Board Development Series

Maria Fibiger, President / Senior Consultant – Three Dog Consulting

With more than 15 years of consulting practice and 25+ years of career experience in the nonprofit & public administration fields, Maria brings a wealth of knowledge to her work.
She has held top-level nonprofit executive positions for numerous organizations and as such, her view of the day-to-day challenges faced by so many nonprofits is realistic and down-to-earth. Maria’s consulting experience is expansive and includes:

• Leading a cohort capacity-building program for Start-Up and Early Growth organizations;
• Providing sustaining board development support to an animal welfare organization with members
  through the U.S. and Canada;
• Developing and providing full nonprofit management services for an 8-county wellness program for Upstate NY cancer patients and increasing revenue from $60k to $1.4m annually.

She specializes in working with Start-Up, Growth, and Turnaround Lifecycle Stage organizations that need to develop and implement action plans to meet the ever-changing needs around organizational growth, transition planning, and building capacity. Maria holds a B.S. Degree in Public Administration & Urban Planning with a Certification in Nonprofit Management & Organizational Development from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is also a Certified Lifecycles™ Capacity Consultant of
the Nonprofit Lifecycles Institute.

Maryann Roefaro, MS, FACMPE – CEO of Hematology-Oncology Associates of CNY

Maryann Roefaro, has been the CEO of Hematology-Oncology Associates of CNY (HOA) since 2002. She is the author of “Building the Team from the Inside-Out”, “A Human’s Purpose by Millie the Dog” and “Snippets from the Inside-Out by Millie the Dog.” She has over 30 years of healthcare experience in senior leadership positions. She is a board certified fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives and maintains an active roll in leadership development through various speaking engagements and internet radio shows. She received her MS Degree from Upstate Medical University, her BS from Albany College of Pharmacy and her Doctor of Divinity from the American Institute of Holistic Theology.

She is one of the co-founders and President of the Board of Directors of CancerConnects, Inc. She is a board member of Breast Care Partners. LLC and Wisdom Thinkers, Inc. She is a board member of both Excellus BC/BS’ Central New York Board and the governing board, Lifetime Care. She is the co-chair of the Community Oncology Alliance’s Cancer Administrator’s Network and is advisory board member of the Integrative Oncology Network. She is also on the Political Action and Governmental Affairs Committee for the Community Oncology Alliance. In addition, Maryann is a Reiki Master, a Certified Heart Centered Hypnotherapist and a Senior ChiRunning Instructor.

Babette Baker, Principal Consultant – Paideia PM

Babette Baker has over 30 years of experience of supporting nonprofits, businesses, and municipalities in program design/development, process facilitation, grants administration, fiscal management, marketing, and program
assessment/evaluation as a consultant and nonprofit professional throughout the country. During her “active” grant writing period, she has an 84% award rate and has raised over $50 million dollars in grant funding. As head of the
Syracuse/Onondaga County Continuum of Care, her proposal was one of two awarded planning funds in NYS and her proposal was used by the HUD Regional as a model proposal. She increased their funding by 8.7% in two years.
She has served as Peer Reviewer for federal, state, and local government (New York, Oklahoma, and New Jersey) and several foundations. The proposals included: education, community engagement, health care, youth
programming (LGBT, substance abuse, social skills, pregnancy prevention, etc.), homeless programming, AIDS/HIV, public art, economic development, and housing.

She has a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in African/American Studies from Colgate University. She has completed graduate coursework in the Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation Program at Syracuse
University. She graduated from the Leadership Greater Bellevue/Redmond program, was a Fellow in the National United Way Program on Nonprofit Leadership. She has also earned certificates in Community Leadership and
Economic Development from NeighborWorks.

Babette has taught workshops on grant writing, board development/governance, program evaluation, fund development, etc. She is committed to continually improving her practice to provide strategies and tools to clients that are innovative and utilize best practices.