, and improved HR processes. She comes highly recommended by our client. From 2003-2010, KM was a Business Manager at Sun Microsystems where she supported senior sales leadership through forecasting, structuring sales opportunities, managing relationships with customers and conducting training on new internal policies and procedures.  From 1999-2003, KM managed a team of sales support specialists. K.M. is proficient in MS Office Suite. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Finance from Mount St. Mary’s University and an MBA from Keller/Devry University.

C.G. has 20+ years of experience in grants management. From 2004-2017 while working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), she managed a portfolio of over 200 grants annually. She served as the business contact for both applicant and grantee organizations as well as for NIH scientific staff. She was responsible for managing a $500M portfolio of grants to universities, hospitals and small businesses. She improved grantee communication and quality standards through the provision of technical assistance and increased the number of applications awarded. During 2008-2009, she was recruited to serve as an Executive on loan to the Combined Federal Campaign. She helped raise $62M for non-profits and co-managed the largest civilian account within the Federal government. She exceeded the fundraising goal by 12%. From 1996-2004, C.G. served as a Grants Specialist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, managing a portfolio of grants valued at over $500M. She planned and facilitated site visits with grantee organizations; trained staff; and presented at a national conference. Earlier in her tenure at the National Endowment for the Arts, she advised constituents in the writing of grant proposals and managed review panels. She has a BA from LaSalle University and certificates in Grants Management and Leadership and Management.

L.T. (Arlington, VA) has 25+ years of experience in contract management and cost proposal preparation in the field of government and commercial contracting. She had extensive experience administering all contract types, negotiating terms and conditions, mitigating risk, resolving contractual issues, and preparing complex cost volumes. She most recently worked for a small, woman-owned federal government contractor providing leadership and management in the areas of contracts, pricing, accounts receivable and invoicing. From 1999 -2014 L.T. was a Senior Contracts Manager at SAIC managing a high volume of contracts and proposals as well as a team of senior contract professionals. She has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Marymount University.

C.F. is a non-profit and fundraising executive specializing in developing and managing giving campaigns, fundraising programs, and strategies to increase social impact and organizational capacity.  From 2012-2018, she worked for an Austin-based nonprofit focused on community-wide giving campaigns and engaging young donors in philanthropy, serving most recently as Executive Director.  In this role, she secured 75+ multi-year partnerships with corporations, foundations, civic groups, and community leaders. She spearheaded transformational fundraising campaigns that raised $45M from 100K donors to support 700+ nonprofits over a period of 6 giving days. During her 17-year nonprofit career, she has worked for large institutions as well as small, grassroot organizations, including Foundation for The Carolinas, Texas Children’s Hospital and University of Virginia. She has developed, retooled and led projects and programs; managed the development efforts of a team; engaged volunteer leadership and created partnerships; and developed goals and related processes for strategic community grantmaking. She began her career as a Consultant at Accenture. C.F. has been featured on PBS and NPR and in two Austin-based magazines. She has a Bachelors in Marketing from Texas A&M University.

J.R. has 10 years of experience as Assistant Editor for a scholarly and documentary editing project, the Santayana Edition, at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. She completed her MA in English with a graduate certificate in Professional Editing, focusing on documentary and critical editing practices. As the Assistant Editor for the Santayana Edition, a philosophy scholarly edition focusing on the letters and writings of George Santayana, she researched and wrote annotations, created and compiled indices, conducted multi-state individual and team proofreading from transcription to page-proofs, and helped with the layout of the text, images, and prepared files to be sent to MIT Press for publication. The following are skills she gained and programs she used while working at the Santayana Edition: scanning documents and using an OCR program, using a Hinman collator to compare different versions of text, using Quark and InDesign to layout text and index publications, using Photoshop to prepare images for layout, researching and evaluating original manuscripts, and preparing grant applications for the NEH. Currently J.R. volunteers at the Newseum archives, where she photographs and catalogues print news materials. J.R. is also a Girl Scout Service Unit Manager and leader of a junior Girl Scout troop. In her position as Service Unit manager she leads monthly meetings and presents information to leaders and volunteers from 25+ troops.

Results-oriented executive with 20+ years of leadership and enterprise management experience supporting diverse customers in the military and federal government. She has an award-winning record leading teams and multi-functional organizations to improve mission support services, efficiency and effectiveness. Committed to customer service, data driven accountability, performance improvement, strategy development, and execution, she has served as a senior executive in the federal government, commanded at the wing level and served two tours in Iraq. She has overseen complex shared services organizations up to 5K personnel, including finance, facilities and logistics, acquisition and procurement, information technology, training, human resources and programming. K.K.  has a Masters in Organizational Management from George Washington University, a Masters in National Resource Management from the National Defense University, and an engineering degree from Lehigh University. She also holds a TS-SCI clearance.

D.M. (McLean, VA) has 50+ years of diversified business experience, which offers potential solutions to interim business needs – (Partner with Ernst & Young, CFO and CEO of a $60 million import/export company, founder and CEO of a $7 million import/export company, and founder of a vibrant business advisory practice). In his business advisory practice, D.M. currently helps small business owners start,
grow and exit their businesses. Prior to this, in 2000 D.M. purchased the inventory for one product line from his former company, cut his own deal with the Japanese supplier and founded an import/export company, growing it from one product line ($3 million annual sales) to 5 product lines ($7 million annual sales) in 5 years. D.M. sold the business in 2005 to start his business advisory practice. In 1990 D.M.
became the CFO (and later CEO) of a $30 million import/export business, which doubled in size during his time with the company. The owner died in 1999 requiring D.M. to liquidate the company in a timely fashion for the benefit of the owner’s wife. At Ernst & Young, from 1961 to 1990, D.M. served a diversified audit client base working through the ranks from staff accountant to Partner. He has a Bachelors in Finance and Accounting from California State University at Los Angeles and is a CPA.

S.F. has 25 years of non-profit executive management experience and 14 years of experience as owner of a marketing communications and video production firm. She is currently an independent Consultant in fundraising and board management for two senior living non-profit clients. Her non-profit experience includes serving as Executive Director of Suited for Change (2010-2015) as well as Executive-level roles at Voter Participation Center, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance, and Center for Media Education. She was instrumental in raising funds for all of these organizations. From 2003-2004 she managed the FTC’s $10M contract with AT&T to implement its Do Not Call Program. Prior to this, she co-owned a company that produced 500+ films and videos and provided media strategy and marketing support to clients such as the American Red Cross, Norfolk Southern Corporation, IBM Federal Systems Division, US Airways, EXXONMOBIL, the American Lung Association and the Library of Congress. She has a BA from Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ.