Partnering with Nonprofit Leadership for Results

How I can help you

You have the vision. I bring the execution.

Special projects
management

Project planning and execution — from “one pager”s and presentation development to coordination of teams, I can help you ensure on-time results for your high stakes project.

Streamline communications for
strategic priorities

I can help you right size the information flow to and from the executive office to support efficient and effective decision-making and issue resolution.

Board management
support

I can help you streamline your Board materials and create templates and workflows that will empower your staff to keep your board members feeling engaged and informed.

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Testimonials

“Nouha is a joy to work with. I’ve known Nouha since 2006. At that time she managed a portfolio of school district community partnerships in over 50 Chicago Public Schools. She’s a hard worker, generous and positively persistent. She’s dedicated to her work and cultivating strong, lasting relationships that can overcome otherwise tough challenges with relative ease and get things done.”

Suzanne Doornbos Kerbow
Program Director for Education
Polk Bros Foundation

“Nouha brings integrity and efficiency to everything she does in the Executive office and knows when and how to partner with teams throughout the organization to get things done, often in high stakes situations. With not much heads up, Nouha was asked to manage the initial stages of a 36,000-square-foot $7 million building renovation including selection of an architecture firm and developer. The building opened with success in 2017 in an underserved area and now more than 1,500 teens each year go there each year for programming. She’s a great thought partner and extremely organized. Among my network, everyone I meet has respect for her work.”

Arnaldo Rivera
Chief Operating Officer, Chicago Public Schools

“Nouha has been such a delight to partner with. I had an opportunity to work alongside her on two seven-figure real estate projects and the launch of a new youth program in the underserved Bronzeville neighborhood in the city’s near south side. She’s consistently responsive and efficient in her execution. I always knew when I was meeting with Nouha, she would be prepared to get things done and move our progress on goals forward.”

Eileen Rhodes
President, Eastlake Management

“If you’re looking for creative ways to solve a problem or find new ideas, Nouha is your go-to-person. I first met Nouha in 2015 while working with her to ensure students in the Woodlawn and South Side Chicago communities had an opportunity to see the movie Selma in theaters. At that time After School Matters was providing free admission to 10,000 Chicago Public School students. Nouha was very responsive in a timely manner and worked with us to offer this opportunity to over 1,000 students from the communities around the University of Chicago campus.”

Amar Parikh
Assistant Vice President & Chief of Staff
The University of Chicago- Office of Civic Engagement and External Affairs

“I had the pleasure of working with Nouha as a Board member at After School Matters – an organization that reaches over 18,000 Chicago Public Schools teens each year with apprenticeships and after-school programming and administers an $30.4million annual budget. Nouha is a terrific partner. When I first joined the Board, Nouha brought me up to speed quickly and made sure I had what I needed with clarity, when I needed it. It’s a rewarding role that I’m so glad to have accepted. Nouha helped make my transition onto the Board effective while feeling effortless.”

James H. Welch
After School Matters Board of Directors
Global Client Service Partner and Life Sciences Leader Ernst & Young LLP

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About the Founder

Nouha Shwehdi brings over 12 years of experience in strategic partnership development and non-profit Board relations. She is passionate about building effective and sustainable systems within mission-driven organizations and has committed her career to educational equity and inclusion.

Before NAS Consulting, Nouha was Chief of Staff at After School Matters (ASM) for two and a half years. A national leader in out-of-school-time youth programming, ASM reaches 22,000 teens each year at 75 high schools and 216 community sites serving Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students in the third largest school district in the U.S. Nouha managed all support to ASM’s board of directors and advisory board, served as the organization’s primary liaison to the Mayor’s Office of the City Chicago and was a member of the organization’s management team for a $50 million fundraising campaign.

Prior to ASM, Nouha served in several senior operations management roles including Chicago Public Schools where she managed $7 million in contracts and grants for CPS school-community partnerships at more than 250 sites spanning all sections of the city’s diverse neighborhoods.

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PHONE: (734) 637-0216

EMAIL: NAS@naschiefofstaff.com