Derek Drockelman
Derek is committed to the nonprofit sector with over 30 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
Why Audience-First Organizations Still Align People Before They Connect Channels A couple of months ago, I wrote that your donors don’t care...
Why preserving history is only half the challenge of building a modern nonprofit data strategy and foundation. Our systems have gotten remarkably...
For years, much of nonprofit data strategy has focused on getting data ready to use. We had information scattered across fundraising systems,...
What changes when we can finally see more of the relationship and understand the complete donor journey? We talk a lot about...
What our obsession with moving relationships forward may be getting wrong In fundraising and engagement, we spend a lot of time thinking...
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed something interesting. It doesn’t seem to matter where a conversation begins. Sometimes it’s about AI....
In my last article, Your Donors Don’t Care About Your Org Chart, I argued that donors experience one organization—not separate departments, campaign...
Why Audience-First Organizations Align People Before They Connect Channels A fundraising leader recently shared a story with me that I haven’t been...
