Senior Philanthropy Officer, San Diego Botanic Garden

Lenise Andrade has over 19 years experience as a nonprofit fundraiser with a variety of organizations, including Heal the Bay, the San Diego Zoo, UC San Diego, and California Center for the Arts, Escondido. She is the Senior Philanthropy Officer at San Diego Botanic Garden and has led workshops on nonprofit management, fundraising, and leadership for the Association of Fundraising Professionals San Diego, the Fundraising Academy at National University, Nonprofit Solutions, and other area organizations.

Lenise has also consulted a variety of organizations in development strategy, major donor fundraising, board development, and nonprofit communications. She was a founding Board Member of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network in San Diego, serves on the Public Policy and Advocacy Committee for Catalyst San Diego and Imperial Counties, and is a founding member of Women Give San Diego.

Director of Business Development, 211 San Diego

Suzie Bechtol is the Director of Business Development at 211 San Diego. As the Director of Business Development, she provides direction and oversight for identifying, assessing and responding to grant and funding opportunities including but not limited to foundations, corporations and government funding sources to support 211 San Diego operations. Prior to joining 211 San Diego, she worked at Capstone Advisors, a Carlsbad-based real estate investment and development firm and the Embassy of Canada in Washington, DC. She also served as the Board Co-Chair and Treasurer for the San Diego Chapter of Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN). She has been a member of the NCPC Event Committee since 2018. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM) with a Bachelor’s Degree in History and received her Master’s Degree in the History of US Foreign Relations from The American University in Washington, DC.

Ganzow is originally from Wisconsin and has lived in Milwaukee, Sacramento, Kansas City, San Francisco, Chicago, back to Silicon Valley before arriving in San Diego in 2006. In March of 2020, he became President and CEO of the San Diego Employers Association. Prior to that, he held leadership positions in the Workforce Education Solutions division at National University and the San Diego Business Journal.

Along with local and national sales positions with business journals he’s also worked for a national trade publisher and has owned eight corporate and leisure travel agencies in Silicon Valley, Carmel and Dallas.

His involvement in the community includes board positions and advisory roles in many nonprofits and enjoys be a student of servant leadership.

His hobbies include reading, travel and food. He attended the University of Wisconsin and lives in Carlsbad his wife Karen and their daughter Bryn.

Business Development Manager, Mercy Air

Vanessa has over 15 years’ experience in leadership and healthcare nonprofits, having most recently served as the community and corporate relations manager at Palomar Health.  She has worked in diverse organizations (for-profit/not-for-profit, small/large, private/public) in business development and creating special events, large and small, to raise community awareness and generate philanthropic support.

She and her family are heavily involved in healthcare philanthropy – organizing medical and food missions in poverty-stricken areas of the Philippines.  Vanessa has also taken an active role in the community by serving as on the Board of Directors for the San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra and the North San Diego Business Chamber’s Emerging Leaders Council.

Annual Giving Manager, Promises2Kids

Tiffany La Mar is a fund development and community engagement professional in San Diego. She has worked with the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California San Diego, affordable housing developer and nonprofit Community HousingWorks and is now honored to be creating brighter futures for foster youth ® at Promises2Kids. In these roles, Tiffany has provided strategic planning oversite, annual giving management, donor-centric relationship management, event planning, and philanthropic advocacy.

As the current Annual Giving Manager at Promises2Kids, Tiffany’s work focuses on managing, growing, and strengthening Promises2Kids’ foundation of annual donors, monthly donors, ambassadors, and supporters through campaign management, integrated marketing, events, and community engagement.

Tiffany is known for her infectious personality, experience managing individual and community relationships, public speaking skills, and her ability to authentically connect individuals’ interests to meaningful philanthropic opportunities. In addition to her involvement with NCPC, she is the Board Secretary for San Diego Urban League Young Professionals, and an AFP-San Diego Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access committee member.

While the former track and field athlete from the University of California, Los Angeles has stepped away from the track competitively, she has refocused that UCLA Bruin competitive greatness to advocate for personal and professional development within her communities and volunteerism. Outside of work she enjoys connecting businesses with one another, mentoring youth and young adults, singing at various churches in San Diego and applying that same passion to her work at Promises2Kids.

