QED Associates LLC is a trusted and experienced partner for strategic planning, development, and communication, offering expert guidance and support to nonprofits, museums, government agencies, foundations, and content creators in a variety of fields. QED’s services are carefully calibrated to the needs and capacities of its partners. It creates new opportunities through close personal attention and a dynamic process of problem solving, goal setting, and content creation.
SPHERES OF EXPERTISE
Empower Your Organization
Strategic Planning
QED excels in practical approaches that recognize the partner’s financial capacity and organizational capability. Through discussion with the partner, QED develops short-, medium-,
and longer-term goals, paying special attention to fundamental organizational issues in
governance, program, finances, outreach/marketing, and community engagement. QED works
with the partner to evolve a dynamic step-by-step plan in one or more of these areas and to facilitate implementation.
Development
QED explores the funding landscape for opportunities to meet the needs and goals of the partner.
It assesses the suitability of funders /donors for the partner organization and is a bridge between the partner and funder/donor. QED prepares proposals, background, support, and presentation materials.
Communication
QED works with the partner to identify and communicate their vision and message to relevant audiences. QED has extensive experience researching, writing, editing, and producing technical studies, general-interest publications, annual reports, advocacy papers, exhibitions, marketing and
fundraising material, and presentations.
Why Choose QED Associates?
Three Decades of Experience
50+
PARTNERS
Museums, universities, nonprofits, foundations, government agencies & departments, advocacy groups
300+
CONTENT CREATION
Books, articles, research papers, exhibitions, presentations, speeches, and films
20+
GLOBAL EXPERIENCE
China, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Egypt, The Netherlands, Poland,
Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium,
Switzerland and others
PEOPLE
Marjorie Lightman, PhD
mlightman@qedassociatesllc.com
Marjorie Lightman is a founding partner of QED Associates LLC with an impressive international background in the nonprofit world, the academy, and social activism. She has led nonprofit organizations, sat on foundation boards, and directed projects for museums, community groups, research institutes, and film and television productions in the United States and abroad. Her popular and scholarly publications span a variety of fields, including international affairs, international human rights, women’s history and gender studies, and immigration. Marjorie Lightman holds an MA in American history from Hunter College and a PhD in ancient Greek and Roman history from Rutgers University.
William Zeisel, PhD
William Zeisel is the managing partner of QED Associates LLC. An academically trained public historian, he has worked with public and special collection libraries, foundations, national academic organizations, community groups, and universities. He has directed projects about education, food, transportation, and coastal fisheries with grant support from national foundations. As writer and editor, he has held consultancies with major foundations for reports, travel guides, and scholarly books and was chief editor for multiple editions of the most frequently consulted guide to the United Nations. Dr. Zeisel holds BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Chicago and a PhD in medieval history from Rutgers University.
Lesley L. Weiss
Lesley Weiss is special consultant to QED Associates LLC. An expert in Holocaust education and advocacy for Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, she has worked in a number of Jewish organizations and represented them at international meetings and conferences. She was appointed by President Biden to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, which she chairs. She is a member of the U.S. Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Her academic credentials include graduate degrees from Baltimore Hebrew University and the University of Maryland School of Social Work.
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