Metasoft is committed to providing products and services that best meet the current fundraising needs of our clients. The feedback that you provide, along with input from industry thought leaders, has been and remains vital to our business.

Accordingly, we have also established the Metasoft Client Advisory Board, which provides guidance for product direction and future enhancements. This group, representing a range of specialties and various regions worldwide, is comprised of some of the top thought leaders and professionals with decades of experience in the not-for-profit sector.

With their invaluable feedback and insight, we strive to continually improve the products and services we deliver to our clients.

Metasoft Systems is proud and honored to have the following distinguished members serve on the Metasoft Client Advisory Board.

	Melissa S. Brown Associate Director of Research The Center of Philanthropy at Indiana University Indianapolis, IN Her research focuses on determinants of giving and the distribution of contributions by subsector. Ms. Brown joined the staff of the Center on Philanthropy in 1991 as a development associate and has held positions at the Center in fundraising, program management, and instruction. She teaches one course as an associate faculty member of Philanthropic Studies at the Center's home campus, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She holds a bachelor's degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and a Master of Governmental Administration from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
	Denise Davis Program Officer Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Princeton, NJ Denise Davis is a program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working in the Health Care Group on quality, disparities and nursing programming. During her tenure at the Foundation, she served as deputy director of the Foundation’s Information for State Health Policy Program. Before joining RJWF, she was former deputy director of the Information Access Program. Prior to this, she was a policy analyst at the Center for State Health Policy, a research associate with the Carolina Institute for Public Health, and a program associate for the Center for Community-Based Public Health. She has extensive managerial experience in health care planning, policy and administration. Her research interests include state and local health care policy, community-based approaches for improvement of health delivery systems and outcomes for underserved populations, racial and ethnic disparities in vulnerable groups, and the impact of the health care safety net on the uninsured. A member of the American Public Health Association, she earned a Dr. P.H. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in health policy and administration, an M.P.A. in public policy and administration from New York University, and a B.A. from Ithaca College in allied health.
	Elizabeth E. Liley Assistant Vice President for Corporate and Foundation Relations Purdue University West Lafayette, IN Betsy Liley is the director of University Foundation Relations for Purdue University, a world-class research university with 40,000 students and more than 300,000 living alumni. Purdue will complete a $1.6 billion campaign in June 2007. Betsy has worked in development for the past eight years, in K-12 and higher education systems in New England and the Midwest. Two of the projects she managed in Vermont have won national recognition from US EPA and United Way of America. Betsy also taught journalism, public relations and business for six years at two small liberal arts colleges in Vermont. Previously, Betsy helped to lead public relations group at an advertising, public relations, interactive and market research firm with offices in Vermont, Boston, Montreal and New York. While there, she worked with clients in higher education, textbook publishing, online educational content providers, workforce development and other clients. She also was a print journalist covering government and politics at the state and national level as well as an editor in the Midwest and in New England.
	Stephen C. Nill CEO and Founder CharityChannel Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Mr. Nill is the founder and CEO of CharityChannel, a community of more than 150,000 professionals serving nonprofit organizations in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Australasia region, and many other countries. He has been working in the US and international third sectors for more than 30 years. He has served as the Chief Development Officer at a major Southern California university, the CEO of a large health care foundation, a vice president of fund development of a US west coast nonprofit hospital chain, as a founder and acting director of development of a parochial school in his community, and as a founder of an organization dedicated to providing food and clothing for homeless persons in Southern California. Mr. Nill holds a B.A degree (cum laude) in Communications as well as Political Science from California State University, Fullerton (1978), and a juris doctor degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles (1981). He is a lawyer practicing in the field of tax-exempt organizations. Mr. Nill is also a composer of orchestral music.
	Joey Sample Research Analyst Northeastern University Boston, MA Joey Sample is Research Analyst at Northeastern University. He recently created and now moderates the CFRESEARCH discussion list. Hosted by CharityChannel, this listserv provides a forum for nearly 400 nonprofit professionals to discuss corporate and foundation research. Joey is also active in the prospect research community through his affiliations with the New England Development Research Association (NEDRA) and the Freelance Prospect Research Network, which provides nonprofit organizations with a convenient, reliable, and affordable source for prospect research services. Prior to his employment at Northeastern, Joey worked for Simmons College as Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer, and at the Indiana University School of Medicine as the Gift Acknowledgment Coordinator. He also spent several years in the non-profit sector writing and developing proposals for Gay Men’s Health Crisis, The Damien Center and Planned Parenthood. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs-Nonprofit Management from Indiana University and a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Franklin College of Indiana.
	Barbara Shreffler Director of Constituent Strategies, Office of Development Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX After 14 years at Rice University’s Fondren Library, Barbara Shreffler was recruited by the Development Office to help with fundraising efforts by researching and writing profiles on major donors. Since 2003, she has been Director of Constituent Strategies for Baylor College of Medicine, a nationwide model for development offices. She is President of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement Greater Houston Chapter and is a member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology as well as the Council of Advancement and Support of Education. Additionally, she serves as a board member of American Voices. Ms. Sheffler is also an accomplished musician. A violinist for the Houston Ballet Orchestra and a professional mandolinist, she has performed with the Houston Grand Opera, Da Camera, Ebony Opera, and the Houston Symphony. So far she’s the only member of the Advisory Board who has played with Smokey Robinson.
