Jerry Tucker Lanny Tucker
Professional Development Consultants
Jerry Tucker’s career as a development executive spans over four decades. He has served as the Planned Giving Director or Development Director with numerous non-profits including Northwest Medical Teams International, United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, Columbia Christian College, Friends of the Children and Eternal Impact Ministries.
Jerry has authored fundraising articles for the Chronicle of Philanthropy and has taught a variety of development courses on several college campuses. As a development consultant, his client list is extensive, having worked with a variety of Christian and secular non-profit organizations in six states. Jerry’s greatest passion and expertise is helping non-profits expand into the Planned Giving arena where “legacy gifts” are made through donors’ estates, wills, annuities, trusts and other financial assets.
Jerry is active as a licensed stock broker and financial advisor for a number of private clients. He also is an off-road racing enthusiast and serves as a professional promoter, pairing off-road racers and corporations.
Lanny Tucker has served as a development executive since 2003. He enjoys working with non-profits, their boards and major donors. He views fundraising as a ministry that nurtures godly stewardship and sacrificial giving in order to fulfill an organization’s life-changing mission.
Lanny has served with three Christian non-profit organizations as a development executive. He currently is the Director for Missions Development at Missions Resource Network in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, where he works with donors who are passionate about God’s global mission.
Previously, he served Cascade College as Director of Advancement, overseeing annual and capital campaign fundraising as well as planned giving, grant writing and alumni and church relations. Lanny also served as Director of Development for Portland Urban Ministry Project (PUMP), an inner-city ministry dedicated to nurturing a generation of urban Christians in Portland, Oregon.
Lanny has also worked as a minister with two Portland-area churches. In his free time Lanny enjoys playing basketball and disc golf and loves to visit and photograph lighthouses.
As a father-and-son team, Jerry and Lanny count it a great blessing to work together to serve non-profit organizations that seek to save and change lives. We hope the future will include working with you and your organization.
