Empowering leaders. Elevating nonprofits.

Tawanda Owsley is passionate about helping nonprofit leaders make a positive impact through strategic fundraising and leadership development. A seasoned nonprofit executive who has been leading and growing organizations across the region for over 20 years, Tawanda is the senior vice president and chief development and marketing officer for Hosparus Health, the largest nonprofit in Louisville, Kentucky. Her extensive experience includes serving as executive director at the American Red Cross Bluegrass Chapter of Lexington, Kentucky, market director of philanthropy at KentuckyOne Health, director of major gifts at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Norton Healthcare and Metro United Way, and development director for the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.

Tawanda holds undergraduate and graduate business degrees from the University of Louisville and Spalding University. A graduate of Leadership Louisville’s Bingham Fellows program and Leadership Lexington, she received a Business First Enterprising Women award and was named a Distinguished Leader by the Kentucky Association of Hospice & Palliative Care. Tawanda is on the faculty for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence’s School of Philanthropy and is a board member of the Transit Authority of River City (TARC) and the Kentucky Nonprofit Network. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with her husband, Dr. Adarrell Owsley, and their two children, Raven and Ayden.