A Certified Fundraising Executive and the Founder and President of Ardent Group, LLC.Kate is a passionate community leader, dedicated to the establishment of valuable collaborations with businesses and individuals to achieve common objectives for nonprofits. Kate has great communication skills, exceptional analytical and technical abilities, with substantial project management success. Kate applies her many years of human resource consulting experiences serving clients across a wide-range of industries to develop creative solutions to a variety of development team challenges. Kate is proud of her varied professional history that includes a position as a math teacher and service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the former Soviet Union.