Project Manager
Kara Björklund Beer has worked as a development officer, grant writer, manager, and editor in the nonprofit sector for almost fifteen years. She is the former managing editor of Modern Age, a literary quarterly, and the former development department manager at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, where she oversaw an annual budget of $5 million, the writing of grant proposals and reports, a staff of ten, and the planning and execution of major donor events, including the institute’s forty-fifth anniversary celebration.

Most recently, as the owner of an editorial and design firm, Kara has coordinated complex publications projects for clients ranging from the Cardinal Newman Society to Frog’s Leap winery. Her company has also provided book design, writing, copy editing, proofreading, indexing, and other publishing- and communications-related services for a variety of publishing, media, and nonprofit organizations.

Kara holds a degree in philosophy from the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, NH.


Jeffrey J. Cain, Ph.D.
Founding Partner

Jeremy Beer, Ph.D.
Founding Partner

Douglas Schneider
Senior Consultant

Kelly Cole
Senior Consultant

Kara Björklund Beer
Project Manager

Ann Henderson Hart
Communications Specialist

Amanda Cain
Office Assistant

Cora Heins
Special Librarian

Carolyn Kley Fanning
Estate Planning and Planned Giving Consultant

Arthur L. Speck, Jr.
Direct Marketing Consultant

Scott Walter
Senior Consultant

Valerie Jacobs, MA, MFT
Philanthropic Consultant