1. Panel discussion and dialogue with grantmakers
Cole Wilbur
Trustee and Past President
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Before becoming trustee, Cole Wilbur was the CEO of the Packard Foundation for 23 years. Prior to that, he served as executive director and CEO of the Sierra Club Foundation. He was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foundations (1999-2000), and in 1999 received the Distinguished Grantmaker Award from the Council on Foundations. Cole was the Interim President and CEO of the Council on Foundations in 2005. He currently serves on the boards of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Colorado College, the Institute for Global Ethics, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the NARAL Foundation and Philanthropic Ventures Foundation; and on the advisory boards of the Sierra Club Foundation, the Entrepreneurs Foundation, and the American Land Conservancy. His past board affiliations include the Council on Foundations, the Foundation Center, Northern California Grantmakers, Peninsula Grantmakers, the Global Fund for Women, the Peninsula Conservation Center, and the University of San Francisco Institute for Nonprofit Management. Cole received both his undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford University.
David Blazevich
Senior Program Officer
The Bernard Osher Foundation
In his current role, David oversees the foundation’s lifelong learning institutes program. This national grant program has funded the establishment 115 Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes at colleges and universities across the country. Each Osher Institute provides a distinctive array of courses and activities for seasoned adults interested in learning for the joy of learning. David also administers selected grants in the Osher Foundation’s Local Arts and Culture Program. Prior to joining the Foundation, David was the Director of Foundation Relations and Special Program Initiatives at KQED. He has also served as Director of Development for Larkin Street Youth Center and as Major Gifts Officer for the ACLU Foundation of Northern California. He is Chair Emeritus of New Conservatory Theatre Center and has been an organizational consultant and volunteer for a broad range of non-profit organizations including the Ninth Street Media Arts Center, the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, and the Frameline International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. He is currently pursuing a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Stanford University in Palo Alto.
Julie Wilder
Manager, Worldwide Community Relations
Autodesk, Inc.
Julie joined Autodesk in 1997 overseeing a variety of company-wide programs including corporate giving, volunteerism, employee matching, and software donations, as well as many company-sponsored projects and events. Under Julie’s management, Autodesk has received several awards including the San Francisco Business Times Corporate Philanthropy Award; Outstanding Business of the Year by the Marin County Board of Supervisors; the CODIE Award for Excellence in Giving by the SIIA; 100 Best Corporate Citizens by Business Ethics Magazine; Business of the Year by the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce; and the Heart of Marin Award by CVNL. Julie is on the board of Marin County’s School-to-Career Partnership, a member of the Business Volunteer Council through the Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership (CVNL), and a member of CCRC (Corporate Community Relations Consortium). She is past president of the Chernobyl Children's Project, a former board member of COTS, (Committee on the Shelterless), and a former advisory board member of To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation.
Michele Samuels
Executive Director
Carlston Family Foundation
Michele has over 20 years experience in philanthropic work on both coasts, where she has worked both the giving and receiving ends of the grant-making process. Prior to joining the Carlston Family Foundation, she was a public relations and business development consultant for clients ranging from venture capital incubators, consumer businesses, arts organizations and the non-profit sector in New York and California. This included Working Resources, Inc., Marin CASA, Performing Arts Resources, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, 54th Street Partners, PC World Online, Alex Marshall Studios, Broderbund Software and Beechnut Baby Food.
Darlene A. Hall, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Darlene is a psychologist who has worked in direct service and program director positions in community-based mental health clinics and nonprofits, taught at the graduate level, and conducted clinical and diversity trainings. She joined the Fund 3½ years ago, and her portfolio includes grantmaking in youth development, gay/lesbian, families, community development, and hunger/homelessness. Darlene is a runner, volleyball player, beginning taiko drummer, and avid Star Trek fan.
Len Finocchio, Dr.P.H.