Carlos Medina, CFRE, contributes nearly 15 years of experience within San Diego County’s nonprofit community, as a grant writer with The San Diego LGBT Community Center, Father Joe’s Villages, Champions for Health, and Mama’s Kitchen, before serving as Learning Services Manager at Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties (2019-2021).

As Principal at Carlos Medina Consulting and Grant Strategies, he contributes a background sourcing private and public funding; assembling and submitting grant requests, letters of inquiry, proposals, and associated budgets; creating and maintaining a grants calendar to ensure a solid rhythm of cultivation, solicitation, grant reports and renewals, and; developing long-term relationships with grant-making partners. He is also a board member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, San Diego Chapter, and the Epilepsy Foundation of San Diego County.

 

VP External Relations, San Diego Oasis

Jolyn currently serves as VP of External Relations for San Diego Oasis, an award-winning nonprofit organization providing stimulation, education and community engagement to older adults to prevent isolation and loneliness, and to encourage engagement and purpose, serving over 5,000 active and engaged older adults and seniors throughout San Diego County. Formerly a board member at Oasis, Jolyn applies her business, academic and nonprofit experience to the challenges of growing an important mission. From her role as former CMO of a local nonprofit hospice to teaching the business of retail, marketing and communications at a major public university to running a multi-million dollar retail operation, she has decades of involvement in the nonprofit community, most recently as board member and past chair of Barrio Logan College Institute in San Diego, board member of Friends of Breakthrough Public Schools in Cleveland, Ohio, member of Community Advisory Council of SDG&E, and former board member and past chair of Community Health Improvement Partners (CHIP) of San Diego. She holds a Bachelor of Professional Studies in Nonprofit Management from Empire State College at SUNY, Applied Associate Degree in Retail Management from Fashion Institute of Technology at SUNY, and a certificate from The College of Distributive Trades, London, England. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she is married to a business turnaround specialist and has one daughter, an attorney.

Principal, MP Consulting

Marianne is a nonprofit consultant focused on advancing philanthropy to enhancing organizational sustainability. Marianne has facilitated hundreds of strategic retreats and trainings focused on strategic planning, board development/engagement and private philanthropy, Marianne works with each individual organization to assess their current strengths and works with board and staff leadership to implement recommendations to ensure that each organization has sustainable resources it needs for its mission to thrive.

Marianne recently retired from a Pacific Region leadership role for Boys & Girls Clubs of America where she consulted with Boards, leadership, and staff at approximately 50 independent Boys & Girls Clubs guiding them in building and/or enhancing relationship-focused transformational philanthropy. Prior to joining Boys & Girls Clubs of America in 2013, Marianne raised millions of dollars in various philanthropy roles at Dignity Health, the American Red Cross and United Way. Prior to entering the non-profit field, Marianne owned and operated Landmark Business Services, an office management and support service company with four Phoenix area locations.

Marianne is a nationally Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), a Boardsource Certified Board Training Consultant and Certified Grant Trainer. Marianne has served on several non-profit boards including the Pat Tillman Foundation, Gilbert Historical Museum and Gilbert Leadership Board. Marianne has served on numerous committees and, in addition to NCPC, has been a member of the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and the San Diego Planned Giving Partnership.

She is an avid sports fan and loves baseball, football, golf and walking the beaches of Southern California.  Marianne and her husband Mike live in Temecula California and have two children and three grandchildren.

Associate Vice President of Development, Office of University Advancement  – Cal State San Marcos

Jocelyn Wyndham serves as the Associate Vice President of Developmentin the office of University Advancement at Cal State San Marcos. She leads the major gift fundraising team, providing donor-centric vision and strategyto advance the goals and initiatives of Cal State San Marcos. Prior to joining CSUSM in 2013, she worked in philanthropy and events at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, UC San Diego, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She is a proud two-time alumna of Cal State San Marcos, earning a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences and a graduate degree in Business Administration (MBA).  She’s been an active member ofvarious NCPC committees and joined the NCPC board in 2019.

Jocelyn and her husband, also a CSUSM alum, live in Vista with their two daughters and two rescue pups.