Empowering Your Organization for Success


At VPG, we're dedicated to your organization's growth and excellence. Our expertise in leadership, team development, psychological assessments, and nonprofit management empowers you to capitalize on growth potential and enhance what's already working.

Founded by Megan Van Petten, the Van Petten Group (VPG) serves as your go-to nonprofit empowerment firm, committed to equipping organizations to better serve their members. With over 200 years of collective experience in organizational development, we bring value to diverse clients, including foundations, trade associations, professional societies, corporations, and government institutes. Your journey to excellence starts here with VPG as your trusted partner.

Our Vision

At VPG our vision is a world in which all nonprofit or charitable organizations are perpetually equipped with the talent, infrastructure and funding needed to accomplish their organizational purposes with excellence. Our vision is to make your vision a reality.

Our Mission

We accomplish our vision by employing entrepreneurial growth strategies to nonprofit organizations in the areas of leadership and strategy, human resources, and in creating long-term financial success. By taking the levers of talent, infrastructure and funding, we allow our clients to focus on their core missions of bettering their communities and our world.

VPG Values

VESTED INTEREST: We don’t view nonprofit organizations as clients; they’re partners and friends. VPG maintains a vested interest in the success of the organizations we support. We learn together, we grow together, and we thrive together.

PASSION: We will execute each process with passion and leverage the passion of our client organization and its members and donors to produce memorable events and solutions that build lasting impressions.

GRATITUDE: VPG is grateful for the opportunity to support organizations that make a difference and we convey that gratitude to each and every contributor. Serving nonprofit organizations is our why, and it’s up to us to remind the participants of their community why they are a part of their organization and industry.

Meet Our Team

Megan Van Petten

Megan Van Petten
CEO & President

Brian Crowley, Finance Manager

Brian  Cowley Finance Manager

John Davidson

John Davidson
Partnership Manager

Robin Fischer

Robin Fischer
Community Manager

Michaela Frank

Michaela Frank
Account Executive

Lindsay Heatley

Lindsay Heatley
Account Executive

Ralph Klisiewicz

Ralph Klisiewicz
Media Manager