Community of Practice

Practice areas:  Evaluation/outcome measurement; Executive coaching; General management; Leadership development; Organizational design and structure; Programmatic design, management, development; Strategic planning; Volunteer Recruitment and Management.

Experience: Aging, seniors, retirement issues; Arts, culture, humanities; Children and youth services; Education, academia, research, science, technology; Food, hunger; Government, politics; Health – mental/crisis intervention; Health – FQHCs; Health – general; Housing and homelessness; Human services or multi-service; Religious or spiritual

Certifications: NeighborWorks Community Leadership and Economic Development Certificate; Leadership Greater Bellevue/Redmond program; Strategic planning - TEI Institute; Fellow, National United Way Program on Nonprofit Leadership

Babette Baker has over 30 years of experience supporting nonprofits, businesses, and municipalities in program design/development, process facilitation, grants administration, fiscal management, marketing, and program assessment/evaluation, as a consultant and nonprofit professional. Her background includes developing viable economic and community development projects. She has served as a Peer Reviewer for federal, state, and local government (New York, Oklahoma, and New Jersey) and several foundations in areas including education, community engagement, health care, youth programming, homeless programming, AIDS/HIV, public art, economic development, and housing. She also spent five years at Edison Schools, one of the largest charter school management companies in the country, serving in several management positions including Director of Community Engagement and Director of Operational Support. She has managed multiple profit/loss units, engaged ethnically and linguistically diverse communities around educational issues, and provided operational support for over 25 charter schools around the country.

Babette holds a BA in English with a minor in African/American Studies from Colgate University, and has completed coursework in the Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation Program at Syracuse University.

Practice areas: Executive Coaching, Customized Training, Executive Transition, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Executive Coaching; Executive Transition and Succession Planning; General Management; Human Resource Management; Leadership Development; Programmatic Design, Management, Development; Strategic Planning

Experience: Health - general; HIV/AIDS; Human services or multi-service; Immigrant/refugee support; Philanthropy/grant making; Professional association or network; Women

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Practice Areas: Evaluation/Outcome Measurement; Executive Transition and Succession Planning; General Management; Human Resources Management; Mergers and Sustained Collaborations; Organizational Design and Structure; Strategic Planning.

Practice areas: Board governance; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Executive coaching; Executive transition and succession planning; General management; Human resource management; Leadership development; Organizational design and structure; Strategic planning; Volunteer recruitment and management.

Experience: Children and youth services; Disaster preparation and assistance; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; HIV/AIDS; Philanthropy/grant making; Voluntarism, community services; Leadership Development; DEIB; Board Governance; Facilitation

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Practice areas: Evaluation/Outcome Measurement,  Organizational Design and Structure, Programmatic Design, Management, & Development, and  Strategic Planning

Experience: Advocacy, civil rights, social justice; Aging, seniors, retirement issues; Arts, culture, humanities; Children and youth services; Disabilities; Disaster preparation and assistance; Employment, vocational, job training; Environment; Family/domestic violence; Food, hunger; Health - mental/crisis intervention; Health - general; Housing and homelessness; Human services or multi-service; Immigrant/refugee support; Legal, law assistance; LGBTQIA+; Philanthropy/grant making; Professional association or network; Recreation, sports, leisure; Religious or spiritual; Substance abuse, recovery, addiction; Voluntarism, community services; Women; Trainings; Logic models; Theory of change; Surveys

Publications: Finally - Outcome Measurement Strategies Anyone Can Understand

Laurel Molloy began teaching public workshops at the Support Center | Partnership in Philanthropy back in 2001. Since then, she has expanded her involvement to include a wide variety of customized on-site trainings and ongoing consulting engagements. Over the years, Molloy’s work with Support Center has involved both nonprofits and foundations.

Molloy is Founder and CEO of Innovations Quantified (IQ), a consulting firm that has been helping organizations increase their impact since 1999. Through program planning, implementation, and outcome measurement services, IQ has served an international client list that includes the Actors Fund of America, Atlanta Women's Foundation, Boys & Girls Clubs, FDNY Counseling Unit, and the International Labor Organization.

