WASHINGTON — Todd Heifner, development officer at Samford University, Birmingham, has been named director of development for the Baptist Joint Committee (BJC), a Washington, D.C.-based religious-liberty organization.
Director of endowment and capital funds at Samford since 1995, Heifner began May 1, according to BJC Executive Director Brent Walker. The BJC’s Executive Committee unanimously approved Heifner’s selection to fill the newly created position.
Heifner called his move to the BJC “an opportunity to raise money for an organization that traditionally has not had a development shop.”
Heifner will also work with BJC Endowment President James Dunn to “build an endowment that will ensure the BJC’s financial viability into the next century,” Walker added.
Heifner, who will maintain an office in Birmingham, earned a bachelor’s degree in public administration from Samford in 1991. In 1998, he earned a master of business administration degree from Samford and a master of education in higher education administration with a concentration in fund raising management from Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Before joining Samford’s development staff, Heifner served as an account executive for BellSouth Business Systems in Birmingham and as a specialist in corporate and external affairs for BellSouth in Montgomery.
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