Senior Program Officer
California HealthCare Foundation
Len currently works for the Underserved program at the Foundation. This program works to reduce barriers to efficient, affordable health care for the underserved. He manages projects focused on state and county programs for the uninsured, access to oral health services, public insurance enrollment, and children's coverage issues. Prior to joining CHCF, Len worked as a health policy and research consultant specializing in health services program design and development, particularly for uninsured children. He has worked as associate director at the Institute for Health Policy Solutions in San Mateo, California; as a principal policy associate at Children Now in Oakland, California; and as associate director for state programs at the University of California, San Francisco's Center for the Health Professions.
2. Proposal writing
Tara Jondreau DeRosa
Development Specialist
Lincoln Child Center
Tara has a doctorate in Education from UCLA, with an emphasis in at-risk youth. After 10 years as both a direct service provider and administrator in school and community-based mental health settings and child welfare organizations, Tara turned her focus to proposal writing. She spent two years as a proposal specialist for inFocus Consulting and Development, a firm that worked with child welfare and social service groups throughout California. Tara joined Lincoln Child Center in January 2006. Her areas of expertise include government grants, contract responses, and foundations.
Jennifer Morrow
Development Officer, Foundation Relations
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
As the Foundation Relations Officer at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Jennifer is responsible for raising more than $1million annually, largely through foundations. Her more than ten years of nonprofit work includes serving as the Director of Foundation Relations at a large child and family services nonprofit in Los Angeles, and more recently as the Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. She began her nonprofit work in annual giving at the San Francisco Opera. Her expertise includes foundation, corporate, federal and state grant writing. She particularly likes to help nonprofits systemize their grant writing procedures and to develop program evaluation and budgets for grant proposals. Jennifer has a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an M.A. in English from U.S.C.
Barbara Lamb Hall
Major Gifts Officer
KCSM TV & FM ("Jazz 91")
Barbara began her development career in 1992 as a Principal/Co-Founder of Spain and Lamb Consulting Group, during which she raised nearly $20 million in grant funding for a variety of Bay Area public benefit corporations. After this time, she prepared the federal grant applications for Healthy Start in Oakland (OHS), as well as foundation grants for the OHS’ twenty agency network. She subsequently became Development Director for Village Enterprise Fund, a microenterprise development agency working in Africa. Barbara started VEF’s grant funding from scratch, netting over $250,000 in two years for the $300k agency. Barbara also secured the Leadership Circle level of support for VEF’s The Next 100,000 Lives growth campaign with $900,000 of base funding from six-figure gifts, for the $3 million campaign. She is currently Major Gifts Officer at KCSM TV and FM, where she secures major gifts, foundation funds and planned gifts for the joint-licensee station. She also works with Vince Bradley Associates as Senior Grantwriter.
Karen Kwan
Development Manager
San Jose Repertory Theatre
In her current position, Karen shares the responsibility with the Director of Development for raising $1.8 Million annually for the non-profit theatre. Karen has been particularly successful in securing crucial funding for general operating and program support through grant writing to foundations, corporations and government agencies. Prior to her full-time commitment with San Jose Rep, Karen was the grant writer and fundraising consultant for the Bay Area Glass Institute and the Chinese Christian Church Music Institute for Worship. She has also served on the Collaborative Arts Marketing Partnership Steering Committee at Arts Council Silicon Valley; the Advisory Board at Santa Clara University’s de Saisset Museum as Board Member and later as Board President; and the Board of Directors at Silicon Valley Open Studios. Her recognized strength and insights were shared as a Grant Review Panelist for Arts Council Silicon Valley’s Organizational Enhancement Fund in the spring of 2006. Karen is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professional, and is currently preparing for her Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) exam.
3. Exploring the world of corporate sponsorship
Daryl J. Lee
Corporate Development Officer
Habitat for Humanity East Bay
Over the last 15 years Daryl has worked with many non-profits in diverse roles ranging from a medical caregiver for the American Red Cross to working as a search and rescue worker for multiple government agencies. He has worked with Habitat for over 7 years now and has been an avid supporter of Habitat’s environmentally green construction program. Daryl has secured the largest single financial corporate donor for Habitat East Bay in the organization’s 19 year history and secured several multi-year funding relationships. He is a member of the AFP, Contra Costa Council and the Oakland Chamber of Commerce.
