Announcing the results of the 2007 Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

Tim Burgess
Co-founder
Merkle/Domain

Teacher, leader, advocate and, oh yeah, fundraiser. Tim Burgess wears many hats as a consultant to nonprofit organizations of every size and mission around the country. But what sets him apart is that he melds all of them into one to form a consummate fundraising professional who lives — and works — with passion, gentle determination and intrepid spirituality. The column that Tim has been writing for FundRaising Success is aptly titled on many levels — “Because It Matters.” He writes what he knows, which, among many things, is that fundraising does, indeed, matter. And that the best in the sector know that, live that and love that.