	Kathleen Warren, Ph.D. GPC Director - Foundation Relations Washington State University Foundation Pullman, WA Kathleen Warren has worked for Washington State University since 1983, transitioning from public relations and development writing to full-time corporate and foundation relations in 1995. In 2004, she joined the Corporate and Foundation Relations team in the central WSU Foundation. She is WSU's first ever director of private foundation relations. In her short time in that role, she has led collaborations with faculty and development colleagues resulting in substantial grants for the university from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, W. M. Keck Foundation, Murdock Charitable Trust, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. She was instrumental in getting the development teams university wide to adopt and appreciate the power of Metasoft's FoundationSearch and BIG Online tools. Most recently, she became one of the country’s first class of grant professionals to earn certification from the Grant Professionals Certification Institute (GPCI), an affiliate organization of the American Association of Grant Professionals (AAGP). A unique undertaking in 2006 was co-coordinating WSU's first "Mission to New York," an expedition, sponsored by the university's Office of Research, designed to bridge the geographical and communication gap between a WSU group of six talented arts and humanities faculty at our research-intensive university in rural Pullman, Washington, and significant private New York foundations with mutual interests. Memorable highlights of that trip for Kathleen included meeting in person with program directors in the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and Social Sciences Research Council (as well as visiting the MOMA, experiencing two musicals on Broadway, and taking a bicycle tour from Midtown to the Bronx!).
	Anita Gunn Shirley Assistant Director Foundation Relations Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC Anita Gunn Shirley is author of the 2007 and 2008 reports published by NCGives on foundation giving in North Carolina. Currently, Anita is Assistant Director of Foundation Relations at Duke Medicine. Prior to that, she was the Southeast Foundations Officer for Environmental Defense and Director of Grants and Programs at Meredith College. Anita was Vice President for Research at Capital Development Services from 1988 until 1998, where she edited four editions of North Carolina Giving: The Directory of the State’s Foundations (1990, 1993, 1996, 1999 editions.), Virginia Corporate Giving: A Directory of Philanthropic Programs (1997), North Carolina Corporate Giving: A Directory of Philanthropic Programs (1995), Georgia Giving: The Directory of the State’s Foundations (1995), and Virginia Giving: The Directory of the Commonwealth’s Foundations (1994). She is also the author of North Carolina Religious Grantmakers: A Guide to Local, State, and National Funds (1987) and Grantseeking in North Carolina: A Guide to Foundation and Corporate Giving (1984). Anita holds a MA in Philanthropy and Development from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and BA from Beloit College.
	Kathy McDonald Senior Research Analyst University of Florida Foundation Gainesville, FL Kathy McDonald has been a researcher with the University of Florida Foundation in Gainesville, FL for more than three years. She works with the office of Corporate and Foundation Relations, as well as the Center for Latin American Studies and Regional Development. Kathy is originally from Iowa, but moved to Florida in the early 1990s and never looked back. She is a graduate of Wartburg College (a small private Lutheran college) and Iowa State University. She has worked in several private companies in a wide variety of roles. The University of Florida Foundation is her first experience working for a non-profit, as well as her first experience working in research. Along with her career, her other passions are travel, photography, and finding new outlets for her creativity.
	David L. Cuthbert, CFRE, FSAIF Director of Development Silent Voice Toronto, ON David was the first fundraiser for World Vision in South Africa. David is one of five founders of the Southern African Institute of Fundraising (SAIF), a body representing the Southern Africa fundraising profession. He is also a co-founder of the World Fundraising Council, launched in 1989 to provide resources out of advanced fundraising nations into developing countries. He has been a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) since 1991, and the first fundraiser in Africa to be awarded a CFRE. He is co-founder and a current board member of SAIF Education & Training Inc.
	Amy McKinnon, MISt Associate Director, Development Research & Strategic Analysis Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation Toronto, ON Amy joined the Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation in 2007 after several years and a successful campaign at the Royal Ontario Museum. Amy holds an Honours B.A. in English Literature from York University and a Masters of Information Studies from the University of Toronto.
	Mingxia Liu Manager of Advancement Research and Records Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario Mingxia is in the Office of University Advancement at Ryerson University, Canada's leader in career-focused education. She joined Ryerson in 2000 and has extensive experience in advancement research and information management. As a faculty member, she also taught for nine years in the Department of English at Shandong University. Mingxia holds a B.A. and M.A. in English Language and Literature from Shandong University and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Western Ontario.
	John Hermans Manager of Advancement Research The University of Toronto Toronto, ON John has worked in prospect research for more than ten years and began his career at the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation in Toronto. He has been Manager of Advancement Research at UofT since 2003, and was previously Assistant Manager of the department, during which time he provided research support for the billion-dollar Campaign for the University of Toronto. John holds an Honours B.A. from McMaster University and a Masters Degree in Information Studies from the University of Toronto.
	Suzanne Huett Campaign Director Dalhousie University Halifax, NS Suzanne is in her 24th year in the development profession with experience in the political, educational and health care sectors. For the past 10 years she has been with the Office of External Relations at Dalhousie University as the Director of Advancement Strategy. Suzanne is a key member of the senior management team and recently accepted the role of Campaign Director where her primary responsibility will be to manage the largest comprehensive fundraising campaign in the University’s history. She is a graduate of Mount Saint Vincent University and a member of AFP, APRA Canada and APRA International, CCAE and CASE. Suzanne co-chaired the 2004 National CCAE conference held in Halifax. She also has volunteered with APRA Canada as a Board Member, Regional Rep. and a mentor.