Fundraising Immersion: Session 2

Jennifer Kilbourn has been working with and for nonprofits since the mid-1990’s starting in downtown Denver and then continuously since 1999 in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico. Beginning as a door-to-door canvasser, then an administrative assistant, Jennifer over the years has served as a Development Officer, Board Member, President, and Chair of a Board Development committee during a successful capital campaign. As owner of JMK Solutions since 2011, she has provided hands on administrative and nonprofit fundraising consulting and training to indigenous, traditional, urban, rural and all-volunteer run nonprofits and agencies within animal welfare, youth development, education, arts and cultural resources, and human services sectors. Jennifer’s experience as both an administrative and fundraising professional, as well as a non-profit board member has helped her to develop a holistic approach to cooperative, compassionate, and effective management across constituencies and communities. Her services focus on annual fund implementation, grant writing, individual and institutional prospect research, and systems to balance and track the activities of a diversified fundraising program.

Patti Ward, CFRE (Certified Fund-Raising Executive), is a Nonprofit Consultant with over twenty-five years of experience working with all sizes of nonprofit organizations in various sectors – both urban and rural areas; including faith-based, education, arts, health-related, and social services. She is a knowledgeable trainer and co-created and co-taught the Toolbox for Fundraisers class for ten years through the Nonprofit Service Center, Amarillo Area Foundation program in Amarillo, Texas. She continues to provide training workshops at the Amarillo Area Foundation-Nonprofit Service Center, United Way’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Albuquerque and the Santa Fe Community Foundation, and specialized seminars for nonprofit organizations. She was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Fundraising Professional through the Association Fundraising Professionals (AFP) – Texas Plains Chapter. She is a current member of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel and Association of Fundraising Professionals (New Mexico Chapter and Texas Plains Chapter -Amarillo, Texas). Mrs. Ward holds an MBA and an undergraduate degree in Sociology.