Our Team
Going the distance isn’t just a slogan.
Bloom Metz Consulting associates have very impressive and successful track records, stemming from years of experience, both as experts in their fields and as volunteers. Bloom Metz Consulting’s associates are all active volunteers in their personal lives so they know first-hand the challenges today’s nonprofit organizations face. We quickly relate to our clients adapting their passions and goals, as well as empathizing with each situation allowing us to go the distance for them, and with them, as they meet their challenges.
Senior Management
Marla Cooper
Work Email: marlacooper@bloommetz.comINTERNET
Having risen through the ranks in the for-profit, corporate world for nearly 20 years, Marla has honed her skills as a marketing professional in a competitive, dynamic and demanding environment. While working at top advertising agencies early in her career, she learned to use communications to sell ideas, services and products of all kinds. With a mid-career move to the client side, Marla developed an expertise in conducting and interpreting market research and trends to build awareness, impact perceptions and create demand. At Bloom Metz Consulting, she puts her experience to work for nonprofit clients, developing marketing and communications strategies that produce immediate and quantifiable results.
Susan Sherk
Work Email: susansherk@bloommetz.comINTERNET
Susan's extensive public service experience has enhanced her ability to serve our clients. Susan has more than 30 years experience in Washington, DC, working on Capitol Hill in various capacities with members of both the House and Senate, as well as service with the Small Business Administration. Susan began her fundraising career as a Major Gifts Officer for Sarah Lawrence College followed by her tenure with the Delaware Community Foundation and the Delaware Symphony. Susan is active in the community as a volunteer for Christ Church Christiana Hundred, and as a board member of St. Michael's School & Nursery. She is a former Board member of the Delaware Museum of Natural History, the Delaware Community Foundation Board and the past Chair of the Fund For Women.
Wil Sherk
Work Email: wilsherk@bloommetz.comINTERNET
Wil has over 35 years experience as a nonprofit executive and board member. He currently chairs the Christiana Care Visiting Nurse Association Board and is Senior Warden of Christ Church Christiana Hundred. He was Deputy Director and Chief Financial Officer of Winterthur Museum, and Chief Operating Officer of The National Cathedral. Wil brings deep experience in organization strategy and financial management to his clients. His projects for Bloom Consulting include strategy development, capital campaign feasibility assessment and campaign management.
Project Consultants
Debbie Amster
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Debbie has spent close to 35 years working in the nonprofit arena, focusing on program development, implementation and evaluation. She has expertise in coaching, strategic planning, leadership development, conference planning, grantmaking and community building. Prior to joining our consulting firm, Debbie was the Director of Accreditation for Hillel. She has also worked with B'nai Brith, BBYO, JCCs and several health care organizations.
Elizabeth Brodt
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Elizabeth’s expertise includes Event Planning as well as fundraising, marketing leadership, business development, strategic planning, client relations, public speaking, and visual design. She was featured on NBC/Philadelphia TV, and Wilmington print publications: The Bystander, Out & About, as a Cooking Instructor.Elizabeth holds a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College in Norton, MA. She is an active member in her community and resides in Wilmington, DE with her husband and three children.
Susan Detwiler
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Susan has more than 30 years experience in both nonprofit and for-profit management. Prior to joining Bloom Metz Consulting, she served as Executive Director of the Kristol Center for Jewish Life at University of Delaware. She has served on the boards of a variety of nonprofits, such as the Warsaw Community Day Care and the Fort Wayne Jewish Federation. Susan came to the nonprofit industry following 18 years as the head of a marketing and business consulting firm serving the healthcare industry, including clients such as Dow Jones and Johnson & Johnson.
Guillermina Gonzalez
Work Email: guillerminagonzalez@bloommetz.comINTERNET
Guillermina is a multicultural executive leader with experience in for-profit corporations as well as in the nonprofit sector. While honing her communications skills as an editorialist, radio host, consultant, teacher and public speaker, Guillermina has also served as a volunteer and professional for several nonprofit economic, cultural and educational organizations.
