The name stands for "Experience Makes the Difference." Providing a wide range of services to nonprofit organizations in challenging times, we believe with our wide, direct experience in institutional management, we can give our clients advice that is sound, innovative, and most importantly, useful in the real world. Whether your issues are internal or external, organizational structure or governance, resource generation or allocation, fundraising or membership, executive search or executive coaching, strategic vision or special project, we will work with you to craft innovative and workable solutions to move you ahead with vision, confidence, and optimism.

We bring experience from the museum, performing arts, botanical garden, zoo, hospital, education and corporate philanthropy worlds to bear on client issues. We have served in many executive capacities, have led and developed program areas, worked as consultants and advisors to numerous clients and have experience on many local and national boards.

Patricia (Pat) Rich, ACFRE, has been involved with nonprofits for 30 years, serving both as staff and as a consultant. She has worked with and for cultural and performing arts organizations as well as social service and health care agencies. Her focus has been fundraising, membership, management and planning. She is a past member of the national board of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Her book, Membership Development: An Action Plan for Results, is available through Jones & Bartlett Publisher (www.jbpub.com) and Amazon.com

Patricia Barrett brings more than 30 years experience in fundraising, marketing, public relations, communications and corporate contributions. Her nonprofit work has included education and health care as well as the arts. For more than 20 years she worked for Ameren, the electric utility in St. Louis, in communications, public relations and corporate contributions.

Richard (Rick) Daley has served in executive capacities in major museums across the country including the Denver Botanic Gardens (CEO), the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (CEO), and the Missouri Botanical Garden (Assistant to Director and Director of Programs). He has served on national boards for conservation organizations, including the Center for Plant Conservation and the Trust for Public Land. His expertise is in organizational and financial management, strategic planning, coaching, and fundraising.

Carlin Scanlan has been a business executive for more than 30 years in the utility, banking and retail sectors. She has also been active in the nonprofit sector, using her experience in strategic planning, organizational development, product development and marketing, contributions management, and communications as a consultant and volunteer. Carlin has an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri – Columbia.