About Jane H. Walker, CFRE
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With over twenty years experience in the business arena, and nine years’ of direct experience creating fundraising programs for nonprofit organizations, Jane Walker is known for building the infrastructure necessary to move institutions forward. Strong fundraising programs require good systems, practices, and plans, and Walker is an expert at putting these in place. She helps create institutional memory, train staff and board members, and build lasting structures that allow nonprofits to springboard to fundraising growth and organizational stability.
A Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), member of the Association of Fundraising Professions (AFP) and Virginia Association of Fundraising Executives (VAFRE), Janie has made presentations to her colleagues on topics such as annual fund development, major donor development, relationship building, fundraising plan development, Case for Support preparation and the state of fundraising today.
Extensive relationships with marketing, communications, data, computer, financial, and management professionals allow Walker to team up with needed experts to deliver a full array of services.
Prior to her career in nonprofit fundraising, Walker formed, ran, and eventually sold Design Source, Inc., a commercial space-planning and design firm specializing in healthcare and banking interiors. Running Design Source provided Janie with marketing, proposal writing, organizational, and business practice skills that uniquely qualify her to help organizations perfect business practices essential to advancement.
Professional Affiliations
Certified Fund Raising Professional
Member, Virginia Association of Fundraising Executives, (VAFRE)
Member, Central Virginia Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals,(AFP)
Career History
In 1998 Walker accepted a position as the first Director of Development for St. Andrew’s School, a tuition-free Episcopal Mission School in Richmond’s Oregon Hill neighborhood. Founded in 1894, the school serves elementary aged children on limited resources. Although it had received 501(c)3 status, the school had a small board and no fundraising program. Additionally, the 100 year old, Nationally Registered building was in disrepair. Walker trained and recruited board members, solidified the support of many Diocese of Virginia institutions, and established an effective infrastructure.
Having fully established a lasting fundraising structure for the school, in 2003 Walker accepted the newly created position of Chief of Development and Community Relations at ChildSavers / Memorial Child Guidance Clinic. The Clinic had recently been given the former WRVA Radio building on Church Hill and needed to establish a formal Capital Campaign, and operations fundraising program.
In June of 2006, having created a strong infrastructure for ChildSavers, Walker began Jane Walker & Associates, LLC, a consulting firm whose mission is to help nonprofits to establish, strengthen, and grow fundraising programs.