Tammy Zonker

Current

Adjunct Professor at Indiana University-Purdue University
Director of Individual Giving at The Children's Center of Wayne County (Detroit)
Senior Director of Development at Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana

Fundraising Practitioner at Tammy Zonker, LLC
Contributing Writer at Boomerous.com (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

Instructor & Senior Coach at Benevon (Formerly Raising More Money)
Fundraising Trainer & Consultant at Florida Atlantic University
Senior Account Manager at IBM Business Partner Network

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Recommended

25 people have recommended Tammy

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299 connections

Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

Websites

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.

Tammy is presently a self-employed, contract fundraising practitioner and contributing writer to a number of websites and national publications. She will join Indiana-Purdue University as an Adjunct Professor in the Continuing Studies Division concentrating on social profit excellence and fundraising in Fall 2009.

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.

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

Adjunct Professor

Indiana University-Purdue University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)

Tammy will be teaching the "Fundraising Heart & Soul Series" with Indiana University-Purdue University Continuing Studies Division beginning Fall Semester '09 aimed at social profit board members, executive directors, fund development professionals and volunteers.
Director of Individual Giving

The Children's Center of Wayne County (Detroit)

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

The mission of The Children's Center is to help children and families shape thier own futures. We provide mental health services for more than 5,000 children in Wayne County through 24 programs ranging from adoption/foster care, autism support, sensory integration and therapies for abuse and neglect.
Senior Director of Development

Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

October 2008 — Present (10 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.
Fundraising Practitioner

Tammy Zonker, LLC

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

Tammy is presently a self-employed, outsourced fundraising practitioner and contributing writer to a number of websites and national publications. In addition, she will begin as adjunct faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University Fall '09 focused on social profit excellence and fundraising .
Contributing Writer
Boomerous.com (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Online Media industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

Boomerous.com is a lifestyle website squarely focused on baby boomers living life to the fullest – celebrating each and every day. After all, reaching mid-life does not have to mean we should slow down and coast out the remainder of our lives. Tammy's writing focuses primarily on spotlighting inspiring baby boomers, volunteerism and leaving a legacy through philanthropy.
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.
Fundraising Trainer & Consultant

Florida Atlantic University

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year)
Senior Account Manager

IBM Business Partner Network

(Computer & Network Security industry)

1985 — 2000 (15 years)

Xerox Connect
The Future Now
Entre' Computer Center
Computerland