Our team of Consultants includes:

Michael Gilbert | Christine Dragonwyck
Michael Soper | Put Barber

Michael Gilbert is an internationally known consultant to foundations and nonprofits, an innovator in the field of nonprofit communication, an influential author, and a social entrepreneur.

He is author or editor of numerous publications, including: Communication Centered Technology Planning, The Guide to Nonprofit Email, Twenty-First Century Fundraising, and The Campaign Cookbook. He is the Publisher and Editor of Nonprofit Online News, a premier newsletter of the field, in continuous publication since 1997. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Information Technology and Social Change, and of the Journal of Networks and Civil Society. Recent articles include: The Opportunities and Dilemmas of Nonprofit Technology Assistance Organizations (in the Nonprofit Quarterly) and Turning to Each Other in Hard Times: Four Steps for Saving Money and Building Social Capital (in Nonprofit Online News). He is often credited with helping ignite a revolution in nonprofit communication with his Email Manifesto and he is well known for his provocative and incise commentary.

Mr. Gilbert is equally well known for his challenging and inspiring speeches. He delivered the Keynote Address at the very first Silicon Valley Conference on Nonprofits and Technology. He has been a popular speaker with many organizations including the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Planned Parenthood, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Nonprofit Technology Network, the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, the Kellogg Action Lab, and many others. Feel free to browse through a partial list of his Past Speaking Engagements.

Mr. Gilbert was the Founding President of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, which has grown into a the premier professional association for the field of nonprofit technology. He was the CEO of Social Ecology, a bleeding edge nonprofit software company, whose innovations are still being replicated throughout the sector.

Mr. Gilbert has directed several groundbreaking research projects; including the Nonprofit SiteAnalyzer Reports, the First Nonprofit Email Survey, and the Nonprofit Email Study, as well as numerous private studies. His most recent research report was Doing Well by Doing Good: A Report on Work Satisfaction in Civil Society. He is currently completing a large scale study on the topic of online cultivation practices.

Mr. Gilbert has served as Executive Director or Chief Executive of six organizations, as a board member or officer of more than thirty, and as a communication and management consultant to over 1000 organizations in more than 20 countries over the last 23 years. He was born in Sweden, lives and works in Seattle, and counts Berlin as his home away from home. In his spare time, he's a tango dancer.

Christine Dragonwyck was the research coordinator for the Nonprofit Email Study, the most ambitious research of its kind. She reviewed nearly 200 applicants for participation and then managed 22 partners for a period of six months to investigate 23 questions. Prior to that research, Ms. Dragonwyck has been responsible for client project management and client relations with major foundations and nonprofits, has designed and implemented communication and management workflow and processes, and had lead responsibility for numerous publishing projects.

Michael Soper, President & CEO, TeamSoper.Com and the Development & Marketing Management Corporation. Formerly, he was Sr. VP, Development at PBS and WETA. Soper consults with nonprofit's leadership, management, marketing, and fundraising professionals. His virtual consulting teams bring together nationally recognized experts to provide total marketing solutions, strategy / campaign development, relationship building email, direct mail copywriting, list segmentation, design, and production.

Soper has thirty years of nonprofit leadership and fundraising experience. His client list includes the NAACP / Baltimore; WQED / Pittsburgh; World Wildlife Fund - International (WWF); Gland, Switzerland, Society of Women Engineers / Chicago; The Children's Inn at NIH (National Institute of Health), Bethesda; WNPT / Nashville; KWBU / Waco, CPB, PBS, and; the ALS Foundation / Los Angeles.

While at PBS, Soper managed all fundraising support services supplied to PBS member stations nationwide, including the development of the "TV Worth Watching ... TV Worth Paying For" and "Funded by the Annual Financial Support of Viewers Like You" themes / campaigns. More recently, Soper conducted three national research studies for PBS stations (Image, Brand Resonance, and Member Attitudes). He is now unveiling "The Soper Manifesto," an entirely new approach to securing lower level support for nonprofit institutions. His occasional "TeamSoper eBulletins" are available at no cost by request.

Soper received his Master's Degree in Journalism with a minor in Advertising from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL in May 1998, where, in 1973, he also earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE).

Putnam Barber is a visionary social entrepreneur, a wise observer of nonprofits, and one of the most respected voices in the world of public benefit organizations.

His is a senior consultant to Executive Alliance, an association of nonprofit executive directors and supporters of the field. He is also the Chief Editor of the Nonprofit FAQ, which has been a widely cited encyclopedia of nonprofit knowledge since its inception in 1994. He is on the Editorial Board of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. He is a Visiting Professor in Seattle University's Not for Profit Leadership program. In 1990, he was the founding Executive Director of The Evergreen State Society, a nonprofit association of Washington State.

He was a columnist for the Chronicle of Philanthropy and is the author of numerous influential articles on the sector. He was a Senior Advisor to Social Ecology, a past Director of the Washington State Office of Voluntary Action, and a past Executive Director of Cityclub.