Pamela J. Davidson JD

Pamela Jones Davidson, J.D., is President of DAVIDSON GIFT DESIGN, Bloomington, Indiana, a consulting firm specializing in gift planning, planned giving program design and implementation, and training. Before forming her own company in 1999, she was a charitable gift planner and consultant for three years with Laura Hansen Dean and Associates, Indianapolis, Indiana. From 1985 through 1996, she was with Indiana University Foundation, leaving that organization as its Executive Director of Planned Giving and Associate Counsel.

Ms. Davidson received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University in 1975, and graduated magna cum laude and top 10% from the Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis in 1979. She has previously been an examiner in the Estate and Gift Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service, and later practiced business, corporate and probate law with the Indianapolis law firm of Bingham, Summers, Welsh & Spilman before joining the nonprofit sector in 1985.

Ms. Davidson was the 1999 President of the National Committee on Planned Giving, and served NCPG in various capacities during her six years on the Board, in 1995 as Education Chair, in 1996 as Secretary, and as President Elect in 1998. She served as NCPG’s 2000 Nominating Committee Chair and as a past president, is a current member and past Chair of its Ethics Committee.

Ms. Davidson is on the Editorial Board of the Planned Giving Design Center, and faculty of The College of William and Mary National Planned Giving Institute. She is a past board member and past treasurer of the Indiana Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives (now, AFP), and a past board member and president of the Planned Giving Group of Indiana. She is a past president of the Network of Career Women, and a Leadership Bloomington alumna. She is on the Board of her local Edgewood Choral Foundation, and Board President of Middle Way House, her community’s nationally recognized women’s shelter now in a capital funding project and raising endowment. She serves on the Community Advisory Boards of both her local public radio and television stations.

Ms. Davidson has made countless presentations throughout the state of Indiana and nationally to development professionals, planned giving councils, estate and tax attorneys, accountants and financial planners, and to prospects and donors about planned giving and charitable giving techniques.

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June J. Bradham, CFRE

June Bradham is founder, owner, and President of Corporate DevelopMint. She has spent the last 20 years leading non-profit organizations as they meet and exceed their goals. Her expertise in fundraising has helped hundreds of non-profits reach their financial and organizational targets. She has, as a result, become a recognized leader in the development of innovative, successful fundraising efforts.

June started her development career at Hilton Head Hospital, SC. June’s work with that institution’s foundation was crucial to moving the hospital’s bottom line from negative to positive.

As President of Corporate DevelopMint, June is integrally involved in all campaigns directed by the firm, with goals that have ranged from $3 million to $100 million.

Under June’s direction, Corporate DevelopMint has become one of the leading fundraising consulting firms in the Southeast, especially in the healthcare arena. As a reflection of that position, June and her staff designed and organized Corporate DevelopMint’s first Healthcare CEO Forum in 2004, attracting over 20 healthcare CEOs. Centered on the firm’s proprietary MintAsk Process, the event allowed the CEOs to learn how to increase their impact on fundraising efforts.

June’s deep commitment to the growth and success of non-profit organizations is underscored by her years of volunteer experience, including service on the Executive Committee of the Carolinas Hospital PR and Marketing Society. June is also a member of the Executive Committee of the South Carolina State Chamber of Commerce Board, The Citadel School of Business Administration Board, the Columbia College Board of Trustees, the Atlantic Bank and Trust Board of Directors, and Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Lowcountry Chapter’s Board of Directors. She is also the incoming president of South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations (SCANPO).

The first alumna chosen to present the convocation address for a Columbia College Graduating Class, June speaks nationally to numerous groups each year.

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JoVanna King

JoVanna J. King is the Senior Director of Gift and Estate Planning for Clemson University. She has over twenty-five years of leadership experience in planned giving, development, major gift fundraising, management operations and campaign planning, twenty of which she has gained at Clemson University. JoVanna started her development career with Anderson College where she served as the Director of Alumni and Development from 1983-1988.

JoVanna has served as a fund-raising consultant for various companies and has lectured on a variety of fund-raising and advancement topics throughout the country. She is a past-president of the South Carolina Planned Giving Council, and currently serves on various boards and committees in the Anderson community. She is married to Jim King, the principal attorney with The King Law Firm in Anderson, South Carolina.

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Viken Mikaelian

In 1998, Viken co-founded VirtualGiving, the first company focused specifically on “Bringing Planned Giving to the Internet.” Since then, VirtualGiving has helped over 300 non-profits get their planned giving programs on the Web, published numerous white papers, and conducted various national surveys to help you and your peers.

Viken is president of VirtualGiving (Valley Forge, PA), focusing on product development and marketing. He is also a co-founder of The Planned Giving Company and is currently spearheading the “fundraisers’ version” LegacyPlanner™ – the first interactive software tools that will be free for all practicing professionals.

Viken is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. His major area of concentration for the past 16 years has been development communications, producing over 1600 publications for capital campaigns and planned giving programs. His former graphic design firm’s portfolio includes numerous awards, including five from CASE.

Viken’s expertise in combining planned giving principles with marketing and technology tools to explain planned giving to the lay prospect continues to be his driving force in the gift-planning community.

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Bill Overby

Bill Overby has been the Director of Development for the North Carolina Baptist Foundation since 1991. The Baptist Foundation is the trust agency of the Baptist State Convention of NC and was chartered in 1920 to promote Christian estate planning concepts and to serve as trustee for charitable endowments and trusts. In addition to serving 1.2 million Baptist individuals across North Carolina, the Baptist Foundation offers trustee services to approximately 4,200 churches, five Baptist Colleges, the Baptist Hospital, the Baptist Children’s Homes, and the Baptist Retirement Homes. Bill works out of the Foundation’s administrative office in Cary and also supervises the development efforts in the Foundation’s three regional offices located in the New Bern, Winston-Salem and Morganton areas.

Prior to coming to the Baptist Foundation, Bill had a fifteen-year career with a large county park system in central New Jersey. The last ten years were spent administering a $50 million open space acquisition program, soliciting gifts of real estate and preparing grant applications. He received his B.S. degree in 1976 from North Carolina State University in the School of Forestry’s program of Parks and Recreation Administration.

Bill is the 2008 President of the NC Planned Giving Council and has also served as Secretary and President-elect.

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Timothy J. Prosser, JD

Mr. Prosser joined TIAA-CREF Trust Company in April 2000. He directs the delivery of planned giving technical consulting services to the Company’s institutional clients.

Prior to joining TIAA-CREF, Mr. Prosser practiced law in St. Louis with the firms of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Armstrong Teasdale Schlafly & Davis. As a practicing attorney, Mr. Prosser assisted high net worth clients in estate planning, charitable giving and business succession planning, advised corporate and individual fiduciaries in administration of estates and trusts and represented parties in complex litigation in state and federal courts.

Mr. Prosser is president of the St. Louis Planned Giving Council and a member of several other professional organizations, including the Missouri Bar, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the Estate Planning Council of St. Louis. Mr. Prosser is a frequent speaker and writer on charitable planning topics. He is a past chair of Leave a Legacy® St. Louis and serves on the planned giving advisory councils of several not-for-profit organizations in the St. Louis area.

Mr. Prosser received his J.D. degree and M.A. degree in Public Administration from St. Louis University in December 1990 and his B.A. in Russian Area Studies in 1987 from Loyola University, New Orleans.

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