Jorge L. Caraballo
BäyoGraphics

A graphic design professional since 1984, Jorge Caraballo has advanced the successes of national and international nonprofit organizations, as well as several corporations through the development and execution of innovative creative design. Mr. Caraballo left his native New York City for the mountains of Colorado in 1996 and started BäyoGraphics, a graphic design business. He returned to the East Coast in 1998 to benefit from the larger creative market.

Mr. Caraballo has been a board member of the Direct Marketing Fundraisers Association since 1999, volunteers on several committees and chairs the newsletter committee for this professional membership organization. He is also an active member of the Graphic Artists Guild, the American Marketing Association, the Direct Marketing Association of Washington (DC) and the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.

Anna M. Foster
Fostering Strategies

Anna Foster found her nitch in the nonprofit sect while working full time in 1976 for United Cerebral Palsy. Ms. Foster modulated her career from the front lines of nonprofit organizations (such as Job Corps and Covenant House) providing hands-on service, to the development offices of other nonprofit organizations implementing direct marketing strategies. In addition, Ms. Foster excelled in her direct marketing career at a major publishing house in New York City. In 1996 Ms. Foster moved from her hometown of New York City to Denver Colorado to exchange Broadway for the Rocky Mountains and started Fostering Strategies, a direct marketing management business. In 1998 she returned to New York to benefit from opportunities for business and career growth.

Ms. Foster is an active member of the Direct Marketing Fundraisers Association, the American Marketing Association, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Direct Marketing Association of Washington (DC) and the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.

Since 2000, Ms. Foster has chaired the publications committee for the Association of Fundraising Professional's Fund Raising Day in New York conference (the largest one-day conference on philanthropy) and continually looks forward to giving back some of what she has learned throughout her career to the direct marketing industry.