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Linda Brown Rivelis, CFRE |
President  Ms. Rivelis is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) with more than 30
years fundraising experience with such organizations as American Red
Cross, Johns Hopkins Kennedy Krieger Institute and Maryland Institute
College of Art. She is skilled at helping individuals and organizations
to improve their abilities to raise resources and build volunteer power.
Linda
Brown Rivelis was instrumental in leading volunteers to Arolsen,
Germany to found the National Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and
Information Center, on behalf of American Red Cross. She has trained
people from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region on how to build
the Third Sector/Nonprofit Sector in their countries through leadership
development, volunteerism, fund raising, marketing and advocacy.
Ms.
Rivelis is integral to the development and training of curriculum for
Campaign Consultation’s SustainAbility agreement with the Corporation
for National and Community Service. Ongoing first-hand experience is
critical to dynamic curricula and facilitation. For instance, recently
she and associates completed a feasibility study regarding the
likelihood of the corporate and foundation community in Washington,
D.C. responding to a $3.5 million campaign for a community development organization. In addition, she and volunteers are currently raising $1.5 million for a community based learning center.
In the final analysis, she says:
“Campaign Consultation is dedicated to helping people who do good, do better.” |
Knowledge Transfer & Utilization Director Susan Hailman has more than 30 years of experience working within the government, social profit and for-profit sectors. Her primary focus: helping local and national clients reach their goals through the transfer and application of knowledge through situational assessment, interactive curriculum, training, follow-up and evaluation.
For more than a decade, she has led Campaign Consultation’s training and technical assistance (T/TA) agreement with the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) which helps grantees to build their social profit resources and the community commitment necessary to keep projects going long after the initial support of federal resources. To date, more than 35,000 people have been impacted by both face-to-face and other distance and blended learning sequences.
Campaign Consultation’s commitment to healing the damage substance abuse does to our communities has continued through our involvement with the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). She has shared partnership building and sustainability strategies with Recovery Community Services Programs through training and coaching. She has also designed and facilitated many conferences and technical assistance processes for treatment and recovery initiatives nationally, most prominently facilitating and designing CSAT’s National Recovery Summit.
Prior to joining the Campaign Consultation team, Susan Hailman directed training and technical assistance services to 123 cities throughout the country for the Enterprise Foundation and its goal to create and preserve affordable housing.
Ms. Hailman has also served as Project Officer/Public Health Advisor for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). She oversaw federal alcohol/drug prevention and community partnership training contracts valued at more than $9 million annually. She developed national training and technical assistance projects which delivered over 300 innovative learning events to a total of 250 community partnerships and an estimated 18,000 professionals and volunteers nationwide.
She holds a Bachelors degree in Psychology and a minor in English from Drew University and a M. Ed. from Seton Hall University during which she developed a training design for post secondary students as part of the practicum. Recently, she completed her CTA coaching certification (recognized by the International Coaching Federation) which augments her distance learning skills. Ms. Hailman continues to build upon her substantial knowledge base to not only provide face-to-face training, but distance and blended learning sequences to meet the needs of communities around the country. |
Project Specialist Sharon Rabb brings over twenty years’ experience in fundraising to Campaign Consultation, Inc. More than half of that time has been spent in higher education institutions, and the remainder with religious and social service organizations. Her first professional experiences were as a high school English teacher and a television copywriter.
Originally from Boston, Ms. Rabb came to Baltimore from Atlanta, GA. She was employed by Oglethorpe University in Atlanta for nine years where she coordinated capital campaigns for $18 million and $36 million.
She holds a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management from The College of Notre Dame of Maryland. With an academic interest in women as social change agents, her thesis title was The Role of Women in Philanthropy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Massachusetts Boston.
As a Project Specialist with Campaign Consultation, Ms. Rabb is charged with the development and implementation of fundraising curricula and other campaign projects. |
Social Media Specialist Danielle Ricks has over 25 years of media and communications experience, specializing now in Social Media. Using online media tools, Danielle develops marketing and communications plans that build relationships, strengthen customer service, and increase brand recognition. Danielle’s goal is to help corporations expand their reach via websites, blogs, podcasts, social networking, bookmarking, and various other social media tools. Danielle also helps organizations transition from traditional forms of marketing and communication to emerging new media technologies.
