WARNER Strategy & Fundraising We are critical, passionate and change-oriented individuals who aspire to create a better world. We are enterprising and see opportunities and challenges instead of problems. We derive satisfaction from seeing that successful change is possible and that you can achieve a great deal with very little. WARNER Strategy & Fundraising, founded in 2004, started as a combination of the experience, competences and inspiring qualities of Theo van Koolwijk and Bart Romijn.
Warner Strategy & Fundraising blossomed into an agency with diverse consultants who, because of their extensive working experience, understand the strengths and limitations of social organizations like no other.

In 2010 Warner Strategy & Fundraising signed a partnership with KeyLance Consultancy, based in New York. Working hand in hand, we offer our clients direct access to donors, partners and other stakeholders in the United States.
 
Bart_Romijn Bart Romijn (1955) is co-founder and co-director of Warner Strategy & Fundraising. So far, he has spent 27 years working for and with Dutch and international non-profit organisations. He has helped countless organisations through more than 250 assignments to formulate vision, strategy, policy and programmes. Romijn has extensive experience as an advisor and (interim) project leader in establishing and improving knowledge management, outcome-oriented quality management and fundraising. He has performed dozens of evaluations of organisations, programmes and policy. Romijn is the quintessential idea manager who gives organisations the impetus to truly innovate. He often serves as a chairman and facilitator at meetings on strategy and coalition formation.

Romijn has overseen the establishment of various organisations from A to Z, and handled the necessary fundraising. In 1988, he founded AIDEnvironment, and served as the director of the organisation until the end of 2003. Under his leadership, AIDEnvironment grew to become a successful consultancy specialising in natural resources and development.
 
Theo_van_Koolwijk Theo van Koolwijk (1956) is co-founder and co-director of Warner Strategy & Fundraising. He has over 20 years of experience in strategic policy development, fundraising and integral management. Based on the nature of the work, he also focuses on building capacity and creating distinct profiles for non-profit organisations and networks in Europe and beyond. In 1999, he founded VK-consult, where he performed dozens of interim management, evaluation, policy consulting and strategic exploration assignments in the Netherlands and abroad. From 1987-1999, Van Koolwijk was the director of Both ENDS in Amsterdam. Under his direction, the non-profit organisation became a respected international player in the field of environmental and development cooperation.

Van Koolwijk studied biology and public administration at the University of Amsterdam and received his post-doctoral diploma in Management and Public Administration from the Institute for Management and Public Administration in 1997. He enrolled in the Interim Management and Organisational Change programme for experienced interim managers at Sioo in Utrecht in 2002 and 2003. In 2005, he underwent training to become a mediator. Van Koolwijk can quickly and effectively direct complex structures, networks and organisations.
 
Ralph_Levie Ralph Levie (1955) held various positions in the cultural sector. For a large number of years he was executive secretary at the Jewish Historical Museum. As executive secretary he was the initiator and organizer of the broadly oriented and successful fundraising for this museum. Ralph wrote hundreds of project applications and was author of many policy documents. He is a zealous and active networker who, due to his personal enthusiasm, is constantly on the lookout for new opportunities. His background in theatre studies helps him to present clearly and convincingly to vastly differing groups.
Ralph is an experienced project manager who knows how to bring together many different parties to create something new. Amongst others he was co-founder of the first charity shop and was initiator of the MuseumPlusBus.

Ralph studied Andragogy at the University of Amsterdam and did Actingschool at the Kleine Academie in Brussels. He worked as andragogist at a Foundation for Social Work. After this, for three years he travelled to theater festivals in Europe with 'De Stijle Want...'. He is active in various boards of non-profit organizations. He recently improved his management skills by participating in the Core Leadership Programme in England.
 
Jostein_van_Vliet As member of the Executive Board and as President of CHOICE, Jostein van Vliet (1983) gained experience in leading an NGO. In this capacity he learned the importance of connecting the passion of the people working in an organisation with a solid strategy in order to build a sustainable organisation. Working areas included international advocacy for the rights of young people, supporting starting organizations in the Global South, fundraising, and developing and conducting trainings in campaigning.

Jostein also worked as Programme Officer for the World AIDS Campaign. In this capacity he worked on the development and coordination of an international program supporting constituencies in campaigning for human rights and HIV/AIDS.

He is a Master in Social and Organizational Psychology (Leiden University). He specialised in Attitude change and Negotiation. As secretary of his student association he contributed to a merger of student associations. He interned at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he developed a policy brief on youth participation in development cooperation, and was responsible for stakeholder consultations around this subject.
 
Eelco_Keij Eelco Keij (1977) is the founder and director of KeyLance Consultancy, based in New York City. As of April 1st, 2010, Warner Strategy & Fundraising and KeyLance Consultancy signed a strategic partnership.

Eelco has worked many years in different capacities in international politics, policy influencing and international development aid. He is a Dutch citizen and has been living and working in the United States since 2006.

In 2008, he founded KeyLance Consultancy, inspired by the principle that Dutch and European non-profit organizations should have access to the American market. Services offered by the Keylance/Warner partnership include fundraising, network building, and establishing contacts within the UN, the Worldbank, and the US government.

In the Netherlands, Eelco was the personal assistant to Mr. Bert Koenders (Deputy at Dutch Parliament) and also worked as a lobbyist for BBO, a Dutch consultancy firm. Later in New York, he became the assistant to Mr. Ad Melkert (Associate Administrator) at the Executive Office of UNDP.

Eelco has lived and studied in several countries. In addition to his mother tongue (Dutch) he speaks fluent English, French, Spanish and German. He has obtained his Masters of Laws both from Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and Columbia Law School (New York). In 2002 he received a Master of Arts from the College of Europe (Warsaw, Poland).

In 2006, he founded a small sustainable food business, employing ex-convicts and aiming to facilitate their transition back into society.

Eelco is forward-thinking, pragmatic, and always able to connect theory with practice for his clients. From his office in Manhattan, New York, he bridges the gap between answer and question, between Europe and North America.