OpenSSL welcomes Amy Parker as the newest member of the OpenSSL Foundation team. Amy joins us in the newly created position of Chief Funding Officer, a fundraising role focused on revenue generation through corporate sponsorship and other charitable/non-commercial contributions. Funds raised will help the Foundation continue to deliver on its mission of providing security and privacy tools to everyone, everywhere.

A strategic leader with more than twenty years of senior-level fundraising experience, Amy has worked for prestigious educational and cultural institutions including the Wikimedia Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, The New York Public Library, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been part of several record-setting fundraising campaigns, including the Smithsonian’s first-ever comprehensive campaign, which raised over $1.8 billion, and the $2 billion Carolina First Campaign, which was one of the 5 largest campaigns in US higher education at the time.

While working in Hong Kong for the global fundraising consulting firm GG+A, Amy provided fundraising strategy and advisory services to non-profit clients across four continents. Clients included the University of Melbourne, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and UArctic, a decentralized forum of organizations in the Circumpolar North. She also has worked as an independent consultant, assisting non-profit organizations with establishing fundraising programs, providing staff training, and contributing other strategic advisory services.

Some of Amy’s career highlights have been raising funds for an endowment that supports Wikipedia, the world’s largest compilation of human knowledge; the official commissioned portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and renovation of the historic façade of the New York Public Library’s flagship building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

Amy is a long-time member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, a member-based professional association that empowers individuals and organizations to practice ethical fundraising. She has held the Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credential since 2009.

As Amy begins to assess our current sponsorship program and build the foundation for further charitable/non-commercial revenue, she welcomes input from OpenSSL’s clients, sponsors, and community of volunteers. To share your thoughts or request a conversation, contact amy.parker@openssl.org.