In her current role as a Social Media Specialist for Campaign Consultation, Inc Danielle works to deepen the relationship within the AmeriCrops VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) community while building their online brand recognition. Leveraging Social Media for social good, Danielle uses the digital space to enable VISTA to share stories and promising practices, bring awareness to poverty issues, cultivate new relationships, create support networks, discover critical resources and tools and connect with other service communities.
Danielle has a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Howard University and has worked in her field for over two decades, having produced for the likes of Walt Disney World Entertainment, ABC, CBS, and Black Entertainment Television, along with corporations such as Coca-Cola, AT&T, and Boost Mobile. Danielle has successfully managed successful projects delivering outstanding results. As the communication industry began to change, however, Danielle immersed herself in all forms of new media technology and began to “live” online. Her client base expanded to include companies that wanted to broaden their online presence via social media and learn about the new technologies.
Throughout her professional life Danielle has dedicated herself to bringing the audiences she produces for and the companies she works with innovative new concepts. Danielle states, "As I continue my career, my goal is to inform, involve, and inspire people through all forms of Social Media outlets that stimulate the senses, invoke provocative and positive thinking and ultimately impact social change.”
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e-Project Specialist Stephanie Ross has extensive experience working within the World Wide Web, with a special emphasis on Web 2.0 initiatives. Her primary focus: helping clients build online communities and improving usability of social networking tools.
Ms. Ross serves as an e-Project Specialist at Campaign Consultation, working out of our Silicon Valley office. She is responsible for managing the Emerging Technology - National Expert Team [ET-NET]; creating community development and sustainability distance learning products [GIZMOS]; advancing e-driven mobilization, branding and outreach campaigns; as well as Web Wizard – an initiative to enhance the capacity of state-wide and community-based organization websites for fund development, volunteer management, business partnerships, and media relations.
Her expertise has been an instrumental component in leading two startup companies from inception to multi-million dollar powerhouses in their fields. Within these efforts, Ms. Ross has worked with eBay, Facebook, Twitter, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Grammy Foundation, Good Morning America, Oprah, Warner Brothers and UNICEF.
Some would say she has a slight obsession with the online world. Ms. Ross is committed to finding new ways to connect with others … with the goal to literally change the world. |
VISTA Recovery Initiative Field Reporter As a features reporter for 23 years at the Baltimore Sun, Stephanie Shapiro has covered human interest stories in Baltimore, across the country and around the world. Now a field reporter for the Viewfinder, the online VISTA newsletter, she explores the innumerable ways in which AmeriCorps VISTA members build opportunities for underserved communities, the challenges they confront and the insights they draw from their service. |
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Chief Executive Officer “We are living in a new age, which requires a new body of knowledge, a new way of thinking, and a new set of strategies to address today’s complex inter-related challenges. Campaign Consultation is equipped to help individuals and systems advance their agenda in this ultra quick-changing environment.”
Steven Rivelis has been helping people adapt to change and meet goals for over a quarter of a century. He provides marketing and message development assistance to NASA and Youth Build USA, strategic and action planning assistance to Population Action International and Family Care International, and diversity training/coaching to the International Monetary Fund and ChevronTexaco.
He coaches civic and business leaders from Central America, Africa, the Middle East and post-Soviet nations on tools and techniques for creating social change using the “Winning Movements” curriculum he developed. One of his proudest achievements is drafting and successfully lobbying for the passage of the nation’s first Motor Voter Registration law.
Mr. Rivelis served as the "architect" of a meeting between leaders from forty-five national organizations, resulting in a BLUEPRINT: for a National Multi-Disciplinary Prevention Agenda. He created the TOOL BOX for Collaborative Campaigns. He also served as one of the principal developers of the Institute for Partnership Development as well as the Recipes for Building Community Institute.
Mr. Rivelis shares his social change knowledge with graduate students as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, where he teaches a graduate class on communities and systems. He is also a permanent faculty member to the Virginia Supreme Court. His talent at helping people identify and develop the action steps needed to create desired change is evident in his work in shaping the content for the White House’s landmark website www.USAFreedomCorps.gov. This one-click away resource is referred to as “the most comprehensive network of volunteer resources for nonprofits, service organizations and corporations ever assembled.” |
Project Manager Michelle Bond has been working as a social change agent within diverse communities for the past 10 years. Her primary focus: engaging communities of people – whether social profits or government; urban or rural; national or global – in development, consensus-building and behavior-changing initiatives.
