Janice believes that people thrive when they are empowered and engaged. Those of us drawn to work with nonprofit organizations are drawn to missions but retained by healthy cultures. With this grounding principle in mind, she has served as Executive Director of Doug Varone and Dancers and Moving for Life, Managing Director for the Brooklyn Arts Council, Director of Development and Planning for La MaMa, Director of Development for the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Program Associate in Culture for The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Managing Officer of Awards and Creative Development for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). As a planning and fundraising consultant and coach, her clients have included the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, Creative Capital, Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, Association of Hispanic Arts, Foundation for Jewish Culture, Support Center for Nonprofit Management, and the Harlem School of the Arts.
Janice is a recent graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and a graduate of the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute for Nonprofit Executives. She is a certified Program Developer and Facilitator in Peer Coaching Groups through Authenticity Consulting and certified in Principles and Practices of Organizational Development from Teachers College at Columbia University. She earned a BA in Dance from Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Janice is a volunteer for Companion Animal Placement in Hoboken and recently served as a Lifeline Counselor for The Trevor Project.
