• "Darci is amazing. She facilitated a strategic planning process with the consultant interim executive director group for the Center. There was such enthusiasm that we launched a program that has increased our placements tenfold."

  Jacqueline Janssen

  Janssen & Associates

  Formerly Director of Transition Services

  Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership

  

• "I appreciate and admire your ability to create a safe space for groups
  to have authentic conversations... You’ve been consistently flexible (and good-natured) and at the same time, very talented and creative in modifying the group process in real time while keeping the end outcome in mind."

  Dr. Dan Siegel

  Executive Director, Mindsight Institute,
  Los Angeles, CA

  

• "As you depart as Executive Director from the California School-Age Consortium, you leave behind a legacy of professionalism and dedication to your work, and I know that your distinguished service will long be an example for those who follow you."

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  (Then) Office of
  The Governor,
  Sacramento, CA

Network of Experts

Dating as far back as her first executive director job with the Nuclear Weapons Freeze, her years of experience with NPOs from around the state has allowed Darci to develop and retain key relationships with community leaders and experts. Of the many types of leaders and specialists one needs, she knows someone — or at least someone who knows someone. From accounting, to website designers, to fundraisers, to lobbyists, to computer specialists — her network of community leaders, experts and allies run the breadth of the field and business management.