Monika Churchill
Director of Development
San Jose Repertory Theatre
Monika has over thirteen years of fundraising and communications experience. She came to the Rep after serving as Major Gifts Officer at Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills. Previously, she was Institutional Giving Manager for over six years at Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, where she managed the nation’s largest Holiday Food and Fund Drive, as well as six special events annually. During that time, she worked with corporate donors to secure more than 20 major cash and in-kind sponsorships each year, and managed over 1,800 corporate and community volunteers as they ran their Food and Fund Drives. Monika has also served as a development consultant for St. Louise Regional Hospital Foundation, further honing her grant writing and research skills. As Interim Director of Development at the Rep, Monika heads a four person department responsible for raising $1.8 million annually from individuals, corporations, foundations and government. She works with a 26 person board who is very active in fundraising, and has had the exciting experience of working for an organization that has gone through a true renaissance as it transformed its financial position and business practices to return to a position of success. Monika is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and is studying diligently for her upcoming CFRE exam.
Lee Michelson
Executive Director
San Mateo County Health Foundation
Lee has been active in all aspects of corporate sponsorship. For eight years he was the Director of Community Relations for Blue Cross and Blue shield of Missouri where he was responsible for all charitable giving and events sponsorship. In that role he was responsible for sponsoring more than 50 major events including golf tournaments, galas, and walk-a-thons. Lee was also Vice-President of the St. Louis Sports Commission where he was responsible for developing corporate sponsorship programs for more than 20 major sports events, and selling them to more than 100 sponsors. He has also coordinated sponsorship programs for Ronald Mc Donald House and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.
4. Finding funders: the art of successful research
Marie Beichert, CFRE
Principal
Development Services/granthelper.com
Marie offers thirty years of experience in nonprofit, educational and governmental administration to her clients. Following university work in Political Science and Theatre Arts, Marie pursued certification in Nonprofit Administration and Law at UC Berkeley. She served as Assistant Director of the San Francisco Art Commission's Neighborhood Arts Program during the Moscone administration, where she helped manage five fledgling community cultural centers and the Scroungers's Center for Reusable Arts Parts (SCRAP). Marie is credentialed as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), and has extensive experience in grantswriting, prospect ID, relationship mapping, and systems development for growing organizations. She specializes in service to mission-driven community benefit organizations, and has a special interest in prison-reentry programming and sentencing reform advocacy.
Kerry Beuthin
Development Consultant
Volunteers of America Bay Area
Kerry has over 12 years experience in program development and fundraising for Bay Area organizations. Over the course of her career, she has successfully raised millions for various healthcare, environmental, and human and social services agencies. Her expertise includes securing government funding on the local, state and federal level. In addition to her work in government, corporate and foundation grants, Kerry is well-versed in creation of integrated development programs that include planning and implementing capital campaigns, major gifts campaigns, direct mail, planned giving programs, and special events.
Nancy Gots
Development Director
Enterprise for High School Students (EHSS)
Nancy has been working in the development field for over 10 years in the Bay Area, with a focus on youth development. Nancy is highly experienced in identifying, soliciting, and stewarding corporations and foundations for grants and sponsorships, both locally and nationally. Prior to EHSS, Nancy managed a Capital Campaign for Laguna Honda Hospital as the Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations for the Laguna Honda Foundation, and worked as the Director of Development for San Francisco School Volunteers. Nancy volunteers her services on several youth serving agency boards in San Francisco. She has a BA in Marketing, and is a graduate of the Nonprofit Management Certificate Program from USF.
5. Winning proposals: a tour of four successful case studies
Shanti Corrigan
Director of Development & Alumni Relations
International House at UC Berkeley
Shanti Corrigan recently helped steward the successful conclusion of International House, Berkeley's 75th Anniversary Campaign which secured $10.6M in support of building renovations, scholarships, programs and technology, including the largest foundation grant in "I-House's" history: a prestigious $500K challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation. Her previous fundraising work includes positions at the University of Southern California, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), and a host of Bay Area women's organizations aiding survivors of rape or domestic abuse. At NCNW she contributed to a $500K grant from the Centers for Disease Control, the first such award for HIV prevention targeting African American women. Shanti holds a bachelors in Community Studies from UC Santa Cruz, an MA in Communication Management from the Annenberg School for Communications at University of Southern California, and a certificate in Fundraising Management from Indiana University's Fundraising School.
