Janus Small, President

Janus Small has built the consulting firm of Janus Small Associates on her deep and solid experience as a leader of nonprofit community organizations. A nationally noted authority on nonprofit management, Janus has earned the trust of arts and cultural, education, faith-based and community development organizations, including such Northeast Ohio clients as the Chagrin Foundation for Arts and Culture, Cleveland Film Society, Ohio Arts Council, Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association, Cleveland Foundation, Jewish Community Center, Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, Cleveland Neighborhood Development Coalition, Greater Cleveland Partnership, City of Bedford, Ohio Community Development Finance Fund and Doan Brook Watershed Partnership.

With expertise developed over her 15 years as executive director of Shoes and Clothes for Kids, director of the Center for Arts and Culture at Cuyahoga Community College and executive director of the New Organization for the Visual Arts (NOVA), she has made Janus Small Associates a highly respected source of guidance on strategic planning, fund-raising, board and organizational development, programming, audience growth and other capacity-building processes.

Janus shares her knowledge and abilities not only with her clients, but also with the next generation of administrators by teaching in the nonprofit management program at Case Western Reserve University's Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations. She previously taught for 10 years at Baldwin-Wallace College.

In addition, Janus contributes to the success of deserving community efforts by serving as education-committee chair and Arts-in-Transit committee member for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and as a board member for the Cleveland Jewish News, where she previously chaired the board-development committee and currently chairs the marketing committee. She held the post of mentor for nonprofit best practices at Washington, D.C.'s Eureka Communities in 2000 and belongs to Leadership Cleveland's class of 1999.

Her skills and accomplishments have won Janus top honors, including the Ohio Governors Award in Administration, an Administration Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Rainmakers award in social services from Northern Ohio Live magazine. She holds a master's degree in nonprofit administration from the University of Cincinnati and a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Janus lives in Beachwood, Ohio, with her husband, Allen, their three children and their two Standard Poodles, Moses and Vincent.