Glenda Blum Minkin
Glenda Blum Minkin has broad experience in the areas of nonprofit development and political fundraising, and is currently working as a development consultant.

Minkin has created development departments within nonprofits that include foundation/grantmaking programs involving research; grant proposal development and reporting process for foundations; oversight of direct mail programs; development of a major donor campaign; development of a Board campaign; and strategic planning for cultivation of new donors.

Clients have included The Anti-Prejudice Consortium; The Names Project, AIDS Memorial Quilt; The Weber School; “Laughing Through the Tears, Comedy for Peace,” a documentary film project; and numerous candidates and elected officials.

Minkin currently serves on the Boards of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation, Leadership Atlanta, NARAL Pro-Choice Georgia, and North American Friends of the Arava Institute. She is the incoming Development Chair of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation and the incoming Alumni Program Chair of Leadership Atlanta. She has previously served as President of Brandeis University National Women’s Committee, Campaign Chair of the Women’s Division of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and on the Boards of the Piedmont Park Conservancy, Atlanta Victim Assistance, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, Jewish Family and Children’s Services, the Greenfield Hebrew Academy, and The Weber School and as a national Board member of United Jewish Appeal. She has also served as a member of the Governor’s Commission on Film and Video and on the Lieutenant Governor’s Environmental Advisory Committee.

Chosen as a participant in the Wexner Heritage Foundation Community Leadership Program, Minkin received the Abe Schwartz Leadership Award in 1983 and is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta, Class of 2004.