At Zimmerman Lehman we have established a team of knowledgeable, friendly and experienced professionals who can provide the right support and information to ensure a healthy future for your nonprofit. Our firm was founded in 1988 by Robert M. Zimmerman, nationally known fundraising specialist and author. The Zimmerman Lehman team includes experts in areas of nonprofit development and management, such as board of director training and assessment, strategic planning and facilitation, fundraising, inclusion and gender policy and planning. Each Zimmerman Lehman associate is an independent consultant in the nonprofit sector with a unique area of expertise; we put together a team to make sure that all client needs are met. Zimmerman Lehman provides fresh insight, efficient and reliable service, sensitivity to the nonprofit culture, and an objective voice backed by decades of experience.

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Ann W. Lehman, JD, Principal at Zimmerman Lehman, Governance, Training and Gender Specialist, has worked in the public interest arena for more than 35 years as a lawyer, executive director, policy expert and consultant. Ms. Lehman has authored Board Members Rule: How to Be a Strategic Advocate for your Nonprofit and Boards That Love Fundraising. At the start of her legal career, Ms. Lehman supervised a storefront public interest law center in Portland geared to senior citizens and was the executive director of the California Law Center on Long Term Care. In May 2014, Mayor Ed Lee honored Ann for 20 years of advocating for woman and girls as the Gender Advisor for the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. There she spearheaded a private/public collaboration, the Gender Equality Principles Initiative (GEP), creating a gender audit and model practices developed with help from corporate and nonprofit partners such as Google, Levi Strauss & Co., Gap, Deloitte, Twitter, Catalyst and the Center for Talent Leadership. Ann's Gender Services.

Ms. Lehman is also the editor of ZimNotes, the free nonprofit e-newsletter now in its 18th year of publication. Ms. Lehman teaches workshops in such areas as board members' roles and responsibilities, board and staff relations, strategic board member recruitment, advocacy, strategic planning, leadership, and major donor fundraising, as well as human rights, bias, gender analysis and gender budgeting. Ms. Lehman holds a BA from Rutgers University, New Jersey and a JD from Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon.

TEAM MEMBERS

Anu Menon, JD, Gender Issues and Special Event Planning Specialist, is passionate about helping organizations think strategically about addressing gender issues, with a focus on improving the workplace for women. She is also an expert in organizing interesting, thought provoking community building events and has integrated event planning into all of her jobs.  As Director of Admissions at Presidio Knolls School, she planned over thirty events per year ranging from fundraising to social to marketing events. Prior to this, Anu was the Associate Director of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women where she developed innovative and internationally recognized women's and human rights programs, including a series of roundtables bringing corporations and government together to improve the private sector workplace for women. Anu has extensive experience with both domestic civil rights and international human rights issues. She organized an academic symposium at UCLA for Impact 209 on the ten-year impact of anti-affirmative action legislation on California. She has also worked on human rights concerns for women and people of color at the ACLU of Northern California, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Stanford Community Law Clinic, and Human Rights First. Ms. Menon holds a BA from Stanford University, a MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley

Judith Kunofsky, Grantwriting Specialist, has worked with nonprofits since 1974. As a senior staff member at the Sierra Club, Greenbelt Alliance and Yosemite Restoration Trust. Judy gained substantial experience writing grant proposals to foundations, corporations and government agencies. A consultant since 1998, Ms. Kunofsky works with arts, education, environmental, health, and social service clients to prepare well-written, compelling letters of inquiry and proposals that reflect the client's language, tone and emphasis. Judy has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles and has received leadership awards from six organizations.

Morrie Warshawski, Strategic Planning and Arts Funding Specialist, has worked in the nonprofit arts sector for over thirty years as an administrator, consultant, facilitator, teacher and writer. His practice has included work with State and Regional Government Agencies (South Carolina, Missouri, Michigan, California), Foundations (Bush, MacArthur, Pew Charitable Trust), The President's Commission on the Arts and the Humanities, and numerous nonprofit organizations in many disciplines (Operation Shoestring, California Coalition for Youth, Michigan Alzheimer's Organization, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, St. Louis Black Repertory Company, and others). Morrie has extensive experience in strategic planning. He designed and edited a website devoted to strategic planning essays for the National Endowment for the Arts, called Lessons Learned. Morrie is the author of many articles, and of two books, Shaking The Money Tree: How To Get Grants And Donations For Film And Video- 2nd Edition (Wiese Books, LA), and The Fundraising Houseparty.

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