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Melissa McGuirk

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Post date October 8, 2016

Associate

Melissa McGuirk McNeil has more than 10 years of experience building teams and engaging stakeholders in strategy development in the nonprofit sector. She is a seasoned fundraising professional with experience developing, implementing, and engaging a variety of audiences and invested parties in outreach programs, partnerships, and corporate social responsibility initiatives. Over the course of her career, Melissa has held senior development roles with the Ottawa Network for Education and United Way Ottawa. She graduated from the University of Ottawa with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Melissa’s core expertise is in Fundraising Campaigns and Strategic Planning. She also has vast experience in partnership development, corporate social responsibility, major gifts, annual giving, donor and constituent engagement, management and governance, volunteer training, facilitating, and data analytics.

Sector Experience: Education and social services

Melissa’s fundraising must have: Relationships are everything – talk to donors, learn their motivations for giving, and engage them in your work.

Contact Melissa at: [email protected]

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Thomas McCarty, Ph.D., CFRE

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Post date October 8, 2016

Executive Associate

Tom McCarty brings over 35 years of experience in serving nonprofit organizations as a staff member, consultant, and independent contractor. His long and successful career encompasses 17 capital campaigns, solicitation of 6- and 7-figure major gifts (outright and deferred), grants ranging as high as $3.5 million, and a total of over $60 million raised personally.

Holding bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from Oberlin College, Yale University, and The University of Michigan respectively, Tom began his career as a college professor of Classics for institutions of higher education in Vermont, Ohio, and North Carolina. He also holds the current credential of Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE).

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Tom’s core expertise is in Major and Principal Gifts. He likewise has extensive experience in Annual Giving and Direct Marketing; Board Training, Management and Governance; Fundraising Campaigns and Strategic Planning; Planned and Legacy Gifts; and Grants Management

Sector Experience: Education, Healthcare, and Arts & Culture

Tom’s fundraising must have: Fundraising is a simple business. There are but two steps: raise awareness and raise support.

Contact Tom at: [email protected]

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Michelle Mazzoni Thomas MBA, CAPM

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Post date October 8, 2016

Associate

Michelle Mazzoni (Thomas) has over 17 years of hands-on and management experience in marketing, graphic design, content development, and proposal/project management, working in Canada and internationally in the fields of education, engineering, and construction. Michelle’s marketing, business development initiatives and proposals have secured contracts and awards, enhanced relationships with clients, and secured projects valued from $1 Million to $100+ Million.

She holds a BSc. in General Business Administration from Excelsior College, a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration from the University of Leicester, an MBA from the University of Canada West, and certifications in Project Management, Business and Technical Writing, Graphic Design and Training and Assessment.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Michelle’s core expertise is Donor and Constituent Engagement. She also has experience in Direct Marketing, Data Analytics, Project Management.

Sector Experience: Education, Healthcare, International Development, Arts and Culture

Michelle’s fundraising must have: Clearly articulated goals supported by precise, concise language, and compelling message and design.

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Angelita Marquez

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Post date October 8, 2016

Associate

Angie is a passionate, results-driven professional with over 15 years of experience partnering with nonprofit organizations in Canada and the Asia-Pacific region to achieve positive community results. She has an extensive experience providing advice to small grassroots community groups as well as established organizations by developing and instituting strategies to enhance operations, identify efficiencies, and establish support for their work. She also has proven success in connecting nonprofit organizations to influencers within the community, while forging and fostering key relationships among diverse networks of community organizations, stakeholders, funders, government agencies, academia and other partners both in Canada and internationally. Angie holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Communications from the University of Toronto.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Angie’s expertise is on Board Training and Governance and she also has extensive experience in Donor and constituent engagement, Partnership Development, Grant Proposal Research and Writing and Results-based Models (RBM) Grant Monitoring and Evaluation

Sector Experience: Community development in Canada and the Asia-Pacific region; Arts and Culture; Social Services; SMEs development

Angelita’s fundraising must have: Clear and open communications

Contact Angelita at: [email protected]

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Chris Locke

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Post date October 8, 2016

Senior Associate

Chris Locke has more than 20 years of experience as a creative leader with expertise in integrated marketing strategies, and leading education and membership teams. She consistently delivers positive outcomes with strong and sustainable gains by inspiring quality team performance and collaboration. She motivates teams and individuals to exceed organizational objectives, targets and goals. Her greatest pride is elevating group and personal performance levels through skillful leadership and fearless, yet graceful, decision-making outcomes. One of Chris’ biggest achievements was breaking down long-established siloes between departments to create a new level of cooperation between development and marketing teams. As a result, one organization was able to raise over $15MM in an 18-month period, a record for this particular non-profit.
Chris earned her degree in Communications and Public Relations at California State University.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Chris is a well-rounded fundraising generalist and brings expert-level experience in Fundraising Campaigns and Strategic Planning. She also has extensive experience in annual giving campaigns and programs, direct marketing, and gift planning. She is particularly adept at developing unique marketing campaigns that breath fresh life into routine fundraising efforts.

Sector Experience: Membership-based educational institutes and think tanks, trade societies, animal protection non-profits, and community-based preparedness programs.

Chris’s fundraising must have: Goals. Both team and personal goals, with timeline breakdowns. Also, strong belief that change can be good, and without strategic change, stagnation is eminent.

Contact Chris at: [email protected]

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Yannan Li

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Post date October 8, 2016

Junior Associate

With a PhD degree in Philanthropic Studies from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University and over 5 years of research experience in the nonprofit sector, Yannan Li is a specialist when it comes to using numbers and figures to tell a compelling story about philanthropy. Yannan is particularly skillful at investigating the giving trends, exploring the market of major gifts, conducting prospect research, and developing social media strategies. She is also dedicated to the education and training of next generation of nonprofit leaders.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Yannan’s core expertise is in Data Analytics. She also has extensive experience in Alumni Relations and Giving; Counsel and Support for Philanthropists; and Social Media Strategies;

Sector Experience: Higher Education and International Development

Yannan’s fundraising must have: The understanding that fundraising is an ongoing cycle and a commitment to building long-term relationship with constituents.

Contact Yannan at: [email protected]