Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding

As Executive Director of the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding, it is my privilege to recommend most strongly Ms Ilona Berzups. Ilona developed, set up and, for the past ten years, managed our web site. She was responsive, receptive, and supportive to our requirements. I would like to especially underscore her ability to quickly resolve each and every issue most positively with our site, which has been the way that nearly every student from around the world first interacts with us. Our relationship with Ilona has been thoroughly positive in every respect, and we recommend her most highly.

-- Pete Leenhouts, Director
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding

Greater Seattle Cares

We had the good fortune to work with Ilona as our non-profit revamped its website. Ilona was tasked with taking our very simple presence and making it interactive, multi-paged, user-friendly and attractive to viewers; a working website in every sense of the word. Ilona not only delivered, she exceeded expectations on all counts. She was extremely knowledgeable with regard to the technical aspects of the project, which we anticipated. What came as a very pleasant surprise were also her business acumen and artist's eye. This combination and her ability to keep our unwieldy board on task while maintaining charm and professionalism throughout, resulted in an exceptional end product. "Adequate" was not in her vocabulary. She wasn't satisfied until we were completely satisfied. We were. And we remarkably finished on time and under budget. Needless to say, we would wholeheartedly recommend Ilona Berzups for any and all website design needs. Thank you again Ilona!

-- The Board for Greater Seattle Cares, Seattle, WA
www.greaterseattlecares.org

Cindy Roat - Language Access in Healthcare

I contracted Ilona Berzups to help me revise my website, and it was the best investment I could ever have made. Ilona clearly knows the technical side of her business, and she also has a very rare talent for explaining web concepts in a way that even an web-novice like me can understand. There is no question as who I will call when I need more work done on my site.

-- Cynthia E. Roat, Owner
www.cindyroat.com

One World Dance & Drum

I powerfully, publicly and fully acknowledge Ilona Berzups for her incredible level of service, commitment to excellence and complete impeccability in this project. She has provided clarity, certainty, and tons of education. It has been a joy to work with her. If you are looking for support in expressing yourself online, we cannot possibly provide a higher recommendation. Thank you Ilona!

-- Sarah Lee Koumbassa, Owner
One World Dance & Drum
www.oneworlddance.com

Caribbean Cable Coop

I have known and worked with Ilona for over thirty years. Everytime she takes on a project she sees the end result then finds the best way to get there. She does not require hands on management so you can you define the project and know you will get it back on time and ready to go. She has no problem going the extra mile to make sure the project is done correctly and delivers what you need.

Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, High Integrity

-- Howard S. Crotin, President
Caribbean Cable Coop
www.cctvcoop.com

Northwest Maritime Center

The Next Page has been our "go to" provider for Web site design since 2006. I consider myself to be fairly Internet savvy but the field has progressed too fast to keep up. Ilona Berzups has the ability to explain complex concepts in a way that anyone can understand them, and most importantly, to execute flawlessly. My recommendation of her and her company is unequivocal!

-- Stan Cummings, former Executive Director
Northwest Maritime Center
www.nwmaritime.org

Wooden Boat Foundation

The Next Page did more than get us to the next page, Ilona Berzups actually turned the page for us! She listened. She made clear, smart, insightful, doable suggestions for one of our websites, then followed through on time and in budget. Working with The Next Page exceeded my expectations and tops my list of "best overall" consultant website experiences. Communication was efficient from the first meeting and Ilona's ability to grasp the scope of the project, articulate it and work in sync with me in the reality of chaos due to our merger, is nothing short of a miracle. Merging two organizations is always a challenge, but our work with The Next Page took us one giant step forward for the short term, so we can begin to work with them on the larger project - building systems internally and on the web for communicating with and tracking our community of members, donors, students, participants, retail purchasers and general inquiries. Ilona's experience and strengths were an excellent match for our challenges - and with her help, we won! Staff can deliver summer programs without worrying about the site - and management can get to work on the future.

-- Kaci Cronkhite
Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation
www.woodenboat.org

ROI Marketing Agency LLC

There’s an old saying that "the devil is in the details." With The Next Page you won’t need to worry about such devils. You will be able to rest assured that The Next Page will professionally handle all of the myriad details involved with web development, content management and technology. If you’re wondering if the complexities of your business will be a barrier; fear not! The pros at The Next Page will listen carefully to you and will work hard to discover your organization’s needs and objectives. The Discovery process was the best I've seen, and the results can be seen on my site. Additionally, they patiently worked with me in the training process and in helping me with populating my site. Take the next step and give The Next Page a try.

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity

-- Mike Harrigan, Owner
ROI Marketing Agency LLC

Port Townsend Rigging

We are trilled with our new website! The response from users has been terrific! It was a pleasure working with Ilona. Her supreme organization made it possible for us to get our site completed and carry on with our normal work load. Thank you Ilona!

