SCHULTZ & WILLIAMS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Director, Digital
As a member of the Schultz & Williams' direct response team, Alexandra serves as project lead for our firm's digital fundraising and membership programs, assisting in strategy, planning and the execution of all digital campaigns.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Schultz & Williams, Alexandra was a marketing coordinator at Imagine 360 Marketing in New York City, where she managed accounts and took the lead role in day-to-day scheduling, analysis, and campaign planning.
Job Titles:
- Account Executive
- Associate
As a member of the Schultz & Williams Direct Response team, Alexandra is responsible for campaign execution through direct mail, email, and online channels. Her responsibilities include campaign planning, reviewing and editing copy for effective messaging and accuracy, and overseeing the design editing process. She also serves as a daily contact for clients and creative staff.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Schultz & Williams, Alexandra worked as an elementary and early childhood education teacher.
As a member of the Schultz & Williams direct response team, Alison is responsible for planning and executing annual giving and mid-level fundraising appeals through direct mail, email, and online channels.
Her responsibilities include campaign planning, reviewing and editing copy for effective messaging and accuracy, overseeing the design editing process, and serving as a daily contact for clients and creative staff. In this role, Alison works with the project team to raise funds and cultivate donors for a range of nonprofit clients.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Schultz & Williams, Alison worked in the Development Office of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Allison is a strategic, system thinker who believes that every organization must embrace their purpose to position them to achieve their goals. Her curiosity opens doors to authentic dialogue and new ideas that bring dreams to life in practical ways to further an organization's mission.
She has successfully led a corporate foundation and social responsibility program for a dental insurance company. This included coordinating with boards of directors to secure funding to foster successful implementation of grant programs and innovative projects. Allison has extensive experience building strategic, cross-sector partnerships, designing plans to achieve short- and long-term goals, developing financial sustainability plans, and implementing projects to strengthen health and social outcomes within communities. In her consulting work, Allison has provided strategic guidance and coaching to community foundations and nonprofits, helping them develop and implement plans to achieve their programmatic and sustainability goals.
Prior Experience
Allison is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience in nonprofits including private and community foundations, community-based organizations and government agencies. She has held positions at Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation, Arcora Foundation, Booz Allen Hamilton, and various nonprofits focused on early learning and health.
Allison served as the executive director of Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation, where she played a key role in a strategic planning process that resulted in a new organizational mission and direction. She led a team that provided over $5 million annually to Colorado nonprofits through grant funding and sponsorship. She has a clear understanding of grant-making and fundraising, through the lens of funder.
Allison currently works with nonprofit organizations and community foundations in the areas of strategic planning, board governance, program design and implementation, development and fundraising planning, and organizational capacity.
As a member of the Schultz & Williams Direct Response team, Alyssa is responsible for the execution of multichannel fundraising campaigns, including managing tasks and timelines for various fundraising projects and assisting in the copy and design creative process. She also serves as an internal liaison between the client account team and other teams at Schultz & Williams, such as production, analytics, and operations.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Schultz & Williams, Alyssa worked as a senior associate for another nonprofit agency in their Animal Welfare sector.
Bailey serves as a Project Manager on the development team of Schultz & Williams. In this role, she is responsible for liaising between clients and the S&W team; assisting in campaigns; ensuring smooth and efficient project implementation; and assisting in developing the highest quality of work from the S&W team. Bailey is especially passionate about helping nonprofits become as effective and successful as they can be, so that the communities they serve can thrive.
Prior Experience
Bailey has experience in nonprofit work, philanthropic work, and grassroots advocacy. Prior to joining the S&W team, Bailey worked for a family foundation, where she assisted in conducting research, identifying emerging nonprofits internationally, and organizing fundraising events.
With more than 25 years of communications and membership experience, Becky provides specialized skills and relevant expertise to S&W's high-profile, membership-based direct response clients. She is proficient in executing exhaustive data analyses to inform actionable strategy for acquisition, upgrade, additional giving and renewal direct response campaigns.
In addition to reporting on key performance metrics, Becky plans and executes detailed acquisition and appeal list strategies, including identifying strong new test files and honing selections to maximize response while minimizing list costs.
