Catherine Pederson

About Catherine Pederson

Deep down, I’m a geek. I like research, data, and learning. I can help your nonprofit run…

Experience

1. Relational Leader Strategic Thinker Data-driven Consultant Speaker

   Loving Venti

   Mar 2016 — Present · Milwaukee, WI, US

   Loving Venti, LLC. is a consulting practice, specifically focused on small-to-medium sized nonprofits, that fills organizational cracks so that nonprofits can serve to their fullest capacity. We do this by helping nonprofits improve operations, create alignment, and empower their staff/volunteers to fulfill its mission through a people-centered approach.Our Story:Once I had a prized coffee mug, hand-crafted by my brother-in-law. Mmm, I loved how my coffee tasted in that mug.One morning, I pressed too hard and my mug broke to pieces. I thought there was nothing I could do to salvage it, so I sadly threw it in the trash.Life is like that sometimes, isn’t it? Sometimes our lives crumble under pressure and we feel discarded, thrown away like my beautiful mug. I thought about what people do in Japan to fix their broken items: they fill the cracks of their broken things with gold. Not only does its strength hold broken pieces together, it also adds profound beauty to the item that was broken.It’s likely your nonprofit began to do good work in this world–work that responds to some of the brokenness you’ve seen or experienced by patching up the cracks and crevices with strength and beauty.Over the past 17 years, I have started, worked for, and overseen several small to medium-sized nonprofits. When I first started out, I didn’t know how to operate a nonprofit business. I searched for resources but they were mostly geared for large, existing nonprofits, not for the needs of the organization I was trying to establish. We had a young and inexperienced team with few financial resources, but we were united with a passion for making a difference that would rival any large nonprofit. We did eventually figure it out, but it seemed like we were spending more time learning how to run an organization than we were serving the people we were called to serve. In other words, it wasn’t a good use of our energy.Join our Loving Venti community and we will walk with you.

Skills

• Customer Service
• Volunteer Management
• Theology
• Leadership Development
• Grants
• Spiritual Direction
• Strategic Planning
• Nonprofits
• Law Enforcement
• Organizational Development
• Preaching
• Strategist
• Activator
• Graphic Design
• Blogging
• Fundraising
• Social Media Marketing
• Powerpoint
• Discipleship
• Wordpress
• Social Media
• Leadership
• Police
• Teaching
• Photoshop
• Community Outreach
• Public Speaking