Colleen Miller
Director of Development and Communications
St. Vincent de Paul - Alameda County
Colleen has been a fundraising, marketing and communications leader in nonprofits for 20 years. With experience in both the arts and social justice organiztions, Colleen has developed expertise in securing corporate funding through sponsorships, organizing special events on limited budgets and getting highly visible marketing on a shoestring. In addition, Colleen is a highly successful grantwriter, having secured funding through corporate, foundation and government grants. In addition to development, Colleen brings the perspective of an executive director, which enables her to see the "big picture" when securing funding for an organization.
Gregg Chavaria
Director of Development & Marketing
Court Appointed Special Special Advocates of Contra Costa County
Gregg has spent the last decade in the non-profit sector. Gregg joined the CASA team in November 2001, where his duties include securing grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies. He is also responsible for assisting in developing fund raising strategies to increase CASA's individual and major donor base. His fundraising skills are complimented by his graduate work and field experience along with a passion to assist abused and neglected children in refugee camps in Croatia and Africa, and now the needy children in his home of Contra Costa County. His educational background includes a BA from University of California at Berkeley and a Masters (M. Litt) degree from the University of Oxford.
6. How to build a successful relationship with grantmakers
Sara Fousekis
Director of Development, Campaign
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
During her tenure at Berkeley Rep, Sara has helped almost to double the amount of corporate and foundation giving to the Theatre annually. In 2001, Sara launched a new corporate program at Berkeley Rep that leverages the Theatre as a corporate entertainment and networking venue. She was the Capital Campaign Manager of Berkeley Rep’s $20 million expansion project. Before coming to Berkeley Rep, Sara was the Director of Development at the International Sculpture Center in Washington DC. She has presented at development professional gatherings at the Commonwealth Club, Foundation Center, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals Fundraising days.
Mythili Sankaran
Regional Director
American India Foundation (AIF)
In her current position at AIF, Mythili's responsibilities include fundraising, advocacy, major donor communications, staff management and chapter development. She is also responsible for championing one of AIF's key education programs (the Digital Equalizer Program) within the corporate sector. Prior to joining the American India Foundation, Mythili was Founder and Managing Partner of the Mythical East Company, a company focused on strategic consultation and management of large-scale events for corporations and non-profit organizations.
Barb Larson
CEO
American Red Cross Santa Clara Valley Chapter
Barb is the new CEO of the American Red Cross Santa Clara Valley Chapter. Recently, Barb served as Director of Donor Services at Community Foundation Silicon Valley, where she has worked since August 1999. In her roles at the community foundation, Barb helped
establish the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2), a group of dynamic Silicon Valley donors interested in venture philanthropy. As Director of Donor Services, Barb
worked with individual high net worth donors and corporations to realize their philanthropic goals. Prior to joining the community foundation, Barb spent five years working as a fundraising professional and department manager at two California chapters of the American Red Cross. She serves on the Association of Fundraising Professionals Foundation national board of directors, and is Advisory Board member of numerous Silicon Valley organizations, including Essex & Drake Fundraising Consultants, Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen, and Family Giving Tree. She also has served six years on the board of The Institute of Nonprofit Organization Management at the University of San Francisco where she chaired the Board in 2005. Barb has a B.A. from the University of Washington and is finalizing her thesis for a Master's in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco.
7. Capital campaigns
Rob Kusel
Vice President
Essex & Drake Fund Raising Counsel
Rob is currently Vice President and a Partner with Essex & Drake since 2005. From 2002 to 2004, Rob served as the Director of Development and External Affairs for Blue Oak School, the first independent school in the Napa Valley, where he raised over $6M for facilities and endowment. Rob's institutional advancement and capital campaign experience includes working as Director of Development for Major Gifts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, where he raised over $20M in four years. Prior to Stanford, Rob was Director of the six-year $103M Centennial Campaign for The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT, the then largest campaign undertaken by an independent school nationally.
