2014 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards Winners

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

Niya Kight,
resource development manager
CFED - Corporation for Enterprise Development

Niya Kight is another up-and-comer whose success is rooted firmly in the foundations of fundraising, as well as an overall positive attitude and eagerness to learn.

Last year, according to Elizabeth Coit, chief development officer at CFED, Kight initiated several activities to help the organization launch an individual donor program. She designed a chart to track and analyze individual donor giving history and patterns over a five-year period, and drafted an individual fundraising plan.