The Building Movement Project is led by a small, highly committed Project Team located across the country, and three staff members in New York.
Project Team
Linda S. Campbell
Linda S. Campbell works on BMP’s Social Service and Social Change project, with groups in her community of Detroit Michigan, and throughout the US and Canada. Linda is an Independent Consultant providing consulting and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations in strategic planning; program planning and development; nonprofit start-up; board training and leadership development. Prior to her consulting work, Linda served in a variety of senior and executive positions in the nonprofit and government sector. She has provided technical assistance in capacity building to a variety of community and faith based nonprofit organizations. Linda served as Executive Director for one of NYC oldest AIDS service organizations, Minority Task Force on AIDS; and as Senior Director at the Michigan Public Health Institute and the National Center for Health Education. She has also served as a founding board member for several community based nonprofits beginning in 1985, and during the past two years, has provided planning assistance and to local African American health institute initiatives in Michigan. Linda holds a Masters Degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan. Contact Linda at
Helen S. Kim
Helen is an organizational development consultant, leadership trainer and coach with nineteen years of experience in working with social change organizations and leaders in the US and Korea. She is a co-author of Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2008) and has facilitated many regional, national, and international convenings on social justice movement building strategies and supporting the next generation of nonprofit leaders. Helen is a team member of Building Movement Project, trainer and coach for Rockwood Leadership Institute, and consultant member with French American Charitable Trust’s Management Assistance Program. She is an advisory member of Association for Women’s Rights in Development’s Building Feminist Movements and Organizations Initiative and was an adjunct faculty member at the San Francisco State University School of Social Work. Prior to her consultant work, Helen worked as a community organizer for Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, where she focused on immigrant and worker rights and environmental justice issues. She emigrated from Korea when she was twelve years old and attended Carleton College and the University of Minnesota Law Center. A 2009 Gerbode Fellow, Helen aspires to live and work with generosity of spirit and passion for justice. Contact Helen at .
Kim Klein
Kim Klein is internationally known as a fundraising trainer and consultant. As a member of the Building Movement Project Team, she leads workshops on tax policy and the importance of the “commons” and is a regular contributor to this website. She is the Chardon Press Series Editor at Jossey-Bass Publishers, which publishes and distributes materials that help to build a stronger nonprofit sector, and the founder of the bimonthly Grassroots Fundraising Journal. She is also the author of Fundraising for Social Change (now in its fifth edition, 2006), Fundraising for the Long Haul, Fundraising in Times of Crisis, Ask and You Shall Receive: A Fundraising Training Program for Religious Organizations or Projects, and Raise More Money, which she edited with her partner, Stephanie Roth. She is the featured writer for the e-newsletter of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal, with her column of answers to questions posed by readers called “Dear Kim.” Widely in demand as a speaker, Kim Klein has provided training and consultation in all 50 of the United States and in 21 countries. She has just returned from Montreal, where she was an adjunct faculty member at Concordia University, working at the Institute in Management and Community Development. Contact Kim at
Aurea Montes-Rodriguez
Aurea Montes-Rodriguez serves as the Sr. Director of Strategic Projects for Community Coalition, a social justice organization in South Los Angeles that has developed the leadership of thousands and resulted in resources and public policy to address critical shortages and deficiencies in the public health, education, neighborhood safety and social welfare systems. Aurea built a development team responsible for an organizational budget of 2.5 million, including public and private grants, an annual gala, and various grassroots fundraising efforts. She’s a yogi, and loves spending time at the beach with her children, Diego and Maya Nayeli. Contact Aurea at
Robby Rodriguez
Robby Rodriguez is the Executive Director of the SouthWest Organizing Project, a grassroots community organizing group founded in 1980 to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the age of 29, Robby became the youngest director of SWOP and helped to lead the organization through a leadership transition and generational shift. Since 1997, he has helped to organize New Mexico communities to achieve social change in various capacities with SWOP. Between 1998 and 2001 Robby was a trainer for the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ), the United Methodist Church General Board of Global Ministries, the Lifting New Voices Initiative and Youth Action. In 1999, he represented SWOP and the SNEEJ at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, WA. During the years 2000 and 2001, Robby was co-chair of the Youth Leadership Development campaign of the SNEEJ and a member of the International Environmental Justice Working Group that participated in the World Conference against Racism. From 2002-2005 he was a member of the New Mexico Environment Department’s Corrales Air Quality Task Force and the City of Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Water Resources Advisory Committee. He is a past board member of the New Mexico Non Profit Association and is a current board member of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center. Since 2004 Robby has been a project team member of the Building Movement Project and a founding steering committee member of the Pushback Network where he currently serves as Chair. Robby has recently co-authored, along with Frances Kunreuther and Helen Kim, a book entitled Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership due out in October of this year. He has represented the U.S. social justice movement as a speaker, panelist and trainer throughout the United States and in Mexico, Chile, Paraguay, Switzerland, South Africa, Costa Rica and Brazil. Contact Robby at
Sean Thomas-Breitfeld
Sean Thomas-Breitfeld is the Deputy Director of Idea Generation and Dissemination at the Center for Community Change, where he works to connect CCC’s issue work to framing and messaging strategies, and new research and thinking from the academy. Prior to this role, Sean worked as a Policy Analyst on a range of issues for the Center, coordinating online and grassroots advocacy efforts, and doing lobbying and policy analysis related to immigration reform, transportation equity, and anti-poverty programs. Before joining the Center, Sean worked as a Policy Analyst at the National Council of La Raza, where he focused on employment and income security issues. Sean holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and a Bachelors Degree in Social Work and Multicultural Studies from St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Contact Sean at
Project Staff
Frances Kunreuther - Project Director
Frances Kunreuther directs the Building Movement Project, which works to strengthen U.S. nonprofits as sites of civic engagement and social change. She is co-author of From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change (Cornell, 2006) and Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership (Jossey Bass, 2008). Frances is also a senior fellow at the Research Center for Leadership and Action at NYU and spent five years at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. She headed the Hetrick-Martin Institute for LBGT youth, and was awarded a year-long Annie E. Casey Foundation fellowship in 1997 for this and her previous work. Over the years, Frances has worked with homeless youth and families, undocumented immigrants, crime victims, battered women, and substance users. She is a writer and presenter on variety issues related to nonprofits, leadership and social change.
Caroline McAndrews - Director of Leadership and Communications
Caroline McAndrews is the Director of Leadership & Communications for the Building Movement Project, which she joined in 2004. She directs the Project’s work on generational changes in leadership in addition to coordinating BMP communications. Prior to Building Movement, Caroline was a member of the economic security team at the Ms. Foundation for Women, where she provided funding, technical assistance, and networking opportunities to nonprofits across the country working with women to start small businesses, organize for workers rights, and develop leadership in labor unions. Before working at Ms., she served as the IDA Program Coordinator for Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition, a low-income housing developer in Redwood City, California. Contact Caroline at
Trish Tchume - Director of Civic Engagement
As the Director of Civic Engagement for the Building Movement Project, Trish Tchume supports the Project’s ongoing work of integrating social change values and practices into nonprofit service organizations. Prior to joining the Building Movement Project in April of 2008, Trish served first as a Campus Organizer and then as a Community Outreach Manager for Action Without Borders/Idealist.org. Additionally, she serves as a member for the national board of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network. Through each of these roles, Trish has had the privilege of helping to strengthen the social justice work of inspiring individuals and nonprofit organizations by connecting them with resources and networking opportunities. Contact Trish at