Why we exist
Cecelia Matthews Consulting Group (CMC) exists
to provide Operational Solutions for Nonprofits. Cecelia utilizes
her 30 years of business/finance-related experience and valuable
networking relationships to serve her clients. CMC is about helping
organizations create a healthy balance between strategic vision-focused
administrative process and wise, accountable stewardship of resources.
Professional
Background
 Cecelia Matthews, President Prior
to launching Cecelia Matthews Consulting Group in July, 2004,
Ms. Matthews served for over four years as the Director of Consulting
Services for Capin Crouse LLP (a CPA firm specializing in serving
Christian Nonprofits). In addition, she served nearly twelve
years as the Business Administrator of two Southern California
mega-churches: South Coast Community Church and Mariners Church.
Prior to her time spent in church leadership, Ms. Matthews was
the cash manager for a Fortune 500 publishing firm (Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, Inc.) and the corporate controller for a national
food brokerage firm (The Impact Group).
Her extensive
background in financial/administrative services, human resource
management, organizational leadership, and business operations
oversight in the nonprofit environment gives Ms. Matthews a unique
ability to consult with and advise clients who are dealing with
many of the same issues she has already faced. For example:
- Ms. Matthews developed, implemented and managed financial
and administrative systems to serve the needs of two rapidly
growing and ever changing mega-churches.
- She also developed and implemented a budget process inclusive
of training 25 non-financial department heads in the completion
of their departmental budgets. The process involved staff,
management and several volunteer leadership teams.
- In addition, Ms. Matthews is gifted at identifying staffing
needs and creating job descriptions for new positions, recruitment
procedures and many aspects of personnel management.
- Ms. Matthews possesses an in-depth ability to identify needs,
the desired outcome relative to those needs, and the skill
set to create and implement a realistic process for change.
Her experience enables her to identify and address solutions
to organizational bottlenecks.
 Joan McBride, Consultant
Joan McBride
has 22 years of experience in nonprofit management, beginning
with a fund-raising internship at her undergraduate alma mater,
the University of California at Irvine. Following her 1983 graduation
from UCI (where she earned a B.A. in Psychology), Ms. McBride
spent the next thirteen years in health care development, including
six years with Hoag Hospital Foundation.
While her focus has
been in fund development, Ms. McBride has also developed complementary
skills in strategic planning and marketing during her career. In
fact, she earned an M.B.A. with an emphasis in marketing from California
State University, Long Beach in 1993.
Ms. McBride has assisted
a variety of nonprofit organizations with their fund-raising,
strategic planning and marketing needs. Ms. McBride has spoken
at numerous professional conferences and is an instructor in
the University of California, Irvine’s
Fund-Raising Certificate Program. She is a Certified Fund-Raising
Executive and Fellow of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.
 Jessica Pfalmer, CPA, Consultant
Jessica Pfalmer
has 10 years of experience in nonprofit accounting.
Following
her 1996 graduation from California State University, San Bernardino,
CA (where she earned a B.S. in Business Administration), Ms. Pfalmer
spent over four years of her career with CPA firms specializing
in nonprofit accounting and earned her CPA.
In addition, Ms. Pfalmer
has held accounting positions with Harvest Crusades, I.E. Economic
Partnership and, most recently, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.
Ms. Pfalmer has assisted a variety of nonprofit organizations with
the development and implementation of financial policies and systems.
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