Beth has rejoined Schultz & Williams after leaving the Philadelphia area five years ago. She has over three decades of development experience working with nonprofits nationwide. She has worked with small, mid-size and large organizations assisting in all areas of their fundraising needs. On a number of occasions, she served as an organization's first development professional, brought on to develop full fundraising plans including initiating major gifts programs, starting multiple special events and developing a robust corporate and foundation gifts calendar.
Prior Experience
Beth has also worked with several larger organizations on attaining targeted goals, such as growing their strategic partnerships and completing their capital campaigns. Most recently, she has worked with a national environmental organization as their director of development and marketing. For that organization, Beth was hired to re-start this nonprofit from a dormant state with almost no funds coming in and no full-time staff, to where it is today with an organizational budget of almost two-thirds of a million dollars and multiple staff members.
She has also been an independent development and communications consultant for many years. Her recent clients include the National Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Association in Seattle, WA, where she oversaw their strategic partnerships program. In that role, she worked with corporations and large funders developing programs to promote their involvement and creating funding opportunities for CASA programs across the country.
Other recent clients include a local National Public Radio station and an international teen youth development organization. Beth also formerly served as the director of development for a Boys & Girls Club in Rhode Island, where she increased corporate and foundation funds by 200%, ran three annual events and brought in high six figures from major gifts. She also ran the corporate and foundation department for a local Rhode Island zoo targeted on a major capital campaign.
Betsy brings more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit development and fundraising, with expertise in membership, annual giving, and mid-level strategies.
With extensive experience in both development operations and philanthropic marketing, Betsy is highly qualified to provide a full range of consulting services, including program assessments, strategic planning and multi-channel direct response campaign planning and implementation.
Betsy works with clients to help them evaluate their current program(s), set achievable goals, and develop practical strategies designed to reach sustainable success. She is committed to a strong partnership with every client, developing customized, creative plans that fit each organization's unique needs and resources.
Betsy currently oversees membership, annual and mid-level giving programs for clients in the conservation sector, including National Aquarium, Shedd Aquarium, New England Aquarium, Conservation Society of California / Oakland Zoo, and Toledo Zoo & Aquarium. She brings her real-time experience in philanthropic marketing to benefit all her clients and ensure a holistic approach to developing successful fundraising strategies.
Prior Experience
Before joining S&W in 2014, Betsy was director of membership and annual giving at the National Constitution Center, where she oversaw the membership program from its grassroots beginning through its growth to a robust base of loyal supporters. With prior work in government offices, Betsy brings more than 21 years of experience in public service and the nonprofit sector, helping diverse clients fulfill their dynamic missions.
Brad brings extensive digital fundraising, advocacy, marketing, and advertising experience to Schultz & Williams. He directs our digital experts through the planning, execution, and analyses of multi-channel campaigns that take a holistic approach to fundraising and help our clients achieve their short and long-term goals.
Brad leads our direct response and digital experts through comprehensive assessments of every client's digital program needs and then creates tailored, informed fundraising campaigns. These may include email engagement, list-building, social media, content creation, digital advertising, design and development, analysis, and optimization. Each campaign is designed to meet and exceed client goals and deeply resonate with donors, prospects, and target audiences. Based on S&W's own inclusive analyses, Brad ensures that every multi-channel effort is closely monitored and evaluated so that all that future fundraising and membership plans are built on actual results.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Schultz & Williams, Brad served as director of marketing and social media at Drexel University. From 2008 to 2013, he was a new media campaign manager for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Washington, D.C. Brad also worked at several leading digital agencies and public affairs firms in Washington, including Edelman and APCO Worldwide, and has taught digital content strategy as an adjunct instructor at La Salle University.
Brenda Borkoski joined the Schultz & Williams team in 2017 after 10 years in nonprofit programming and administration. She offers S&W clients a wide variety of grant writing experience, including private, family, and corporate foundations, as well as funder research and grants calendar management services.
Prior Experience
Brenda was an early childhood program coordinator for The Franklin Institute, serving low-income preschools in the Philadelphia region with STEM programming and classroom resources. Prior to her work at The Franklin Institute, she supervised the tour program at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. She also served as manager of school and family programs at Washington National Cathedral.
