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Pamela Strother
Principal: Washington, DC Office
Pamela Strother serves as primary project manager for realChange Partners' clients. Combining her nonprofit management skills and MBA, Strother takes clients through a fluid process from start to finish — with hands-on guidance and attention.
Strother joined realChange Partners in 2006 after a decade of service with the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA). Having taken the helm as Executive Director in September 2000, Strother led the organizational development and strategic growth of NLGJA by more than tripling the annual budget and doubling the membership and staff since 1996. In 2001, Strother coordinated the pivotal strategic planning process that set NLGJA on its course as one of the most influential and respected journalism associations in the nation.
In 1996, Strother joined the newly established national office of NLGJA and served as the organization's first Director of Development. Her ground-level experience of building and growing a diversified financial development program is a critical asset she brings to realChange Partners' clients. Strother has a particular expertise in research and cultivation of corporate sponsors with a track record of multi-year gifts from Fortune 500 corporations including Time Warner, Microsoft, Viacom, Harrah's Entertainment, Coca-Cola, MGM Mirage and General Motors.
From 2001-2004, Strother was a member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Diversity Committee serving on a task force to build the model for associations to measure their diversity objectives and success. She is an association management spokesperson having served as a panelist on the "CEO to CEO" forum for Associations NOW magazine (formerly Association Management).
In 2004, Strother earned her MBA from American University's Kogod School of Business, with a concentration in Information Technology Management. In 2005, Strother earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) credential, the highest certification from the ASAE.
Strother's nonprofit career began in 1990 and has included The Feminist Majority Foundation, Zero Population Growth (ZPG) and the House of Ruth, where she managed the organization's successful United Way/CFC campaign. Prior to joining NLGJA, Strother worked with the Wise Hodgdon Zeff Group to raise Political Action Committee funds for congressional candidates. Here she met Robbin Zeff, a national nonprofit fundraiser, trainer and author of The Nonprofit Guide to the Internet. Strother teamed with Zeff to produce the Nonprofits Online '96 Conference — the first-ever conference designed to teach nonprofit professionals to use the Internet for increased outreach, education and fundraising.
Strother resides in Brentwood, MD on Washington, DC's northeast border with her spouse of seventeen years, Margaret Boozer, a ceramic sculptor and founder of Red Dirt Studio. Both are active community members in the region's arts and entertainment community economic development initiatives.
Contact Pamela at pamela@realchangepartners.com or 202.486.5990
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