As a Director, Rachel Hutt leads organizations in creating strategies and building capacity, partnering with clients to achieve meaningful change in both big and small ways. Rachel’s core expertise is in facilitating diverse teams in thinking boldly and making decisions, as well as coaching leaders in guiding their organizations through change.

At Community Wealth Partners, Rachel has guided numerous nonprofits in developing strategies to achieve bold visions in a way that brings diverse stakeholder groups into agreement. This has ranged from partnering with a Baltimore-based organization to clarify and more boldly articulate its strategy for addressing race-based structural barriers to economic opportunity, to facilitating a highly inclusive listening and strategic planning process for a national mental health organization. She also partners with foundations, such as the Kresge Foundation, and national nonprofit networks, such as Communities In Schools, to better understand and build the capacity of their grantees or affiliates.

Prior to joining Community Wealth Partners, Rachel was committed to bringing the joy of reading to children around the country through her work at Reading Is Fundamental (RIF). At RIF she led key initiatives to improve organizational systems, making it easier for kids to access engaging books. Rachel has served on the board of a local Jewish social justice community and LearnServe International, which equips diverse groups of young people with business planning and social entrepreneurship skills and empowers them to make change in their communities.

Rachel has a B.A. in Sociology from Columbia University, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

As an Associate Director, Walter Howell leads projects with nonprofit, foundation, and coalition clients, advises and coaches social sector leaders, and works together with teams to conduct research, analyze data, understand stories and experiences, and develop solutions and recommendations for partners. Walter has extensive experience facilitating diverse groups to come to inclusive solutions together, understands what it takes to create change that leads to equitable outcomes, and thrives as a coach and guide to partners in the work.

Since joining Community Wealth Partners, Walter has supported community development organizations and neighborhood-based partners in developing plans for financial sustainability and building community collaboration. He worked with a national nonprofit dedicated to childhood health and well-being to lead them through a strategic planning process to develop a new, transformational bold goal and theory of change. He has coached foundation and nonprofit leaders through many culture, operational, and organizational change efforts. His partners include KaBOOM!, PBS Education, Helios Education Foundation, Campaign for Black Male Achievement, Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation Arts and Culture program.

Before joining Community Wealth Partners, Walter worked with Enterprise Community Partners, a national affordable housing nonprofit, where he managed a $7M federal National Stabilization Program grant to assist communities hurt by the national housing crisis. He also served as an international public service fellow with Harvard University, through which he spent a year in Palestine providing technical assistance and research support to a microfinance initiative with the United Nations Relief Works Agency based in Jerusalem. He has a passion for youth mentoring through years of tutoring, basketball coaching, and other volunteer efforts at his local Columbia Heights and Rita Bright Recreation Centers in Washington, D.C.

Walter has a B.A. from Harvard University in Government and International Relations.

As a Senior Director, Sandra leads client relationships and supports the development of the firm’s strategy practice. Sandra brings a background in the social sector, private sector, and public sector, with deep experience in supporting leaders and executives through major evolutions in their strategy and operations.

Sandra has a track record of facilitating varied groups of stakeholders to align around common goals, develop bold strategies, craft actionable plans, and develop thoughtful ways to measure impact. At Community Wealth Partners, she has led feasibility studies and operational planning for nonprofits seeking to increase both impact and financial sustainability through earned revenue ventures. She also has guided organizations such as a community foundation and a large, networked nonprofit in establishing and testing new impact measures.

Prior to Community Wealth Partners, Sandra was at Bain & Company, where she led teams in developing strategies and designing large-scale change initiatives for companies in a range of industries. She also served as a senior analyst at the Government Accountability Office, where she led teams in performance audits of federal programs.

Sandra received her M.B.A. from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and her B.S. in psychology from the College of William and Mary.

As Senior Director, Amy leads client relationships and engagements and oversees the work of project teams. Amy has a unique blend of business, nonprofit, and foundation experience, with a proven record of leading cross-functional teams and driving creative solutions that have delivered stronger solutions while increasing revenue and organizational growth.

Amy has deep experience advising both nonprofit and foundation clients. She primarily focuses on designing and implementing new strategies and programs for organizations as well as large networks and collaboratives. She has helped establish collective impact and collaborative learning initiatives at the city, state, and national level. She has helped nonprofits and foundations re-evaluate their strategies and business models to increase their impact and sustainability. Amy also serves as an executive coach and thought partner to leaders as they navigate the cultural and resource changes required for implementation.

Prior to joining Community Wealth Partners, Amy served as a program officer at the Tiger Foundation in New York, as the vice president of business management at Harlem Village Academies, and as the national director of operations for Building Educated Leaders for Life (now BELLXCEL). She also participated in a three-year management training program with John Hancock Financial Services.

Amy has a B.A. in psychology from the College of the Holy Cross and an M.B.A. from Boston University.