About Our Consultants

Laura Huth
President & CEO, Trainer & Principal Consultant

After 13 years in the trenches of a variety of local, state, and nationally-affiliated non-profit organizations, Laura now leads the award-winning team at do good Consulting. She has in-depth experience in nearly every aspect of non-profit organizational management including fundraising, staff development, marketing and outreach, strategic planning, special events, media campaigns, and organizational growth strategies.

At age 24, Laura founded the Illinois Student Environmental Network, a statewide training organization increasing the skills and capacity of student environmental groups across Illinois. In her 10 years of leadership, the group grew to over 3,000 students across Illinois working on college campuses and in communities for energy efficiency, recycling, and sustainable development. She also helped found several grassroots community groups, such as Save Our Trees, a community-based group that defeated a major utility company’s plans to raze community trees near power lines, and the award-winning Historic East Urbana Neighborhood Association, a neighborhood preservation organization. As a two-term elected member of the Urbana City Council, she spent nearly eight years forming coalitions of citizens working for sound community planning, sustainable business development, and efficient transportation.

For three years, Laura served as executive director of the local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity. During her tenure, she turned the near-broke organization into an award-winning local powerhouse, building seven homes a year and dramatically increasing funding while positioning the affiliate for long-term growth and sustainability.

Laura specializes in full-scale donor-driven fundraising programs and strategies, program development, organizational growth and strategic planning, marketing and outreach strategies, storytelling, image and service enhancement, and investing local businesses and media in the work of area charities.

In 2008, Laura was named the Female of the Year by the Central Illinois Business magazine. In 2009, she was named the Lisa Mauney Outstanding Fundraising Executive by the Association of Fundraising Professionals of East Central Illinois.

Read Laura's full biography here.

Jenn Raley Miller, SPHR
Management & Communications Specialist

Jenn Raley Miller is driven to help organizations achieve excellence in the following areas:

• managing human resources (staff and volunteers)
• developing efficient processes, procedures, and systems
• communicating effectively with all stakeholders
• using the right kinds of technology to accomplish identified goals

Jenn has been involved in the non-profit sector since 1989. Over time, she has served in a wide range of roles: volunteer, donor, staff member, board member, and co-founder. She has worked with organizations of all sizes and types, making a difference in causes as diverse as housing and food for needy individuals, animal rescue, empowering people with disabilities, student-run theatre, supporting internationals living in the United States, and local and international faith-based organizations.

She comes to do good with a deep understanding of staffing and “people management” issues, with over four years of in-the-trenches human resources experience. Her diverse skill set also includes communication planning and execution, project management, and business process analysis. Having spent six years as a web developer, primarily for non-profits and small businesses, Jenn has deep and broad expertise in implementing web, database, e-marketing, and design projects.

Read Jenn's full biography here.

Elizabeth Simpson
Group Dynamics & Teambuilding Specialist

Elizabeth has done interpersonal and intra-group dynamic work since 1995 and is certified in Victim-Offender Reconciliation, Circle Mediation, and Family Group Processing. She is trained in a variety of decision-making modes, including Formal Consensus, Dynamic Governance (sociocracy) and Restorative Justice Principles. She has assisted groups with retreats, visioning, board trainings, grant research and writing, and uses a variety of creative strategies to draw on the resources of groups to find answers to the issues at hand. Elizabeth has worked with groups to address how privilege in organizations affects members' ability to work together and has also worked with groups around the dynamics of class and gender. In addtion to her fantastic work in group dynamics and teambuilding, Elizabeth also spearheads do good Consulting's grantwriting services for clients. Detailed, focused, and amazing with words, Elizabeth has a remarkable record in securing winning proposals for clients. In addition to her work with do good, Elizabeth also serves as Peer Mediation Coordinator at Urbana Middle School and is facilitating an Inter-group Dialogue on Race & Ethnicity at UIUC.

Read Elizabeth's full biography here.

Tim Newcomb
Internet Technologies & Constituent Management Systems Specialist

Tim Newcomb has been helping non-profit organizations across Illinois fill technology needs for over ten years. His passion is helping non-profits increase both their understanding of technology and how it can be used to involve more people to reach organizational goals. As IT & CMS Specialist for do good, Tim brings both public and private sector experience to clients and provides expertise in the areas of networking, application selection and integration, database management, server administration, as well as technology needs assessment. Tim actively manages web and file servers daily, developing web applications, training staff in desktop applications, and leveraging both commercial and open source software to further the organization’s strategic directions. Tim has helped to develop an online collaboration application based on Microsoft SharePoint technology to bring together over 1,100 people in more than 50 websites to share knowledge, make policy, and develop shared resources.

Working with a small faith based children’s aid non-profit organization, Tim created a network from the ground up including cabling, internet access, server selection, and installation of Active Directory and also assisted in locating low cost software and hardware options for organizational users. He also creates and maintains users, applications, and newsletter software for this organization. Tim has managed networks sized from two computers to 300 with three locations across the United States.

Read Tim's full biography here.

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