The Mary T. and Frank L. Hoffman Family Foundation

Tammy "Tams" Nicholson, Executive Director

E-mail: [email protected]

Tams, who resides in Michigan and formerly in Georgia, is a compassionate vegan animal rights leader with a proven record of success in start-ups and revitalizing organizations, advocacy, empowering successful volunteer and employee teams, nurturing youth and underserved voices, creating positive public relations, grant writing, fundraising, cultivating relationships, designing successful community change strategies, and more.

She spent a decade in the private sector working in operations, IT, training, leadership, and media throughout the United States, before having a life-changing experience as a volunteer that inspired her to leave the corporate world and dedicate the rest of her career to lifting others up in the non-profit sector. Since then, she has held non-profit leadership roles in disaster services, drug prevention, and the vegan animal rights movement.

Ms. Nicholson holds a B.S. in Psychology (Regent University) and is a former SURP scholar. She completed Master’s level courses in biblical theology with a focus on liberation theology (Regent University), and ministry courses with a focus on care of creation (LIMEX Loyola University). She is a professed 3rd order Franciscan and a graduate of Father Richard Rohr’s Living School, Cohort of 2022, at the Center for Action and Contemplation in New Mexico. She holds certifications in the fields of leadership, somatic attachment therapy, disability, instructional technology, prevention, advocacy and disaster services. Ms. Nicholson adopted an ethical vegan lifestyle in 2008.

Example of one of her many Reflections: "The Learning Statements of Love":

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