The Nehemiah Consortium is a collection of highly trained professionals dedicated to providing high quality consulting and training services to its clients.

Philosophy   The leaders of The Nehemiah Consortium (TNC) have spent many years successfully working to address some of our society’s most pressing social problems. We have concluded that in order to solve the problems we face today, an inter-disciplinary approach is required. We bring together effective leaders from a number of disciplines including non-profit, academia and business in order to enhance the work of non-profit organizations and government agencies.     Mission   The mission of TNC is to enhance the effectiveness of non-profit organizations and government agencies enabling them to more successfully carry out their mission.    Experience   Senior Consultant and Principal Joseph Williams possesses over thirty-five years of experience in serving economically disadvantaged people. As Founder and CEO of New Creations Community Outreach (formerly Transition of Prisoners, Inc.), he developed and implemented a number of innovative approaches that have helped others to experience significant positive life change. An evaluation of New Creations’ TOP program found that those who graduated from the TOP program were ten times less likely to have any further contact with the criminal justice system than a control group.  As a result of the innovation and success of the TOP program, Mr. Williams was recognized as an outstanding social entrepreneur in 2006 by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a global organization that promotes unique ways of addressing pressing social problems.   Mr. Williams designed the successful Children Having A Mind to Pursue Success (CHAMPS) program. The primary goal of CHAMPS is to increase the resiliency of children who have lost a parent to incarceration. This is accomplished through support groups designed to help the children to identify, define and learn strategies that provide them with the capacity to overcome various aspects of the trauma they have faced or are currently facing, as a result of having or having had a parent(s) in prison. An evaluation of CHAMPS showed that behaviors and attitudes of their children improved after their participation in the program.    His professional experience and educational background have made him a much sought-after provider of technical assistance and training. He has provided technical assistance and training to organizations and agencies in over 20 cities and several foreign countries including Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Williams has hosted annual correctional ministry conferences since 2002. Organizations from every state in the country have received training through these conferences.