Derek Drockelman
Derek is committed to the nonprofit sector with over 25 years of experience in various roles and organizations. As VP of Sales & Marketing at ROI Solutions, Derek uses his fundraising, consulting, and technical skills to deeply understand client business requirements to match them to appropriate solutions and services.
Derek started his career at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, managing youth volunteer and intern programs, implementing data tracking systems, and fundraising for programs. He joined Blackbaud in 1999, where for over 17 years, he held roles including technical support, product training, system implementation, consulting manager, and business development. He progressed into Strategic Account Manager roles to advise some of Blackbaud’s largest customers through CRM and digital system implementations and conversions. He was most recently at EverTrue, a cloud-based mobile platform for higher education.
Derek lives near the beach in Charleston, SC, with his wife and son. He kayaks through the marshes around his home, sings along loudly to 80s synthpop, and geeks out with comics and the Legos he appropriates from his son’s closet for the home office.
Posts by Derek Drockelman
For years, organizations have been told some version of the same advice: put everything in the CRM and make it the single...
Nonprofit organizations have greater access to data than ever before, including donor data, engagement metrics, fundraising performance, and supporter interactions across multiple...
MiLo didn’t ask for feelings.But feelings found MiLo anyway. Technology is often described as cold, clinical, or purely logical. But anyone who’s...
Epiphany Benchmarking was built to help nonprofits move beyond static, backward-looking reports and toward timely, actionable benchmarking insights that support smarter fundraising decisions. As...
Last year, many nonprofits experienced a surge of new donors in response to sudden funding crises tied to a shifting political climate...
For years, nonprofits have been told the same thing: get better data, and better outcomes will follow. I would argue that nonprofits...
For decades, nonprofits have wrestled with a familiar and frustrating problem: data silos. Information is scattered across CRMs, spreadsheets, email tools, fundraising...
We are filled with gratitude for our clients doing life-changing work — day in and day out. In a season of so...
