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The CFP Board Center Financial Planning announced today that it has named Rochelle Zeidman as its Managing Director, Development, a newly created role in which she will drive efforts to increase financial support for the Center’s work to increase diversity, advance workforce development and build an academic home for the financial planning profession.

As Managing Director, Development, Zeidman will lead the planning and implementation of the Center’s development and fundraising campaigns, programs and events. She will work to identify partnership opportunities through which both individuals and financial services firms can support the Center’s work to create a more sustainable and diverse financial planning profession. In addition, she will guide the implementation of stakeholder communications strategies in support of the Center’s fundraising goals.

“Since launching in late 2015, the Center has spearheaded key programs and events – such as the ‘I am a CFP® Pro’ campaign, our WIN-to-WIN mentorship program and the Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning and Related Disciplines – that are helping us make great strides in support of our mission,” said CFP Board Center for Financial Planning Executive Director Marilyn Mohrman-Gillis. “We simply could not do this without the generous support of our corporate and individual donors. Rochelle has a proven track record of success in identifying, engaging and cultivating relationships with corporations, individuals and foundations that will help the Center tackle critical issues within the profession.”

Zeidman brings a record of success to the CFP Board Center for Financial Planning, having raised more than $600 million in campaigns and fundraising. 

At the American National Red Cross, she successfully increased support by forming and managing an executive Fortune 100 Corporate Council as well as developing a branded initiative, the Annual Disaster Giving Program. As Executive Director of Individual Giving at NPR, she created partnerships and led efforts to significantly increase donations by individuals. Passionate about working for non-profits that are making a social impact, she has also held development roles at United Way Worldwide, NEXUS Global Youth Summit and the Jewish Federation.

Zeidman holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

ABOUT CFP BOARD

Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is the professional body for personal financial planners in the U.S. CFP Board sets standards for financial planning and administers the prestigious CFP® certification – one of the most respected certifications in financial services – so that the public has access to and benefits from competent and ethical financial planning. CFP Board, along with its Center for Financial Planning, is committed to increasing the public’s awareness of CFP® certification and access to a diverse, ethical and competent financial planning workforce. Widely recognized by firms and consumer groups as the standard for financial planning, CFP® certification is held by more than 83,000 people in the United States.

CONTACT

Dan Drummond, Director of Communications
202-379-2252
Mobile: 202-243-8621
[email protected]

About the CFP Board center for financial planning

The CFP Board Center for Financial Planning seeks to create a more diverse and sustainable financial planning profession so that every American has access to competent and ethical financial planning advice. The Center brings together CFP® professionals, firms, educators, researchers and experts to address profession-wide challenges in the areas of diversity and workforce development, and to build an academic home that offers opportunities for conducting and publishing new research that adds to the financial planning body of knowledge

Contact

Jessica Lewis
Communications Specialist
202-379-2256
Mobile: 301-655-0389
[email protected]