Accordant believes shared purpose and collective action can reshape health care. That’s why advancing health care is our sole focus, our passion and our mission.
Accordant’s singular focus on health care, rather than serving multiple nonprofit sectors, ensures you have access to experts who understand the complexities, pressure points and possibilities inherent in an ever-evolving health care industry. Accordant has had the privilege to serve more than 100 health care organizations representing more than 400 hospitals as well as hospices, CCRCs, CAHs, FQHCs and more.
Accordant’s thought leadership in driving a progressive approach to optimizing health care philanthropy, advancing community health impact programs, fostering values-based organizational cultures and supporting health care governance has been recognized by national industry associations. Accordant leaders serve as faculty and authors for leading industry associations, including American Hospital Association, American College of Healthcare Executives and Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. Our team wrote the leading book on philanthropy for health care executives and the first in-depth guide on philanthropy for health care trustees.
Our progressive work has also been featured in industry publications including Healthcare Executive, Modern Healthcare, H&HN, FierceHealthFinance, BoardRoom Press, Trustee, Chief Executive Officer, Becker’s Hospital Review, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Healthcare Philanthropy Journal, Health Facilities Management and more.
Accordant’s team consists of highly experienced health care professionals—with consultants averaging 25 years of direct, frontline experience in leading nonprofit health care organizations. Most experts hold the Fellow of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (FAHP), Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), Fellow of the Institute of Fundraising (FInstF) or other professional certifications. That means experienced, senior leaders work with you on all phases of an engagement to create a platform for agile innovation and collaboration and to guarantee individual, custom-tailored service from experienced industry leaders.
Accordant would be honored to support your health care organization’s vision of potential. To explore a partnership or to find our more, please contact us today.
Our Team
Learn more about, connect with and schedule meetings with team members through individual bio links.
Betsy Taylor has become one of health care philanthropy’s most provocative thought leaders. She is an award-winning author, speaker and consultant drawing on more than 25 years’ experience in health care philanthropy including 17 years as chief philanthropy officer and foundation president in academic, community and children’s hospitals. Betsy specializes in leadership engagement and philanthropy strategy.
Betsy Chapin Taylor, FAHP
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D., is the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude. He serves as Senior Science Advisor with Accordant Philanthropy® where he provides the latest expertise on the emotional and physical benefits of gratitude, its causes and its potential consequences for human health and well-being. Bob is a long-standing professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis.
Robert A. Emmons, PH.D.
SENIOR SCIENCE ADVISOR
Andrew Watt has been a passionate leader and advocate for the social and philanthropic sectors for more than 25 years. He has significant experience creating successful coalitions in complex and challenging multi-national environments. He brings a robust international background in public policy development, advocacy, nonprofit management and philanthropy. Andrew serves as a creative leader in times of challenging organizational transition in both the US and the UK.
Andrew Watt, FCIOF
SENIOR PRINCIPAL
With an extensive background in marketing, branding and art direction, Mike Beall combines his diverse experience with health care philanthropy for unique and innovative strategies. For over 24 years, Mike has worked with Fortune 100 companies, health care institutions and philanthropic organizations throughout the country. He applies his wide range of expertise to create internal and external communication strategies, and create and implement patient gratitude campaigns.
Michael J. Beall
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Linda Roszak Burton brings 25 years of experience in aligning strategic goals and organizational values through leadership development and employee engagement initiatives. Linda also offers expertise to organizations looking to achieve structural alignment and enhance strategic goal planning. Combined with her research and evidence-based applications of positive psychology, contemporary neuroscience, gratitude and healthy work environments, Linda guides executives and their teams to achieve optimal organizations with progressive leadership.
Linda Roszak Burton, BS, BBC, ACC
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT & CERTIFIED EXECUTIVE COACH
Lori Counts brings more than 30 years’ experience in leadership engagement, fund development, cross-disciplinary collaboration, strategic planning and performance management. She specializes in executive coaching, board of directors’ evaluation and development, as well as executive searches for health care organizations. As an accomplished development executive, her lead-by-example approach in managing philanthropic organizations is backed by expertise in public speaking, strategy development, constituent relationships and leadership advancement.
Lori Counts, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT & CERTIFIED EXECUTIVE COACH
Rooted in more than 20 years of consulting experience focused on campaign assessment, planning and management; development program assessments and planned giving counsel, John Donovan brings considerable depth and perspective to health care organizations. His specialties include guiding organizations through the identification and engagement of their major gift donors and top prospects, coaching development and executive leadership, as well as implementing wave campaign techniques for more impactful engagement.
John F. Donovan, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
James Gold has more than 20 years of nonprofit experience, primarily within the health care and higher education sectors. His experience in major and planned giving includes creation and implementation of campaigns, while fully empathizing with and coaching staff relationship managers according to their varying levels of expertise. Using a donor-centered approach, James enjoys the creation of long-term relationships and the trust-building necessary to match donor interests.
