Kim Till has been privileged to be a member of the Dallas Theological Seminary staff since 1996. She serves in dual roles giving oversight to institutional resources development as well as the estate and charitable gift planning services offered by the Dallas Seminary Foundation. In both roles Kim says she is honored to serve the supporters of the Seminary who give to help reduce the financial burdens faced by students.

Kim has devoted her 40-year career to working for charitable organizations. She began as a public relations director at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri and has served as a development director for a secondary school and a social service agency as well as an assistant vice president for development with the Baylor Health Care System Foundation in Dallas, Texas. She was also a consultant with Cargill Associates in Fort Worth, Texas directing capital campaigns and providing general fund raising counsel nationally.

Kim is a native of Florida and has been certified as a fund raising professional (CFRE) since 1987 with the Association of Fund Raising Professionals (AFP) and is a speaker and seminar leader for AFP as well as the Association of Theological Schools (ATS). Kim and her husband Ray have two adult children and 3 precious grandchildren.

Don was born to missionary parents in what was then known as Rhodesia, and prior to joining The Tide in 2001 served as a missionary teaching at a Bible School in Zimbabwe, Africa. In addition to lecturing in the classroom at Ekuphileni Bible Institute Don served as Academic Dean, Director of Student Ministries, and also developed and implemented a manual skills training program to enable rural pastors to minister bi-vocationally. Through twenty eight years living in Zimbabwe, and numerous visits to Africa, Eastern Europe and India as a ministry administrator and resource person for church conferences and leadership training events, Don has acquired a wealth of international, cross cultural ministry experience. As the world becomes more and more of a global village, Don’s greatest passion is to reach people for Jesus Christ and to bring them into the Church.

Prior to joining The Heartland Institute in 2014, Burnett worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis for 18 years, ending his tenure there as senior fellow in charge of environmental policy. He has held various positions in professional and public policy organizations, including serving as a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Task Force in the Texas Comptroller’s e-Texas commission.
Burnett is a former board member and past president of the Dallas Woods and Water Conservation Club; a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation; an academic advisor for Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow; an advisory board member to the Cornwall Alliance; and an advisor for the Energy, Natural Resources and Agricultural Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
Burnett has an associate's degree in arts and sciences from Eastfield Community College (1984), a B.B.A. and a B.A. in cultural anthropology from Southern Methodist University (1986), and a M.A. (1991) and a Ph.D. (2001) in applied philosophy from Bowling Green State University with a specialization in environmental ethics.