Don Akchin brings to clients the benefits of more than 30 years’ experience in
communications and marketing, much of it on behalf of nonprofit organizations.

Before launching his own consulting practice in 2005, Don was membership development
director at The Enterprise Foundation, a national organization that creates affordable housing
for low-income Americans. At Enterprise he delivered training and technical assistance on
communications and marketing to numerous community-based organizations in a dozen cities.

Prior to Enterprise, Don spent seven years in higher education marketing and public relations.
At Baltimore City Community College he won a national award for admissions marketing.
As graduate marketing director at Towson University, his campaigns helped produce
steady increases in Graduate School enrollments. In the 1980s and early 1990s
he ran an independent communications practice, serving a wide variety of corporate,
nonprofit and governmental clients. Don has also been a prize-winning newspaper reporter
and a magazine editor.

As a volunteer community organizer, he has been active in community development
issues and has given presentations to neighborhood groups, city councils, state agencies,
and private funders. He has also served as president of Beth Am Synagogue. A Baltimore
resident since 1984, he was awarded a Mayor’s Citation for leadership in 1997.

Organizations Served