Claudia Zeldin
Claudia Zeldin is a partner at Growth for Good and has 35 years of management experience with a strong expertise in strategic planning, fundraising and board development, marketing, branding, and change management. Over the course of her career, she has consulted for more than 200 nonprofit, philanthropic, and for-profit organizations. www.growthforgood.com
Claudia completed the Support Center’s Interim Executive Leadership Training Course and has served in various transition management positions: Executive Director of Youth Communication, Vice President of Development at Community Service Society, Chief Development Officer at Women In Need, Senior Development Director at Education Through Music, Chief Development Officer for Brooklyn Community Housing and Services, Development Director for the American Foundation for the Blind, and many other youth development and social justice nonprofits.
Claudia loves sharing her knowledge and has provided training for Fundraising Day NY, National School Foundation Association, NJ Education Foundation Partnership, NY Nonprofit Media’s FundCon and MarkCon, and the Support Center.
A student of and advocate for system-wide educational reform and youth engagement, Claudia served as a devoted board member of DREAM/Harlem RBI afterschool programs for 20 years. She is a founding board member of the DREAM Charter School and served on the Executive Committee and DREAM's Strategic Planning Committee. As managing trustee of her family’s small foundation, Claudia oversees grantmaking and manages family dynamics (with a sense of humor). Claudia earned a BA in Communications from Tulane University and continued her studies at New York University’s School of Continuing Education in Nonprofit Management.
