As a young person, Perry was inspired by his mentors and life-changing volunteer experiences to create a career affecting societal change through nonprofit work. After 25 years in the nonprofit field, he launched RPM Consulting to help nonprofit leaders sustainably scale their organizations.  

Perry brings three decades of battle-tested nonprofit experience as a licensed and certified fundraising consultant working with leaders to effectively scale their rapidly growing organizations. He helped to build the initial administrative systems for what ultimately became the nation’s fourth largest private funder and then served as the inaugural executive director of a start-up community fund which raised an estimated $11 million in planned gifts. He served as the chief advancement and revenue leader at one of the nation’s premiere LGBTQ medical and social service organizations to substantially grow their revenue and branding resources during a period of significant organizational growth. His doctoral research focused on utopian economic, religious, political, and social justice organizations aligning their start-up growth to relative external movements within a competitive marketplace of funding.  

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R Perry Monastero, Principal of RPM Consulting launched his firm after 25 years in the nonprofit field. For Perry, it is a thrill and intrinsically rewarding to partner with a range of executives and leaders to sustainably scale their operations. As a young person, he was significantly and positively impacted by the power and support of nonprofit programs and was inspired to create his life’s mission around being a part of societal change through nonprofit work. Perry recently shared, “The work has never felt like work to me, and yet I know to better improve my service to nonprofit leaders, I have continued to strengthen my knowledge and hone my skills.” 

Monastero earned his doctorate from University of Pennsylvania focusing on the history of social-religious-economic justice movements and their associated nonprofits’ presence in a competitive market for funding during the start-up phases. 

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Early in his career, he served in enrollment management, competitive research, and consulting roles at University of Pennsylvania, BCW (formerly Burson-Marsteller), and Saint Leo University. Next, as a pioneer employee, Monastero helped build the administrative systems for what became the nation’s fourth largest private funder (Wellspring Philanthropic Fund). As the inaugural executive director of a nascent community foundation in Philadelphia (DVLF at the Philadelphia Foundation), he created and developed the fund’s programming, fundraising, and grantmaking while providing direct technical services to over 100 nonprofit groups during his five-year tenure. In addition, with a tiny, shoestring budget, he led the marketing, fundraising, and communications teams at one of the nation’s leading LGBTQ medical, legal, and social service organizations and helped them substantially grow their revenue and branding resources while supporting the CEO and Board Chair to strengthen the 17-member Board of Directors.