​About Us

 
Endurance Project Management (EPM) is a boutique project management firm that specializes in developing, implementing, and evaluating social impact programs. We work with visionaries who have innovative ideas but need support to translate those ideas into executable and sustainable programs. Specializing in planning, program design​, and project management, we can take your idea from the start to the finish line.

We work with:
  • Newly launched or established nonprofits looking to create new initiatives or expand existing programs
  • Philanthropists, corporations, or donor collaboratives interested in starting social impact programs
  • Government entities that have innovative ideas to impact the communities in which they serve 

Our Founder 

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Sarah Flesher is an endurance athlete who thrives in the physical and mental challenges of competition. A natural problem solver and solution seeker, she excels while navigating challenging projects, streamlining processes and procedures all while maximizing underutilized resources. Her background in business-finance, nonprofit management, and philanthropic oversight provides for a unique approach to every task. She couples a high degree of professionalism with a leadership style that focuses on maximizing everyone’s potential and talents to help your team realize that there is more than one prize in every endeavor.

Prior to founding EPM, Sarah worked as an Operations Advisor for Arabella Advisors in Washington, DC where she led a multi-departmental team towards the identification of challenges, developed solutions, and improved operational and financial services to more than 70 projects. Additionally, she supported Arabella’s founder and subsequently greatly enhanced the firm’s ability to track and report on new business. She spent a year living in South Africa and Namibia as the Namibian Program Coordinator for Grassroot Soccer. Her work focused on HIV/AIDS programs that utilized soccer as a delivery mechanism for HIV/AIDS prevention education. While in graduate school Sarah worked fulltime as Financial Counselor at 21st Mortgage and coordinated Knox Kicks; a soccer camp for children with refugee status.
 
Sarah holds a MSc degree in communications with a minor in public health from the University of Tennessee and a BSc degree in business administration with a minor in media arts from Eastern Oregon University. In her community, Sarah serves on the Advisory Committee for the Georgia Literacy Commission, is an Advisory Board Member for the TWMB @ Work program at Hands on Atlanta, is a provisional member of the Junior League of DeKalb and volunteers in her community on an as needed basis (DeKalb County Homeless Count and Survey, Open Hand meal delivery and restaurant hostess for annual fund-raiser etc.)

Advisory Board

Stephanie Fuerstner Gillis
Managing Director
Arabella Advisors

Stephanie leads Arabella's Philanthropy Management team. She joined Arabella as part of the firm's acquisition of Blueprint Research + Design, Inc, where she was the COO and a senior consultant. She has worked in philanthropy for more than 15 years, prior to which she spent more than a decade in the nonprofit sector. Stephanie has a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MA in public policy from  the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. 
Ward Whitfield
Vice President of Originations
​21st Mortgage
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​Mr. Whitfield has served as the Vice President of Originations for 21st Mortgage since 1998. 21st Mortgage is a Manufactured Home Loan Originations and Servicing Company that was created in 1995. In 2003 Clayton Homes, acting on behalf of Berkshire Hathaway, acquired 21st Mortgage. 21st Mortgage now services of $7,000,000,000 in home loans and is on target to originate $1,000,000,000 in 2015. Ward is a graduate of the University of Texas Permian Basin and has worked in the manufactured home financial services industry sine 1981.