CDP Announces Stephanie Patterson as Chief Customer Officer
Brighton, MA – Contributor Development Partnership (CDP) today announced that Stephanie Patterson has been named as Chief Customer Officer. Patterson’s employment with CDP will commence on December 6th.
“CDP is excited to welcome Stephanie to the CDP team,” said Michal Heiplik, President of CDP. “The experience of our partner stations has always been at the heart of every CDP interaction, and Stephanie’s rich background in public media along with her creative, relationship-centric approach will help us strengthen those partnerships even more.”
Patterson has served as a dedicated nonprofit leader for almost three decades, including nearly 20 years in public media. Most recently, Patterson served National Director, Development and Donor Engagement at American Public Media where she oversaw individual and institutional giving efforts for a content portfolio that included Marketplace, In the Dark, The Splendid Table, Brains On! and YourClassical, among others.
Patterson’s previous public media experience includes leading fundraising efforts at both Southern California Public Radio/KPCC and Houston Public Radio/KUHF.
In addition to her extensive public media experience, Patterson has also held development leadership positions with Providence Health and Services, a nonprofit health care system in Southern California, as well as LA’s Downtown Women’s Center.
About CDP
Founded as an initiative within GBH in 2011, CDP is now an independent public benefit corporation working on behalf of more than 230 public radio and television stations to share data across the system, analyze fundraising performance, and develop best practices.
The “CDP idea” was born from an initiative by the Major Market Group of Public Television. With support from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and GBH, a group of stations built the industry’s first and only National Reference File, a tool used daily to help stations better understand areas of opportunity to increase their fundraising effectiveness and efficiency.
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