Jami Latham is a nonprofit maven. She’s been working with in the charitable sector for more than fifteen years, and in 2009, she decided to turn her enthusiasm, her experiences, and her strategy into a consulting business.
Jami has been involved in animal welfare for many years. Her love for the world’s furry set has always been of utmost importance to her, which is why many of CharityWise’s first clients were animal rescue organizations.
If you ask Jami, she’ll tell you that big organizations have the money and the ability. She applauds their efforts, but it’s the smaller to midsize nonprofits she’s most excited to work with because they truly need (and deserve) help getting to the next level. She sees power and potential in grassroots groups, and she takes pride in helping to create lasting changes while witnessing a group’s success. She wants to help the dreamers. She wants to supercharge their social impact. She believes that anybody who is dedicated to benefitting their community, or even the whole world, should be able to do it.
Due to Jami’s background, CharityWise specializes in working with animal welfare organizations but any nonprofit is welcome. She and her team will apply the same vigor, dedicate the same significant resources, and offer the same commitment regardless of the cause. What excites Jami most is to help people achieve the vision they have for their nonprofit, and to make the work they do along the way count as much as possible.
Jami, who earned her bachelor’s degree in Social Science from James Madison University, has maintained a relationship with the first nonprofit she ever worked for over a decade, The Myositis Association; they are now a proud client of CharityWise. Jami is a vegetarian, a feminist, and a certifiable idealist, with a penchant for vegan baking. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughter, as well as an undisciplined Corgi-Chihuahua mix and several beloved cats.
The purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
– Leo Rosten