Job Titles:
- Director, Client Accounts
As a member of the Schultz & Williams direct response team since 2014, Caroline focuses her efforts on account management and client success. Working across several nonprofit sectors, she provides and executes strategies for mid-level and annual giving programs. In addition to fundraising, Caroline also assists with new business development and managing sales opportunities.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining S&W, Caroline worked as a marketing manager for a hospitality management company.
Carolyn specializes in development operations. She works with clients to optimize their use of the database to be more efficient and to uncover prospects already know to the nonprofit. She has experience creating reports to be shared within the development team, within the organization, as well as externally. She works with other shareholders in organizations to ensure that data is correct wherever it is housed.
Carolyn has experience in merging information from multiple sources into one database. She has created processes and procedures for prospect management, gift entry, and reporting.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining S&W, Carolyn held annual giving and development services positions in higher education and at K-12 schools. She was the first dedicated database manager at Independence Mission Schools, combining their 16 donor databases into one master database and creating their prospect management program.
She has experience in training development officers to optimize their use of database tools. She created processes and data standards that ensure reports are pulled consistently month to month and year to year. Carolyn has experience working with finance offices to ensure gifts are entered and dispersed in accordance with the donor's wishes.
Cathy has devoted the past four decades to focus on the strengthening of the nonprofit sector in the nation's capital and across the country. Cathy brings to Schultz & Williams and its clients her extensive experience in governance and board training, institutional advancement, managing during transition, and results-oriented fundraising and communications. Her specific focus areas include capital campaign planning and implementation, major gifts fundraising and stewardship, messaging, communications, and board strengthening.
Building on her nonprofit leadership experience, Cathy founded S&W's Washington, D.C. office. Since joining the firm, she has partnered with numerous clients from the cultural arts, educational, environmental, and social service arenas. She has counseled them on advancing their organizations, designing new development programs, planning and launching capital campaigns, and creating successful solicitation strategies for campaign leadership and major donors. Cathy provided development counsel for the National Women's History Museum's $450 million campaign, served as interim vice president for development for Scholarship America, and designed a $35 million endowment campaign for the Shelburne Museum.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining S&W, Cathy served as vice president for development at WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in Washington, D.C., where she helped plan and implement their campaign for the new century and advanced their board and volunteer leadership. She has also served as director of corporate and foundation relations for the Phillips Collection and as administrative officer with the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Cathy is a former advisor and lecturer for The Fund for Arts and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe. She speaks widely on fundraising topics and was a master teacher within the national Public Broadcasting System. Cathy has conducted seminars in Russia, sponsored by The Fund for Arts and Culture, on public sector management and fundraising issues. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards and currently serves on the board of Christchurch School.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Accountant
- Member of the S & W Accounting Department
As a member of the S&W accounting department, Dan is part of the team that oversees the firm's financial operations. He is responsible for: regularly processing accounts payable/receivable, monitoring S&W's consulting jobs, executing billing and providing updates to clients. Using advanced accounting software, he ensures that S&W's financial records are accurately reported and maintained.
Dan is in constant communication with the S&W production teams, consultants, clients and vendors to make certain that project costs are in line with forecasts.
Prior to joining S&W, Dan worked as an account risk analyst at Vanguard and as a mortgage processor with GMAC Mortgage.
Dan majored in finance and graduated from Temple University with a B.B.A.
David was a Senior Blackbaud Solutions Consultant from 2014 to 2022 and provided industry expertise, guidance, and Best Practice for Raiser's Edge NXT clients throughout the US and Canada. One of David's areas of proficiency is sharing with clients how to enhance and streamline Business Process and Design Workflows. David worked closely with hundreds of Blackbaud Enterprise clients through successful short and long-term implementations.
David's background and training in nonprofit sectors include Healthcare, Human Services, Higher Education, Independent & K-12 Schools, Human Services, Faith-Based Communities, Animal Welfare, Arts & Culture, and Foundations. David has in-depth experience integrating other Blackbaud products with Raiser's Edge NXT, including Financial Edge NXT, Research Point, Fundraiser Performance Management, Luminate Online, Merchant Services, Guided Fundraising, and Online Express. David has also worked with clients to successfully integrate Blackbaud Partner Network software products, including Omatic Software and Zeidman Development.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Blackbaud, David worked in nonprofits for over 20 years in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area. Positions held by David included National Director of Database Administration, Prospect Research Manager, and Annual Fund Manager, just to name a few. David's diverse experience as both a client of Blackbaud and a Senior Blackbaud Solutions Consultant provides an abundance of practical knowledge from every perspective of Raiser's Edge NXT, including Best Practice, functionality, and design.
