LiRon Anderson-Bell

LiRon Anderson-Bell is a strategic communication and digital media veteran with 20+ years’ experience across entertainment, consumer products and the pharmaceutical industry. Her specialties are public relations, crisis communication, and digital and social media marketing.  She is an assistant professor of instruction at Temple University.

LiRon’s professional background includes roles at MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comcast Cable, Okayplayer.com, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CDNOW.com, The ROZ Group, WURD Radio, Time Warner Cable, The Terrie Williams Agency, and Manning, Selvage & Lee.

She earned her MBA at the Fordham Gabelli School of Read more

Lori Moffa

Lori Moffa is The Nonprofit Center’s director of consulting.  Her appreciation and understanding of the role of the consultant stems from her own extensive experience as a consultant to a variety of nonprofits and as a professional whose role has been to work with groups of consultants. For over 20 years Lori has worked in the nonprofit sector in a variety of roles.  At United Way of King County, Seattle, she recruited and managed a corps of consultants, including some volunteer, to provide technical assistance Read more

Lynne A. Texter, Ph.D.

Lynne A. Texter, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at La Salle University and a long-time consultant with La Salle’s influential Nonprofit Center. An award-winning educator with over 30 years of teaching experience in the U.S., Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Greece, Lynne consults with a variety of organizations and specializes in a range of areas, including presentation skills, workplace communication, and persuasion, power, and influence. In addition to other administrative roles, Lynne has served as interim Provost & Vice President Read more

Meghan Pierce, Ph.D.

Meghan Pierce, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Marketing at La Salle University.  While pursuing her Ph.D., Meghan consulted in the nonprofit sector, with a focus on participatory action research, behavior change strategies, and measuring impact. She received her B.S. in marketing, B.A. in foreign languages and literatures, M.S. in marketing research, and Ph.D. in marketing from Virginia Tech.  She also spent several years spent working with the Health Communication Lab and Center for Organizational Research at the University of Lugano, Switzerland.

Meredith Sossman

Meredith Sossman, CFRE, JD is an accomplished development professional and attorney, who has helped non-profits achieve better results through insight and experience in all aspects of giving and non-profit management.  In her ten years with the West Chester University Foundation, she served as a campaign director, associate executive director, in-house counsel and chief development officer.  She successfully led the foundation’s $50 million capital campaign.  Meredith is a principal at MM&C Consulting and works with plannedgiving.com to help non-profits exceed their goals by providing experience, insight and Read more

Michael Matthews

Michael Matthews is the founder and principal member of Panache 5 consulting, specializing in development, training, and project management for nonprofits and public health initiatives actively engaging youth, families and community residents and start-up businesses. He previously was associate director of the Neighborhood League Institute in Cleveland, which develops grassroots resident leadership that strengthens communities by improving the quality of life for urban underserved residents.  He was also director of MyCom, a youth development network that brings together over 750 partners in 17 neighborhoods in Read more

Michael Schweisheimer

Michael Schweisheimer, founder and executive producer of PWPvideo, is an award-winning filmmaker with experience behind the camera since 1991.  He has been involved in the creation of hundreds of films and videos, ranging from corporate training and promotional projects, to television commercials and feature films.  Michael founded Primitive World Productions in 2000 with an emphasis on nonprofit organizations, helping them to convey their missions to the public through video communication.  He enjoys consulting, speaking and teaching about the intersection between nonprofits, education and green organizations Read more

Michael Smith, Ph.D.

Michael Smith, Ph.D. is chair of the Department of Communication at La Salle University, where he is also an associate professor.  He was formerly director of the graduate program in Professional and Business Communication.  He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in public relations, organizational communications and conflict.  He has worked with a variety of nonprofits, including the American Heart Association, Cultural Center for Art and Historical Artifacts, the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger, and the World Meeting of Families, and has presented crisis communication training Read more

Neil Batiancila

Neil Batiancila currently serves as Philadelphia Zoo’s Chief Development Officer – the first in the history of America’s First Zoo. In this role, Neil oversees all charitable activity, including annual and campaign fundraising operations. Prior to joining the zoo, he served as executive director, campaign operations at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation where he led efforts for a multi-year, multi-faceted $1 billion comprehensive campaign, the most ambitious in its history.  He previously served as the foundation’s director of corporate & foundation relations where he managed Read more

Tina Barber

Tina M. Barber, MPA, has a varied and robust fundraising background that includes leadership positions at some of the Delaware Valley’s most well-known nonprofit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, The United Way, Philabundance, and the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation. She is currently Sr. Director of Development at SAGE USA. As a highly skilled individual giving strategist, Tina has been a key part of multi-million dollar capital campaign projects as well as boutique fundraising initiatives. Her training experience includes development and communications planning, board Read more