About Our Consultants

Laura Huth
President & CEO, Trainer & Principal Consultant

After 13 years in the trenches of a variety of local, state, and nationally-affiliated non-profit organizations, Laura leads the team at do good Consulting. She has in-depth experience in nearly every aspect of non-profit organizational management including fundraising, staff development, marketing and outreach, strategic planning, special events, media campaigns, and organizational growth strategies.

At age 24, Laura founded the Illinois Student Environmental Network, a statewide training organization increasing the skills and capacity of student environmental groups across Illinois. In her 10 years of leadership, the group grew to over 3,000 students across Illinois working on college campuses and in communities for energy efficiency, recycling, and sustainable development. She also helped found several grassroots community groups, such as Save Our Trees, a community-based group that defeated a major utility company’s plans to raze community trees near power lines, and the award-winning Historic East Urbana Neighborhood Association, a neighborhood preservation organization. As a two-term elected member of the Urbana City Council, she spent nearly eight years forming coalitions of citizens working for sound community planning, sustainable business development, and efficient transportation.

For three years, Laura served as executive director of the local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity. During her tenure, she turned the near-broke organization into an award-winning local powerhouse, building seven homes a year and dramatically increasing funding while positioning the affiliate for long-term growth and sustainability.

Laura specializes in full-scale donor-driven fundraising programs and strategies, program development, organizational growth and strategic planning, marketing and outreach strategies, storytelling, image and service enhancement, and investing local businesses and media in the work of area charities.

In 2008, Laura was named the Female of the Year by the Central Illinois Business magazine.

Read Laura's full biography here.

 

Elizabeth Simpson
Group Dynamics & Teambuilding Specialist

Elizabeth has done interpersonal and intra-group dynamic work since 1995 and is certified in Victim-Offender Reconciliation, Circle Mediation, and Family Group Processing. She is trained in a variety of decision-making modes, including Formal Consensus, Dynamic Governance (sociocracy) and Restorative Justice Principles. She has assisted groups with retreats, visioning, Board trainings, and uses a variety of creative strategies to draw on the resources of groups to find answers to the issues at hand. Elizabeth is an anti-racism activist who has worked with groups to address how privilege in organizations affects members' ability to work together. She has also worked with groups around the dynamics of class and gender. In addition to her work with do good, Elizabeth also serves as Peer Mediation Coordinator at Urbana Middle School and is facilitating an Inter-group Dialogue on Race & Ethnicity at UIUC.

Read Elizabeth's full biography here.

 

Caroline Huth
Art Direction & Graphic Design Specialist

Caroline Huth is a freelance graphic designer specializing in full-scope design and production. From logo development to promotional materials to company-wide branding or re-branding initiatives, she will help your team with the materials and attention you need to make your marketing campaign and fundraising efforts a success. She has a keen eye for classy low-budget solutions, has worked with non-profits on tight budgets for over 10 years, and has the experience to manage the production of entire projects as well.

Caroline has a BFA in Graphic Communications from Washington University in St. Louis and has over 13 years experience in advertising and graphic design, dealing with clients and vendors directly and professionally. She heads up do good Consulting's Chicago office.

Read Caroline's full biography here.

 

Tim Newcomb
Internet Technologies & Constituent Management Systems Specialist

Tim Newcomb has been helping non-profit organizations across Illinois fill technology needs for over ten years. His passion is helping non-profits increase both their understanding of technology and how it can be used to involve more people to reach organizational goals. As IT & CMS Specialist for do good, Tim brings both public and private sector experience to clients and provides expertise in the areas of networking, application selection and integration, database management, server administration, as well as technology needs assessment. Tim actively manages web and file servers daily, developing web applications, training staff in desktop applications, and leveraging both commercial and open source software to further the organization’s strategic directions. Tim has helped to develop an online collaboration application based on Microsoft SharePoint technology to bring together over 1,100 people in more than 50 websites to share knowledge, make policy, and develop shared resources.

Working with a small faith based children’s aid non-profit organization, Tim created a network from the ground up including cabling, internet access, server selection, and installation of Active Directory and also assisted in locating low cost software and hardware options for organizational users. He also creates and maintains users, applications, and newsletter software for this organization. Tim has managed networks sized from two computers to 300 with three locations across the United States.

Read Tim's full biography here.

 

Jennifer Knapp
Special Projects Coordination

Through an array of work with various nonprofit organizations, Jennifer has developed a keen interest in both the big picture and the small details. She has developed a human resources department at a transitional housing organization, navigated the political process of disability services as an advocate, and improved public relations in an organization devoted to sustainable agriculture. Jennifer will receive her Master’s degree in Communication in May from the University of Illinois. She specializes in strategic thinking and planning, social networks, and conflict resolution.

Read Jennifer's full biography here.

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