Her Story
About Tami
I am the Executive Director of Bloom Fitness, where we work with adults in the special needs population to provide a designed fitness program for the organizations that they attend, and also for at-home use through an app. We do a lot of it through technology, with video and online classes. I've been in this position since December of 2024, so about a year and a half now. My journey into nonprofit work started when I went back to school at a later age, originally wanting to be a counselor or therapist, but I quickly realized that wasn't for me. My degree was in human services, and my soft spot has always been helping others and being in some kind of service industry. I started working for Sci Hope, a nonprofit in Cypress where I live, which works with school districts to help fill gaps through programs like baseball and food distribution. I began in communications, social media, and marketing, and eventually progressed into operations. I was the Operations Director at Sci Hope for a little over 8 years before deciding I wanted something different. Bloom Fitness came up through a friend who thought it would be a good fit - it's a smaller nonprofit that's been around for about 10 years, and they were looking for somebody to help it grow and build intentionally. Operations is sort of my sweet spot, so it seemed like a perfect match. Most of the people who work in nonprofit have a servitude heart, which makes for a great population to work with, both the staff and the individuals who get the services.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Tami
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say, focus on the people that need you - make sure that you have that heart of servitude, that you want to encourage others and make sure you're thinking about who you're serving and how it's making their life better, giving them empowerment. But as a leader in the organization, also really make sure your staff feels that way too. How do you empower them, and how do you encourage them, and be that mentor to them, but also the person that is supporting them and making their job easier, because the nonprofit world is not always easy. It can be frustrating, there's a lot of extra work that goes into it, specifically if we're having to fundraise or do different things to bring in funding. So kind of making sure that you take the good with the bad, but also know at the end of the day, it's who we serve, is why we do it.
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