About

The ANNswer is the culmination of 20 years of development, communications and management experience for non-profit organizations with varied missions and programs. It puts my skills to work helping non-profits meet their financial and communications goals so their programs can thrive and grow.

Our current clients are doing great work in health, medicine, youth development, education and the arts.

Recent Highlights

• $10 million grant from New York State for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) to expand its use of technology and electronic medical records to support patient centered medical homes for behavioral health patients.
• Writer and co-producer of Believing, a four-part multi-media series on HHC’s accomplishments in patient safety.
• Secured funding from foundations and the Los Angeles Unified School District for America SCORES LA, a youth development program that helps inner city elementary school students improve academic performance and physical fitness.
• $200,000 for expansion of pilot palliative care outpatient clinic at Bellevue Hospital Center.

Experience

Before a 10-year stint as director of development and communications for the Public Health Research Institute (PHRI) a medical research organization, I worked in higher education fundraising as a regional campaign director for the University of Pennsylvania’s Campaign for Penn, the first successful $1 billion capital campaign in higher education.  I also spent five years as vice president of development and communications at Bideawee, one of the oldest animal welfare organizations in the country. From May 2004 through March 2005, I served as acting CEO.

I use this broad-based experience to help clients develop specific plans and programs that effectively reach their audience(s). In some cases that means high-level strategy, planning, training and the development of new programs and materials. In others it means jumping right in and assisting with implementation:  writing and editing grants, speeches, web content, press materials, brochures or direct mail letters.

My writing and editing skills have been honed through projects that focus on education—preparing E-commerce cases for a college textbook, writing study guides for students taking AP exams and preparing for the SATs and writing chapters for a review book for nurses studying for their licensing exam. With the scientific director of the medical research institute, I co-authored “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Dangerous Diseases and Epidemics.”