David established the Delaware Blackbaud Users Group and "The Raiser's Edge Users Group Support Forum" on Facebook. As a nonprofit volunteer, David served on the Planned Giving Committee at the Delaware Humane Association. David's professional conference participation included presenting at the 2012 and 2013 Blackbaud Annual Conference for Nonprofits and the 2012 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Advancement Conference.
David is known for his expert approach to Raiser's Edge NXT training and education and recognizes that nonprofits who are vested in this fundraising solution should have an optimal return on their investment.
Eileen is a development professional with more than twenty years of experience providing strategic counsel and compelling content to nonprofit organizations seeking to advance their missions, raise funds, and plan for future success.
Prior Experience
Eileen has significant expertise in development communications, including writing cases for support, mission statements, and grant proposals, as well as in facilitating campaign planning studies and strategic planning initiatives.
Eileen has also supported several nonprofit organizations through interim staffing assignments. She recently served as interim executive director at the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children (WePAC), providing strategic direction and ensuring a smooth leadership transition while advancing programmatic priorities and achieving fundraising goals. At Wills Eye Hospital, Eileen served as an interim writer and special projects consultant, drafting development materials, writing grant proposals, and supporting the development team in planning and executing special events. While interim development director at the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, Eileen created a development plan, directed the fundraising programs, and wrote grants. She also provided comprehensive development consulting and grant writing services for Philadelphia Academies, Inc.
Liz possesses a deep and practical knowledge of how a well-run back-end operation advances a nonprofit's success through the data-centered assessment of program effectiveness. By bringing her experience as an engineer to the nonprofit context, Liz has successfully grown fundraising programs by developing goals, tracking activity, identifying problems, and providing strategies and solutions.
Elizabeth serves as a senior project manager on the development team at Schultz & Williams. In this role, she liaises between clients and the firm's leadership and is responsible for ensuring that deliverables meet timelines, coordinating a range of campaign planning studies, and assisting in strategic planning.
Elizabeth's background in policy led her to the nonprofit sector. She is passionate about working with S&W clients to further their missions and achieve their development and planning goals.
Prior Experience
Before joining S&W, Elizabeth was a member of the development team for the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution, where she primarily focused on operations and corporate and individual giving. Prior to joining Brookings, Elizabeth served as an executive assistant in the United States Senate. She began her fundraising career on a successful United States Senate primary campaign.
Liz brings to Schultz & Williams strong organizational and management skills, acquired through more than 24 years in the nonprofit sector, on both the agency and client sides. For the past 15 years, Liz has developed a specialty in the healthcare sector and used her extensive experience to provide her S&W clients with account management of annual and mid-level giving programs as well as formulation and management of development program budgets and databases.
Liz manages an S&W direct response team that coordinates the day-to-day activities of accounts, including direct mail campaigns, online communications, and website development. She manages the full scope of each project from creation to fulfillment. She is the lead contact for all her clients, maintaining quality control and ensuring timely implementation of each phase for every project.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining S&W, Liz worked for the Philadelphia Museum of Art in development and public relations. She also served as the development manager of special events at WHYY, Philadelphia's public broadcasting station, and as the office manager at The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design.
Job Titles:
- Senior Digital Coordinator
As a member of Schultz & Williams' digital team, Emily aids in the execution of digital strategies for our nonprofit clients in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, higher education, and membership organizations. Emily assists project leads on multiple account teams in the creation and coordination of digital content to cultivate loyal members and drive supporters to take action for our partners.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Schultz and Williams, Emily was an undergraduate student at Penn State University. While at Penn State, she interned in the University's Office of Strategic Communications in addition to holding several non-profit internships and student leadership positions. She was actively involved in the fundraising and marketing efforts of Penn State THON, a student-run philanthropy dedicated to helping children and families battling pediatric cancer. Additionally, she completed an internship with Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Harrisburg Area, where she organized volunteers and conducted the organization's digital marketing efforts through social media and email campaigns.
