Tammie Hoy Hawkins

As President of Together Consulting, Tammie Hoy Hawkins provides leadership and guidance to nonprofit, for-profit, and government entities focused on community economic development initiatives. Utilizing over 25 years of community economic development experience, Tammie provides direct technical assistance and consulting services in the areas of non-profit capacity building, affordable housing, neighborhood development and revitalization, community development finance, and asset building. Tammie provides consulting services to a wide range of community stakeholders including but limited to nonprofit and for-profit community economic development partners, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIS), Purpose Built Communities and network members as well as state and local government entities.

As part of her consulting work Tammie served as the Project Manager for the Northside Development Group’s Northside Initiative in Spartanburg, SC, a Purpose Built Community, for over 6 years. Tammie also helped to launch multiple housing trust funds across the southeast. Tammie most recently served as the CEO for CommunityWorks, a Greenville, South Carolina based, state-wide Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) where she led the organization from 2020-2022 through the pandemic and a significant growth phase. She grew the organization from $14M in assets to over $28M, raising over $8M in contributions, grants, and impact investments.

Prior to starting Together Consulting in 2012, Tammie worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond as a Community Development Regional Manager. At the Federal Reserve she worked closely with bank Economists and Research Teams by coordinating and facilitating community development activities, trainings, educational seminars, forums, conferences, projects, and publications.