Katherine M. Bella, CFRE
Principal
The Bella Group
As Principal of The Bella Group, Kathy has more than 25 years experience in the nonprofit sector, where she has served as Board Member, Executive Director, and Chief Advancement Officer for a number of Bay Area organizations. She has conducted campaign planning studies and served as strategic counsel for a wide variety of nonprofit clients whose capital campaigns have ranged in size from $2 million to more than $50 million. As an active volunteer, Kathy currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Craigslist Foundation, where she is Development Committee Chair. She also serves on the Education Committee of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel and on the Development Committee of Synergy School, an independent K-8 school in San Francisco.
David F. Hartman
Vice President
Netzel Associates, Inc.
David has 24 years of business experience in private consulting and nonprofit organizations. He joined Netzel Associates, a full-service not-for-profit consulting firm, in 1999 following a successful career with the American Red Cross, where he served as the executive director of the Sierra Nevada Chapter and chief operating officer for the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.
David has expertise in strategic planning, financial and organizational analysis and management and extensive experience directing capital, annual, major gift and other fundraising campaigns. He also has served as a volunteer leader in many nonprofit organizations. David earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from the University of San Francisco.
8. Major gifts fundraising
Chuck Cole
Senior Consultant
Essex & Drake Fund Raising Counsel
Chuck began fundraising as a volunteer nearly 40 years ago while in high school. Since then, he has served a wide variety of organizations as a Board member, volunteer, paid staff, and consultant. Chuck has helped raise many millions of dollars for churches, moderate-income multi-family housing, and independent as well as assisted living and skilled nursing facilities for seniors. He also has served a broad spectrum of social service, health care, and environmental organizations, such as: Shanti Project, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Cancer Care Options, Coming Home Hospice, Project Open Hand, The Names Project, Rest Stop Support Center, and the California Urban Forests Council. Chuck has designed and managed successful capital, annual and special projects fundraising campaigns, utilizing constituent visits or meetings, direct mail, telefundraising, dinners, auctions, affinity programs, and special events.
Joel Evans
Vice President
Brakeley Briscoe, Inc.
Joel has twenty years of experience in fundraising management and strategic planning. He currently provides counsel for diverse Bay Area organizations, St. Anthony Foundation’s $42 million capital campaign, Congregation Sherith Israel’s $15 million seismic retrofit campaign, and a $6 million campaign for Samaritan House in San Mateo County. He is also contributing to a study to expand the capacity of a national, congressionally authorized housing organization by $100 million over five years. As fundraising counsel, Joel has supported strategic projects and capital campaigns at a literary magazine, an early music festival, an array of social-service providers, a dispute-mediation center, an art cinema, a domestic violence agency, and a non-profit housing corporation. In addition to training leadership volunteers, Joel has taught other non-profit executives and leadership volunteers at a variety of venues, including the Association of Partners of Public Land, the Association of Fundraising Professionals Conference, the NSFRE Conference on Philanthropy (Massachusetts Chapter), the National AIDS Fund Raising Conference, the Radcliffe College Seminars, and national skills building conferences for AIDS service providers. Joel received his BA in Russian Studies from Yale College. He sang with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s chorus for twenty-five years and served on the Board of Directors of the Yale Club of Boston.
9. Annual giving campaigns
Kellea Shay Miller
Development Officer for Individual Giving
Global Fund for Women
In her current capacity, Kellea manages the Global Fund for Women's annual campaign where she works closely with outside consultants to run thriving direct mail and donor acknowledgment programs. Both through direct mail and donor stewardship, she has deepened the Global Fund's "stretch giving" communities. Over the past 5 years, she has consulted with emerging human rights organizations to develop sustainable individual donor programs, and has been a grant writer for the U'wa Defense Project, DECOIN (Defensa Ecologica del Intag) and BodySoul Rhythms. In addition, she serves on the Board and teaches for Alive & Kicking! a Bay Area women's self-defense collective.
