Tina Meyer is the Director of New Donor Engagement at the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Tina joined IFAW in 2004 to help to manage and grow their global sustainer program. In her current role, Tina is responsible for promoting IFAW’s mission to protect and save our world’s wildlife from all threats they face. In addition to Face to Face, Tina and her team acquire new donors via direct mail, DRTV and lead conversion programs in 7 countries. She is a passionate advocate for building a strong and dedicated sustainer portfolio that provides ongoing financial stability, allows for urgent animal rescues, and ensures IFAW’s work will continue into the future.

Tina joined the PFFA Board of Directors in 2021 and is committed to helping maintain and grow this powerful channel and to protect the reputation and funding that allows charities to carry out our vital work. Tina is serving her third term as board member elected by PFFA membership.

Monica Muten is currently the Vice Presisent, Direct Response Marketing at Special Olympics International and is a fundraising professional with more than twenty years of experience. She joined Special Olympics in 2018 and is focused primarily on developing and driving strategy for the direct mail, telemarketing, and sustainer programs.

Prior to Special Olympics, Monica spent ten years with the National Wildlife Federation in a range of roles specializing in monthly sustainers, telemarketing, donor appeals, acquisition, and renewals. She also spent several years working at a direct response fundraising agency, where she executed campaign strategy for non-profit organizations like Amnesty International, Environmental Defense, Children’s Defense Fund, Public Citizen, and many others. Monica has dedicated her career to the non-profit sector and enjoys working on all aspects of direct response, but she is most passionate about building strong monthly donor programs.

Monica joined the Board of Directors of the PFFA in early 2019 and is interested in working with her NPO colleagues to ensure that face-to-face fundraising within the U.S. market grows sustainably.

Mike has been involved in the face-to-face sector for 20 years. After graduating from Indiana University with a degree in public affairs, he began his career canvassing on the front lines for direct sales products door-to-door, then transitioned to non-profit fundraising to include street and private site fundraising. Starting from the entry-level role, Mike has built a wealth of knowledge from the field to overseeing one of the top fundraising companies in the United States.

Mike serves as the Founder and CEO of Boost Fundraising Group. His focus is building strong partnerships with charity clients, while improving quality metrics within the industry. His belief is quality and quantity can be obtained with the right partnerships and coaching. In addition, Mike and his team are actively supporting nonprofits in their carbon reduction journey by providing strategic guidance. His expertise helps organizations assess their carbon footprint, implement effective reduction strategies, and achieve sustainability goals. By partnering with nonprofits, Mike ensures they can contribute to environmental preservation while maintaining their mission-driven work.

Currently serving as a board member, Mike hopes to create an environment of sharing ideas and strategies to ensure sustainable growth in the sector. His favorite part of the face-to-face industry is the people and seeing successful campaigns being implemented to make a difference. Mike is serving his third term as a board member elected by PFFA membership.

Jamal is a reformed jazz musician, a corny joke enthusiast, and a dedicated fundraiser. He founded One Voice Fundraising and co-founded both 1 Voice Latinoamérica and Thoughtful Committed Citizens, all with a keen focus on improving donor retention with the face-to-face sector and opening ever new opportunities to partner both with impactful/inspiring nonprofits and face-to-face vendors who share the same values and focus. Today, through this group of companies, Jamal is fortunate to currently be raising funds for Children International, the International Rescue Committee, the Humane Society of the US, Save the Children, Amnesty International, Oxfam Mexico and UNHCR.

Monica joined the Board of Directors of the PFFA in May of 2013 and is serving his first term on the board elected by PFFA members.

Since 2016, Steve Abrahamson has led the direct response fundraising program at Audubon, overseeing efforts in mail, face-to-face, phone, and digital channels. Before joining Audubon, Steve led membership fundraising at Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. Prior to his work in the nonprofit sector, Steve was a marketing and advertising executive at E*TRADE, Capital One, and Citibank. He began his career as a management analyst for the City of New York. Steve holds a BA in Political Science from Columbia University.

Steve joined the PFFA Board of Directors in 2022 and is serving his first term elected by PFFA members.

Matt Pearsall is the Associate Director, Acquisition and Sustainer Growth with the International Rescue Committee. In his role, Matt manages the organization’s overall face-to-face acquisition channel. For over 15 years, Matt has spent his career working extensively in the face-to-face channel, supporting campaign growth and strategy development in building and guiding national fundraising campaigns across the United States on both the non-profit and agency side.

After Matt got his start within face-to-face focusing on political advocacy and outreach, he has successfully guided acquisition campaigns for more than a dozen non-profit organizations within the channel throughout his career.  Matt has been involved with the PFFA since its inception and remains a strong and vocal advocate of effective face-to-face fundraising as a means to grow organizational support and capacity.

Matt has been involved with the PFFA since 2015 and joined the PFFA Board of Directors in 2019.

Nicole Clemente is the Managing Director of Supporter Acquisition at Save the Children. Nicole started her career in direct response fundraising and has worked with Save the Children in a variety of capacities since 2012. As the Managing Director of Supporter Acquisition, Nicole leads a team of fundraising and marketing professionals who manage a large range of acquisition channels, including face-to-face, email, lead generation, direct response and connected TV, radio, and digital. Nicole and her team relaunched face-to-face fundraising in 2021 following an 18-month pause during the pandemic. Under Nicole’s leadership, Save the Children relaunched with a renewed commitment to innovation, quality, transparency, ethical, and sustainable fundraising, implementing new risk mitigation practices to uphold the Save the Children brand and align with industry best practices as outlined by the PFFA. Nicole is excited to join the PFFA Board of Directors to further imbed herself within the face-to-face fundraising industry and to champion the continued sustainable and responsible growth of face-to-face fundraising within Save the Children and the industry at large. Nicole is serving her first term on the board of directors elected by PFFA members.

Joel Schofield is Senior Vice President of Threshold Giving, a leader in face-to-face donor acquisition. He currently oversees Threshold operations and strategic direction. Joel is responsible for developing and growing client relationships, team building and managing the Threshold P&L.

As part of the Threshold Group of companies, Joel has spent more than 15 years overseeing face to face operations across multiple and diverse business sectors including Non Profit, Telecommunications and Energy. Prior to joining Threshold in 2004, Joel operated a small trade publishing and event business…which he hopes to return to some day once this internet fad runs its course. Joel has been involved with the PFFA since 2015 and joined the PFFA Board of Directors in 2021. He is currently serving his third term on the board of directors elected by PFFA members.

Michael is the Co-Founder of BriteVox, an international face-to-face fundraising agency based in San Diego, with a team of over 700 fundraisers in the US & the UK. Originally from the UK, Michael began building fundraising teams almost 25 years ago, in the earliest days of F2F. Having worked extensively in the UK, Germany, and the US and with first-hand experience in many other countries, he has witnessed the evolution of F2F from a little-known channel to the powerhouse it is today across different cultures.

Anyone who works closely with Michael will know that one of his favorite expressions is, ‘what gets measured, gets accomplished.’ He is a great believer in using data to understand how to be a more effective fundraiser and, beyond that, to glean the insights that signal the direction of the industry. Above all, Michael is an innovator and is constantly looking for ways to expand the pie for all and to reach a wider audience working on the principle that it is better to get started and let the work teach you than to wait for perfection.

Michael has been involved with the PFFA since 2018 and was elected to the PFFA Board of Directors in 2022. He hopes to share his international experience, enthusiasm, and understanding of the issues all stakeholders in the industry face. Michael is serving his first term on the board of directors elected by PFFA members.