Emily consults with nonprofits to help them advance their strategic goals around information management by identifying and leveraging systems and developing procedures to achieve efficiency in process, accuracy of data, and easy retrieval of information. She specializes in donor databases, collections management systems, and recordkeeping protocols. She is committed to supporting the outcomes generated through arts, cultural, justice, and mission-based organizations, and places a high value on building trusting relationships.
Prior Experience
Emily has provided project-based and strategic support to various nonprofit institutions. Projects have included data validation; creating integrated work request and project management systems; migrating data from multiple sources into a centralized system, developing back-end protocols and designing a front-end engagement platform; and drafting handbooks.
Emily served in leadership roles where she established the first documented workflow and operating procedures for the gift recording, acknowledgment, and outreach cycle, and integrated the fundraising and accounting systems through a successful collaborative process involving multiple departments.
As a member of the Schultz & Williams digital team, Emily serves as our Digital Account Executive, where she works to implement strategic and creative approaches to multichannel fundraising, advocacy, and membership efforts. She also aids in building and maintaining client relations and managing internal teams to keep projects moving efficiently.
Prior Experience
Before joining Schultz & Williams, Emily worked for nearly five years with LevLane Advertising. There, she specialized in branding and digital content strategy, leading the design, copywriting, and client relations for many digital projects in Healthcare, Philanthropy, Pharmaceutical, and Senior Living sectors.
Emily is a multi-faceted and engaging nonprofit professional whose experience encompasses many different aspects of the organization. She has served in various fundraising, administrative and strategic development capacities and understands the unique challenges and opportunities within the nonprofit industry.
Emily has worked in varied social service sectors and has experience working internationally, specifically in Latin America. She thrives on helping organizations engage donors' passions and interests, developing robust systems, creating strategies for growth, and implementing successful processes and procedures.
Prior Experience
Most recently, Emily served as Chief Advancement Officer for Friends Association in Chester County, PA, and led the organization's fund development and grant writing as it celebrated 200 years as a nonprofit organization. She developed a major gifts platform and strategy for the Chester County Food Bank and led The Barn at Spring Brook Farm as Executive Director. She also served as Executive Director of Amigos de Jesus, an international nonprofit organization working in Honduras. She is proficient in Spanish. Emily also has certificates in Principles of Fundraising, Developing Major Gifts, and other coursework within the sector.
For more than 35 years, Erica has been designing award-winning print and publication materials ranging from corporate identity branding and package design to direct response packages and marketing collateral. Erica's distinctive creative style and extensive experience with nonprofit organizations complement her exceptional technical skill for developing a wide range of communications projects designed to help charitable organizations meet their fundraising and marketing goals.
Prior Experience
Before joining the S&W team in 1995, Erica was creative director at a print production agency in Southern California and completed numerous projects for high-profile clients, including Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau, Pacific Design Center, The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation, and Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission.
Erica lives her passion for nonprofits by dedicating much of her time as a volunteer for South Bay Parkland Conservancy. Her personal experience with pediatric brain cancer has made her a strong advocate for more research and funding for pediatric cancer of all types.
Felicia works for Schultz & Williams as a Production Manager. She serves as the liaison between the S&W Account Teams, the letter shops and the printer. She oversees and ensures every aspect of the production processes, including blueprints, signoffs and lives. She reviews and approves each before the final production and mailing is finished.
Prior Experience
Prior to joining Schultz & Williams, Felicia worked in Development and Communications for nonprofit organizations.
Education
Master in Public Relations and Corporate Communications - Georgetown University
Garth possesses a deep and practical knowledge of how a well-run back-end operation advances a nonprofit's success through the data-centered analysis of program effectiveness. He has successfully grown fundraising programs by providing financial analysis, developing goals, tracking activity, identifying problems, and providing strategy and solutions-solutions where people, data, and systems work in harmony to advance fundraising goals.
He has extensive experience as a liaison between development, communications, finance, information technology, and program; creating and sustaining collaborative relationships to achieve goals. As a senior manager, Garth directed staff providing support services to donors and development teams, maintaining Constituent Relationship Management systems. He has received advanced training in Blackbaud's Raiser's Edge as well as Salesforce NPSP. Garth specializes in interpreting and deploying information from multiple sources, including likelihood modeling and philanthropic capacity screening, to identify and prioritize a nonprofit's best prospects.
