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Kevin Allan Learned Fundraising From Both Sides of the Desk
He has advised fundraisers, run their departments and returned to the consultancy where he started. The result is a career built on knowing that a campaign should leave an institution stronger than it found it.
Ann Fellman Thinks Fundraising Software Should Make Room for the Human Part
After more than 25 years marketing enterprise technology, Bloomerang's CMO has arrived at a plainspoken thesis: better data matters most when it gives fundraisers more time to notice people.
Madeline Turner Is Teaching Fundraising Software to Remember the Human
EverTrue's CMO built a career around a deceptively simple idea: better data matters most when it helps people pay better attention to one another.
Sarah Chamberlin Made the Message Part of the Mission
At CAMH Foundation, Sarah Chamberlin treated communication as infrastructure: a way to connect a public institution, a donor and a reason to act. Now, through Pin Drop Communications, she is carrying that discipline into a practice of her own.
Brady Josephson Is Turning Generosity Into a Growth Discipline
After two decades spent testing how people give, the Canadian marketer has returned home to lead World Vision Canada - carrying a career built on curiosity, experiments and a stubborn belief that generosity can grow.
Vance Roush
Vance Roush is the founder and CEO of Overflow, a fintech platform that makes it simple for churches, nonprofits, and schools to accept stock, crypto, and cash donations online. A first-generation Asian American raised in Kent, Washington, he studied at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, spent time at Google and ADARA, and co-founded VIVE Church in the Bay Area. His work as the church's finance lead exposed how clunky it was to donate appreciated assets, which led him to launch Overflow in 2020. The company has raised roughly $30M, including a $20M Series B in 2024, and Roush frames his mission around Proverbs 11:24 and building an 'Amazon for giving.'
Gerry Poirier
Gerry Poirier is the founder and CEO of AngeLink, billed as the world's first social crowdfunding platform powered by women. After more than two decades on Wall Street trading floors at Credit Suisse and Lazard, where she was often the only woman in the room, she built an AI-driven, fraud-resistant fundraising platform that has grown to roughly 55,000 active users across 100 currencies and raised over $7.3 million in seed funding. A Wharton-trained, globe-trotting risk-taker based in Naples, Florida, she also runs the AngeLink Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) making direct impact grants.