James Gold
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Erin brings 15 years of health care philanthropy experience and specializes in advancing community health through partnership building, grant making and strategic health system philanthropy. She also brings experience in social determinants of health, grateful patient fundraising, development performance management and trends in health strategy.
Erin Lanahan
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Pam Maroulis brings more than 25 years of philanthropy experience, including a wealth of expertise in major gift cultivation, campaign management, grateful patient programs, physician engagement and culture alignment. She excels in helping organizations adapt to and thrive among the constant changes within the health care sector. With a focus on relationship cultivation, Pam enjoys and succeeds in the collaboration and partnership creation among health care organizations.
Pamela R. Maroulis, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Javin Peterson is a retired Air Force officer with over 20 years of operational, problem solving and collaborative team building experience. Javin’s strengths and passions are in creating long-term community-focused relationships that make community health engagement a neighborhood-to-neighborhood, block-to-block endeavor.
Javin Peterson
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Through 30 years in health care including 20 years advancing health philanthropy, Cindy Reynolds has gained extensive experience in health care executive leadership, physician relations and financial operations. Leading with innovative strategies, she has guided health systems and academic medical centers to successful mission fulfillment while demonstrating the high return on investment of philanthropy.
Cindy Reynolds, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Michelle Rovang has more than 25 years of experience in fund development, communications and strategic planning within health care and educational organizations. Michelle serves as a leading expert in the areas of culture alignment, leadership development and community engagement.
Michelle Rovang
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Throughout her more than 20-year philanthropy career, Heather Starankovic has advanced the missions of large academic health systems, regional health systems, and community hospitals through her empowered coaching style leadership, strategic execution and a focus on relationship-based giving. She specializes in strategic planning, comprehensive campaign planning and execution, as well as major and transformational gift services and strategies.
Heather Wiley Starankovic, CAP, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Erin Stitzel is a health care philanthropy leader specializing in creating and implementing grateful patient strategies. With a focus on fostering clinician engagement, Erin creates partnerships to collaborate physicians, nurses and other frontline caregivers in philanthropic initiatives. She is passionate about building mutually-beneficial and meaningful connections with grateful patients to drive major gifts and has implemented successful patient engagement programs over multi-hospital systems.
Erin Stitzel, FAHP, CFRE
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Brent Taylor leads business operations for Accordant Philanthropy®. While his focus today is on business management, Brent brings the well-rounded perspective of development executive who has not only led impressive fund development campaigns but also has experience as a financial consultant and accredited asset management specialist. This dual understanding that comes from advising clients on asset growth and protection, as well as engaging donors around the philanthropic investment of funds, has made him an insightful and intuitive development leader.
Brent A. Taylor
MANAGING PRINCIPAL
With more than 25 years’ experience in health care and benefits administration, Tim Brown brings an abundance of knowledge in information technology, operations management, process evaluation and initiative enhancement. He applies his expertise in project management and strategic planning to provide client support, as well as to oversee internal business operations, system processes and infrastructure strategies.
Tim Brown
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
With nearly 30 years of marketing experience, primarily in the health care sector, Melanie Manzi’s areas of expertise include content writing and development, project management, partnership coordination and event planning. Having various positions within the health care sector – nonprofit software and solutions, hospital business development, health benefits and hospice solutions – Melanie offers insights benefitting hospital systems, foundations and other health care organizations.
Melanie Manzi, PCM
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Elizabeth Powell brings to Accordant more than a decade of experience in project management, client, donor and alumni engagement, board leadership development, communications and program planning. Her expertise guides the development and implementation of best practices, streamlining advancement strategies to grow donor engagement and giving.
Elizabeth Powell, PMP
DIRECTOR OF CLIENT ENGAGEMENT
Sarah Rooney has more than a decade of fund development experience in both small and large organizations serving health care and higher education. Sarah also has experience with creating social enterprises to help diversify funding for organizations. She is passionate about health care and addressing social determinants of health to create health equity. Over the course of her career, she has generated new revenue streams, exceeded her fundraising goals and created strong partnerships to solve complex problems.
Sarah Rooney
PROJECT MANAGER
With over 20 years of experience in design, Livvy Zimmerman has shaped the visual communication of many businesses in various industries including health and wellness, manufacturing, art, retail, education and more. High standards for exceptional work drive her to exceed expectations by merging a passion for creativity with attention to detail.
Livvy Zimmerman
ART DIRECTOR
Betty Ann Copley Harris has more than 30 years’ experience in fund development and strategic planning for nonprofit organizations. She brings an abundance of knowledge in capital campaign planning and implementation, as well as board evaluation and development.
Betty Ann Copley Harris, FAHP
OF COUNSEL