About Us
Nancy Hall | Chuck Adkins | Lynda McClary | Harry Schwarz
Nancy Hall, President
Nancy Hall, president of 501(c) Solutions, has long been a part of the nonprofit community in Maryland. In the late eighties she worked with a number of then-new groups to set up their financial and administrative systems. She is happy to report that many of these startups are still going strong. In addition, Nancy was a key staff member at the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations for seventeen years, providing training and technical assistance to hundreds of nonprofits.
Nancy takes the best practices of high performing corporations and adapts them for use in the nonprofit sector. She is able to make complex business concepts easily understood by artists, social workers, and advocates that often head up nonprofit organizations. Nancy has trained thousands of nonprofit executives and board members on basic financial literacy not only in Maryland but across the country. A natural teacher and story teller, she is currently adjunct faculty at The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland School of Social Work, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County where she teaches courses on nonprofit management and government and nonprofit finance.
Nancy is an expert in the legal structure of nonprofits and has assisted in the start-up of hundreds of organizations, merged many partners, and helped to close down organizations. She was one of the first women to receive an MBA from the Harvard Business School, which has prepared her for her current favorite pastime-running the lives of her three grown children.
Chuck Adkins, Associate
Chuck began his nonprofit career because of a graduate class. While working on an MA in Applied Sociology at the University of Maryland, he needed another couple of credits and signed up for "Nonprofits and the Internal Environment." Chuck realized that the best place for him was behind the scenes and he found a home supporting those who deliver direct services on the front line. He began his career at the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations where he held several positions, the final one being Finance and Human Service Manager. He is currently an associate at 501(c) Solutions. He provides out-sourced financial and human resource services to several nonprofit organizations as well as administrative coaching.
Lynda McClary, Associate
Lynda McClary is a respected development professional skilled at initiating and maintaining donor and volunteer relationships, soliciting major and annual gifts, running capital campaigns, and leading multiple major events. She has applied advanced communication skills in fields as diverse as education, arts, medicine, workforce employment and human services. Her many development and marketing roles have taken her from regional initiatives to national public presentations. Author of hundreds of donor letters, biographical sketches, promotional literature, programs, briefings and scripts, Lynda is equally comfortable with a pen or podium.
Harry Schwarz, Associate
Harry has over 30 years experience managing health care and higher education nonprofit organizations. He previously served as President/CEO of Transitions, a Baltimore mental health agency, and has held senior staff and management positions at the Catholic University of America and at the Tai Sophia Institute, a private nonprofit graduate school. He is an experienced financial manager, an accomplished fundraiser, a skillful writer and editor, and an exceptional organizer and planner with a proven track record for achieving and exceeding expected outcomes. Currently, he is Vice President of the Howard County Association of Community Services and serves as a Peer Reviewer for the Standards for Excellence Program of the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations. Harry has a BA in Economics and a Masters in Social Work, both from The Catholic University of America. Nicknamed “the professor” by his colleagues, Harry is married with two teenage children.