About | RPM Consulting Group

About RPM Consulting Group

Our mission is to empower and support nonprofit organizations, social advocacy causes, and mission-driven businesses dedicated to strengthening communities and advancing positive change in the world.

We achieve this by enhancing fundraising, campaign, and philanthropic capabilities, enabling organizations to lead with confidence and secure their path to success.

Nonprofit leaders at a pivotal moment in their organization’s lifecycle can find that fundraising is not enough. We stand ready to support you in the transformational period with battle tested, client-focused services and deliverables.

RPM Consulting helps strengthen nonprofits by providing philanthropic strategies, organizational assessments, and strategic planning services. We use these tools to help clients navigate the complexities of their organizations with an eye toward organizational growth and impact.

Our team utilizes a market-smart approach to help our clients stand out in an increasingly competitive funding marketplace. By providing strategic guidance, recommendations, and roadmaps, we help our clients expand their reach within communities and with donors and grantmakers.

We provide customized services to nonprofit organizations of all sizes, social advocacy causes, and mission-driven businesses that, like us, are dedicated to strengthening communities and advancing positive change in the world.

RPM Consulting is an LGBTQ-owned National Standards for Excellence practice.

At RPM Consulting, we specialize in strengthening rapidly growing nonprofits by providing strategies for assessment and growth. As a licensed and certified firm working with clients based in the USA and beyond, we are outstanding at research, evaluation, and resource generation.

Plus, as a nationally licensed Standards for Excellence practice, we tailor our approaches to organizational leaders who want to elevate governance and funding campaign opportunities simultaneously. Our dedicated team has worked with small, mid-sized, and global nonprofits as well as for-profit entities that have an impact investment vehicle for change.

Over 80% of our clients seek assistance in strengthening both their governance and their fundraising strategy to improve sustainable revenue opportunities.

RPM Consulting Group’s (RPMCG’s) approach to its planning, organizational, and fund development strategies is intentionally inclusive, comprehensive, and driven by the participation, insights, and expertise of the community within and a part of our client’s organization, especially the staff/leadership and board. Special consideration or emphasis is often applied to one or more groups based on our client’s needs. Our planning research design is tailored and often involves the leadership team, board of directors, and critical stakeholder groups (i.e., primary referral sources, members, staff, donors, volunteers, partner nonprofits, community leaders, etc.).

Our facilitation dynamic seeks to maintain equity among all parties engaged, while the consulting team will acknowledge previously established protocols in our process. For data collection and discovery, we will hold stakeholder interviews, use surveys, and conduct focus groups for primary data sources to drive our planning processes. We manage and coach for efficiency of a.) the planning process overall, and of b.) the gathering input from stakeholders.

RPM Consulting focuses on the sustainability of our recommendations in consideration of the environment in which an organization sits and in conjunction with our Practice Philosophy, Client Engagement Approach, and Organizational Values.

Our collective approach is to employ market-smart strategies* to help organizational leaders forge new paths to sustainably scale their nonprofit organizations.

Seasoned RPM consultants provide boutique design to guide nonprofit leaders to a higher level of ongoing growth with the guidance and understanding of the Standards for Excellence Institute, a national accreditation and licensing program for nonprofits.

*Our proprietary market-smart strategic approach includes a uniquely combined Michael Porter/Rosabeth Moss Kanter market and environmental scan followed by a proprietary, amalgamated SWOT/SOAR process which includes Aspirations and Results in analysis and reporting (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats & Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results).

A team leader is assigned on each project to interface directly with leadership and is supported by seasoned consultants and trained analysts who understand nonprofit operations, possess a desire for meaningful collaboration, and a drive to build philanthropic and nonprofit capacity. Our consultants are experts in governance, board leadership, nonprofit and grantmaking strategy, communications, marketing, and campaign strategy. We are dedicated to bringing a high level of professionalism, patient persistence, and enthusiasm to our work.

RPM Consulting Group is built on three core company values: integrity, quality methods, and strong personal service to our clients. We are extraordinarily community minded, having dedicated time, talent, and energy to building organizations as board members, key volunteers, and stakeholders. We have held leadership and management positions in leading civic organizations that are led by or serve communities of color, women, LGBTQ+, youth, and older adults.

RPM team members have experience with many types of organizations, including education, foundation, health care and wellness, LGBTQ-focused, membership-based, youth-serving, arts and culture, community centers, and environmental nonprofits.

On a selective basis, RPM Consulting Group charges lower rates to small nonprofits under $1M or takes on a project pro bono, prioritizing organizations that serve historically underserved communities. Further, we donate an average of eight nonprofit sponsorships each year through direct cash support.

Our team practices active listening to ensure we hear and reflect on our client’s needs. We begin with a new client by employing a series of targeted assessments as part of a thorough discovery process and remain transparent about expectations and delivery. This discovery process informs the rationale around our strategy in consideration of your organizational culture.

