Tammy Zonker

Current

Senior Director of Development at Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana

Past

Instructor & Senior Coach at Benevon (Formerly Raising More Money)
Senior Account Manager at IBM Business Partner Network

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Non-Profit Organization Management

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Tammy Zonker’s Summary

Tammy Zonker is a highly respected fundraising practitioner specializing in
achieving sustainable funding for social profit organizations. Over the past eight years Tammy has coached and trained hundreds of social profit organizations raising more than $130 million dollars from individuals. Her work has tranformed the idea of sustainable funding from impossible to inevitable for organizations ranging from health and human services, higher education, disaster relief, social justice,
animal welfare to museums and performing arts.

From 2003 to 2008 Tammy led workshops in the United States and Canada as an Instructor and Senior Coach with Benevon (formerly Raising More Money). From 2000 to 2003 she served the Girl Scouts of Limberlost Council as Assistant Executive Director and Director of Development. In her first year on staff she grew annual giving from individuals from $20,000 to more than $200,000. By the end of her second year, she developed a compelling case for support and launched a $5M capital campaign which exceeded goal ending at $5.5 million.

Prior to her social profit career, Tammy spent 17 years consulting with Fortune 500 companies and major universities with both Xerox Corporation and in the IBM Business Partner Network. She has served on a variety of social profit boards where she became passionate about helping organizations fullfill their missions. She transitioned her career from for-profit to social profit by completing the Fundraising Management Program at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. Tammy also holds a B.A, in Business with a concentration in accounting.

Tammy Zonker’s Specialties:

Public Speaking, Training, Board Retreat Facilitation, Development Office Assessment, Major Gift Fundraising, Published Writer.

Tammy Zonker’s Experience

Senior Director of Development

Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

October 2008 — Present (3 months)

My current project with the Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana is to hire a development team, assess current development efforts and create and implement a comprehensive fund development strategy for merging four Councils into one high-capacity Council within 12 months, laying the foundation for an endowment campaign to ensure the Council's work of building girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
Instructor & Senior Coach

Benevon (Formerly Raising More Money)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

June 2003 — October 2008 (5 years 5 months)

Workshop Instructor of the Benevon 101 and 201 level workshops, Co-Instructor at the 301 level in the Five Year Program for Sustainable Funding.

Public speaking at regional and national conferences on the topic of the Benevon model and Sustainable Funding for nonprofits in the U.S. and Canada. Spoke to more than 2000 people annually with high marks.

Personally coached nonprofit organizations who report raising more than $130M from individuals in the past five years.
Senior Account Manager

IBM Business Partner Network

(Computer & Network Security industry)

1985 — 2000 (15 years)

Xerox Connect
The Future Now
Entre' Computer Center
Computerland

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Tammy Zonker’s Groups:

Association of Fundraising Professionals
Indiana University Center of Philanthropy Alumni

Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group
LinkEds & writers
Leadership Think Tank
Landmark Graduates
Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP)-Users on this site are not necessarily AFP members
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University Alumni
Non Profit Professionals
Global Keynote Speakers Association
Council on Foundations