Elsie is responsible for coordinating and synthesizing the efforts of local and national organizations to collect, analyze, report and share data and learning on up to 12 metropolitan areas as part of a participatory evaluation of the Ford Foundation’s multi-year initiative to connect residents to jobs and opportunities in the broader metropolitan economy.

Before joining Success Measures, Elsie served as deputy director of research at Social Compact, where her work focused on informing investments in emerging markets through design of research reports, spatial analysis, and data interpretation addressing issues of neighborhood change and economic health. With ten years of experience in the nonprofit sector, she has performed substantive research and analysis, writing and editing on key topics in urban development in diverse and historically marginalized communities.

Elsie holds a bachelor’s degree in Geography from Macalester College and a master’s degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A cultural anthropologist with more than a decade of experience in mixed-method evaluation, Jessica directs Success Measures’ development of shared indicator projects through collaborative efforts that have involved hundreds of stakeholders in the areas of racial equity, financial capability, community stabilization and green affordable housing. In addition to leading the Success Measures enterprise’s evaluation research efforts, she also manages custom consulting projects to design and implement evaluations for national and regional funders, intermediaries and funding collaboratives.

Prior to joining NeighborWorks America, Jessica was a research associate with McAuley Institute, where her work focused on the development and implementation of the Success Measures participatory evaluation approach and the Success Measures Data System. She has also served as program coordinator at the Community Partnership Center at University of Tennessee directing the Participatory Research and Planning Program, and as director of the Community Outreach Partnership Center at University of Florida.

Jessica holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from University of Florida.

Bernadette plans, coordinates and implements the administrative and business management systems needed to support the Success Measures social enterprise. Her responsibilities include developing and managing contracting processes, ensuring compliance with guidelines of multiple contracts, and serving as liaison to external consultants, potential customers, and interested parties.

Prior to joining the Success Measures team, Bernadette served as office manager and director of marketing for sales and service organizations, including Polycom, Anixter and Manchester Technologies.

She has more than twelve years of administrative, account development, and program coordination experience. Bernadette attended Howard Community College in Columbia, MD.

Brooke provides strategic direction and oversight for the Success Measures program. She also structures NeighborWorks America’s own use of Success Measures for its affiliated network of community-based organizations and oversees the organization’s national Applied Research and Community Building and Organizing Initiatives.

Previously she served as NeighborWorks America’s director of program integration and planning where she was responsible for corporate-wide coordination and implementation of NeighborWorks America’s strategic plan as well as related performance measurement strategies and initiatives. Brooke has worked in community development in the international sector from 1984 to 1993 through Peace Corps, as Peace Corps Fellow, associate Peace Corps director/Philippines and national director of placement.

She holds an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University with a concentration in International Development and a B.A. in American Studies from Kirkland College.

Maggie is the director of Success Measures and since 2004 has fostered its growth as a specialized outcome evaluation social enterprise serving the community development field.

Prior to developing the business plan for what would later become Success Measures, she was the director of research and evaluation at McAuley Institute, a national affordable housing intermediary. In her more than 35 years of experience in the community development field, Maggie has provided a range of consulting, research and management services to assist community based organizations, national intermediaries, local governments and foundations to design and implement innovative participatory planning, evaluation, community revitalization and action research initiatives.

She holds a B.A. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and studied Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania.

Nancy oversees all aspects of the outcome-based evaluation training and technical assistance services offered by the Success Measures program. In this capacity as the head of the program management and training business function, she directs a team of evaluation, community development and training professionals to support a wide range of community development organizations, foundations, intermediaries and other nonprofits as they use the Success Measures evaluation methods and tools.

Prior to joining NeighborWorks America, Nancy served as an evaluation specialist with Innovation Network, a nonprofit consulting firm specializing in participatory evaluation. During her tenure there, she worked with a wide range of nonprofit organizations nationwide to support their efforts, individually and as part of multi-organizational collaborative, to effectively evaluate their work.

Nancy received her B.A. from Boston University and a Masters in Public Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. 

Brooke is responsible for managing a national demonstration initiative to expand and enhance nonprofit capacity in delivering quality financial education and financial coaching services to low and moderate-income people and communities. Success Measures is one of three NeighborWorks programs collaborating on the project, along with the NeighborWorks Center for Homeownership Education and Counseling and National Homeownership programs. Trained as an urban planner, Brooke has a decade of experience as a project and grants manager, and technical advisor to nonprofits working in the areas of economic development, housing, asset building, and workforce development.

Prior to joining Success Measures, she served as Ohio program officer for LISC, where she led implementation of a major grant to establish Financial Opportunity Centers in Greater Cincinnati.

Brooke holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. 

As Social Enterprise Manager at Success Measures, Kenneth leads the Success Measures business development and operations function and is responsible for financial management and strategic planning for the enterprise. He also conducts market research and supports new business development initiatives to strengthen the business model.

Prior to joining the Success Measures team, Kenneth worked on international economic development projects at ACDI/VOCA, supporting the implementation of USAID and MCC-funded microfinance and SME development projects. He was also a business development Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, supporting a World Vision-sponsored microenterprise development program.

Kenneth holds a B.S. and B.A. in Finance and Public Policy from Syracuse University and is completing his M.B.A. at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

Debby leads the Success Measures field outreach, marketing and communications efforts and is responsible for partner and resource development, and special initiatives that advance the use of outcome evaluation by funders, intermediaries and community-based organizations. Trained as a city planner, she has more than 25 years of experience in strategic planning, program design and evaluation, policy analysis, resource development and building public-private partnerships, in the United States and internationally.

Prior to joining NeighborWorks America, Debby was principal of Visser and Associates, where she advised philanthropies and nonprofits working in the field of community development. She  also served as program officer for community revitalization at the Surdna Foundation.

Debby holds a bachelor’s degree from Case Western Reserve University and a master’s degree in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Adrienne manages Success Measures evaluation consulting, technical assistance and data analysis projects for funders and their community-based organization grantees.  She also oversees development of new content and curricula for Success Measures’ Distance Learning offerings, and supervises Success Measures consultant certification. 

Prior to joining Success Measures, Adrienne was Senior Research Program Coordinator at Johns Hopkins University Population Center where she worked on issues related to the health literacy of older adults.  She also conducted independent research as a Fulbright grantee at the School of Maori Studies in New Zealand. 

Adrienne holds a B.S. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Social Work, and a master’s degree in International Development  from the University of Pittsburgh.