Julie Rickert, MPM
Director of Development
La Clinica de La Raza
Julie is a nonprofit development profession with over 25 years experience in Annual Funds, Major Gifts, Special Events, Capital Campaigns, for nonprofit organizations in the Arts, Human Services, and Health. In 2004, Julie moved to Oakland to to establish a fundraising infrastructure for a 36-year-old nonprofit organization that is the largest nonprofit in the East Bay and the fifth largest Hispanic organization in the country. Prior to joining La Clinica de La Raza was the first Director of Development & Communications for a YMCA in Pittsburgh, creating and building a private sector donor base. Julie has a BS from Ohio State University in Political Science, a Masters in Public Management and Fund Development from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
Shaleece Haas
Program Director
One By One
Shaleece joined One By One in 2005 when it was a newly-formed project run by volunteers. She has since helped to grow the organization into a well-respected nonprofit with a national scope. Since 1999, Shaleece has used her skills in fundraising and organizational development to support nonprofits in the global health and women’s rights fields. As a consultant with the nonprofit consulting firm, Skystone Ryan, she has been responsible for the strategy and implementation of the annual giving programs of varioius organizations with budgets ranging from $100,000 to $2,000,000. As a volunteer, she has served on the board of Positive Focus, a Brooklyn-based arts organization and has taught English to Arabic-speaking new immigrants at the International Center of New York. Shaleece holds a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College and is a graduate of the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
10. Special events fundraising
Stephanie Chew
Development Associate
Girl Scouts of San Francisco Bay Area
Stephanie is the Development Associate for Girl Scouts of San Francisco Bay Area. She began her career with Girl Scouts as a community development director managing and training teams of volunteers, and she currently manages annual giving, donor cultivation and stewardship, and special events. In the past four years, she has managed several special events each grossing $150,000+ per event. Stephanie is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and serves on the AFP Diversity Communities Committee.
Siobhan M. Greene
Executive Director
CASA of Monterey County
Originally serving as the agency’s Development Director, Siobhan has been with CASA since 2002. Through CASA, Siobhan has been able to integrate her extensive development and marketing background, and her years of experience in the mental health field working with psychiatric and chemically dependent patients. Prior to her current position, Siobhan worked as a Marketing Director for a small boutique hotel group, and served as Development Associate for a Christian day school. Siobhan is a member of the Carmel-by-the-Sea Rotary where she sits on their board of directors and is an active member of AFP, where she serves as a mentor to new development professionals and is the chair of the 2007 Philanthropy Day Celebration.
Melanie Doerner
Development Director
Children's Musical Theater (CMT) San Jose
An active community volunteer, Melanie’s has successfully produced black-tie galas, silent and live auctions, luncheons and receptions, community festivals and events. As Development Director for Children’s Musical Theater San Jose (CMT), Melanie is in charge of their annual gala fundraiser as well as cultivation events throughout the year. Last year, Melanie helped CMT exceed its contributed income budget year with increased support from individuals, foundations and government, as well as special events. Melanie came to CMT from Arts Council Silicon Valley, where she served as development associate. Prior to that, she worked with producer and artist manager Robert Friedman Presents in San Francisco and as general manager for Limón Dance San José. She is on the board of sjDANCEco, a local modern dance company, and is an active volunteer with Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley where her husband, professional dancer Michael Doerner, performs. Prior to working in non-profit, Melanie practiced as a corporate attorney in her native Canada and holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School.
B.Michael McFarland
Director of Development
Trinity School
A classically-trained actor who spent several years touring both Shakespeare and modern classics throughout the United States, B.Michael McFarland has more than a dozen years of professional development experience for arts groups, advocacy groups, universities, school systems, and schools. He has organized large-scale events featuring President George HW Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush; members of the original Survivor; Peter, Paul & Mary; Bear from Bear in the Big Blue House, and others, as well as the Start Early 10K Run along Chicago’s Lakefront, the unofficial kickoff of Chicago’s running season. He’s produced numerous gala event dinners and auctions in Louisville, Chicago, and the Peninsula. As Director of Development for Trinity School in Menlo Park, he oversees all aspects of development, including the Annual Fund, the annual Celebration & Auction, and the Fulfilling the Vision capital campaign. He has been a member of AFP since 2001.
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