Principal

Patrick is consultant, public administrator and instructor with over 19 years of management and resource development experience. He began his career as a Senior Associate of Resource Management at the United Way of Miami-Dade County. He also worked as a Program and Policy Analyst at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Community Reinvestment Act Officer for the northern Illinois region at the former Bank One Corporation.

Patrick was an Associate Program Officer at the Chicago Community Trust, Manager of Community Investment at the Sara Lee Foundation, and Program Officer for the Grand Victoria Foundation. While at the Grand Victoria Foundation, Patrick created a state wide training program - Illinois ResourceNet: A Funding Access Initiative which provided nonprofits and local government with customized instruction on grant development and access to the tools necessary to harvest quality federal proposals. Patrick later served as the Director of Grants and Planning at Danville Area Community College and as the Chief Administrative Officer for the Vermilion County Board.

Additionally, Patrick was an Adjunct Professor of business at East-West University and an Adjunct Professor of Public Administration at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He served as a Research and Working Group Manager at the Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) based at IIT where he was responsible for coordinating the research activities of the organization and staffing its Working Groups. He also assisted in the editing of the CTBUH Journal, a peer reviewed quarterly publication that highlights current trends in urban development and the tall building industry.

Patrick has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics, American Studies, and Political Science from Hofstra University, a Master’s degree in Public Management from Saint Thomas University in Florida, and a Master’s degree in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Patrick has provided management and fund development consulting to various for-profit, nonprofit, and start-up organizations which has included Breaking Ground, Color Me Peace Children’s Apparel, Voices of Culture, and The Gaskov Clergé Foundation. Patrick has served on the steering committees of The Chicago Capacity Building Initiative, The Chicago South Side Partnership, and Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy; the Board of Directors of the Enterprising Kitchen, Neighborhood Housing Services in North Lawndale, and FaithCorp Fund; and as President of the Board of Hope Community Services. He has presented at several forums and conferences including the University of Illinois at Chicago Winter Forum, the Illinois Institute of Technology MPA Spring Reception, and the Illinois Resource Network Conference in Chicago. 

John is a business executive, consultant, and educator with international research, analytics, and marketing experience in the Baby Boomer and Senior markets. He has recently returned to a successful consultancy after serving for seven years as Assistant Vice President and Director of Research and Gerontology at the MetLife Mature Market Institute (MMI), MetLife’s Center of Expertise on aging, longevity, and the generations. John is internationally recognized expert on the Baby Boomer and Senior population.

Dr. Migliaccio is President of Maturity Mark Services Co., a strategic planning, marketing and market research consultancy which served major corporations, financial services companies, federal/state/local government agencies, and nonprofit organizations focusing on Boomer and Senior market consumers and issues. He is also a co-founder and former President of the American Institute of Financial Gerontology. Additional experience includes positions as Vice-President and Director of Special Projects at Hearst Business Communications, Retirement Advisors division.

Dr. Migliaccio has served multiple terms on Boards of Directors and as committee chairs and other leadership positions for some of the nation’s leading aging organizations including the American Society on Aging (ASA), a founder and former chair of the ASA Business Forum on Aging, as well as the National Association of Senior Living Industries, and 50+ Housing Council of the National Association of Home Builders, Financial Elder Abuse Advisory Board of the National Adult Protective Services Association, and Retirement Risk Committee of The Society of Actuaries among others. He is an award winning researcher, frequent keynote speaker and presenter, and author of numerous articles, book chapters and marketing guides on the 50+ market.

Dr. Migliaccio has received multiple awards from the American Society on Aging for his leadership in business and aging, and from the National Council on Aging’s National Institute of Senior Centers for innovative research on aging. He has served on the Adjunct Faculty of the New School for Social Research Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions, New York University, and the College of New Rochelle. He is currently on the adjunct faculty at Fordham University School of Professional and Continuing Studies, and Gabelli School of Business, as well as at the Anisfield School of Business at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He is also on the faculty of the Asset Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University.

Dr. Migliaccio holds a B.A. cum laude from Boston College, M.Ed. from Teacher’s College-Columbia University,  Ph.M. and Ph.D. from Columbia University,  the Registered Financial Gerontologist  (RFG) designation from the American Institute of Financial Gerontology, and is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.

Dacia is the Director of Development and Strategic Partnerships at the Center for Social Change. In this role, Dacia’s primary goals are to identify and cultivate opportunities for the Center to engage in sector capacity building and collective efficacy efforts through trainings and workshops, ongoing technical assistance and direct investment to support and provide guidance to Center projects and partners.  Other projects include Leaders in Training, a leadership development program for youth, the Women’s Fund Pay Equity Campaign and Grow Roots Miami Youth. 

Dacia moved to Miami in 2011 to launch ReServe South Florida, the first affiliate of a national innovative social enterprise connecting nonprofit organizations and public institutions with experienced professionals 55+.  Under Dacia’s leadership, ReServe South Florida was named Community Partner of the Year for the Mentoring Tomorrow’s Leaders program by Broward County Public Schools. 

Prior to moving to Miami, Dacia was Program Manager at the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute at Northwestern University, where she worked closely with founders John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann for over five years. 

For over 15 years, Dacia has worked directly with local, national and international government agencies, public institutions and nonprofits to design community-based participatory research projects, and provided training and technical assistance to them on the implementation of those efforts. All of Dacia’s work emphasizes strengthening neighborhoods, engaging individuals, and connecting associations and institutions and other organizations through the design and implementation of asset-based community driven strategies.

Dacia holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Illinois Institute of Technology and is co-founder of Powerful Action for the Development of the Kadey (www.padk.org), an NGO based in the Eastern Province of Cameroon, that focuses on economic development for area farmers and women and girls’ entrepreneurship programs.  She is also an Emeritus Faculty member of the Asset Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University, a member of the 100 Ladies of Deering Estate, Vice President of the Coral Pines Garden Club and a State of Florida Master Gardener.

Rachel is a research associate with a passion for nonprofit work. Her greatest accomplishment was as a stay at home mom to two incredible human beings, Emma and Finn. In addition to being a stay at home mom, she also worked as a political organizer for three years at the precinct, district, and county level as well as directly helping with local political campaigns.

Before children, Rachel was a high school science teacher in Vance County, NC, at a

Title 1 school, where she built a curriculum that significantly raised End of Course test

scores with standards-aligned, diversified, and hand-on curriculum in Physical Science.

Rachel likes to delve deeply into special interests which has given her ample life

experience with writing a novel, running (but sometimes walking) two 50-mile ultra

marathons and seven marathons, and driving her children across the country (both

north and west from NC as a starting point) for life/educational experiences in their

pandemic-purchased minivan-driven 14-foot camper. Rachel also loves to crochet, a

somewhat new special interest sparked by pandemic.

Apart from dragging her children across the country to see as many National Parks in

Utah as possible in a 20 day window, Rachel enjoys life at home in Raleigh, NC which

consists of a flock of chickens and three rescue hounds: a Basset hound, beagle, and

Pandemic-puppy hound mix. Retrospectively, Rachel has to admit that her husband,

Patrick, was right that three dogs is too many; unfortunately, they have three

critically-important dogs which makes it impossible to remove one from the household.

Rachel graduated with Honors with a degree in Geological Sciences from the University

of North Carolina.