Practice areas: Board Governance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Executive Coaching, Executive Transition and Succession Planning, General Management, Leadership Development, Organizational Design and Structure, Programmatic Design, Strategic Planning, Vision/Values, Adaptive Planning, Team Development

Experience: Arts, culture, humanities; Diversity, equity, and inclusion; Women

Liz Dreyer focuses on discovering and implementing the conditions for new visions to blossom. Throughout her career—from independent stage management of new work, to founding and leading a successful for-profit/nonprofit experimental theater, to her current work in process facilitation, adaptive planning, leadership coaching, and program design, delivery, and management—she has created spaces for clients, artists, staff, board members, and community participants to think, develop, and evolve. Her work helps individuals, organizations, and communities learn how to live in the discomfort and ambiguity that emerges from tackling their most deep-set challenges.

Her approach is collaborative, working to envision, develop, and manage programs, policies, and procedures. From recruiting, onboarding, and supporting professional development to facilitating cross-team and cross-departmental learning, she brings experience in team development, optimizing interpersonal dynamics, questioning ingrained assumptions, designing and assessing prototyping efforts. She supports organizations in generating, testing, and implementing new strategies while building buy-in for evolving approaches.

Liz brings significant experience in planning and logistics, alongside a track record of working with diverse organizations and communities. She integrates equitable practices into organizational structures and processes, supporting efforts related to recruitment and retention, staff development, program design, and board engagement. She maintains an independent consulting practice and partners with organizations to design and implement initiatives that support growth and transformation, moving beyond initial ideas and “business as usual” toward “next practices.”

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Practice Areas: Executive Coaching; Executive Transition and Succession Planning; Leadership Development; Organizational Design and Structure; Programmatic Design, Management, Development; Volunteer Recruitment and Management; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Organizational Development; Presentation and Public Speaking Skills; Remote Team Management; Staff Development; Staff Safety; Wellness, Stress Release, Self-Care

Experience: Disability Inclusion; Youth Development; Advocacy, civil rights, social justice; Children and youth services; Disabilities; Education, academia, research, science, technology; LGBTQIA+; Voluntarism, community services

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Practice areas: Strategic planning, executive coaching, mergers and sustained collaborations, program design and implementation, and organizational management.

Experience: Advocacy, civil rights, social justice; Arts, culture, humanities; Education, academia, research, science, technology; Employment, vocational, job training; Environment; Government, politics; Health - general; Human services or multi-service; Professional association or network; Voluntarism, community services

Workshops:  Supervisory Essentials; Coaching Nonprofit and Leaders; Remote Team Management, Strategic Planning.

Other professional experience: Board service: Current: New York Civil Liberties Union.

Past: Berkshire Kripalu Community; Denver Partners, Colorado Women’s Employment and Education.

Certifications: Certified Women Business Enterprise in NYC, Arts Administration, New York University; Leadership Coaching, New York University; ACC Certified Coach with International Coaching Federation (ICF); International Coach Academy; and Positive IntelligenceTM.

In her work as a nonprofit consultant, Yates is known for engaging, facilitated sessions that allow teams to collaborate effectively using tools and techniques from her experience both in the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. Prior to starting her consulting business in 2014, Robin spent 26 years at IBM, where she executed acquisitions and divestitures, negotiated outsourcing agreements, managed diverse teams, helped launch new businesses, and managed the ThinkPad brand across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

A certified Women Business Enterprise with the city of New York, Yates now focuses solely on nonprofits and government agencies working to improve healthcare, social justice, education, and the environment. Yates received her BS from Vanderbilt University and an Executive MBA from the University of Colorado.

