Tedwilliam
Theodore, a thirty-five year veteran of fund raising and
not for profit oganization management, is Thunder Valley's
principal consultant. T.W. has created, built and directed
mid-size arts groups, consulted in fund raising, headed a
major development and marketing department, and managed a
broad range of innovative projects.
He founded
and simultaneously directed two mid-size not for profit organizations
in the 1970's and 1980's. Communications for Change was founded
in 1971 and The Center for New Television in 1977. By the
late 1970's, each of these organizations had budgets of $500,000
to $750,000. Building a constituency and a Board, creating
a sound fund raising and marketing base and developing and
managing a staff and a variety of programs, all with limited
financial resources, are challenges common among all mid-sized
arts organizations, challenges that T.W. knows well.
For five
years, beginning in 1983, T.W. worked with Charles R. Feldstein
and Company, a nationally known fund raising firm, on major
capital campaigns across the Midwest. In Chicago, for instance,
he was instrumental in developing a capital fund raising strategy
and plan that resulted in the creation of the Museum of Broadcast
Communications in 1986.
Theodore
left Feldstein in 1988 to join WTTW/Chicago, first as its
Director of Development to head a newly formed independent
Development Department. In his first year, he took an annual
giving program from a previous high of $1.7 million to a new
record of $3.1 million and increased that amount in each succeeding
year.
Later,
as Vice President for Marketing and Development of The WTTW
National Television Production Center, T.W. was responsible
for the creation and funding of major national broadcast productions.
Among the programs he brought to television were Robert Altman's
The Real McTeague, Bud Greenspan's 16 Days of Glory, and Admiral
William J. Crowe's Power in the Persian Gulf.
In 1993
T.W. founded Thunder Valley Associates on Chicago's
North Shore to provide consulting services to a broad range
of mid-sized not for profit organizations. He relocated the
company to the Monterey area of Northern California in 2003.
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