The Consultants
is the principal of advent media a Web development firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A graduate of
University of California at San Diego, Doug studied political science and
philosophy but has a background in journalism, serving as editor and chief
of The UCSD Guardian.
After stint as a research assistant at the California Higher Education Policy Center, in December 1995 he founded advent media. His interest in the Internet stems from its ability to empower people and organizations, by providing a low-cost medium for publishing and communications. Although his experience is varied, he prefers working with non-profits, and has developed sites for the Policy Center, The Citizen's Commission on Higher Education and Volunteers of America Bay Area, among others.
is President of ENERGIZE, Inc. and is recognized internationally as a leader in the volunteer field. She continually assists a wide variety of clients throughout the United States and Canada to create or strengthen their volunteer corps. Since 1992, she has expanded her work to Europe, speaking at four Volonteurope conferences and helping clients throughout the United Kingdom and Sweden.
Susan is the author or co-author of nine books, including The Volunteer Recruitment Book, From the Top Down: The Executive Role in Volunteer Program Success, and By the People: A History of Americans as Volunteers. She writes the national column "On Volunteers" for The NonProfit Times and is on the faculty of the Learning Institute for Nonprofit Organizations (Wisconsin), currently developing distance-learning materials for volunteer management. She is a past editor-in-chief of The Journal of Volunteer Administration and still serves on the Senior Editorial team.
She was the recipient of the Association for Volunteer Administration's 1989 Harriet Naylor Distinguished Member Service Award. Susan is active in a variety of local, state and national associations.