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Jarrett Ransom with The Rayvan Group

August 10, 2017 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Jarrett Ransom with The Rayvan Group

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Surely we all know someone who is involved in a worthy cause where they are proud to donate their time and/or money. It feels great to contribute; and, the list of possibilities are endless when you get clear about who you want to help. For Jarrett Ransom and The Rayvan Group, they are all about helping the people who lead these causes so that they are more visible, sustainable and truly reaching the group or cause they aim to serve. Listen in as Phoenix Business Radio Host, Karen Nowicki, interviews Jarrett about the positive difference she and The Rayvan Group are making in the nonprofit world.

The Rayvan Group works with clients world-wide to build sustainable and effective fundraising solutions. They serve as an extension of these tax exempt organizations and work in partnership with leaders and their advisory boards. In 2016 alone, The Rayvan Group submitted over 90 corporate and foundation grants, federal proposals, and letters of intents. A total of 33 submissions were successful, with awards totaling $2,867,914.

Jarrett started The Rayvan Group in 2009 and brings more than 15 years’ experience with international, national and local organizations, including Girls Golf of Phoenix, Habitat for Humanity, the Paraiso Project and St. Mary’s Food Bank. She has successfully managed development and communications functions for more than 10 campaigns with a combined goal totaling $6 million.

She is passionate about creating community, empowering others to see and exceed their full potential, and crafting compelling stories in support of mission-driven organizations.

For more information, contact:

Jarrett Ransom

Website: https://www.therayvangroup.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRayvanGroup/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrransom/

Business LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/16258237/

Life University and Solution Road

March 16, 2016 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Life University and Solution Road

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Life University and Solution Road

We continue our series with Dr. Gilles LaMarche of Life University, focusing on business leaders with integrity. I had the pleasure of featuring my publicist, Sarah Smith, Founder of Solution Road, and her creative director, Teresa Roth. Having gotten to know Sarah over the past year I can readily say she fits the theme of integrity in personal and professional life.

Her consultancy, Solution Road, brings clients expertise in branding and message, fund raising/development, a speakers bureau, advocacy, and more. The company has worked with clients in biotechnology, health sciences, and the business sector, among others.

We talked about how important integrity is in branding and message, along with the importance of presenting useful information via social media platforms. Peruse any marketing-related sites these days and it’s quickly clear that providing high-quality, engaging content that informs your customer with insights they can use is necessary to succeed in today’s digital world.

Special Guests:

Sarah K. Smith, CEO/Founder, of Solution Road

Masters Degree, English, University of Essex
Previous Director, Corporate Marketing, Emory University
Former Vice President, The Emmy Awards Foundation
Previous Director, Special Projects, TEDx Peachtree

Teresa Roth, Creative Director, Solution Road

BA, Communications, University of Arkansas
Previous Executive Producer, WSB-TV Channel 2 Atlanta
Founder, Teresa Roth Productions

Dr. Gilles LaMarche, DC, VP of Professional Relations at Life University

Doctor of Chiropractic, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Author, The ART of Responsibility, Insight Publishing 2012
Certified Six Advisors Coach, Six Advisors Coaching Academy
Previous Vice President, Parker College of Chiropractic

Holley Calmes & Amy Ward with Gwinnett Ballet Theatre, Dr. Taushlea Green with Caring Hands Mobile Chiropractic, Josh Seides with Technocademy, and Kyle Valencia with MotivDeals

March 10, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Holley Calmes & Amy Ward with Gwinnett Ballet Theatre, Dr. Taushlea Green with Caring Hands Mobile Chiropractic, Josh Seides with Technocademy, and Kyle Valencia with MotivDeals

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Mike Sammond, Holley Calmes, Amy Ward, Dr Taushlea Green, Josh Seides, Kyle Valencia, Steven Julian

Holley Calmes & Amy Ward/Gwinnett Ballet Theatre

Gwinnett Ballet Theatre has been nurturing young dancers since 1977. The first performing arts non-profit school and company in Gwinnett County, GBT has grown to become one of the most respected dance educators and performance companies in the metro Atlanta area. GBT’s “The Nutcracker” is Georgia’s second largest with 16 shows performed annually at the Infinite Energy Theatre (formerly the Gwinnett Performing Arts Center) the first three weekends in December and accompanied by the beautiful Gwinnett Ballet Theatre Orchestra.

