Linda Summlin Aitch has over 25 years of nonprofit experience, and currently serves as the Program Manager of the Nonprofit Services Center (NSC). Clients have included the Sunflower Foundation, Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Prior to joining NSC, Linda served as Director of Community Investment of the Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation. She began her career in the charitable giving sector with the United Way of Greater St. Louis.
Colleen Himmelberg brings more than 20 years of professional experience in the nonprofit sectors of higher education and health care. She has devoted time as a volunteer leader serving on community boards including the Washington Area Chamber of Commerce, Rotary and religious institutions. She also brings volunteer knowledge from organizations such as United Way, Habitat for Humanity, Humane Society and a variety of other nonprofit organizations.
Renee Johnson is a non-profit generalist with particular expertise and professional experience in volunteer and arts management, grants management and training. She consults with non-profit organizations on a myriad of issues and teaches a course on basic volunteer management in the Nonprofit Management Program at Washington University.
Reneé served as the Executive Director of the Edwardsville Arts Center, helping the organization establish it’s first facility. She previously co-managed the Minority Arts Program (MAP) of the Missouri Arts Council. Prior to her work with MAC/MAP, Reneé redeveloped and managed the volunteer and intern programs of the Missouri Historical Society. She also served as the Director of External Communications for the Greater Minneapolis (MN) Girl Scout Council.
Mary Ann Moore is an organization development consultant and founder of Moore Consulting Group, with over 20 years experience in facilitating organizational change. Her areas of expertise include leadership development, executive coaching, and building teams to achieve superior performance. Moore Consulting Group has been pleased to work with clients such as: Anheuser-Busch Companies, The Boeing Company, ExxonMobil Corporation, Brown Shoe Company, Mercy Health System, Commerce Bank and many others.
Before forming Moore Consulting Group, Mary Ann served as an organization development consultant and executive coach in three Fortune 100 companies. She has conducted executive leadership development programs incorporating indoor and outdoor experiential learning in both union and non-union operations. Mary Ann managed the design and implementation of the leadership development process for a plant start-up, and developed leadership competency models and related training programs.
Allison Collinger, founder of AHC Consulting, LLC provides strategic communications, planning, training and facilitation services to a variety of clients. An adjunct professor at St. Louis Community College, Collinger was named to the Top 50 Marketing Professors on Twitter in 2010. In addition, she contributes to her expertise to The Real Athlete Blog and 501Connect as a regular blogger.
Current and former clients include: Circus Harmony, Coro Leadership Center, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, GO! St. Louis, Major League Baseball, Missouri Foundation for Health, St. Luke’s Hospital, the St. Louis Rams and Rams Foundation and numerous others.
Prior to the formation of AHC Consulting, Allison served as the director of corporate communications and community outreach for the St. Louis Rams – overseeing the Rams community outreach team, the Rams Foundation and the team’s off the field public relations initiatives.
For eight years she was an award winning public relations professional at Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., playing a role in the approval and opening of the Edward Jones Dome, the Kiel Center and the MetroLink light rail system.
Gwenne Hayes-Stewart has 20 years of executive experience in non-profit management, revenue generation, fiscal management, leadership of professional staff, strategic planning tied to fund development and creation of collaborative partnerships with like minded organizations in Iowa and St. Louis.
During her 15 year tenure as Executive Director of Gateway Greening, the St. Louis based organization grew from a small grass roots organization to one overseeing more than 220 community and youth gardening programs on vacant lots, church and schoolyards, homeless shelters, correctional facilities and public parks. She started the Great Perennial Divide and created the collaboration of City Seeds Urban Farm.
She now owns For Granted Services, a consulting service for area nonprofits.
Amy Cole Buehler has extensive training in grantsmanship for public and private sectors, strategic planning, development audits and planning, board development, event planning, planned giving and special project management including capital, annual and major giving campaigns. Over the past 20 years, Amy has helped raise millions of dollars for many St. Louis area organizations on both professional and volunteer levels. She has served as the Executive Director for both the Animal Protective Association of Missouri and Therapeutic Horsemanship. In 2008 Buehler founded Development on Demand! a consulting firm dedicated to working alongside non-profit organizations in the St. Louis Metropolitan area to further their strategic goals through planning, training, board development, fundraising and coaching.
Amy spends time as an instructor and moderator for many courses in nonprofit management, development practices and planning for various organizations throughout the St. Louis Metropolitan area. In 2008, she joined the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis as an instructor in the Nonprofit Management Master’s Program where she designs curriculum and teaches.
In 2011 Amy joined the Nonprofit Services Center (NSC) as the Project Director, Consultant Services providing leadership and management for the many consulting relationships facilitated through NSC.
