Judith Wineman is a fundraising and resource development consultant.   Her practice is focused on helping non-profits create, implement and evaluate development plans that are rooted in organizational strategy and vision.   She has been a successful community based social worker, non-profit executive and political fundraiser, working with organizations that are results driven and committed to the “leave behind”-- the legacy that a well-funded and well-resourced organization must create in order to produce long lasting, systemic change.

Judith has diverse practical development and management experience in a broad range of non-profit venues. A Michigan native, Judith spent 30 years in New York and Washington, DC. During that time, she directed a two million dollar union-based (ILGWU) older and retired workers department.  From 1986 to 1997 she raised over $250K annually in small contributions for issue and election campaigns.  She also raised funds and created communications and marketing campaigns in English and Spanish for public/private partnerships and cultural events.  Judith was the national Political Director for UNITE (successor to the ILGWU) from 1997 to 1999 where she managed the PAC and pioneered a national training program for volunteer activists entirely in Spanish.

Judith launched her consulting practice from New York in 2001 managing grants and campaigns at Demos, a public policy research and advocacy organization. She also continued a life-long commitment to gerontology, raising funds for Alzheimer’s disease family supports and day programs during that time.

Judith returned to Michigan in 2006 as the Field Director for Senator Debbie Stabenow’s re-election campaign.  In 2007, she was hired as the first Development Director for the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation in Southwest Detroit. She helped to raise over $750K in unrestricted donations from grants, corporations and individual donors for that organization. 

Since 2008, Judith has been an Adjunct Professor of Social Work at Marygrove College. She teaches social policy, ethnic and racial diversity and issue advocacy.

Judith holds a BA in Psycholinguistics from the University of Michigan and an MSW from Columbia University. Judith is multi-lingual, with the majority of her work in Spanish (US, Mexico and Puerto Rico) and French (West Africa and France).