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Our Team

Schultz & Williams complements an organization’s existing staff with creative planning and counsel and, when appropriate, fully executes strategies and recommendations on our client’s behalf.

The strength of our planning and consulting services is based largely upon the extensive hands-on skills that the consultants, associates and staff of S&W have gained by managing, operating, and supporting major nonprofit organizations. Each professional member of the S&W team has been associated with a nonprofit organization and combines solid management experience with a keen sensitivity to the unique nonprofit environment.

L. Scott Schultz, President - While building a successful career in development, marketing and government service, Scott Schultz envisioned a non-traditional consulting firm to help nonprofit organizations meet their distinctive challenges. In 1987, Scott founded his company on the philosophy that development, marketing and management must be pursued collectively in order to achieve institutional goals. Today, Schultz & Williams has turned this philosophy into a successful business model that provides strategic and innovative solutions to hundreds of nonprofit organizations across the nation. (more)

M. Jane Williams, Principal - Jane Williams has extensive experience in the design and implementation of all types of development programs, including capital campaign planning and implementation. Her areas of special focus include strategies for attracting significant gifts from individuals; board and staff training for fundraising; assessment of development programs; and interim development management. She also provides critical services to clients in defining the most effective structure for an organization’s development operations and for engaging key leadership – staff and volunteers – in the fundraising process. Jane has worked with a broad variety of health care, educational, cultural and social service organizations. (more)

Matt Brown, Senior Associate - Matthew Brown joined Schultz & Williams in 2008 after 20 years of experience in communications, fundraising and strategic planning in both the private and nonprofit sectors. (more)

Dawn Frisby Byers, Consultant - Dawn Frisby Byers is an entertainment marketing executive with extensive experience in brand management, sponsorships, licensing, advertising, and public relations. (more)

Teresa Chien, Senior Consultant - During more than a decade of nonprofit development experience, Teresa Chien has helped a broad range of organizations, big and small, raise major contributed support and achieve program goals. As a development generalist, her experience encompasses reviving endowment campaigns, obtaining corporate sponsorships, writing grant proposals, cultivating major donors, and formalizing development and strategic plans. (more)

Debora Lee Clower, Senior Associate - Debora Lee Clower brings to Schultz & Williams more than two decades of development and marketing experience in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, both as an employee and as a highly engaged volunteer. Her skills in Board development, her collaborative style and her success as a peer-to-peer fundraiser have helped build numerous sustainable fundraising programs. (more)

Lisa Dunlop, Senior Associate -Lisa Dunlop has broad, practical development experience across the health care, higher education and youth development sectors. With a strong base in integrated annual giving programs – personal solicitation, telephone, hard and soft mail, and special events – Lisa’s scope of work over more than 25 years also encompasses planned giving, communications, database management and board development. (more)

Michelle Eisenberg, Consultant - Michelle Eisenberg devotes her wide-ranging skills and background in fundraising, program development and strategic planning to Schultz & Williams clients. Her professional interests include helping organizations cultivate a culture of philanthropy, define the case for support, address nonprofit governance concerns and elevate nascent development programs. (More)

Dell Fascione, Vice President of Marketing and Communications - Dell Fascione brings 27 years of nonprofit marketing and membership experience to Schultz & Williams through her hands-on management and senior level positions held at some of Philadelphia’s top cultural destinations. Her experience ranges from copywriting and production management of marketing materials to planning, coordinating and executing comprehensive marketing and membership sales & operations strategies. (more)

Carol Forte, Senior Consultant - Carol Forte brings to Schultz & Williams over 20 years of development experience at institutions engaged in higher education, healthcare and the arts. Her areas of expertise include major gifts and grants, planned giving, corporate and foundation support, annual giving and capital campaigns. (more)

Margie Garrett, Senior Associate - Margie Garrett has more than 20 years of development experience working for education, social service and faith-based organizations. Frequently affiliated with smaller nonprofits, she has built a career as a strong development/public relations generalist with particular knowledge, experience and skills in communications and management. (More)

