Reach for the Stars!

“Karen makes deadlines, not excuses,” Dentzer writes. “There are few people I would trust with the future of our chapter, and Karen is one of them.”

Nikki Speer
Major gifts manager
WaterPartners International

Before she joined WaterPartners International in July 2006, Nikki Speer was a gift officer at the University of Central Missouri, where she helped close one of the largest planned gifts in the university’s history. Prior to that, she was with Mississippi University for Women, where she resurrected an all-but-defunct annual gift program and helped it grow by 30 percent annually.