Executive Assistant

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Serena brings a thoughtful, organized presence to the team as Executive Assistant to the CEO. With a background in education, she’s skilled at balancing details, communicating clearly, and anticipating needs—essential strengths that support the mission-driven work of the company. Serena handles behind-the-scenes logistics with heart and precision, allowing the rest of the team to focus on what matters most. When she’s not keeping things running smoothly, you’ll find her having dance parties with her husband and two kids, baking sourdough and brewing kombucha, or curled up with her cats reading a good book.

Development Operations

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Kelly Braunegg empowers nonprofits to build strong fundraising programs through strategic development operations. With over 20 years of experience, she helps organizations streamline processes, manage databases, and create a solid foundation for growth.

Kelly's expertise goes beyond technical skills. She fosters collaboration between teams, untangles complex situations, and provides coaching to elevate staff abilities. Her leadership resulted in a 140% increase in fundraising at Water.org and the successful creation of a DevOps team at Feeding South Florida during a critical period.

Across the country, Kelly has led successful database implementations and optimizations for organizations like Ability KC and Share Hope.

When not working, Kelly enjoys volunteering, exploring Kansas City with her dogs, and hosting fun, interactive dinner parties (think homemade ravioli!)

Prospect Research, Donor Stewardship & Campaign Management

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Kathleen Nicholson is an experienced nonprofit professional with a strong background in prospect research, donor data management, and philanthropic operations. After earning her master’s degree in Nonprofit Management and Leadership from the University of Georgia, Kathleen began her career at the University of Nebraska Foundation, where she played a key role in managing a database of over 1.3 million alumni and stakeholders, and served as a key internal partner for development officers in moves management for high-net-worth donors. Her work supported several academic fundraising teams, as well as the Office of Trustees, Foundation Relations, and Donor Relations teams.

In recent years, Kathleen has transitioned into consultancy, where she has successfully supported dozens of nonprofits in areas including prospect research, development operations, philanthropic writing, donor stewardship, and campaign management. Outside of work, Kathleen enjoys spending her free time at the beach, cooking, listening to Taylor Swift, and creating watercolor artwork. Kathleen lives in Galveston, TX with her husband and their cat, Franklin.

Leadership Development

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With more than two decades of experience in non-profit work, Meredith has connections and strong relationships across the non-profit sector.

Meredith is the founder of the nonprofit strategic consulting firm, Vim & Rigor. Meredith served the mission of the San Francisco Marin Food Bank for 15 years in successively broader c-suite roles—as the Chief Development Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Strategy Officer as the organization grew from ~130 FTE with a $10MM+ budget to ~275 FTE supporting a $60MM+ budget and began the work to transition the organization from a more traditional charity to a food justice organization. She successfully led the organization through executive director transition, COVID response and transformation, a successful $45 million capital campaign, new building acquisition, and multi-facility expansion and renovation.

Fundraising Consultant

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Joey Schmidt helps nonprofits build the fundraising infrastructure they need to grow. 

Joey has spent nearly a decade across education and nonprofit fundraising, with a particular gift for building structure where none existed before. He started as a fifth-grade teacher and Teach For America corps member, work that shaped his belief that access, to education, to opportunity, to belonging, is what makes communities thrive. That conviction carried him into fundraising, where he specializes in corporate and foundation partnerships, donor stewardship systems, and moves management. 

His work spans recognized institutions including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, United Way of Greater Kansas City, and Big Brothers Big Sisters. He has built pipeline systems and tiered partnership frameworks from the ground up and led multi-stakeholder civic initiatives connecting nonprofits with major corporate and community partners. 

Joey is based in Atlanta and is also a working artist, a painter, printmaker, and photographer whose practice explores memory, identity, and self-discovery. He believes the same principles that make great fundraising make great creative work: curiosity, relationship, and follow-through.

Fundraising Specialist

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Becky Hatton brings project management, strategy building, leadership development, event coordination, and fundraising expertise from a career in the nonprofit sector spanning direct client work to senior leadership. Her professional achievements have included leading national campaigns, hosting conferences, capacity building for grassroots service providers, diverse data management, and securing significant private and federal funding for organizations. She is at her best when she is organizing an event, implementing a system, or planning with her passionate clients.

Becky’s interest in supporting restorative justice initiatives, writing dignifying fundraising narratives, and forming strategic programming around meaningful outcomes has guided her consultant and contract career, as well as her education. Her degrees include a MSc in Social Justice & Community Action from the University of Edinburgh, Honors BS in Applied Sociology/Social Services, and a BS in Spanish from Oklahoma State University. Becky is based in Tulsa, OK where she is a member of the Board of Directors for Tulsa Girl’s Art School and the Association of Fundraising Professionals National & Eastern Oklahoma Chapters. She enjoys sewing, cooking with her family, and drinking good coffee with friends.

Director of Strategic Operations

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Megan Allen is a strategic operations and program management leader with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations navigate growth, change, and transformation. She is known for bringing clarity, structure, and momentum to complex initiatives.

As Director of Strategic Operations for Cat Slack Consulting (CSC), Megan partners with the team to strengthen operations, guide strategic initiatives, and build systems that support long-term success.

Before joining CSC, Megan held senior project management roles as a civil service leader within the U.S. Air Force, most notably leading an initiative to design and build a new, unified software-focused organization of over 6,000 software professionals. She also served as Director of Projects and Programs for the Oklahoma City (OKC) Innovation District and spent more than 16 years leading strategic initiatives across Oklahoma’s higher education system. Megan earned her BA and Master of Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma and holds her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. 

Outside of consulting, Megan serves as President of the OKC Chapter of the Project Management Institute, performs professionally as a musician alongside her husband, and co-owns The Study, a wine bar in OKC’s historic Film Row District. She and her husband enjoy hiking with their two dachshunds, Thor and Rocket.Description goes here

Social Impact Designer

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Hannah Zachry is the Owner of Say When Design Studio, a studio dedicated to helping nonprofits and purpose-driven folx grow by creating bold brands and websites.

Since 2017, Hannah has won 16 American Advertising Awards for her design work. She’s taught Brand Development and Advertising Design at UCO's School of Design, a NASAD accredited institution. In her free time, she does jigsaw puzzles, reads a lot of books, and takes her dog to the park.