Prior Experience
Garth is a seasoned fundraising professional with more than 20 years of hands-on experience at nonprofits, including the American Friends Service Committee, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and several independent secondary schools.
He has a broad range of expertise in organizational advancement with an emphasis in data management, operations, and philanthropic marketing. Garth worked as an associate chief development officer focusing on individual giving and development processes. Garth's experience with annual giving includes directing an $11 million annual giving effort, working in collaboration with a development team of 25 while implementing a multi-channel direct response program.
In addition, Garth has provided planning, goal monitoring, and operational support for a $40 million individual major, planned and institutional funding campaign while developing comprehensive, metrics-based reporting to monitor financial goals and staff performance.
Greg is an entrepreneurial, mission-driven leader, advisor, and spokesperson with experience across nonprofit and private sectors, philanthropy, government, and academia. He is a specialist in building organizations and taking them to next level. Currently, Greg is serving as a Senior Consultant for S&W, working with nonprofits across all fields to elevate their fundraising efforts. He is also a Senior Talent Solutions Partner for DiverseForce, a firm that specializes in diversity recruitment, retention, and development.
Prior Experience
Greg has worked as an Executive Coach for Legacy Land and Water Partners, which works to preserve open spaces and introduce diverse communities to conservation organizations and the environmental sector.
Greg was Executive Director of Audubon PA and a VP of the National Audubon Society. In this dual role, he exercised broad leadership and management responsibility for statewide conservation policy, initiatives, and public programming in tandem with strategic regional and national priorities.
Additionally, he worked as the Vice President of Development for the Philadelphia Zoo, where he was in control for all aspects of the Zoo's fundraising program: major gifts, foundations, government, annual fund, corporate partnerships. He also led relationship management and the application process resulting in $6M grant from William Penn Foundation, the largest competitive grant in Zoo history.
Greg's experience with executive leadership began back as early as 1998 when he served as the Executive Director of MANNA. While there, he was responsible for all major donor cultivation, substantially broadened the organization's donor base, established a 30-member fundraising Advisory Board comprised of high net-worth donors, and led several high-end annual fundraising events. Following this, he designed and developed a new nonprofit organization dedicated to the mission of "digital inclusion" in Philadelphia. He served as the CEO of this organization (Digital Impact Group) for five years before becoming the Executive Director of Delaware Valley Regional Economic Development Fund. While there, he was responsible for leading a $20M nonprofit loan fund focused on regional economic development and job impact.
Greg has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 25 years, offering graduate and under-graduate courses in social impact and philanthropy in the Urban Studies Program and the School of Social Policy and Practice (SP2). He serves on the Governance Committee for SP2's Nonprofit Leadership Program.
Before joining Schultz & Williams, Greg spent 15 years in leadership positions in educational and arts institutions in Philadelphia. Most recently, he was executive director of the prestigious Marian Anderson Award, recognizing accomplished performers who use their talent and celebrity to improve the human condition. The Award has been presented to honorees as varied as Elizabeth Taylor, Maya Angelou, Dionne Warwick, Norman Lear, and Wynton Marsalis.
Greg is currently on the board of the Marian Anderson Award and the Gloucester County, New Jersey Cultural and Heritage Commission. He served for ten years on the Pennsylvania Protection & Advocacy Board of Directors, which advocates for persons with developmental disabilities and persons with mental illness. Greg was president of the board for five years. He is a member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Prior Experience
Previous positions include vice president for advancement at Community College of Philadelphia, chief advancement officer at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and assistant dean for external affairs at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
Prior to working in the nonprofit world, Greg worked at TV Guide Magazine for 22 years in editorial, marketing, and sales positions. In his time at TV Guide, Greg did on-air commentary for E! Entertainment Television and CNN; he authored the TV Guide Celebrity Chef Cookbook and the television viewing section of The Practical Guide to Practically Everything.
Greg is a 20+ year frontline fundraising veteran with experience across multiple nonprofit sectors. During his career he's seen significant success securing major and planned gifts and growing major gift and planned giving programs. He's passionate about helping nonprofit organizations secure their largest gifts through inclusive campaigns and asset-based giving. Greg's experience is incredibly varied and has served as a gift processor/database administrator through Chief Development Officer, allowing him to understand the unique challenge of each position in Development.
