Tom Clingman, CFRE

Experience

• Years in Financial Development (YMCA and Other): 17
• Years Affiliated with the Y: 16
• Budget in Current Position that you are responsible for: Over $3.5M

Financial Development Accomplishments

Annual Support

• Leads a Mid Major Y Advancement office with multiple branches focusing on Y-USA best fundraising practices. Annual Campaigns and special events raise over $500k each year.
• Past Director of Annual Giving for the 14 branch YMCA of NWNC with $2.3M raised in my last year.
• Past member of the Y-USA Camp Cohort.

Capital Development

• Provided leadership to a Capital Campaign for a 60K sqft Y, which raised over $15M in a combination of philanthropic dollars, land donation, partial land sale, and public as well as private partnerships.
• Works on constant capital fundraising for our Y branches.  An example is a renovation project that involves 2 foundations, a corporate donor, a government grant, and a service club joining together for a $150K project.
• Facilitated raising over $2M in the last 6 years to help the Y recover from two catastrophic floods. Also helped the Y secure funding to build a $1.5M flood prevention system

Endowment/Planned Giving

• Works with a committee to secure new Endowment funding each year.  Our Y currently has a $4.5M Endowment Fund.
   

Board/Volunteer Development

• Attend Metro Board meetings and work with the Board and Financial Development Chair to achieve financial development goals. 
• Serves as the primary Staff Liaison for the new Natelli Family YMCA Advisory Board.

 

Marketing & Communications

• Oversees and provides guidance to the Marketing Department.

Other

• Identifies grant funding opportunities and works with staff to collaboratively write and submit grant applications.
• Oversees the YMCA of Frederick County Volunteer Program.
• Provides Y leadership to the Frederick County Head Start program, which has 70 staff members serving 242 children with an annual budget of $3.1M.

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