Canisius College

Eve Berry is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of facilitation, community building, fund development and organizational planning. As a founding principal and President of SigniCor LLC, she brings a unique combination of training skills and management expertise to the firm.

With over 30 years of experience as a corporate executive, management consultant, and facilitator for corporations, nonprofit organizations, and public agencies, Ms. Berry has helped develop hundreds of complex programs and trained thousands of personnel in the U.S. and abroad. Recruited as the youngest trainer in the history of The Grantsmanship Center, she served that national training organization for more than 16 years. She developed much of the Center’s core curricula and, in her role as Vice President for Training, became its lead trainer of trainers. She also conducted hundreds of customized workshops for government and foundation grants officers, nonprofit staff, and university faculty.

In 1986, she was named Senior Vice President of Equicor-Equitable HCA Corporation. As chief planning officer for this $2.5 billion employee benefits company, she oversaw strategic and business planning, corporate communications, public relations and marketing, as well as staff training and organizational development.

With renowned author and psychiatrist, Dr. M. Scott Peck, she helped establish the Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE), a nonprofit educational organization at the forefront of community-building efforts around the world. She continues to train FCE community facilitators and she serves as a member of the FCE Board of Directors. She also serves on the boards of Global Eye Care and The Human Connection Institute, and she is Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the Morehouse College-Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel Board of Preachers, Scholars and Sponsors.

Ms. Berry has worked with a number of national organizations as well as Western New York nonprofits.  She provides training and capacity building assistance in a number of areas, including group facilitation, community assessment, grantwriting, fundraising, strategic planning and fiscal management.  As a lead consultant to the Latino Coalition for Faith & Community Initiatives, she currently oversees this national intermediary organization’s capacity-building academy, which trains representatives of neighborhood organizations in fund development, coalition building, and nonprofit management. She also regularly conducts training programs sponsored by national foundations and federal agencies, including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Minority Health, and Department of Labor.

Currently, Ms. Berry is working in Buffalo with Good Schools For All/Read to Succeed Buffalo, Buffalo Prep, Cradle Beach, University at Buffalo/Department of Regional and Urban Planning, CEPA Gallery, Just Buffalo Literary Center, Big Orbit Gallery and AIDS Family Services. 

We hope to see you there!  Questions? Please contact Dr. Rosanne Hartman, Director, Communication and Leadership at (716)888-2589 or hartmanr@canisius.edu.