Dr. Taushlea Green/Caring Hands Mobile Chiropractic

Caring Hands Chiropractic understands how hectic life can be. That is why they come to your home or office. Caring Hands Chiropractic provides spinal correction for adults and children as well as prenatal chiropractic care. They are dedicated to finding a better way for their patients to heal and reach their full potential. It’s their belief that everyone, no matter what age, can benefit from chiropractic care. Spinal misalignment prevents healthy cell metabolism and organ function. Physical and mental wellness is also hindered. They want to help you through chiropractic care. At Caring Hands Chiropractic, they believe that the human body has the power to heal itself. Pain isn’t something you should have to live with. They can help you get on the road to good health.

Josh Seides/Technocademy

Josh Seides is a high school senior from Alpharetta High School in Atlanta. He is the Founder/CEO of a nonprofit organization called Technocademy. They help senior citizens and veterans connect with their family and friends by offering free technology lessons throughout the community. They have helped over 170-thousand people learn technology and have spread awareness of digital illiteracy to over 18.3 million people through online campaigns. They have been featured in U.S. News and World Report, Yahoo!, Entrepreneur, and others.

Kyle Valencia/MotivDeals Fundraising

Supporting cancer research, upgrading sports equipment, remodeling your school cafeteria, or building a great youth center. Motivdeals was created to help people who are motivated to get things done. They help local sports teams, schools, churches, and other organizations raise funds in a new and exciting way. Forget the candles, cookies, gift wrap, and deal cards that people either don’t want or they lose. Motivdeals has developed a user experience, whereby members can access tons of local deals 24/7 using their mobile devices.

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Solution Road and Mosaic

December 22, 2015 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Solution Road and Mosaic

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Solution Road and Mosaic

This week marked the beginning of a bi-weekly series we’ll be hosting with Dr. Gilles LaMarche, VP of Professional Relations at Life University where we’ll be focusing on integrity in the business community and personal life. This series will be leading into the Life Talks World Congress event coming up May 12-13, 2016.

Life Talks is about empowering leaders to create social change, make a transformational impact on the world and remove the interference to maximize their perfection within. The event includes thought leadersin business and productivity, physical health, nutrition, compassion, forgiveness, vitalism, quantum healing, and more.

We will be featuring business leaders who are known to value integrity in their professional and personal lives, and we will introduce several high school students from the community who have also been recognized for exemplifying the trait in their personal and academic endeavors.

We were joined in studio by Sarah Smith and Stu Sheldon, of Solution Road and Mosaic, respectively. Sarah has spent numerous years helping non-profit and for-profit organizations raise funding and public awareness for their respective work. She draws on experience from healthcare as well as media and is very selective in the clients she and her team take on at Solution Road.

Stu is an expert in experiential marketing, in which brands look to engage a targeted subset of their customer base. Their goal is to create an immersive experience that has a measure of exclusivity and hands-on interaction with elements of the brand. In this way, the client company is able to leverage Earned Media to get people talking about their experience. I first met Stu on the Midtown Business show talking about Escalate, the experiential marketing company that was recently acquired by Mosaic.

Special Guests:

Dr. Gilles LaMarche, DC, VP of Professional Relations at Life University

Doctor of Chiropractic, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Author, The ART of Responsibility, Insight Publishing 2012
Certified Six Advisors Coach, Six Advisors Coaching Academy
Previous Vice President, Parker College of Chiropractic

Sarah K. Smith, CEO/Founder, of Solution Road

Masters Degree, English, University of Essex
Previous Director, Corporate Marketing, Emory University
Former Vice President, The Emmy Awards Foundation
Previous Director, Special Projects, TEDx Peachtree

Stuart Sheldon, Chief Advocacy Officer at Mosaic

BA, English and Journalism, Washington and Lee University
Former Senior Brand Manager, Coca Cola Company
Founder and Former Evangelist Prime, ConnectUs Marketing
2006 Coca-Cola North America Big, Bold & Inspiring Marketing award; Coca-Cola Worldwide Marketing Excellence award finalist

Romanoff Renovations and Solution Road

July 24, 2015 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Romanoff Renovations and Solution Road

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Romanoff Renovations and Solution Road

This week I was joined in studio by guest co-host, Bo Wilkins, of Sound River Advisors. Sound River Advisors is a collection of experts who help privately-held businesses create compensation packages designed to retain key high-value executives. Their compensation plans help preserve the owners’ equity in their business while rewarding the leaders who have helped build the business.

We sat down with Doug Romanoff, founder of Romanoff Renovations, a flooring installation company he started in 1974. Doug described how, as a young man recently out of college, he decided he wanted to start his own company after working for another company for a while. He shared how at the time, he had only $300 in his bank account. So, he would buy some discontinued carpeting nearby, go into the city and market it to apartment complexes that were renovating, selling them the product he’d bought and installing it for them.

