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Tammy Zonker

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Tammy Zonker
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Tammy Zonker is an award-winning fundraising practitioner, turned consultant and trainer in 2008 when she became President and Founder of Fundraising Transformed. She has led, trained, and coached nonprofit social service organizations, private schools, colleges and universities, and healthcare organizations to raise more than a half-billion dollars, including a single gift of $27.1M.

Tammy is a frequent national and international speaker on the topic of nonprofit leadership and transformational philanthropy. She’s spoken at conferences in the Netherlands, Ireland, Australia, Italy and Canada, in addition to the U.S. She’s a masterful storyteller, major gifts and capital campaign strategist.

She’s a contributing writer to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, NonprofitPro, Advancing Philanthropy, Inside Philanthropy, Ken Burnett’s Commission on the Donor Experience and served as technical editor for Wiley Publishing’s Fundraising for Dummies: Third Edition. She also hosts The Intentional Fundraiser Podcast.

Tammy is a certified AFP Master Trainer. Her passion for donor development and mission impact is contagious, inspiring, and transformational. She pours all of this expertise and passion into her advising, training and conference speaking to equip and empower others to skyrocket their fundraising results.

Areas of Expertise

  • Mental & Behavioral Health
  • Hospitals & Healthcare Systems
  • Land Preservation
  • Social Services, including domestic violence, sexual assault, sex-trafficking, foster care and adoption, hunger, senior care and hospice

Some of Tammy’s Clients

  • Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England
  • Ronald McDonald House Ann Arbor
  • University of Wisconsin Platteville
  • Harrison Center
  • Trinity Classical Academy
  • Dallam Hartley Counties Health Foundation
  • Bear Yuba Land Trust

Education and Certifications

  • Business Accounting, Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne Indiana
  • The Fundraising School, Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy – CFRM Certificate in Fundraising Management, 2001
  • AFP Certified Master Trainer, 2019
  • Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy, Certificate in Philanthropic Psychology, 2022

Location

Detroit, Michigan / Northeastern Indiana

Tammy loves international travel and exploring diverse cultures. She also raises monarch butterflies and tends to a butterfly garden and habitat certified by the North American Butterfly Association.