John Pallies, Senior Consultant - John Pallies has more than 15 years’ experience as a senior executive with nonprofit organizations engaged in community development, organizational capacity-building, education and medical research. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for defining strategic opportunities and managing the steps needed to make the most of them. (more)

Amanda Quinn, Consultant - Amanda Quinn uses her wide-ranging skills and background in major gift and annual fund fundraising, program development and strategic planning to assist Schultz & Williams clients. She is especially interested in techniques for cultivating an organization’s culture of philanthropy; board development; campaign strategy and major gift planning; and volunteer management. (more)

Ann Satterthwaite, Senior Consultant - Ann Satterthwaite has more than 35 years of experience with nonprofit institutions as a consultant, staff administrator and board member. Prior to serving University of the Sciences in Philadelphia as vice president of institutional advancement from 2008-2012, Ann served as founder and president of The Ann Satterthwaite Company, Inc., providing fundraising and marketing consulting services for over 23 nonprofit organizations. (more)

Susan Scauzzo, Consultant - Susan Scauzzo, formerly Susan Brown, has nearly twenty years of experience building relationships with high-net-worth individuals through her work with internationally recognized cultural and health care institutions. She brings to clients expertise in campaign execution, major gift fundraising, cultivation strategy development, and volunteer and staff management. (mroe)

Karen Spiro, Senior Associate - Karen Spiro’s broad experience in special events, corporate sponsorship, individual giving and marketing has benefited a wide range of nonprofit organizations. She brings to Schultz & Williams her contacts and connections as a long-time participant in Philadelphia’s arts and culture scene. (more)

Christina Spoegler, Senior Associate - With 20 years of development experience, Christina has expertise in raising institutional funds for capital needs, education, scientific research and environmental conservation. She has worked with zoos and aquariums, conservation organizations, museums, and institutions of higher education and the arts. Christina specializes in all types of corporate and foundation fundraising and program management, including grant writing and grants program management, development communications, corporate fundraising and development events. (more)

Cathy Card Sterling, Vice President - Cathy Sterling has spent 30 years in development and management of arts, education, social service and environmental organizations. She brings to Schultz & Williams a strong and extensive range of skills that includes strategic planning, institutional advancement, managing during transition and results-oriented communication. Her areas of focus include capital campaign planning and implementation, major gifts fundraising, communications, board-building and strategic planning. (more)

Jean Tickell, Senior Consultant - Jean Tickell brings to Schultz & Williams a broad range of expertise in major gifts, annual giving, marketing and donor relations. She is well versed in stewardship, media relations and membership programs. (more)

Shirley Trauger, Vice President - When she joined Schultz & Williams in 1996, Shirley Trauger brought 19 years of successful development and management experience to the firm. Her prior work with cultural and educational institutions includes heading the fundraising programs at: the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Center, International House of Philadelphia and Moore College of Art (Philadelphia). She was also the Executive Director of Cheltenham Center for the Arts (Cheltenham, PA). (more)

Kathleen M. Watson, Senior Consultant - Kathleen Watson has significant experience in leading institutional advancement programs, built over a 25-year career in higher education, health care and arts and culture. She brings to clients hands-on experience in capital campaign planning and execution, major gift fundraising, prospect identification and cultivation, board and staff development and program design. She joined Schultz & Williams in 2005. (more)

Monica Winter, Senior Consultant - Monica Polowy Winter has over 35 years of experience in leadership roles in nonprofit administration, program development and fundraising in the arts, health care and basic sciences in academic and community-based settings. She has specialized expertise in foundation, corporate and major gifts fundraising for biomedical research and health care organizations, including hospitals and hospital systems. (more)

Kay Yoon, Senior Associate - Kay Yoon brings her fundraising, marketing and writing background to Schultz & Williams, where she serves clients with corporate and foundation fundraising support. (more)