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Instructors

Katherine Anderson, C.P.A.
Chief Financial Officer, Seattle Opera

Named Puget Sound Business Journal’s 2008 Annual CFO of the Year in the Non-Profit category, Anderson has been at Seattle Opera since 2005. Formerly with First Interstate Bank and the Casey Family Programs, she was part of the 1996 team that wrote the Not for Profit Accounting Guide for the American Institute of CPA’s.

Traci Drake
Director of Development Information Services, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Longtime director at FHCRC, Drake oversees the Raiser's Edge fundraising database used by 60 development staff and manages a 10-member team comprised of prospect researchers, gift processing specialists and a business analyst. Formerly the development director at the Crisis Clinic and the operations manager/interim director with Women's Fundraising Alliance, Drake is a frequent guest speaker on nonprofit database and infrastructure topics nationally. Organizations throughout the greater Puget Sound area have benefited from her consultation on database and infrastructure issues.

Michele Hasson
Planned Giving, Seattle Art Museum

Hasson oversees a development group of 25, including campaign staff. Formerly director of development for Seattle Opera, Hasson managed special campaigns including the McCaw Hall renovation campaign. Prior to that, as director of development at AIDS Housing of Washington, she directed the campaign to build Bailey-Boushay House. Hasson received the 2005 Northwest Development Officers Association Professional Achievement Award.

Amanda Madorno
Principal, Roam Consulting, LLC

Madorno provides fundraising counsel to agencies undertaking capital and major gifts campaigns, including feasibility studies, internal assessments and consultation. Formerly, Madorno worked with The Collins Group, and directed the completion of Overlake Hospital Emergency and Trauma Center campaign. She speaks nationally and is an approved instructor in Equine Experiential Learning and Coaching.

Frank Minton, MA, Ph.D.
President, Planned Giving Services Division of PG Calc Incorporated

Currently serving clients in the US and Canada, Minton was formerly director of planned giving and executive director of development at University of Washington. Minton also served as senior estate planning officer and field director at Northwestern University. He has served as president of the National Committee on Planned Giving and received its Distinguished Service Award in 1992. Minton is the principal author of Charitable Gift Annuities: The Complete Resource Manual. Minton received the 1985 Northwest Development Officers Association Professional Achievement Award.

Rosanne Nichols, MBA
Director of Advancement, Museum of Glass

Nichols recently joined Museum of Glass after previously working as VP of Development and External affairs for the Seattle Humane Society and World Concern. Earlier in her career, Nichols taught marketing and management at Montana State University. She was also the National Director of Corporate Partnerships for World Vision and Director of Annual Giving and The President's Club at the University of Washington. Nichols serves on the board of Hedgebrook.

Kate Roosevelt, MPA, CFRE
Vice President, The Collins Group

Roosevelt heads the Product Development Team for The Collins Group, which is the largest female-owned fundraising consulting firm in the nation. Formerly, she served as executive director of the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition and as associate director of the Cascade Center for Public Service at the University of Washington.

Instructors are subject to change.