Category: Our Associates

Senior Associate

With close to three decades of experience in non-profit leadership, Jessica Lunken has earned a reputation as an engaged and thoughtful program builder serving mission-driven organizations. She has a successful track record in raising major and principal gifts, building development and grateful-patient programs, and helping lead multi-billion-dollar campaigns. Jessica’s work at Johns Hopkins University spanned two plus decades where she served as the Associate Dean for External Relations at the Peabody Institute, was a founding Director of Development for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Associate Director of Development for the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Jessica has also served in various fundraising capacities for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony, Johns Hopkins University Press, the American Dance Festival, the Jewish Center for Aging in Greater Washington and Beth Am Synagogue.  Jessica received her Bachelor’s in Arts in Psychology from Indiana University, her Master’s in Business Administration from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and certificates from the Creative Education Foundation for problem-solving, facilitation, and creativity.

Area of Expertise:
Jessica’s core expertise is in Fundraising Campaigns and Strategic Planning. She also excels in Board Training, Management and Governance; Development Program Review and Expansion Strategies; Interim Program Management; and Major and Principal Gifts

Experience:
Education, Healthcare, Arts & Culture

Fundraising Must Have:
Focused Mission, Demonstrated Philanthropic ROI, Integrity, and a Culture of Transparency, Respect, and Collegiality.

Contact Jessica at: [email protected]

Associate

With more than 15 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Cory Sinclair specializes in Donor and Constituent Engagement. Previous experience includes work with UCLA Performing Arts, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Habitat for Humanity, the Hollywood Food Coalition, and several Los Angeles based social service nonprofits. In the for-profit arena Cory spent several years in the film industry as a writer and in production.

Cory holds an interfield Ph.D. in music and nonprofit management from Claremont Graduate University. His research interests include cultural policy and the relationship between philanthropy and public-private partnerships.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Cory’s core expertise is in Donor and Constituent Engagement. He also has experience in Advancement Services and Project Management.

Sector Experience: Education, Arts & Culture, Community Based Membership and Advocacy.

Fundraising Must Have: Innovative use of public funding, when possible, to stimulate community interest and lay the foundation for private financial support.

Associate

Currently serving as the Director of Annual Giving at the Medical University of South Carolina, and former Associate Director of Medical Annual Giving and Digital Strategy for Johns Hopkins Medicine, Carley brings ten+ years of experience Direct Marketing an Annual Giving, including stints with the University of Northern Iowa Foundation and Gettysburg College. In addition to a BA in Youth and Human Services: Nonprofit Management, with a minor in Economics, an MA in Youth and Human Services: Nonprofit Management, Carley has achieved certification in Principles and Practices of Nonprofit Excellence, is a Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) and has completed Fundraising Management courses through the AHP Virtual Institute.

Area of Expertise: Carley’s predominant area of expertise is in Direct Marketing and Annual Giving. She has additional experience with Alumni Relations & Giving, Development Program Review & Expansion Strategies, Board Training, Management and Governance, and Project Management

Experience: Education, Healthcare, Community Based Membership and Advocacy

Fundraising Must Have: A clear understanding of where you want your program to go with data and history to help us see the best way to get there and where gaps can be filled to find the most success.

Associate

With over 15 years of experience in the philanthropic sector, Tracye Williams has developed comprehensive annual giving and grateful patient programs, major gifts pipeline development, and donor acquisition strategies with a broad understanding of moving clients, donors, and friends along an engagement continuum for healthcare and higher education institutions. Her extensive professional practice in constituent engagement and donor acquisition programing and implementation has been instrumental in the organizations she has served. Tracye held leadership roles at Medstar Health’s Washington Hospital Center, Christiana Care Health System, and Delaware State University.

Tracye is characterized as a visionary engagement strategist and tactician. She has a bachelor’s degree in marketing, an MBA, and is currently pursuing an Education Doctorate (Ed.D.) in Organizational Learning, Leadership and Innovation from Wilmington University in Delaware, USA.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Tracye’s core expertise is in Major and Principal Gifts. She also has extensive experience in Annual Giving, Pipeline Development, Moves Management, and Donor Engagement Strategy.

Sector Experience: Healthcare; Higher Education; Grass-roots Non-Profits

Tracye’s fundraising must have: Every organization should support and generate continual improvement in high quality organizational performance in the present, while at the same time promoting the innovation that will enable the organization to survive and flourish in the future.

Contact Tracye at: [email protected]