Beth is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Innovative Resources Group, an innovation leader and full service consulting practice for nonprofit organizations and institutions nationwide. We offer project planning and development; institutional advancement and campaign counsel and management; key stakeholder engagement; and messaging and branding. Innovation is both our name and our method. With offices in Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Providence and San Francisco, the firm has provided comprehensive services to arts, civic, advocacy, human service, education, health care, religious, conservation, environment and public policy organizations.

Beth has pioneered a unique strategic action process that crystallizes the innovations and strategies that refine traditional approaches resulting in better and faster results for the firm’s clients. By actively listening, bringing our expertise to our partnership with staff and volunteers and asking the right questions, our process seeks to engage and involve organizational stakeholders. This trademark strategic action process has worked effectively for organizations as diverse as community health centers, cathedrals, land trusts, museums, historic sites, public libraries, private schools, public broadcasting and public policy research centers.

Beth is a founding partner of the interNational Advancement Counsel (interNAC), a consulting firm of leading fundraising professionals providing strategic direction to position nonprofits worldwide to maximize fundraising potential. The firm partners with dynamic organizations and philanthropists that aim to dramatically improve people’s lives and our environment.

Prior to her consulting practice, Beth held senior positions with the New York State Legislature, United Way, and Union College. She is past chair of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel (APC), and has served on the Board of Directors of the Mohawk-Hudson Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).

As an active volunteer leader, Beth is a Board member of Common Cause/NY and has served on the Boards of Trustees of Congregation Berith Sholom. She is an active member of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation and regional land trust organizations. She has served as President of the National Women's Political Caucus (Capital Region). Beth and her family have protected the forest land and wetlands that were part of the former dairy farm owned and operated by her grandparents since 1914.

Beth has a B.A. in Journalism and Theology from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She is a frequent presenter at national and regional conferences on strategic positioning and messaging, campaigns, major gift fundraising, communications, campaign innovations, and mission-centered marketing.

When not serving clients or engaging in volunteer leadership for environmental and social justice issues, Beth has a strong bent toward the arts and travel. She enjoys attending live theater, concerts and has an unchecked fascination with anything political. When she can, she retreats to the ocean and remote fresh-water lakes to read, reflect, and relish nature’s beauty.