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Barbara Klaczynska , Consultant – Barbara Klaczynska has a broad range of experience in fundraising, marketing, evaluation and organizational development. For more than 20 years she has been working with educational institutions, health systems and nonprofit organizations to help them plan and secure their organizations’ futures, market their services, and organize and evaluate their programs. She has conducted feasibility studies, campaign development services, grant writing and interim staffing.

Her fundraising clients have been museums and historic sites including the Franklin Institute, Historic Bartram’s Garden, Atwater Kent Museum and Taller Puertorriqueño; environmental groups including the Riverbend Environmental Education Center, Camden Children’s Garden, Pennsylvania Environmental Council; health systems including Abington Hospital and Holy Redeemer Health Systems; and education clients including Rutgers University, Temple University’s College of Education, Holy Family University, Villanova University, Camden County College and Frankford Friends School. She provided evaluation services for the Free Library of Philadelphia, Temple University Libraries and the YWCA of Bucks County.

Her professional positions included Associate Dean and Director of Special Programs at the University of Pennsylvania’s College of General Studies and Director of Development at Community College of Philadelphia. For 13 years, she served as Project Director for the Gardens Collaborative where she provided fundraising and marketing services for a group of 35 public gardens and historic houses. She has managed or played a major role in raising more than $30 million for nine different historic religious properties including the Church of the Advocate, Fair Hill Burial Grounds and the Rittenhouse Coalition which included three center city Philadelphia churches.

Barbara has a Ph.D. in History from Temple University and is a lecturer at Saint Joseph’s University. She has provided training in fundraising and marketing for the Free Library of Philadelphia and Reading Public Libraries Regional Foundation Centers, Association of Fundraising Professionals, the National Park Service and Partners for Sacred Places. She has served as a reviewer, panelist and evaluator for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Pennsylvania Humanities Council and U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Garden Writers Association.

Barbara has written on resource development for the Handbook of Home Health Care Administration and on audience development for The Public Garden (American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboretum) as well as co-edited Paradise Presented: Beautiful Gardens in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley published with a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.