Schonfield Consulting - Berkeley, California

Meg Shiffler

Anne was wonderful to work with. She and her research assistant found additional grant opportunities and they created a spreadsheet for us to track our activity. Anne had great suggestions on how to approach each funder. She was always on time for meetings, came prepared, and had valuable real-time feedback. She's efficient, personable and willing to flex the original plan to suit the needs of her client. Highly recommend!

Erica Kesel

Anne was a tremendous resource. She helped us refine and organize our foundation outreach strategy, which has contributed to growing success for us in this area. Her research team also provided valuable support as we prioritized which prospects to pursue first.

Nella Goncalves

Working with Anne and Ben was such a great experience. Their attention to detail specific to our organization was refreshing and made the task of creating a Fund Development plan easy! Highly recommended!!

Natalie Williams

Anne is truly excellent! She and her team have been providing invaluable technical expertise to our organization since 2017. Anne possesses an impressive range of skills that can be effectively applied to diverse projects, consistently delivering quality work. Her contributions have been instrumental in crafting effective funding communication strategies, conducting landscape analyses, enhancing executive capacity, facilitating productive meetings, and fostering meaningful Board engagement.

Anne is punctual and professional, and her enthusiasm makes working with her an absolute pleasure. I look forward to future opportunities and projects where we can continue to collaborate.

Elvis Fraser

I have known Anne in a professional capacity since 2008. During that time, while I was with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Anne supported my team as an independent consultant. In many ways Anne is the quintessential consultant — she listens well, asks good questions to properly diagnose our needs, reflects that back to you in written summaries of conversations, easy to work with, and great “thought partner”. She is a careful writer who pays great attention to details and produces solid, high-quality products.

Anne has a versatile set of skills that are fungible across different types of projects and tasks -- She has worked on conducting evaluations, project reviews, meta-analyses of portfolios, preparing FAQs, conducting trainings for Gates Foundation staff, designing and conducting landscape analyses, and meeting facilitation. Anne delivers results and is professional in how she engages with her clients. She is the person you want on your team if you want to get things done. It was a pleasure to work with Anne, and I look forward to the next opportunity to do it again.

Jennifer Graves

Anne and her team played an integral role in designing and implementing Well Being Trust's grantmaking systems and processes, as well as working with staff on grant administration issues. As WBT built our own capacity for grants management, Anne's team shifted to more of a traditional consultant role. Projects included: operationalizing an updated evaluation plan, planning a grantee convening, developing grant impact summaries for leadership, and incorporating DEI principles into our grant processes.

Anne is extremely efficient and good at moving things forward with clear next steps. She provides her opinion and will discuss pros/cons of different options or approaches but is also very respectful of her clients’ opinions and needs and wants to make sure that the ultimate decisions are yours. I value her input and appreciate her warm and positive manner. I'm happy to provide my highest recommendation for her services.

Jackie Hausman

It was a pleasure working with Anne and her team to develop an evaluation framework for the Health program at the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Anne was super thoughtful and organized, and also helped us translate lots of data into a very useful product for our Board.

Nikka Rapkin

Working with Anne and team was a great experience! She helped our national nonprofit establish effective centralized systems for how we track and deploy next steps around communications and potential development opportunities, and provided us with very useful feedback around our proposals and networking strategies. I'd definitely welcome the chance to work with Anne and her team again should the opportunity arise!