Amy Yeatts, MBA
Principal
Amy Yeatts brings a unique combination of both fundraising and development operations experience to her clients. In 2010, she established Yeatts Consulting and today provides consulting services to non-profit organizations of all sizes. Before then, she spent 12 years with the Dini Partners (now Dini Spheris), one of the region’s premier non-profit consulting firms.
Throughout her career, she has worked on a wide range of fundraising, planning, and assessment projects with both smaller organizations working to secure their first seven-figure gift and well-established organizations embarking on ambitious projects. Her most notable projects include serving as the campaign manager for 41@80, a two-year, $56 million campaign for three distinct organizations organized in honor of former president George H.W. Bush, and working with a major health care institution in the preparation and launch of its $1 billion campaign.
She has also led strategic initiatives designed to advance clients’ development operations, including the redesign of a corporate social investment program and a university’s stewardship program. She also led the transformation of one of the Dini Partners’ service lines and served as the firm’s first human resources director, creating its HR function from the ground up.
Amy holds a master’s degree in business administration with academic honors from the University of Houston and graduated cum laude from Trinity University with a degree in communications and political science. She is a member of the Greater Houston Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and has formerly served on the chapter’s board of directors. She has chaired the chapter’s annual Ask the Experts educational conference and has served on its National Philanthropy Day committee. Amy has spoken at Ask the Experts and was a faculty speaker for Rice University’s fundraising courses for more than five years. She has also presented at the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement’s (APRA) National Conference and to other AFP chapters.