-- Lisa Vizzini, Co-owner
Port Townsend Rigging
www.porttownsendrigging.com

New Jersey Gun Dog Hungting Club

I wanted to let you know what a great job you did on our web site. It meets my criteria of being intuitive and easy to use and is also visually very attractive. Equally as important is the time you took to train me how to update pages, add posts and handle photos (yes, the dreaded pixel problem). You proved that you can teach an old dog new tricks! Thanks for all your help.

-- John G. Heim, Owner
New Jersey Gun Dog Hungting Club
www.njgundog.com

"I Have a Dream"® Foundation

The "I Have a Dream"® Program helps children from low-income areas reach their education and career goals by providing a long-term program of mentoring, tutoring, and enrichment with an assured opportunity for higher education.

Local "I Have a Dream"® Projects adopt an entire same-grade from an elementary school or an entire age group from a public housing development. They work with is group of children (the "Dreamers") and their families year-round from their elementary school years through college.

"I'm delighted with the collaborative process we've developed with The Next Page. They have taken the time to truly understand our organizational structure and processes so that the final product will help us fulfill our mission and ultimately improve services to our Dreamers. Not only do they know information technology, but how to apply that knowledge to promote organizational effectiveness."

-- Lai-Wan Wong, former Director of Programs
"I Have a Dream"® Foundation

Jefferson Land Trust

The Next Page took our simple, static, long-neglected web site, and transformed it into a fresh, powerful, and easy-to-use tool for promoting our mission, communicating with members and raising funds. As a very small not-for-profit we could not afford staff with the training or competence to manage our web site. The Next Page designed a number of handy templates that have allowed staff to update important information on a daily basis. Ilona Berzups worked with us to also plan a three-year phased approach to refining our web site, that would fit within our limited annual budgets and cash flows. Ilona really listened to what our needs were and has given us a communication resource that receives continuous praise. She is a consummate professional, consistently and quickly responding to our questions, holding our hands with patience and tact, and always an utter delight to work with.

-- Stephanie Reith, former Executive Director
Jefferson Land Trust
www.saveland.org

Seedco and the Non-Profit Assistance Corp.

The Non-Profit Assistance Corporation (N-PAC) was granted $5 million from the US Department of Labor to implement NSP Works, a New York City-based welfare-to-work project. The private web-based system created enables N-PAC to receive data from the three project sites quickly and confidentially. The system’s reporting capabilities have been essential to monitoring the individual progress of the 600 participants as well as the overall success of the project.

-- Kenya F. Crumel, Senior Program Associate

Northwest Kiwanis Camp

You are very professional. It was easy to work with you on our camp brochure because you listened so well, paid attention to every detail, and I felt comfortable making even the smallest changes. You were patient and thorough. Thank you so much.

-- Charise Diamond, Camp Director
Northwest Kiwanis Camp

Melillo Center for Mental Health

The need for charitable, not-for-profit organizations to access technology for sustainable development is accelerating. Without our new tools from The Next Page, Melillo Center's vision for community based behavioral health services could not be realized. It feels like we were in the Dark Ages less than one year ago.

-- Daniel J. Vogrin, Executive Director
Melillo Center for Mental Health

Corporate Calm LLC

Working with Ilona has made our computer life as close to worry-free as it is possible to be. She always responds very promptly whenever there is a problem with our computer systems, with the ability to access it remotely. Ilona has recommended systems which would meet my company’s needs. A great service she offers is retrieving data I need while out of town and sending it to me wherever I am in the world. I highly recommend Ilona Berzups and her firm as a computer services company.

-- R. Bonnie Haber, President
Corporate Calm LLC

North Shore University Hospital at Glen Cove
Community House - Division of Substance Abuse Services

Having initially reviewed countless health care-related websites during our institution’s research phase, it became obvious that the majority of sites online had the same limitation – namely, an inability to effectively conceptualize the organization’s major goals and objectives throughout the site while at the same time engaging the site visitor with a compelling understanding of and insight into a wide range of services for the community. It would be an understatement to say that most sites we viewed simply “fell flat” as we went through their main pages and menus.

While we originally wondered if our own website goals were too ambitious and enthusiastic, our search for the “perfect” website developer ended with The Next Page’s proposal. Using the latest web technology blended with a creative and forceful message that captured perfectly the mission and goals we set forth, The Next Page came through with a product that I can best say is “just what the doctors ordered!”

The Next Page is a group of savvy professionals well versed and highly experienced in website development. They can make a single site speak volumes about an organization, its products, goals, and most important for health care organizations, reaching the consumer in need of information and assistance. If you want your organization or business best understood and responded to by the public, use The Next Page with complete confidence.

