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Bess de Farber
specializes in planning, coaching and grants management. She has
spent the past 20 years working in the nonprofit sector as a financial
manager, program director, funder, grants
manager, executive director and now consultant/facilitator. She
has trained and provided technical assistance to over 700 organizations.
Bess co-created
the Nonprofit Resource Institute in West
Palm Beach, Florida in 1998. In 2002, she created
the CoLAB Planning Series, currently the
only known workshop series geared to having organization representatives
who are new to each other produce collaborative programs.
Through her
partnership efforts, Bess has raised over $10 million for nonprofits
in Palm Beach County. She has served on
grant panels for the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, National
Endowment for the Arts, Education Foundation of Palm Beach County,
Dade Children’s Trust, and George Snow Scholarship Fund in the disciplines
of folk arts, arts-in-education, chamber music, teachers' projects
for the classroom, statewide approved artists directory inclusion,
prevention programs for children and scholarships for graduating
high school seniors.
Bess holds a
bachelor’s in music - clarinet performance - from the University
of Southern California, a master’s in nonprofit
management from Florida Atlantic University, and is one of only 300
certified professional facilitators in the US through the International
Association of Facilitators.
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