We maintain a core group of Associates to enhance the services and talents we provide our clients. When a project or timeline demands additional skills and attention, we can quickly assemble a team of Associates to meet those needs. In addition to the core Associates listed here, we also have immediate access to professionals in media relations, public policy, and research as well as graphic designers and editors.

Ronald A. Stewart, Ph.D.
Dr. Stewart is passionately engaged in service to the nonprofit and public sectors. Among the hallmarks of his consultation work are tailored and practical solutions for organizations, staff and volunteers. Dr. Stewart provides a wide array of capacity building interventions such as executive coaching, executive search, board development, planning, evaluation, discussion facilitation and fundraising. Among the dozens of organizations he has assisted are The Durfee Foundation, The University of LaVerne, Neighborhood Funders Group, and the San Bernadino Health Consortium.

He is a skilled grant writer and has assisted numerous organizations in securing federal, state and local grant resources. Over two thousand people from academic, nonprofit and public institutions around the country have been trained in grant development techniques by Dr. Stewart.

Serving as adjunct faculty at the graduate level, Dr. Stewart engages learners on topics such as program planning, evaluation and grant writing.

He holds a Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies – Organizational Leadership and Management from The Union Institute and University, a MA in Nonprofit Organizations from Case Western Reserve University, and a BA in Rhetoric and Communications from Kent State University. Dr. Stewart resides in the greater Los Angeles area. You can learn more about his work at www.stewartron.com.

Patti J. De Rosa, MBA
Ms. De Rosa has over 20 years experience assisting businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies with their organizational development needs and in creating strategic, marketing and business plans. She has designed and taught courses, and developed workshops and conferences for business and community organizations, public agencies and college students on business development, marketing and strategic planning issues. Her work has been recognized with national and local honors.

As owner of a consulting firm, Ms. De Rosa works with organizations to identify problems and create solutions through the formulation of their strategies and development of marketing and business plans. On a volunteer basis, she has lent her skills to assisting nonprofit organizations to conduct SWOT analyses, and develop marketing plans, training programs and other ventures.

Ms. De Rosa was Director of the Small Business Resource and Technology Center and the Ohio Technology Transfer Organization in Cleveland, Ohio for 8 years. She has taught college and university courses on small business marketing and development in the United States and in Italy. Ms. De Rosa holds her MBA from Miami University (OH), and a BS in Education from Kent State University. She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Timothy B. Wilmot, Ph.D.
Our Associate, Timothy B. Wilmot, Ph.D., has taken on a new assignment as the Director of Research and Evaluation for The Marin Community Foundation in Marin County, California. Tim will be sharing his deep expertise in evaluation, knowledge management and philanthropy at Marin, and we wish him much success in this new role.