Practice areas: Board Governance, Executive Coaching, General Management, Leadership Development, Marketing, Public Relations, Collateral Design, Organizational Design and Structure, Programmatic Design, Management, Development, Strategic Planning, Government Grants, Survey Design & Analysis, Needs Assessments

Experience: Advocacy, civil rights, social justice; Arts, culture, humanities; Education, academia, research, science, technology; Government, politics; Voluntarism, community services; Economic development, place making & place management, urban planning, community development.

Roxanne Earley is an award-winning leader in place-based economic development with expertise in strategic planning, participatory design, and municipal partnerships. She specializes in innovative, community-centered solutions that drive equitable growth, strengthen local economies, and empower stakeholders to shape their urban environments. Roxanne is
passionate about building inclusive, resilient and vibrant communities. Roxanne’s specialty lies in board governance, executive coaching, leadership development, marketing, public relations, organizational design and strategic planning.

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Certifications: Certified Leader in Place Management

Practice areas: Board development, fundraising/development, event planning

Geier graduated from Fordham University in 1981 and founded Cause Effective, a nonprofit, until 1995, offering consultation and training to 2,000+ nonprofits, publishing three books, and organizing 500+ special events. In 1995, he launched CineMuse, distributing video content to museums. In 2004, he established the LOVE, HALLIE Foundation, promoting youth philanthropy, impacting over 60 million people globally through collaborations with Oprah Winfrey and the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Support Center experience: Anchor facilitator: Board Build (NYC Department of Small Business Services).

Consulting: Badass Animal Rescue, Big Apple Performing Arts, Center for the Integration and Advancement of New Americans, Chess in the Schools, Elmcor Adult & Youth Services,  Harvest Home Farmers Market, HUDSY, Independent Support Services, Isabel O’Neil Studio, National Queer Asian and Pacific Islanders (NQAPIA), NJ Council on Developmental Disabilities, Seafood Harvesters of America, Refugee Assistance Partners, Sunnyside Shines BID, Turning Point for Women and Families, Woodhaven BID

Other professional experience: President, Love Hallie Foundation; Interim Executive Director, Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO); Founder: Cause Effective (1981); Founder: CineMuse;

Practice areas: Financial Management and Planning, General Management, Mergers and Sustained Collaborations, Organizational Design and Structure, and  Strategic Planning

Experience: Advocacy, civil rights, social justice; Aging, seniors, retirement issues; Arts, culture, humanities; Environment; Government, politics; Immigrant/refugee support; Professional association or network; Reproductive rights; Nonprofit financial management; Nonprofit accounting systems; Investment policies; Budgeting; Scenario planning

Certifications: CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®

Languages: Spanish (Fluent)

Tonia has been affiliated with Support Center for over 20 years as a consultant, interim financial officer, and workshop facilitator. She has over 30 years of international and domestic experience in the areas of financial analysis and management, strategic and business planning, treasury management and outsourced CFO. She has served as CFO for almost two dozen nonprofit organizations throughout the NY metro area and has worked with domestic and international nonprofits to create and implement strong internal controls, install nonprofit fund accounting systems, create financial reporting systems, and develop investment policy statements. She leads workshops on financial issues including budgeting, financial statements, audit preparation and investment policy statements. She has been an adjunct professor at Adelphi University, Columbia University, and New School for Social Research. She holds an MBA from Columbia University Business School, an MS in Urban Planning from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Historic Preservation and a BA from Macalester College. Tonia Papke is also a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, providing expertise in investment management and retirement plans to nonprofit organizations and individuals.

Practice areas: Board Governance; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Executive Coaching; Executive Transition and Succession Planning; Leadership Development; Mergers; Acquisitions; Strategic Partnerships; Organizational Design and Structure; Strategic Planning; Team coaching; Change management; Organizational effectiveness assessment; Virtual Team Leadership; Gender and leadership

Experience: Advocacy, civil rights, social justice; Arts, culture, humanities; Children and youth services; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Education, academia, research; science, technology; Environment; Government, politics; Professional association or network; Religious or spiritual; Women (more…)