Our Team
While the Klein and Roth Consulting practice officially started in 2005, each of us has a long history of working in a variety of movements and an understanding of the unique challenges that small to mid-size nonprofits face.
We use our wisdom from these experiences to build creative solutions with you.
Stephanie Roth, Principal
Stephanie Roth discovered feminism in high school, and got her first dream job working for a reproductive rights organization in in New York City in 1980. She learned very quickly that foundation funding was hard to come by for organizations working on controversial causes, but that all kinds of people wanted to get involved - with their time and their money - to make change. Later she was co-director of New York Women Against Rape, and after making her way back to California, helped build an individual donor program at the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) and became the Editor of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal.
Stephanie was a co-founder of GIFT (Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training) and was one of the organizers of the first Money for our Movements Social Justice Fundraising Conference in 2006.
Stephanie has been a trainer, writer, consultant and coach on fundraising, board development and other organizational development issues for over 25 years.
To reach Stephanie, email stephanie@kleinandroth.com.
“Stephanie is a first-rate teacher - entertaining, quick to provide excellent responses to the toughest questions, and easy to work with — a real plus for overworked development professionals”
Kim Klein, Principal
Kim Klein’s journey to become a pioneer in teaching small nonprofits how to raise big money started in seminary where her field placement took her to one of the first domestic violence shelters in the country, La Casa de Las Madres, in San Francisco, CA. Starting by asking churches and synagogues to support the shelter, Kim realized that the taboo in our culture about talking about money made it hard to ask for donations. As a development director at the Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women, Kim helped them decrease their dependence on foundation funding by building a successful individual donor program.
Finding that very little information existed about how small grassroots social justice groups could raise money from their communities, she decided (in collaboration with her friend Lisa Honig) to start a magazine, the Grassroots Fundraising Journal. Kim wrote Fundraising for Social Change, now in its 7th Edition, in continuous print since 1985.
Kim is no longer accepting new clients.
“Your advice over the last 12 years has been invaluable. We always say to each other, ‘What would Kim Klein say?”
Nancy Otto, Senior Consultant
Nancy Otto started her fundraising journey in 1989 organizing hip hop dance events that benefitted groups such as Asian and Pacifica Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgender Network (APLBTN), Asian Pacifica Sisters (APS), and Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA). She learned the power of using fun and community based events to bring people together to support important organizing efforts. She directed the field program and a high school education project for the ACLU of Northern California and was a policy analyst at the National Immigration Forum.
She served on the Boards of national PFLAG, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Charlotte Maxwell Complimentary Clinic learning first hand the challenges of asking for money from a Board member’s perspective. She currently serves on the Board of the Sonoma Land Trust.
To reach Nancy, email nancy@kleinandroth.com.
“I’ve worked with Nancy Otto for nearly a decade at three different organizations (Playworks, Reading Partners, and iMentor). She is masterful and brings such expertise and authenticity to her craft.”
As of January 2024, long-time Senior Consultants Rona Fernandez and Stan Yogi are no longer working with Klein and Roth Consulting. Rona is currently the Development Director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) and Stan is retired from consulting and working on his fourth book.
Rona and Stan were well-respected fundraising experts, bringing a wide range of skills, experience and insight into their work with a broad range of social justice organizations. Their belief and commitment to the values of justice, equity, and the power of grassroots fundraising and organizing infused their work and engagement with their clients.
We are grateful for our long-time collaboration with them.