Cheryl is an experienced CEO/Executive Director for mission-driven organizations in the areas of basic needs, healthcare, harm reduction, mental health, education, and the arts. Known as an authentic and transformative leader and turnaround specialist who has guided non-profits through major transitions with a calm, steady hand and an inclusive approach that identifies and builds on employee and organizational strengths.

Satu has over 25 years of experience in developing, implementing, and managing programs, conducting research, and consulting, with a strong track record of success in building and leading teams, managing budgets, and achieving strategic goals in academia, government, and the nonprofit sector. As Associate Director of the School of Public Policy at UMass Amherst, she oversaw all aspects of the school's academic programs, including student affairs, teaching, curriculum, and community partnerships. She has also served as a Research Analyst for the State of Minnesota, a Teaching Assistant at the University of Minnesota, and a Program Manager for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

Satu has also provided substantial leadership in community organizations. She served as President of the Board of Directors of Tapestry Health Systems from 2012 to 2015, and she is currently the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Tilton Library. She has also served on the Selection Committees for the Muskie International Fellows Program and the Soros International Fellowship Program.

Satu holds a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin. She is fluent in Spanish, German, and Finnish. She lives with her family in South Deerfield.

Ellen is an accomplished leader in philanthropy, recognized for her ability to coach nonprofit staff and volunteers – experienced and inexperienced alike – to be authentic, confident fundraisers. Ellen meets people and organizations where they’re, and tailors guidance, training, and strategies to their needs. She works with individual staff members and with teams. Her ability to develop meaningful connections and her positive, encouraging approach have helped numerous organizations to achieve ambitious goals.

Ellen specializes in major gift fundraising and capital campaigns and her experience also includes developing and implementing strategic plans, designing budgets, crafting persuasive communications and marketing strategies, managing teams, and implementing internal DEI efforts.

She has worked with an array of mission-driven organizations across various sectors, including social justice, human services, health, education, the environment, and the arts.

Her philanthropic advising enables high net worth individuals to parse out their charitable priorities and define goals that reflect their commitment as well as their resources. Ellen’s support is discreet and confidential. As appropriate, she works collaboratively with a donor’s other professional advisors in the service of their charitable interests. Her extensive nonprofit experience allows her to guide donors in designing gifts that best serve the needs of organizations.

Ellen has held key fundraising and management roles at Victim Rights Law Center, the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as New York-based Safe Horizon (formerly known as Victim Services, Inc.), Minority Task Force on AIDS and Henry Street Settlement.

Ellen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College of Columbia University. A native of Berkshire County, she now lives in Franklin County with her wife and family.

Eliza’s passion for community health has brought her a breadth of experience ranging from analysis and implementation to policy development and legislative advocacy. She has deep expertise in community health care, rural health, long-term supports and services, community collaboration and facilitation, and nonprofit financing and budgeting. She is highly regarded for her fluency with state and federal regulations, and policy and dynamic advocacy skills within those arenas.

For nine years Eliza led Hilltown Community Health Center, a federally qualified health center (FQHC), bolstering its operations and expanding its services geographically and demographically to reach underserved communities. She navigated the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic without closing any services, or laying off staff, and had no incidents of on-site transmission. She provided strategic leadership in a time of major shifts in health care financing, including the implementation of value-based payment models.

Eliza is recognized to have magnified the voice of Western Massachusetts and rural FQHCs in federal and state policy advocacy. Her state-level experience includes the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs where she served as Director of Community Support Services and Coordinator of Alzheimer’s/Health Programs; and the late Mass State Representative Stephen Kulik to whom she was District Aide.

Eliza’s impact and reputation have grown through her service on numerous nonprofit boards. She currently serves on the boards of the Mass Budget and Policy Center (Boston) and Cooley Dickinson Health Care (Northampton). She holds degrees from Harvard University and Boston University School of Social Work.

Eliza is also a working farmer, as co-owner of Kinne Brook Farm (Worthington, MA). Kinne Brook Farm is an Animal Welfare Approved farm that was the first in Western Massachusetts to receive the “Certified Grassfed” designation from A Greener World.