Associates
& Affiliates
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| LAPA Associates and Consultants pictured
above. |
Laurence A. Pagnoni, President
Blanche Norman, Director of Grants Services
Enid Harlow, Senior Grants Associate
Sheldon Bart, Grant Writer
Orlando Adiao, Associate, AT Design NY
Mary McBride, Associate, Strategies
for Planned Change
Susan & Bill Philliber,
Associates, Philliber Research Associates
Elsa Ríos, Associate, Community Impact
Consulting
David Schiffer, Associate, DLS Design
Alissa Schwartz, Associate
Maria Semple, Associate, The Prospect Finder,
Inc.
Sr. Ellie Shea, Associate, Spiritual
Formation
Dwight Tintle, Associate, Dat-A-Gap
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| Laurence A. Pagnoni,
President |
Laurence
A. Pagnoni, MA, MPA, is president of Laurence A. Pagnoni
& Associates and has over 25 years of executive and nonprofit
management experience. Prior to establishing the LAPA consulting
firm, Mr. Pagnoni served as executive director of three non-profit
agencies. He holds advanced degrees in Public Administration,
Theology, and Spirituality (most recently an MPA / MS in Management
at the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University).
Mr. Pagnoni is a seminar facilitator and an informed public speaker
who motivates and inspires audiences on diverse subjects such
as team building, executive support, and staying healthy at work.
As president of Laurence A. Pagnoni & Associates, he gathers
effective consultants to serve a diverse client base. He also
serves on the board of directors of many nonprofit agencies and
provides counsel about strategic planning, diversification of
revenue, leadership support, and community relations. Click
here to view Mr. Pagnoni's resume.
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Blanche Norman,
MA, LAPA's Director of Grants Services, previously served
as Executive Director of Youth Theatre Interactions, a performing
arts organization for underprivileged youth in Yonkers, New York.
Blanche received a Bachelors Degree from Bard College in 1991
and a Masters in Arts Administration from Columbia University,
Teachers College in 2003. While completing her graduate studies,
Blanche was a development consultant for the Illyria Theatre Company,
an off-Broadway theater company in New York City. Prior to graduate
school, Ms. Norman was a Development Associate at NOW Legal Defense
Fund and The American Museum of Natural History. Blanche is accomplished
in all aspects of fundraising, but she has received the greatest
enjoyment from grant writing and working on successful individual
donor campaigns. She enjoys creative writing, attending theater,
and reading fiction.
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Enid
Harlow, MA, is a writer and editor of technical grants,
nonfiction articles, and novels. Enid takes grantwriting and production
to new levels by joining her creative writing skills with the
format requirements attendant to private and public requests for
funding. As LAPA's Senior Grants Officer, she leads a team that
sends out approximately 600 grants and secures $1 million to $1.5
million annually. Under Enid’s leadership, most LAPA fundraising
clients earn three to six times what they pay in consulting fees.
Enid’s most recent novel, "A Better Man," is available
through Van Neste Books or at www.amazon.com.
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Sheldon Bart, MA,
is a writer of fiction and nonfiction who possesses extensive
editing experience. At LAPA his focus is identifying corporate
and foundation donors for nonprofit clients and crafting high-quality
grant proposals. Sheldon is president and founder of Wilderness
Research Association, a nonprofit organization devoted to conducting
scientific research in the High Arctic. He is also a member of
the Board of Governors of the American Polar Society. Prior to
joining LAPA, Sheldon served as Development Associate at the Institute
for the Study of Human Knowledge and as Editor/Marketing Director
at Newport Legends Publishing. His writing has appeared in the
New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and the
New York Times Book Review.
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Orlando
Adiao has been organizing information since the age of
nine when he laid out his first newspaper and sold it to family
members. He's been at it ever since. He has designed books, CDs,
magazines, brochures and catalogs, Web sites, posters, and logos
for clients as diverse as Lincoln Center and a flower farm in
the Philippines. His most recent award was for the NYC 2001 gay
and lesbian Pride logo competition. He is a graduate of Parsons
School of Design, and is the principal of AT Design in Brooklyn,
New York. For more information, please visit www.ATDesignNY.com
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Mary
McBride, DBA, Ph.D., President of Strategies for
Planned Change and on the faculty of the Wagner School for
Public Service, New York University, is a life-long learner
and a superb teacher sought after throughout the country.
Her doctoral studies have been in both business administration
(Stern School at NYU) and psychology (CUNY), making her
a valuable resource for the nonprofit community.
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Susan and
Bill Philliber, Ph.Ds., Co-Principals of Philliber Research
Associates, are program evaluators helping non-profits measure
their outcomes of service. They work with many pediatric programs
and with prison programs, and are experts in their field. Susan
and Bill are well known in the New York area through their association
with the Robin Hood Foundation. Mr. Pagnoni and Susan have worked
together in designing daily use forms for capturing intake and
casework data for client-centered housing, day treatment, and
pastoral care services. For more information, please visit www.philliberresearch.com
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Elsa
Ríos, MSW, has over twenty years
of experience providing organizational development consultation
services and training to not-for-profit organizations including:
executive coaching, leadership skills training, board development,
grants writing, program development and policy research, analysis
and writing of policy reports.
Elsa is a Project Consultant for an outcome evaluation
of 16 AIDS organizations funded through the Congressional Black
Caucus.
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David
Schiffer specializes in the design and implementation
of graphically rich Web sites and other on-screen interfaces;
logo design; and high-end print work. He has produced award-winning
designs for scores of clients: corporations, leading law
firms, hi-tech companies and non-profit organizations, as
well as real estate, media, entertainment, fashion and industrial
companies. David has consulted us in designing our own Web
site, as well as in designing Web sites for seven Harm Reduction
clients. For more information, please visit www.dlsdesign.com
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Alissa
Schwartz, MSW, brings training, facilitation and
research skills to a wide range of projects including conflict
resolution seminars and systems analysis. Alissa is a skilled
listener and writer. She is also affiliated with NYU’s Wagner
School of Public Service and her most recent publication
exposed and discussed problems in New York City’s shelter
system for homeless adults.
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Maria
Semple, principal of The Prospect Finder, provides extensive
research on individuals, foundations, and corporations who are
considered major donor prospects. In addition, she provides training
services to help nonprofits new to the field of prospect research.
Maria is a member of the Association of Professional Researchers
for Advancement and a founding member of the Nonprofit Consultants
Collaborative in New Jersey.
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Sr.
Ellie Shea, Director of Spiritual Formation, leads
on-going group processes for organizations interested in
enhancing their ability to learn. The learning organization
process, as developed by MIT management expert Peter Senge,
has influenced her work. Since 1993, Mr. Pagnoni and Sr.
Ellie have been working together co-facilitating groups,
mostly with faith-based congregations.
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Dwight
Tintle, President of Dat-A-Gap, provides data processing,
mail preparation, and cause marketing services to nonprofit organizations,
businesses, and churches in New York, New Jersey, and beyond.
Dat-A-Gap specializes in maintaining mailing lists, tracking gifts
and donations, creating custom reports, and managing automated
mailings, small and large. Dwight has worked with LAPA since 1998.
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Affiliates
American Management
Association
Association of
Fundraising Professionals
Bailey
House’s Technical Assistance Clearinghouse
Governance
Matters
Hispanic
Federation
Manhattan
Chamber of Commerce
National Minority
AIDS Council
New
York AIDS Coalition Collaboration Project
New York
State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau
New
York State Department of Health, Office of Minority Health
Small Business Administration
United Way
of New York
Westchester
Association of Development Officers
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