about us

We are Judy and Annette. We have over 30 combined years of nonprofit experience as staff, managers, directors, volunteers, board members and consultants. We've managed budgets from $50,000 to over $3 M. We've worked with folks from the girls served in our programs to presidents of universities to politicians. We know how much fun it can be to work in the nonprofit sector and understand how frustrating and tedious it can be also.

We welcome your comments, suggestions and praise. Feel free to let us know if we're missing something. And thank you for visiting!

Our vision: that all nonprofit organizations have equal access to resources which will enable them to perform to their maximum potential.

Our mission: to provide access to information, resources & networking opportunities in a comprehensive venue for those who lead, manage and support nonprofit organizations.

judy bio:

Judy has twenty-one years of experience in the non-profit arena.  She has created and run two non-profit organizations: The Kingsville Action Network in Kingsville, Texas and Life at UCF in Orlando, Florida.  She sat on the board of directors of five non-profits: LIFE at UCF in Orlando, Florida; Coalition for the Homeless, in Orlando, Florida; Holocaust Memorial Research and Education Center in Orlando, Florida; American Heart Association in Kingsville, Texas; and United Way of the Coastal Bend, Corpus Christi, Texas. She also served as the Executive Director of three non-profits – The Kingsville Action Network, The I Have A Dream Foundation-Los Angeles, and the YWCA Pasadena-Foothill Valley-and was President of the United Way, Kingsville, Texas. 

Her work with non-profit organizations included a responsibility for overall operations, fundraising, fiscal management, human resources, outreach, public relations, information systems, program development, strategic planning, growth and visibility. She implemented programs to increase community presence, private giving and mission-oriented programming. She also managed and prepared the organization's budgets and supervised staff.

A UCLA graduate with a Master’s degree from Florida International University, Judy’s past lives include coaching championship high school debate students, teaching at the high school and community college levels and taking on the challenges and responsibilities as the wife of a university president at two different universities. 

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annette bio:

Annette has eleven years of experience in the nonprofit arena. She has worked with dozens of non-profit organizations in the capacity of accounting and financial management, including Controller for the YWCA Boston and as CFO for MassEquality. Currently she works with organizations as a consultant on the senior management level acting as Finance Director/CFO. She served on the Brookline Commission for Women as Vice-Chair in Brookline, MA.

Her work with non-profit organizations includes a responsibility for overall operations, fiscal management, human resources, information systems and strategic planning. She works with non-profits to help guide long-range financial strategic thinking and planning, oversee financial reporting, internal controls, compliance and annual audits.

Annette earned a BS in Physiology from Cal State Long Beach and obtained her MBA from Boston’s public business school, UMass Boston. where she is also a part-time lecturer in the Department of Accounting & Finance.

Annette’s passion is to instill a high level of fiduciary management and responsibility into small non-profit organizations while maintaining a high degree of fun! Annette’s other interests include making incremental changes to fight climate change, reading, running and backpacking.

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