Marian is a professional development officer whose 20 years of non-profit leadership spans educational institutions, social service agencies and environmental organizations.

While her hands-on experience is extensive, her strengths lie with annual giving programs, capital campaigns, proposal writing for both private foundation and public grants, individual major gift and corporate fundraising.  Some examples include annual giving with an emphasis on corporate contributions for the Nature Conservancy as well as Capital Campaign Coordinator for both The Greater Hartford Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center and The Open Hearth.   

As a senior consultant for Clemow Consulting Group, Marian has consulted for a number of Connecticut State Community Colleges, libraries, and social service organization on feasibility studies, capital campaigns, board and caller training, internal assessments and organizational assessments.

She also organized a development program for the Hartford Conservatory and worked as Development Director for the Hartford College for Women and Interim Director of Development for Pastoral Counseling Center of West Hartford.  Her volunteer activities include leadership positions in Capital Campaigns for the Congregational Church in South Glastonbury and her alma mater, Mount Holyoke College.

Catherine Bradshaw, M.S.W., M.A. has extensive experience as an organizational development consultant and facilitator helping executives develop their leadership skills and their capacity to create strategic and sustainable change.  She is a highly skilled process designer, facilitator, coach and community builder.  Catherine has worked extensively in the non-profit arena, originally doing hands-on social work and community development and, over the last fourteen years, consulting with non-profit agencies to help them build their internal capapcity, set direction and shift their work culture.  She has led strategic planning processes in non-profits, businesses, and communities that engage people throughout the system in creating their desirable future.

Ceila Dame Robbins - Consultant

For almost 20 years, Ceila’s work has centered on grant and proposal writing, communications and program development for the non-profit and education community.  As a grant and proposal writer, she has obtained federal, state and private funding for schools, arts organizations, social service agencies and community organizations.  Her ability to craft successful grants and proposals is strengthened by her communications background.  She has written and edited reports, manuals, feature articles, newsletters, viewbooks, brochures, flyers, presentation scripts, development materials and full-length books for clients that have included schools and colleges, non-profit organizations and government agencies.  Ceila holds degrees from Stanford, Brown and the University of Hartford and has been the Coordinator of Grants and Innovative Programs for Windsor Public Schools for the past four years.

Jamie Taylor has worked in developing, implementing and funding nonprofit programs for over 20 years.  She has coordinated collaborative planning efforts, researched best practices, developed systemic strategies and written successful grant proposals for a wide diversity of non-profit organizations.

 Committed to finding solutions to pressing community concerns, Jamie works to build bridges between identified needs, collaborative strategies, and funding partnerships.  She has secured millions of dollars in federal, state and local funding for health care, affordable housing, homelessness support services, employment, substance abuse and HIV/ AIDS prevention, child care, senior health care, legislative advocacy, peace, and community-organizing programs.  Jamie provides a broad continuum of technical assistance to the non-profit world and is dedicated to the belief that all things are possible with convincing goals, enduring commitment, and an abundance of good humor.   

Katherine Singer - Consultant

Katherine Singer has in-depth experience in non-profit funds development, including administration; grant writing, organizational planning, event coordination, volunteer management and communications.  She has special interest and experience in coordinating public and private collaborations to develop new programs.  Katherine has served as Director of Funds Development and Community Relations for Connecticut Community Care, Inc., a care management home care organization serving CT’s seniors, for over twelve years. 

Prior to living in Connecticut Katherine worked in a federal redevelopment program in Rochester, NY.  Her work focused on community relations, and grant writing, evaluation and reporting.

Katherine is a graduate of the University of Rochester and holds a masters degree in Human Development/Gerontology from St. Joseph’s College, West Hartford.  She has demonstrated a passion for working in the non-profit sector on both a professional and personal level.  She is currently President of the Board of Directors of the Greater Hartford Larrabee Fund Association, a charitable organization serving older women in the Greater Hartford area, and serves as a Board member of the Noah Webster House in West Hartford.