Jenifer Thom
Account Executive, San Francisco
Jenifer Thom joined Fenton with a background in fundraising and communications, focusing on low-income communities and issues of poverty and homelessness. At Fenton, Thom supports communications and marketing for First 5 LA’s Best Start, an initiative to develop place-based care strategies for mothers and their children five and under who in underserved Los Angeles communities.
Prior to Fenton, Thom most recently worked in fundraising and communications at St. Anthony Foundation, developing print and web collateral and managing a private foundation grants portfolio. While at St. Anthony’s she designed and launched its first corporate giving campaign, and implemented the nonprofit’s first annual report. She spearheaded up the redevelopment of the grants program, realigning the program within the context of the new economic climate and evolving donor and foundation interests.
Thom earned her B.A. in journalism at San Francisco State. As a journalist, she covered Care Not Cash, LGBT and civil rights stories, and reproductive rights issues. When not wordsmithing, she enjoys exploring the city’s vast nightlife and music scenes, or a rousing game of Jeopardy.