Greg has been a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) since 2020 and a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® (CAP®) since 2017.
Prior Experience
Most recently, Greg served as the Associate Vice President, Development/Chief Development Officer for Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network launching its first campaign in nearly 20 years. He was the Director of Leadership Gifts and Planned Giving at Muhlenberg College wrapping up their Muhlenberg Match campaign and was instrumental in planning its current campaign. While Senior Director of Individual Giving at East Stroudsburg University Foundation, he helped close the campaign Today's Dream, Tomorrow's Reality.
He also served as Director of Development for Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great, the Foundation for Ichthyosis and Related Skin Types, and multiple assignments with the Boy Scouts of America.
Hilary joined Schultz & Williams in 2015. For over 25 years she has worked in nearly every facet of institutional advancement, helping nonprofit organizations in the fields of the arts, education, and social services to achieve their financial goals.
At S&W, Hilary has worked with clients in education, social services, foreign policy, and the arts. Hilary is an Emeritus Trustee of Philadelphia Ballet and a School Committee member of Germantown Friends School.
Prior Experience
For nine years, Hilary served as Philadelphia Ballet's director of development and worked for two years as an independent consultant. While at Philadelphia Ballet, Hilary helped to increase major giving from individuals, completed a $10 million comprehensive campaign, and led a second campaign to build new studios for the company and its school.
Her previous advancement experience includes raising major gifts for the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia; managing the advancement program at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, New York City; and leading foundation and corporate relations for The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in New York City. As an associate at the New York-based consulting firm Shakin, Lichty & Boreyko early in her career, she wrote foundation and corporate grants for arts and social service organizations.
A seasoned strategic communications consultant and award-winning storyteller, Hillel brings more than three decades of on-the-ground experience in the education, arts, culture, science, conservation, and health sectors to his work supporting the missions of nonprofit organizations.
He has helped his clients develop effective and sustainable strategies for branding and messaging, content development, media relations, social media, web communications, development communications, crisis communications, executive communications, and communications training.
As a writer, his work in support of nonprofit organizations has earned awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, InspirED School Marketers, and the College and University Public Relations Association of Pennsylvania.
Prior Experience
Hillel served for 16 years as a senior communications administrator at Temple University, first at the Office of Strategic Marketing and Communications and then at Temple's Tyler School of Art and Architecture. His achievements at Temple include growing the university's reach and reputation by earning record numbers of positive placements in high-impact national and regional media outlets, making @TempleUniv into one of the nation's most influential college Twitter feeds, managing the rollout of Tyler's new name, helping to implement the #TempleMade marketing campaign, and profiling every new president and provost hired during his time at the university.
Prior to Temple, Hillel had a 17-year career at National Geographic Magazine, where he contributed to dozens of stories on topics in nature, geography, science, history, and culture as a writer. He also served as editor of National Geographic's departments, the short-form content at the front and back of each issue. Since leaving the magazine, he continues to contribute to National Geographic and other publications as a free-lance writer and editor.
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- Human Resources Manager
- Talent Acquisition Manager
Ionye is a highly experienced Talent Acquisition Manager with expertise in supporting the needs of a host of organizations and industries. She has been a vital part of strategic processes and initiatives to increase recruitment efforts, diversity, and candidate experiences. Ionye has worked in a variety of industries such as Healthcare, Nonprofit, Staffing and IT. Ionye has developed a deep understanding of recruitment and hiring processes along with employee relations. Her expertise has led to acting as an HR business partner - being the liaison between upper management, employees, and candidates. She developed, collaborated with, and led targeted recruitment strategies for qualified candidates to fulfill company-wide strategic initiatives.
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- Senior Director of Analytics
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- Director of Client Accounts
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- Senior Director, Lists and Production
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- Creative Director
- Senior Consultant
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- Senior Consultant / Writer
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- Associate Director, Digital
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- Director, Production Services
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- Director, Direct Marketing Operations
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- Associate Director, Accounts & Data
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- Managing Director
- Vice President
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- Data & Accounts Coordinator