Timothy R. Kennedy is the owner and President of Kennedy Services. He has helped dozens of entrepreneurs grow their businesses rapidly, but in a way that safeguards their assets and sanity. Small and family businesses are a specialty.

Mr. Kennedy has over twenty years of experience in a variety of business ventures, has incorporated three nonprofits, and owned four other businesses in whole or part. For twelve years, he was a partner in a healthcare billing and consulting firm. He sold his interest in that business to join a nonprofit consulting firm, The Metropolitan Economic Development Association (MEDA). There, he helped minority business owners improve their businesses and initiated several high-profile business partnerships. He also operated Greek Letter Catering during many of those years, catering affordable meals to students at the University of Minnesota. In December 2004, Mr. Kennedy was recruited to become both Executive Director and Director of Alumni Development of the Zeta Psi Educational Foundation of Pearl River, NY. Mr. Kennedy's achievements there include controlling costs, expanding the corps of volunteers, reversing a longstanding trend of declining donations, improving communication and relations with the international member base, and first rescuing and then vastly expanding the membership database.

Mr. Kennedy returned to the Metropolitan Economic Development Association to establish a contruction practice within the nonprofit consulting firm in April 2007. He resumed management of the Construction Partnership Program, and expanded MEDA's construction offerings to include services to agencies and major construction firms. The Minnesota Ballpark Authority awarded MEDA a multi-year contract, upon which Mr. Kennedy was the principal performer. A free internet construction plan room has been created under his leadership.

Mr. Kennedy has organized events across North America, including two series of traveling educational seminars, and two four-day conventions of 300 people. He has created fundraising programs using a variety of methods, including web and mail campaigns, silent auctions, gala dinners, and innovative methods of attracting donor-directed funds. Mr. Kennedy currently sits on the board of an international children's charity, and has been a member or chair of several other nonprofit boards. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Behavior at Yale University, studying under famed Professor Charles Perrow. He earned a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the Carlson School of Business at the University of Minnesota.

Specialty Areas:

" Organization and Teaching of Training and Education Sessions, Seminars and Series.
" Strategic and Tactical Marketing Planning.
" Meeting Coordination and Facilitation.
" Operational Enhancement for Membership Organizations.
" Organizational Rescue: Board Recruitment, Education and Staffing.
" Volunteer Recruitment, Use and Retention.
" Event Planning and Coordination.
" Business Technology Application.
" Small and Family Business Operation and Planning.
" Organizational Startup and Financing.
" Health Care Reimbursement Processes and Procedures.
" Transportation Planning and Construction.
" Business Partnerships, Mentor/Protégé Relationships, and Joint Ventures.
" Construction Marketing, Positioning and Promotion.
" Governmental Procurement Requirements.
" Small, Disadvantaged, Minority and Women-owned Business Certification.

Kennedy Services has completed engagements in finance, marketing, procurement and information technology.

Projects include:

" Database management and other projects for an international educational foundation.
" Business planning, presentation and representation for a business pursuing a new city license.
" Strategic planning for a new web-based membership networking system.
" Receivables consulting that increased collections from $235,000 to over $400,000 per month.
" Designing electronic data interchange and electronic claim submission programs.

Kennedy Services is able to perform large contracts through an affiliation with D.A. Petersen Associates, which provides access to many other consulting professionals across the continent.

To contact Mr. Kennedy, Email, call (651) 485-0332, or mail to:

Kennedy Services
201 S. Lexington Parkway
Saint Paul, MN 55105-2757