During my 30-year work history I've been a teacher, staff member of a local nonprofit, a foundation executive and consultant to a national nonprofit organization.  Now, as an independent consultant, I feel all of these experiences coming together nicely to form my approach to helping nonprofit organizations better accomplish their missions.

I am particularly interested in helping nonprofit organizations better engage individual donors in their work.  It is truly exciting to see many new strategies come into play in this arena--just at the time that individuals are playing an increasingly larger role in philanthropy.  Michael Gilbert's challenge to "make every donor feel like a major donor" is becoming my mantra. 

The capacity of webblogs to contribute to nonprofit community building has spurred the creation of my own blog.  I am using it to learn the "how" of blogs.  It is (encouragingly enough) a lot like web site creation, but a lot easier. 

I also hope to use this blog to share some of my thoughts with clients and, I hope, a community of like thinkers.   If you're reading this, perhaps you are one of my new friends.