Bio

Meet Your Coach/Consultant

Tom Brush is a nonprofit consultant/coach who partners with nonprofit leaders and organizations to design strategies to further engagement with their constituencies, effectively manage volunteers and boards, increase donations from individuals, corporations, and foundations, and creatively steward donors.   After spending nearly 25 years working in leadership, engagement and development in the nonprofit sector, Tom knows that each organization is unique and he helps them find their own unique pathway to success. 

As the founder of Advancement Designs, Tom has supported nonprofits of all sizes in the areas of strategic planning, organizational leadership, board and volunteer management, and resource generation.  He regularly presents and speaks on these topics at conferences and in front of groups large and small.

As a result of working with Tom, nonprofits have focused their efforts enabling them to spend more time on the actions that produce the greatest results and help them take their next step along their unique pathway to success. 

Additionally, he serves as an Associate Consultant with the Maryland Association of Nonprofits (MANO), Tom holds a Bachelor's degree, an MBA, and has served as president of two nonprofit boards.  He is also a Standards of Excellence Licensed Consultant and a member of AFP.

Outside of his passion for consulting and coaching nonprofit professionals and organizations, Tom loves to network, connect with other professionals and officiate girls and women's lacrosse.

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"Tom has a wealth of knowledge, which he is eager to share. Tom listened to and understood our current needs and provided feedback catered to our organization. He was very well prepared for the call, researching our organization in advance so that he had a good foundational understanding of our work. I know that our organization will benefit from Tom's feedback and suggestions!"  Maggie R.,  Director, Lori's Hands


"As you probably remember the Board set my EOY fundraising goal at $160,000 (operating burn to last until the gala in May). They themselves pledged $10K. Taking your advice I leveraged that with about 10 donors and leveraged the matches against other matches and had a couple of “last minute” EOY type family foundations offer us grants. All in, all done, I raised (with my team and God’s provision OF COURSE) $239,000.  VERY HAPPY – thank you for all your counsel & advice!!! It was SUPER helpful."  Suellen D., Meals by Grace