Lewis Grafman
Work Email: lewisgrafman@bloommetz.comINTERNET
Lew brings a diverse background and experience in leadership identification and development, synagogue structure, organization of board of directors and committees, fundraising/development, marketing, management and communication to Bloom Metz Consulting. Lew served for six and one half years as executive director of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Mid-Atlantic Region. He is tied in many ways to the web of his community: he is a former president of and remains actively involved in both his synagogue, Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia area Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education (now Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education/Jewish Outreach Partnership.) He has served at various times on the boards of directors/trustees of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Abramson Center for Jewish Life, Gratz College Jewish Community High School and the Philadelphia Jewish Community Relations Council. Lew is an attorney, who previously practiced law for almost thirty years, and still is an active member of the Pennsylvania and Montgomery Bar Associations.
Kay Keenan
Work Email: kaykeenan@bloommetz.comINTERNET
Kay’s expertise is an accomplished marketer, business leader, popular speaker on business development, new media, leading nonprofits, marketing, and fund raising. She is the co-author of Conversation on Networking and leads workshops on building relationships. She regularly tweets (ConsultKeenan) and speaks on nonprofit topics. She has had key marketing roles with leading Fortune 1000 companies, and most recently was the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. While at Big Brothers Big Sisters she led the repositioning for the organization to become both donor and volunteer focused. This repositioning was based on breakthrough research in understanding donors. Her strategic marketing consulting clients have included Campbell Soup Company, Conectiv Communications, the State of Delaware, Technical Concepts (now Rubbermaid Commercial Products), United Way of Delaware and Winterthur Museum. Kay has extensive experience in leading annual and capital campaigns. Kay holds a bachelor’s degree from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA and her MBA is from Syracuse University. She is an active Rotarian, board member for the Delaware Fund for Women and lay leader with the Episcopal Church. Kay and her husband live in Wilmington, Delaware. They have two adult daughters and a new son-in-law!
Tara Kornblum
Work Email: tarakornblum@bloommetz.comINTERNET
Tara brings with her years of leadership experience in the non-profit world to help further the firm range of services offered to nonprofit organizations including fundraising, strategic planning, marketing and leadership development, and communication. Most recently she held the position Director of Youth and Synagogue Programming at Congregation B'nai Torah in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Before that she worked extensively with youths and teens for organizations including Big Brothers Big Sisters and the YMCA where she was a director for the Teen, Outreach and Sports. Tara holds a Master of Jewish Education from Siegal College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Management from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Cynthia Primo Martin
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Cynthia Primo Martin is a seasoned executive with 23 years of fund development, marketing and public relations. She has numerous distinctions to her credit, including being the first woman officer of color at Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company in Hartford, CT. Cynthia has been a member and officer of the board of trustees of the Brandywine Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (formerly NSFRE). She has served as a trustee/director of many nonprofit organizations including University of Delaware, Delaware Community Foundation, St. Andrew’s School, National Council for Community and Justice, Delaware Symphony Association, United Way of Delaware, Peninsula United Methodist Homes, Inc. Foundation, Christiana Care Health Systems, Fund for Women, YWCA and Ingleside Homes, Inc., Donor Market, and the Delaware Chapter of the Jefferson Awards. She was organizer and chair of the Quintin E. Primo Jr. Lecture Series (PLS), which brought national and global human rights leaders including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Andrew Young and Mary Robinson to Delaware to participate in public foray on issues of race and reconciliation. She is the Founder of the Trustees of Color (TOC) initiative whose mission is to establish a sustainable process to ensure that Delaware’s nonprofit boards are inclusive of people of color.
Beth Schonberger
Work Email: bethschonberger@bloommetz.comINTERNET
Beth has been a professional fundraiser for 20 years. Her expertise includes the development and implementation of feasibility studies, strategic planning, board development, capital & endowment campaign management, marketing and public relations, coporate sponsorship, event planning and direct mail. Beth previously served as a Senior Major Gifts Officer for the School of Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania and has also worked for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey.
David T. Woods
Work Email: davidwoods@bloommetz.comINTERNET
David brings 18 years of both church leadership and nonprofit leadership to Bloom Metz Consulting.David's diverse background includes serving in the fulltime ministry in London, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and in Newark, Delaware. He also served as the founding Director of Development for Nativity Preparatory School of Wilmington and most recently as the President and CEO of Social Venture Partners Delaware. David's expertise includes capacity building, development assessment and planning, leadership development, capital and endowment campaign management, and event management. David currently serves on the Tatnall Board of Directors, is on Delaware’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Group and is an active Rotarian. David resides in Wilmington DE with his wife and three daughters.
