SERVICES AND TEAM MEMBERS
Social Enterprise & Earned Income Development
---------------Mark Pomerantz
---------------Roy Soards (Portland, OR Associate)
Asset Based Community Development
---------------Jim Diers
Community Engagement
---------------Jon Ramer
Fund Raising, Organizational Start-Up, Board Development, & Media Relations
---------------Celia Weisman
Small Business & Community Based Marketing
---------------Curtis Brown
Small Business & Community Based Technology
---------------Joel Meyers
Special Events Planning
---------------Deborah Gandolfo
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Social Enterprise & Earned Income Development:
Mark Pomerantz, Roy Soards (Portland)
Social Enterprise Development includes the development of earned income businesses, retooling of programs into revenue generating ventures, and development of cause related purchasing and marketing projects in conjunction with for profit corporations.
Mark Pomerantz has twenty years experience working with government, nonprofit, and private sector groups in the arts, housing, and social services. He has worked with the media, and coordinated conferences, meetings, forums, festivals, and facilitated a Community Outreach Program for the Frye Museum. He has worked on Enterprise Development for such organizations as Northwest Center and Vadis.
Roy Soards is a "serial social entrepreneur" and started over a dozen businesses in a fifteen year tenure with St. Vincent De Paul Industries in Portland. These included temporary staffing, grounds and landscaping, furniture, janitorial, document imaging, document shredding, et al. He has also been an adjunct faculty member in entrepreneurship at Portland State University
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Asset Based Community Development: Jim Diers
Asset Based Community Development concentrates first upon the agenda building and problem-solving capacities of local residents, local associations, and local institutions. The internal focus stresses the primacy of local definition, investment, creativity, hope, and control. The process is "relationship driven." Asset-based community development constantly builds and rebuilds the relationships between and among local residents, local associations, and local institutions.
Jim Diers has 28 years of professional experience in the field of community engagement, having worked for a grassroots organization, a community development corporation, a large non-profit organization, and city government. Much of his work has been focused on Southeast Seattle where Jim and his family have lived for the past 26 years. Jim served as director of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods for 14 years where he developed innovative programs of community engagement that are now being replicated in other cities throughout the United States and beyond. In 2001, the Municipal League of King County recognized Jim as Public Employee of the Year.
Jim currently serves on the faculty of the Asset Based Community Development Institute of Northwestern University, is an adjunct faculty of the University of Washington School of Architecture and City Planning and is frequently called upon to facilitate community-mapping processes.
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Community Engagement: Jon Ramer
Jon Ramer is an experienced entrepreneur who has started several businesses. He has also coordinated a number of community-based initiatives dealing with social justice and faith. He is currently the Puget Sound Community Alliance coordinator for the Interra Project, a community based process that will support local economies.
Jon Ramer is adept at community mapping and developing and organizing community response material.
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Fund Raising, Organizational Start-Up, Board Development, & Media Relations: Celia Weisman
Depending on an organization's needs Celia might help identify ways that an organization can diversify its revenue base, train board members and volunteers in fundraising, organize special events, or write grant proposals. Since individuals' contributions make up nearly 90 percent of charitable giving, development consultants are increasingly helping organizations identify ways that they can better identify, cultivate, and steward individual donors. Celia can also provide counsel on media relations, capital and/or endowment campaigns.
Celia Weisman has been a staff development officer with such organizations as the Economic Opportunity Institute, Swedish Medical, MDA, National Council of Jewish Women, and A Territory Resource. Before moving to the region, she worked for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the National Council of Jewish Women, Barnard College, and other non-profit institutions.
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Small Business & Community Based Marketing: Curtis Brown
Curtis works with clients across the country to impact their marketing efforts and drive brand identification. He works with both for profit and non-profit businesses to develop virtual communication systems. In addition, Curtis conducts ongoing seminars and conferences to introduce businesses to the facets of virtual communication.
Curtis Brown has over 17 years of experience working with small business and nonprofit organizations. Curtis provides concise strategic development of marketing systems and organizational approaches to becoming an effective company or organization by utilizing Internet technology to improve marketing plans and their reach.
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Small Business & Community Based Technology: Joel Meyers
Technology offerings include a full range of professional Web publishing services including site design and development, Web application and database development, usability studies, training, professional photography and general Web consulting. The goal is to provide the nonprofit community and socially and environmentally responsible companies with affordable, quality web-related tools & services and to empower organizations in achieving their goals through the use of Internet technologies.
Joel Meyers has over seven years of experience designing and building Web sites and studying the user experience. http://www.geminicreative.com/
Special Events Planning: Deborah Gandolfo
Deborah was founder and president of Memorable Events, Inc. in Portland, Maine, where she planned and managed a variety of events for companies and individuals. She served as Special Events Manager for Intiman Theatre in Seattle, planning their first annual “Intimania” fund-raising event. She also planned outreach and educational events while serving as Executive Director of the Seattle Chapter of the Million Mom March. As a volunteer she has managed and worked on events for many other non-profit, arts, and educational organizations. Deborah uses her background in the arts and in marketing to create events that are both innovative and exciting, as well as targeted to the specific needs, and within the budget of the organization.
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