
Client Engagements

NAYA Chief Financial Officer
Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) seeks a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join its executive leadership team and play a key role in advancing this vibrant and diverse community-based organization serving the Portland metro area’s Native community.
The CFO will be a strategic and mission-driven leader responsible for oversight of the finance department, which includes a team of 10 responsible for general and grants accounting, accounts payable, payroll, contracts, and compliance. As a core member of the executive team, the CFO will help ensure the growth and sustainability of NAYA’s holistic programming, supporting more than 160 employees and managing an annual operating budget of over $20 million.
This position is based in Portland, Oregon.

Global Neighborhood welcomes new Executive Director
Global Neighborhood is pleased to announce the appointment of Deb Salls as its next Executive Director. Deb brings nearly 20 years of prior Executive Director experience, a proven track record of leading teams through organizational growth, and building and strengthening diversified fundraising streams.

PNW welcomes new Director
After an extensive search, we are pleased to share that Nathan Roberts has accepted the Director of Finance and Grants Administration role at Philanthropy Northwest.
Carolyn Ho Consulting was honored to work with Philanthropy Northwest. Thank you to all who were involved with this search.

SCAR welcomes new Operations Director
Spokane Community Against Racism (SCAR) is pleased to welcome Invonne (Evee) Polanski as its new Operations Director. Evee was selected after an extensive search and will support internal capacity building to support SCAR’s mission. SCAR was founded in 2017 as a community-accountable, Black-led organization seeking to identify and address systemic racism. Through education, advocacy, research, and community engagement, SCAR challenges the systems that perpetuate harms disproportionately impacting communities of color in the Spokane community.
Carolyn Ho Consulting was pleased to support the Steering Committee with this important search.

Emancipet welcomes new CEO
Emancipet, the leading nonprofit provider of affordable and accessible veterinary healthcare in the US, is excited to announce that Cheryl Katon has accepted the role of CEO.
This search was conducted in in partnership with Pearl Street Collective.

EHF welcomes new Finance team members
Empire Health Foundation is excited to welcome Janae Perkins (she/her) as Senior Finance Director and Terrie Schucht (she/her) as Controller to the EHF team.
Successful searches depend on engaged networking contacts and strong candidates. Thank you to all who were part of this search!

Meet Brandy Dukes
We are pleased to announce that Brandy Dukes has been named as the Vice President of Operations and Administration at Inatai Foundation. In her new role, Brandy will manage and oversee the Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, and Operations departments.
Thank you to Inatai Foundation for the opportunity to serve as its search partner. Successful searches depend on engaged networking contacts and strong candidates. Thank you to all who were part of this search!