As a Project Manager with Campaign Consultation, she is responsible for content of training curricula and distance learning products. Specifically, she is managing content and development for AmeriCorps*VISTA initiatives including, the VISTA (Volunteers In Service to America) Campus, VISTA Outreach campaign with its e-newsletter, the Building Communities and Sustaining the Initiative Institute, the Wealth & Poverty curriculum and the eOrganizer. She has also managed the 2007 Best Practices Conference for AmeriCorps National, the 2007 New Directors Orientation program for Senior Corps, and was instrumental in development of the website for the 2008 National Conference on Volunteering and Service.
Prior to joining Campaign Consultation, Ms. Bond worked for and/or collaborated on community development initiatives and developing curricula with: The United States Peace Corps; Habitat for Humanity; Baltimore City Government; University of Maryland; The Landslide Mitigation Group; National Council for International Visitors; Sargent Shriver Peaceworker Program, and The Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Ms. Bond, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and VISTA Alum, lives in Baltimore City. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Public Relations for Nonprofit and a Masters Degree in Intercultural Communication. She believes that community service is a means of building communities and that intercultural exchanges across boundaries – real and imagined – provide powerful learning experiences and lasting social change. |
Project Manager In her role as Project Manager for Campaign Consultation, Inc., Arthurine Walker works to advance community development and organizational capacity building, within the national and community service field. Her primary focus: community organizing, strategic action planning, program management and replication, facilitation and training.
She has just completed the development and delivery of two Communicators Institutes for Learn and Serve America grantees. In addition, the design, development and delivery of an e-Tool for AmeriCorps outreach is underway and a national outreach project to identify potential new grantees for the program has been completed. Annually, she is at work helping the Corporation for National and Community Service expand the national impact of the Martin Luther King Day of Service Initiative.
Ms. Walker has used her facilitation skills with the Building Community Institute for VISTA (Volunteers In Service to America) and at the Forum on College Student Volunteering for national service and community organizations. She has also worked on the development of an online presentation for Senior Corps programs regarding fundraising compliance with OMB Cost Principles.
She brings to Campaign Consultation twenty years of experience working with social-profits and government. Just prior to joining Campaign Consultation, she directed the outreach efforts of the Corporation for National and Community Service and served as an independent consultant for a diverse consortium of clients.
She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York and a Master of Arts in Intercultural Management from the School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT. Ms. Walker has a penchant for work as varied as youth development; professional development; teacher education; cultural exchange and fund raising. |
Project & Corporate Coordinator Suzanne Knizner is an experienced event and project planner. In her role as Project & Corporate Coordinator, she coordinates all aspects of workshop/training development and delivery; conducts research for proposals and programs; and ensures that tasks are on schedule, budgets are on target, and events run smoothly.
Prior to joining the Campaign Consultation team, Ms. Knizner worked for The Archdiocese of Baltimore Division of Catholic Schools Marketing Office, where she served as the lead agent for multiple large events and created numerous publications.
Ms. Knizner holds a B.A. in Communication from McDaniel College and is currently the Vice Chair of the Alumni Council Outreach and a member of the St. Rose of Lima School Board. |
Project & Corporate Coordinator Stephanie Grocott is a skilled event planner and researcher. In her role as Project & Corporate Coordinator, she plans national conferences, edits training curricula, conducts research, and works on development initiatives for Campaign Consultation clients and its corporate officers.
Prior to joining the Campaign Consultation team, Ms. Grocott worked as an associate in the Commercial Trucking Industry where she was instrumental in consumer marketing, planning and organizing training seminars and materials, and market research.
Ms. Grocott holds a Bachelor of Science in both Psychology and Political Science from Towson University. During her college experience, Stephanie took the opportunity to live abroad while gaining an Independent Studies degree from Sunderland University, in England. |
New Business Development Coordinator 
Lorilei Barsh comes to us with a strong background in business administration and marketing. In her role as New Business Development Coordinator, she works directly with the President and CEO to coordinate all company marketing efforts.
Prior to joining the team at Campaign Consultation, Ms. Barsh held the position of Marketing Manager for a consulting firm that specialized in GSA schedules. In addition, she has also worked for Internet Strategy Group as the Traffic Coordinator. In her role at ISG, Ms. Barsh coordinated all teams, ensuring that projects were completed in a timely manner.
Ms. Barsh holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a Concentration in Marketing from Salisbury University. She is a current member of the Salisbury University Alumni Association. When she is not at the office she can be found reading, blogging, attending events, volunteering, and enjoying the outdoors. |
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