-- John Imhof, Ph.D., Vice President
Behavioral Health Services
North Shore University Hospital at Glen Cove

St. John's University Rittenberg Law Library

The Next Page beautifully developed St. John's University School of Law's Rittenberg Law Library web site. The site contains links to many law-related web resources and databases available to the entire University community, as well as information on law library policies and services. The Next Page accurately gathered information from various sources and completely organized it all in just a short amount of time. They were professional and very easy to work with. Their expertise and patience enabled us to get the web site we envisioned. Their hard work has facilitated the University community in getting the information they need in an aesthetically pleasing environment.

-- Linda M. Ryan, Assistant Dean
St. John's University School of Law

caseTrakR Practice Management Application

This application has been specifically designed to accommodate the many nuances of foreclosure practice. The program has many unique features that will aid any firm in the timely and accurate movement of files, production of documents and my personal favorite, creation of customized status reports. The system can be accessed from the web but has various levels of security so as to prevent unauthorized entry.

-- Thomas E. Wynne, Esq.

InterAgency Council of Glen Cove

The development and ongoing evolution of our website provides our 48+ member agencies with the tools to collaborate on issues affecting our community. We are able to share ideas, support the needs of other agencies, collaborate on grants and more. Our content management system, accessible from any Internet connection, allows us to distribute the work flow in maintaining our activities and member database. A centralized member database has saved us a lot of money as it is now used to automatically generate our print directory as well.

-- Juan Castro, former President, InterAgency Council

Project Literacy/Outreach

I want to thank The Next Page for the website you created for Project Literacy/Outreach, Inc. It presents information about our agency with style and clarity. And the proof is in the pudding, as the saying goes. Volunteers, referrals, and also donations come in continuously thanks to the brilliance and execution of design. I regard you to be a master of the form. Your expertise helps enormously to bolster our mission to reduce illiteracy.

-- Lucille Cuttler, Executive Director

Xiaoling Wu - Artist, Painter

The Next Page was instrumental in translating my wishes into a dynamic website that truly reflects my work. The ability for me to update inventory on the fly is a simple and intuitive process. I am also able to manage my own images through their web-base interface to upload, create and manipulate thumbs -- all in real time. Once I update in one screen and reload my web page the new information is there immediately!

-- Xiaoling Wu, Artist

MAX Foundation - Special Education for Children with Developmental Disabilities

The MAX Foundation recently revamped it's entire website with the supportive expertise of The Next Page. As the Director of a small Foundation I found it extremely comforting to know that I could call upon The Next Page to answer the Foundation's concerns and truly understand our mission. They were attentive and professional in meeting the needs of our organization and clearly designed a site that portrays our message. Our Board of Directors are pleased with the MAX Foundation's website outcome and look forward to growing along with the help of The Next Page!

-- Teresa Korten, Director of the MAX Foundation

Glen Cove Downtown Business Improvement District

The Downtown BID recently established its web site as a tool to help market downtown Glen Cove and to keep its members and the public at large informed of news updates that affect them. The design and technical assistance of The Next Page allows us to link to every other agency and organization in our community, fostering collaborative efforts. The back end maintenance system is a dream and an economic savings in terms of time and dollars.

-- Francine A. Ferrante, Executive Director

 

Additional Recommendations from LinkedIn Profile

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“Ilona is a creative artist and passionate activist. She is highly principled and values-driven. Ilona is someone you can count on to keep her word and gives 110% to any cause she believes in. She is a powerful and clear communicator in both verbal and creative skills and is courageous about sharing her opinions and views of the world. I strongly recommend her as a valuable project manager, team member and creative visionary. I would gladly work with her again.”

1st Carol Schillios, Founder, Schillios Consulting Group, Fabric of Life Foundation

“Ilona gave quick recommendations for low cost ways to improve our website before major budget allocations could be made, then implemented those changes quickly and efficiently. Since I work on mac, some of her task management options were challenging for me (she worked then in Microsoft products), but she adapted systems that would work. Second project was a major, major revision to woodenboat.org including an ongoing NxPage Moonburn database that is very functional for us! The website revision occurred during the first year of our merger. Ilona was helpful in sorting out the priorities for WBF while also accommodating interim phases of evolution to a new NWMC website. Ilona delivered on budget and to the contract. Her written documents are excellent when preparing for new website design, function and priorities.”

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Good Value
1st Kaci Cronkhite

“Ilona has done a superb job in translating our organizations story and needs to our website. She is responsive and wonderful to work with.”

Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, On Time
1st Heidi Eisenhour

“Ilona has consistently delivered creative, affordable web solutions with the highest level of professionalism. I confidently recommend her work to others.”

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity
1st Kristin Axtman