The Associates
Tanya Cabala
Tanya Cabala, owner of Great Lakes Consulting, has over 20 years of successful professional work in the environmental and community nonprofit world. As part of her association with Rafaill & Associates, she offers her passionate and expert grant research and writing skills to assist worthwhile community-based projects. Cabala has brought in over a million dollars in grant funds over the course of her career and is skilled at identifying grant sources, working with private and public foundation managers, and developing well-written and compelling grant proposals for successful consideration. Cabala is also an experienced freelance writer and editor, and can transform your ideas into clearly written fact sheets, brochures, white papers, testimony, reports, web content, and news stories.
Gail W. Guth
Gail Guth, owner of Guth Illustration & Design, is a talented graphic illustrator, both traditional and digital, and specializes in scientific illustration. She does an excellent job of combining images and words with elegant artistic technique. You may learn more about her and view her extensive portfolio by visiting her website.
Colette Kufahl
Colette Kufahl, owner of CMYK grafix Design, is an experienced graphic designer capable of developing designs for a variety of products.
Barbara L. Rafaill
Barbara Rafaill recently retired after 6 years at Albion College as the Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations. Prior to that she spent 25 years in college teaching as a professor of biology. In that time she developed her skills as a wordsmith. While a professor, she served as a reviewer of college text books; during her time at Albion College she developed numerous grant proposals for submission to private and federal foundations. She joins the Rafaill & Associates team to assist clients in developing original content, or rewording existing subject matter to give it a fresh approach, suitable for web content, brochures, flyers, or fact sheets. In either case you can be assured that the words will be grammatically correct and properly punctuated.
Lee Schultheiss
Lee Schultheiss is the owner of Artisson, LLC. Lee has a background in both Advertising and Computer Science, and has over a decade of experience with creating data-driven websites. Lee's skills include building and maintaining server hardware, and developing award-winning functional websites with ASP (Active Server Pages) or ASP.NET and Access or MS-SQL databases on Windows servers; or with the PHP programming language and MySQL database on Linux servers. Artisson, LLC specializes in taking complicated needs and turning them into highly functional web systems that are easy to use for site visitors and site owners alike. For further information about this company, please visit its website.