We know that leading nonprofit organizations is challenging, and we have experience coaching organizational leaders to create and embrace new and updated policies and ideas. We proactively support staff members and members of the Board of Directors as we assist leaders in further defining their roadmap and planning.

Our Team

Perry Monastero, Ed.D.
Principal

R Perry Monastero, EdD, Principal, RPM Consulting Group, LLC, specializes in strengthening nonprofits by taking a market-smart approach to philanthropic strategies, organizational assessment, and strategic planning services for rapidly growing teams. As a small licensed and certified firm serving nonprofits nationwide, Perry and his team are outstanding in research and evaluation. Plus, RPM Consulting is a Standards for Excellence Institute practice that crafts recommendations to leaders who want to bolster governance, community engagement, and fund campaign opportunities simultaneously. The dedicated team works with small to global nonprofits and for-profit entities that have an impact investment vehicle for change.

Perry has facilitated or conducted planning with over 60 organizations including Friends of Peace Valley Nature Center, Cancer Support Community Greater Philadelphia, Carole Landis Foundation for Social Action, Wells Mountain Initiative, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, Mt. Airy Art Garage, Climate Solutions, House of (Manolo) Blahnik, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia Voices of Pride, among others. In addition, he guided statewide coalition building strategy for five years for The Trevor Project.

Early in his career, Perry served in enrollment management, competitive research, and consulting roles at two large universities and a global public relations firm. Next, as a pioneer employee, Monastero helped build the administrative systems for what became the nation’s fourth largest private funder. As the inaugural executive director of a community funder, he created and developed the nonprofit’s programming, fundraising, and grantmaking while providing technical services to over 100 nonprofits. In addition, on a tiny shoestring budget, he led the marketing, communications, and fundraising teams at one of the nation’s leading LGBTQ medical, legal, and social service organizations, and guided sustainable improvements in revenue and branding. Monastero earned his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania focusing on socioeconomic, political, economic, and religious movements, and their associated nonprofits’ presence in a competitive market for funding.

Perry Monastero, Founder & CEO

Facilitator, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business New Strategies Program
Instructor & Consultant (a.k.a. Constructor): The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University
Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations Consultant (PA license expires August 2026)
Statewide General Fundraising Counsel Licenses (2022-2025): NC, NJ, MA, PA
Licensed Standards of Excellence Consultant (National license expiration: June 2026)
CFRE Designation (Pending December 2026)
Professional Affiliations with Lindauer Global (Executive Search) and Message Agency (Digital Design), two leading national firms in their domains
Certified LGBT Business Enterprise®
Metro Philadelphia News – 2022 LGBTQ+ Power Players
Membership, AFP Global and AFP Greater Philadelphia & Boston chapters
Member & 2023 Conference Presenter, National Association of Charitable Gift Planners
Accelerate StreetWise ‘MBA’ (September 2023), a national program administered by the Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

2025 Consulting Team

Administrative:

Executive Assistant & Administrator, Teresa DiPaolo-Ascher

Consulting Analyst & Systems Manager, Alyssa Ascher

Administrative Consultant, Donna Saul Millen

Lead Partner Consultants:

Morgen Cheshire, Principal, Managing Attorney, Cheshire Law Group (Nonprofit Law)

Marcus Iannozzi, Principal of Message Agency, a division of Tech Impact (Digital Services)

Michael Schweisheimer, CEO of PWP Video (Video Development & Storytelling)

Deb Taft, CEO of Lindauer Global (Nonprofit Executive Search)

Ellen LaPointe, Partner, NPAG (Nonprofit Executive Search)

Associate Consultants and Creative Team:

Kimberly J. Allen, Nonprofit Strategy & Corporate/Foundation Development Consultant

Deja Lynn Alvarez, Nonprofit Founder, Community Activist, Grassroots Leader & Executive

Stephanie Chapuis, Nonprofit Consultant (former Executive Director)

Liam Dacey, Coalition Campaign Leader & Fundraising Consultant

Rachel Dukeman, Strategic Planning & Communications Consultant

Elisabeth Flynn, Advancement & Strategy Writing and Public Relations Consultant

Kendra Gaeta, Creative and Communications Consultant

Tracy Katz, Nonprofit Fundraising, Grant Research & Writing Consultant

D’Ontace D’Angelo Keyes, Development & Digital Marketing Consultant

Zena Lum, Development & Advancement Consultant, Executive Search Consultant

Karl Michelfelder, Graphic & Web Design Consultant

Donna Saul Millen, Operations, Strategy, and Program Revenue Maximization Consultant

Marvin Rocha, Individual Giving & Fundraising Campaign Consultant

Joey Sweeney, Creative Director & Strategic Writing Consultant

Ashley Suhler Tobin, Organizational Change & Program Design + Startup Consultant

Jean Wintz-Dabney, Organizational Consultant

Long-Term Vision

"At RPM Consulting, through our values and principles, we aspire to become a leading national and trusted voice for the fast-growing, change-making nonprofit organizations seeking to strengthen governance, programs, and revenue sources."

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