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The International Social Impact Institute’s activities are supported by a team that works to ensure that client needs are met and exceeded, and that our content is accessible to the audiences who can most benefit from it.

Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi, CFRE (She/Her)

Founder / CEO
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Boris Kievsky (He/Him)

Website Development Partner

Liudmyla Krushchuk (She/Her)

Creative Lead
Caitlin Nowicki

Caitlin Nowicki

Content Author / Special Projects

Consulting / coaching / Training Team

The International Social Impact Institute has assembled an outstanding team of experts from the United States, the United Kingdom, the African continent and Asia, who share the Institute’s core values – a belief in interconnectedness / Ubuntu and a commitment to social justice, environmental stewardship, integrity and excellence – and who have dedicated their lives to moving the social sector forward.

We bring together experience from a range of disciplines to advise and train nonprofit organization leaders and professionals, activists and social enterpreneurs from or serving historically marginalized communities.  We do so either directly or through the foundations, traditional and impact investors, and venture philanthropists that support them.  The disciplines represented include change enablement; decision science; digital and traditional storytelling and fundraising strategy; traditional and impact investor readiness preparation; leadership development; and philanthropic strategy.

Our experts have experience across a variety of areas in the public and social sectors, including arts and culture, associations, government, public health, education, human rights, impact and traditional investing, philanthropy, social justice, and youth development.

Bernard Ross (He/Him)

Executive Partner Consultant

Dondrill Glover (She/Her)

Senior Partner Consultant

Mike Naholi Muchilwa (He/Him)

Senior Partner Consultant

Kathleen Murphy Toms (She/Her)

Senior Partner Consultant

Rashida Peterson (She/Her)

Senior Partner Consultant

Abigail Osei (She/Her)

Partner Consultant

Katja Schiller Nwator (She/Her)

Partner Consultant

Advisory Team

The Institute was developed with guidance from the late Naomi Levine, who was a Senior Vice President of External Affairs at New York University and the founder and first Executive Director of the NYU Heyman Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising (where our founder has been a faculty member for over 10 years).  Until her passing in December 2020, Mrs. Levine offered invaluable advice to our founder and helped to facilitate key introductions that led to the Institute’s first partnerships.

Our founder is currently advised by Stuart Cane, who provides overall guidance, and Ron Adelman, who provides legal guidance.

Naomi B. Levine (She/Her)

Executive Advisor in Memoriam
The New York Times Obituary

Stuart Cane (He/Him)

Executive Advisor

Ron Adelman (He/Him)

Legal Advisor

Our Partners and Collaborators

"The capacitation programme with The International Social Impact Institute is important to us to help position our university…The best contribution we can make as Mandela University is to marshal ourselves to be the scholarly articulation of his social and political contribution to the improvement of humanity; to put together institutional arrangements to expand our national, continental and global footprint of scholarly outputs promoting social justice and equality.”
Professor Sibongile Muthwa
Professor Sibongile MuthwaVice-Chancellor, Nelson Mandela University (South Africa)
“ Liz Ngonzi gave me a powerful coaching experience. She brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise, skill and an open heart to her interactions with clients. Liz shares insights to fuel the clients’ creativity and imagination in crafting their own story. Also, the tools you gain from Liz are applicable and practical. She is a cutting-edge coach and educator for cutting edge times!”
Cedric A. HarmonFounder/Executive Director, Many Voices
“We partnered with The International Social Impact Institute to deliver a fascinating interview with Tom Higley, who talked about solving the world's biggest problems through entrepreneurial methods. Liz was instrumental in securing Tom as a speaker and did such a brilliant and engaging job of moderating the conversation with him. The whole event really helped to expand Resource Alliance's offerings and audiences, at a time when the sector needs to think about new ways of solving the world's biggest challenges. It was fascinating, timely and vitally important to learn how social entrepreneurship and other new revenue models can help with this. We can't thank Liz enough! :)”
Ruby ChadwickHead of Global Engagement and Events, The Resource Alliance UK
"We were very happy to have Liz present at our Wilmington Trust Philanthropic Speaker Series Virtual Coffee Chat (session #84) on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Her topic, “Digital Strategies for Funders" was very helpful to Wilmington Trust’s endowment, foundation and nonprofit clients and their trustees. She did an excellent job describing the Digital Storytelling Ecosystem. This is very important to all nonprofits as they pivot back to the new world. She also provided key insights on how to maximize LinkedIn to tell your story. She is a top notch teacher and coach and we were very lucky to have her at our session!"
Walter J. Dillingham, Jr., CFAManaging Director, Wealth Advisory and Endowments & Foundations, Wilmington Trust, N.A.
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