Jo DeBolt, MBA is a Senior Associate with La Piana Associates. She brings more than 20 years experience as a nonprofit executive and consultant to the firm, primarily working with new and emerging organizations.  Her consulting practice has extended to both small businesses and nonprofit organizations seeking to establish revenue generating social ventures.  Her work starting new organizations has involved designing and developing systems, building boards and staff, implementing new programs, translating vision into action, and ensuring that mechanisms are in place to measure the impact of these new ventures.
 
Prior to joining La Piana Associates, Jo was the founding Executive Director of the Mon Valley Initiative, a regional coalition of community-based economic development organizations engaged in community organizing, housing, and commercial real estate development.  She opened the Pittsburgh regional office of the San Francisco-based Tides Center and served as the Director of Tides’ offices in both Pittsburgh and Washington D.C.  Most recently she launched a public education initiative for a Pittsburgh-based foundation.
 
Jo has served as a volunteer Board member for a number of organizations including the Progress Fund, the Community Loan Fund of Southwestern Pennsylvania, the Heritage Health Foundation, the Dollar Energy Fund, and the Human Services Center Corporation.  She chaired a federal commission created by Congress to work with the National Park Service on a comprehensive plan to create a national heritage park to interpret the industrial and labor history of the steel industry.  From 2000 to 2005, Jo served as a court-appointed trustee and Treasurer of the Duquesne City School District, a financially- and academically-challenged urban public school district.
 
Jo holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S. in Business from Duquesne University.
 
When she’s not busy working with her clients, Jo keeps occupied with her five daughters, three of whom are still living at home and involved in a several activities in addition to school.  Rounding out her family are a variety of pets, plus her two older daughters and their families who often stop by to visit.  Jo is also an avid reader and also a member of a local wine lovers group.