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

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

TOP WOMEN IN FUNDRAISING — ORGANIZATION

Kerri Feazell
Grants consultant
Union Rescue Mission

As grants consultant, Kerri Feazell is in charge of private foundation relationships. In her first year, she developed 80 new ones, bringing in more than $135,000 in first-time gifts and pledges. She also rebuilt URM’s Web site and introduced online content management and CRM. But we’re most impressed with how she dealt with the limited funds available for her department to accomplish its goals. Creating an internship program, she mentored seven students, teaching grant research and writing, and gift-cultivation skills. She’s honored here for finding a terrific way to maximize her limited resources and for taking steps to ensure the future crop of talented fundraisers.