TERESA DONOVAN enjoys the opportunity to share her more than twenty-five years of executive level experience in operations and management for both ‘for profit’ and non-profit organizations. She has broad experience working with and growing organizations ranging in size from $1 million to $17 million budgets with a staff of 12 employees up to 800 employees. She is an experienced speaker, presenter, and instructor on budget development and financial management for non-profits and on the development and implementation of social enterprises.

Currently, Ms. Donovan is an instructor for the University of Washington’s Fundraising Management Certificate Program where she teaches the Finance for Fundraising Management course. As the former Deputy Director for Plymouth Housing Group (PHG) which provides permanent housing and support services to individuals who are homeless, she provided direct oversight of the organization’s operations which included policy development, human resources, finance, housing programs, and social services. She also developed, implemented and administered PHG’s first social enterprise, Plymouth Café.

Ms. Donovan’s previous positions include serving as Vice-president of Operations for Cambridge Corporation, a property management and investment company in the state of Virginia, where she launched a new direction for the company by successfully developing a home improvement business. She also served as Director of Planning and Budget for Grafton School, a non-profit organization in Virginia which provides residential, academic, and vocational services to individuals with developmental and emotional disabilities. Her responsibilities included development, implementation, and monitoring of operational and capital budgets, strategic planning, policy development, marketing, fundraising and board development. She played a key role in growing the organization from a local school serving children to a multi-state organization serving individuals of all ages. She has also co-owned and managed small businesses that include property management, equipment rental, and electronic parts manufacturing.

In addition to her work, Ms.Donovan is actively involved in the community. Volunteer activities include serving on a local Chamber of Commerce’s Business-Education Council as a “Choices” presenter in area high schools; mentoring “at-risk” adolescent girls; fundraising and training volunteers for a regional public library; and heading a crisis referral agency. In addition, she served as a volunteer for an independent elementary school as board president, chair of executive, long-range planning, development and nominating committees, and member of the finance and program committees.

Ms. Donovan also served on a task force for the Commonwealth of Virginia that designed and implemented a networked, statewide service fee directory that public and private agencies could access for information on services available for “at-risk” children.

Although most of her formal education comes from Seattle University, University of WA and Western WA University, Ms.Donovan holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Shenandoah University in Virginia.

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