Over the ensuing 40 years he became one of Home Depot’s largest contractors, installing their flooring at over 400 of their locations around the country. His business has grown from that one man start-up to a business with over 2000 installers, billing over $100 million per year.

We also talked about how he established a charitable foundation through the company called The Romanoff Foundation, focused on helping individuals and families in the community who are struggling.

Solution Road is a not-for-profit whose mission is to help organizations in need of fundraising. Sarah Smith and her colleague, Charlie Craig, came by to talk about how they put their skills at relationship-building to work for the organizations they serve to help them achieve their goals.

This new company’s first client is GeoVax, an Atlanta-based organization that is in the later stages of testing the vaccine they have developed to prevent HIV. GeoVax is also now actively working to develop a vaccine that will successfully prevent Ebola as well.

Sarah and Charlie explained how rewarding it is for them to be helping an organization with such far-reaching impact if they are successful in their efforts. We were pleased to help them tell their story!

Special Guests:

Bo Wilkins, Partner, SoundRiver Advisors

Former Executive Managing Director, Wealth Management, Reliance Trust Company
Former Partner, Nease, Lagana, Eden, & Culley
BA, History & German, Hampden-Sydney College
CLU – Chartered Life Underwriter; ChFC – Chartered Financial Consultant; CAP – Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy

Doug Romanoff, CEO/Founder, of Romanoff Renovations

Sarah K. Smith, CEO/Founder, of Solution Road

Masters Degree, English, University of Essex
Previous Director, Corporate Marketing, Emory University
Former Vice President, The Emmy Awards Foundation
Previous Director, Special Projects, TEDx Peachtree

Charlie Craig, COO of Solution Road

Master of Arts, Bioethics, Emory University
Master’s Degree, Journalism, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Previous Author and Editor, Global Technology Report, Ernst & Young
Former President, Georgia Bio

April Rooks with Cornerstone Personal Development, Jim Miskell with Estate Planning of Georgia, Stan Shkilnyi with the Barrow Group, and Art & Denise Picus with Sports Image

October 2, 2014 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

April Rooks with Cornerstone Personal Development, Jim Miskell with Estate Planning of Georgia, Stan Shkilnyi with the Barrow Group, and Art & Denise Picus with Sports Image

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Mike Sammond, April Rooks, Jim Miskell, Denise Picus, Stan Shkilnyi, Art Picus, Steven Julian

April Rooks/Cornerstone Personal Development

Cornerstone Personal Development is a team of management professionals providing training and development for business in North Georgia through innovate seminars, events and on-site leadership development programs. Their objective is to assist organizations in developing healthy cultural habits, defining boundaries and expectations that provide structure, improve productivity and help with conflict resolution. By also working with teams and individuals they are able to provide character development to improve work ethics and build life skills. They believe if you wish to build a better company, invest in people.

Jim Miskell/Estate Planning Law Group of Georgia

The Estate Planning Law Group of Georgia provides peace of mind removing undue anxiety for their clients; whether it’s working with families to create an asset protection plan for elder years, or documenting decisions made in advance of a crisis for healthcare and financial wishes, they help families to legally prepare for what the future holds.

Stan Shkilnyi/Barrow Group

The Lion is more than a symbol to them. Its strength is at the heart of everything they do. The experience of the Barrow Group in the temp staffing and Film/TV production industries allows them to design an insurance program specifically for your company. Ares of expertise and coverage include workers compensation, general liability, and group health benefits. Why settle for the help of an “insurance agency” when you can have the Barrow Group’s staffing industry & film production industry experience work for you.

Art Picus & Denise Picus/Sports Image

Sports Image is an all-inclusive sports marketing and event management firm helping schools and grassroots organizations nationwide. Through sponsorship activation, they strive to help organizations get free equipment and funding for their programs. They help to “take the PAY out of PLAY.”

Jesse Carter: Fundraising In The Direct Sales and Network Marketing Industries

December 29, 2010 by angishields

The Launch Hour

Jesse Carter: Fundraising In The Direct Sales and Network Marketing Industries

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The Nonprofit and Fundraising Industry is the Third largest segment of our economy. As such, Direct Sales and Network Marketing companies are desperately trying to find their comfort zone of selling their products to nonprofit organizations. There is big money to be made and we’re talking with Jesse Carter, a pioneering leader in the Direct Sales Fundraising Industry. Learn why there’s a huge potential in the direct sales industry and how fundraising development is not fully understood right now and how you can benefit by getting involved early. Discover how you can profit as an entrepreneur in this newly transforming segment of the Direct Sales industry.

Carter Resource Development

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