Megan Genest Tarnow is the nonprofit industry lead at High Rock Accounting following their acquisition of her firm, The Mobius Group, in 2021. Megan is a certified nonprofit accounting professional, an advanced certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, a member of the elite Intuit Trainer Writer Network, and a Top 100 ProAdvisor in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Her passion as a well-respected community leader led to the launch of her Facebook group – QuickBooks for Nonprofits – in 2018; it now has over 7,300 members comprised of accounting and nonprofit professionals. Megan is fiercely committed to rock-solid, actionable financials for nonprofits, and finds that the same tools can empower small business.

Ala Falaki is the founder of the Socialization.io platform. This innovative service is designed to produce customized weekly content for businesses, ready to share across social media channels. As a Ph.D. candidate engaging in natural language processing research, he introduced the concept of utilizing AI to automate the content creation process. The dashboard provides an affordable solution for organizations aiming to maintain a steady online presence with minimal effort.

For over 30 years, Natache has been working with social investors and nonprofits to take a step beyond traditional social solutions that manage problems and use disruptive, simple, and preventive solutions to eliminate and lessen social issues. Natache has been a noteworthy leader in the nonprofit sector from her nonprofit executive management and consulting work with leading nonprofit organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. and San Diego-based nonprofits like Mission Edge, RISE San Diego, and the Multicultural Health Foundation. She has managed and educated nonprofits with budgets from $5,000 to $20 million.

Natache is a Nonprofit Educator with RISE San Diego pioneering Solution Learning Labs to teach urban leaders how to transform nonprofit business development theories into real-world practice. Currently, she is launching the Solutions Incubator to revitalize attention on eliminating social problems to scale disruptive, prevention, and simple solutions.

Kel Haney is a Maine & NYC-based fundraising coach/trainer and a Senior Consultant at Donorly. During 18 years in the field, she’s personally made over 20,000 fundraising Asks and trained non-profit orgs to raise over $15M (primarily in donations under $2K), which inspired her 5-Minute Fundraising Ask Training Program. Kel’s work boils down to “Taking the Ick out of the Ask”: she’s passionate about shifting fundraising conversations away from transactional encounters and toward relationship-building opportunities. She spent 20 years as a theater director and her fundraising methodology is based on how she led a rehearsal room: focusing on what makes each of us unique and engaging. Kel’s worked with such organizations as: Berkshire Theatre Group, The Glimmerglass Festival, MCC Theatre, Signature Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Marin Theatre Company, BroadwayUnlocked, American Composers Forum, and RIP Medical Debt.

Rachel Waterman has over 25 years of community development and grant writing experience, is Grant Professional Certified (GPC), a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), a Grant Professionals Association (GPA) Approved Trainer, and an expert in grant management. She holds a Master’s degree in community and economic development with a concentration in applied social research from Illinois State University and a Bachelor’s degree in international studies from Barry University. Her career has encompassed a broad spectrum of professional experiences, including serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer, nonprofit executive director, community organizer, city master planner, researcher, and Mayor of the city of Lake Worth Beach, Florida.

Rachel is CEO and Founder of GDS Grants. She is responsible for client strategy, new program & budget development, data tracking systems, outcome measures and data analysis. Rachel also oversees the GDS Professional Development Program and personally coaches GDS interns, fellows and mentees.