Claudia Zeldin is a partner at Growth for Good and an accomplished professional consultant with 35+ years of nonprofit management and marketing experience. She has a strong expertise in interim executive leadership, strategic planning, fundraising, and marketing. Claudia has consulted, coached, trained, and created plans and campaigns for more than 150 nonprofit agencies, for-profit companies, and educational and philanthropic organizations.
Claudia completed the Support Center’s Interim Executive Leadership Training Course in 2009 and has held over a dozen temporary management positions including Interim Executive Director and Development and Communications Director for numerous nonprofits: American Foundation for the Blind, The Bronx Community Foundation, Brooklyn Community Housing and Services, College Access: Research & Action (CARANY), Education Through Music, Literacy Inc. (LINC), RSS Center for Ageless Living, Youth Communication, Women in Need (WIN), and other organization in transition. Claudia has also consulted The Alliance for Rights and Recovery, LEAPnyc, LitWorld, Pajama Program, Ramapo for Children/Ramapo Training, RISE Rockaway, and other social justice nonprofits.
Claudia loves sharing her knowledge and has provided training for AFP’s Fundraising Day NY, National School Foundation Association, Nonprofit Learning Lab, NY Nonprofit Media’s FundCon and MarkCon, and the Support Center.
As an advocate for system-wide educational reform and youth engagement, Claudia served as a board member of DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI) for over 25 years and remains an active trustee of a family foundation. Claudia holds a B.A. in Communications from Tulane University and is a proud Brooklynite.
“Claudia brought enormous passion, energy, leadership and insight to the YC community in her time as our interim executive director. She navigated hiring and organizational restructuring, radically advanced our development and marketing efforts, and helped us launch our growth capital campaign, among many other things. Our staff and board are incredibly grateful for the stability and electric energy she brought at an uncertain time.”
“Claudia Zeldin from Growth for Good dropped in like a development Ninja, hitting the ground running and building the management and governance structures that will continue to grow for years to come. She never skipped a beat; kept us all on task when we each had a million other things to do; and thoughtfully onboarded our first full-time development professional.”
“Growth for Good was the perfect match for our needs as we expand our development and communications work. Claudia shared extensive expertise to help us organize and upgrade these areas. She was always available for last-minute questions, patient with our pace, and willing to help us adapt best-practice templates so that they fit us perfectly. We so appreciate the ways she continually kept an eye out in the field for relevant information and advocated for our work.”