Other Projects

All Saints Catholic Newman Center – Tempe, Arizona

Management of a $5.75 million campaign to expand and renovate the facilities on the ASU campus.
Status: Campaign achieved goal and center is constructed.

All Saints Episcopal Day School – Phoenix, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct a capital development campaign.
Status: Study completed.

Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits – Phoenix, Arizona

Provided a two-day workshop on curriculum development and training services for the “Building A Sustainable Annual Giving Campaign” with independent contractors, Lynda Bowman and Alison Rapping. The workshop was held April 8 & 9, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona.
Status: Workshop completed.

Arizona Humane Society – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of the final phase of a $14 million campaign to construct and renovate facilities.
Status: Campaign completed; Campus for Compassion has opened.

Arizona Opera – Phoenix, Arizona

Evaluation of annual giving program, and recommendations for improvement.
Status: Evaluation completed and recommendations implemented.

Arizona School for the Arts – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel for board development and annual giving program, in preparation of a capital development program.
Status: Board established and annual giving program in place.

Arizona Theatre Company – Phoenix/Tucson, Arizona

Management of a $2.9 million major gifts campaign to establish a cash reserve and purchase historic facility in Tucson.
Status: Campaign completed.

Arthritis Foundation – Greater Southwest Chapter – Phoenix, Arizona

Annual giving workshop to senior executive and chapter staff.
Status: Workshop Completed.

Audubon Arizona – Phoenix, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct a capital development campaign to create an educational center on the restored Salt River.
Status: Study completed.

Banner Health Foundation – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel for the Cancer Has Met Its Match campaign to generate $20 million in philanthropic support for the establishment of the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center on the campus of Banner Gateway Medical Center in Gilbert.
Status: Goal reached and Center is open.

Banner Health Foundation – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel for the planning stages of a $22 million campaign to fund new programs and research facilities at the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center on the campus of Banner Gateway Medical Center in Gilbert.
Status: Preliminary planning completed; Kickoff in January 2014.

Banner Health Ironwood – Queen Creek, AZ

Conduct financial development study to determine level of community support for a major campaign to fund additional elements for the Banner Ironwood Hospital.
Status: Financial Study completed.

Beatitudes Campus – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel for a $5 million campaign to support major renovations of campus for senior living.
Status: Campaign completed and over goal.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel to new CEO on Annual Fund; Prepare draft strategic plan for board approval.
Status: Strategic Plan draft completed, approved by board and implemented.

Bourgade Catholic High School – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of a $5.1 million campaign to fund an expansion of the school’s facilities.
Status: Campaign completed and over goal.

Camp Fire Council of Greater Arizona – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of a $3.5 million campaign to renovate camp facilities.
Status: Campaign completed and over goal; renovations completed.

Cathedral Center for the Arts – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel in creating a business plan for this organization to assess the financial capacity of its programming, outline administrative processes, recommend a board structure and basic board governance policies and develop sound financial policies.
Status:
Plan completed.

Catholic Community Foundation, Diocese of Phoenix – Phoenix, Arizona

Preparation of a proposal to the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust to provide funds to finance activities for Catholic young people in Maricopa County.
Status: Proposal completed and funds acquired.

Child Crisis Center, East Valley – Mesa, Arizona

Counsel on $4.5 million campaign to expand and renovate a campus for abused children.
Status: Campaign completed and over goal; New campus has opened.

ChildHelp USA – Scottsdale, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct a capital development campaign to build a home for neglected and abused children in Arizona.
Status: Study completed.

Childsplay – Tempe, Arizona

Management of a $3.4 million campaign to enhance the company’s performance capacity.
Status: Campaign completed and over goal; Campus for Imagination and Wonder has opened.

Children’s Museum of Phoenix – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of a $12.3 million campaign to create a museum dedicated to early childhood education in downtown Phoenix.
Status: Campaign completed; Museum has opened.

Christ Lutheran Church – Phoenix, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct a capital development campaign to construct a new school and other projects.
Status: Study completed.

Circle the City – Phoenix, Arizona

Design and implement a $1.9 million annual giving program for Arizona’s first respite care center for the homeless.
Status: Annual giving plan was adopted and Major Gifts solicitations conducted. Plan generated $1.7 million in its inaugural year.

Crossroads – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel to a $1.8 million campaign to purchase residential facilities for recovering alcoholics.
Status: Campaign completed and over goal; new facilities have opened.

DC Ranch Community Foundation – Scottsdale, Arizona

Counsel to the new DC Ranch Community Foundation.
Status: Planning is complete.

Emerge! – Phoenix, Arizona

Develop a strategic plan for the future of the institution with core strategies and long-term objectives. This organization assists women who are victims of domestic abuse.
Status: Planning completed.

Emerge! – Phoenix, Arizona

Design and implement a board development plan and three-year annual giving and stewardship plan and training to staff on implementation of this plan. This organization assists women who are victims of domestic abuse.
Status: Planning completed.

Fighter Country Partnership/Fighter Country Foundation – Litchfield, Arizona

Direct a study to assess community’s level of support for a $10 to $15 million campaign to fund non-mission critical capital improvements to benefit the airmen and families at Luke Air Force Base.

Status: Study completed.

Florence Crittenton Services of Arizona – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of a $7 million campaign to build new residential educational and counseling facilities.
Status: Campaign completed and over goal; new campus has opened.

Free Arts of NYC – New York, New York

Provide assessment of current strategic plan, operations and staffing structure at Free Arts of NYC and make recommendations to improve method of operation and rewrite job descriptions.
Status:
Work is complete.

Friends of O’Connor House – Phoenix, Arizona

Provide one day of counsel to acting Executive Director in operation of the organization.
Status: Assistance completed.

Genesis – Phoenix, Arizona

Management and counsel of a $2.5 million capital development campaign for construction and purchase a new full-service campus for high school dropouts.
Status: Campaign completed; Genesis City Campus has opened.

Girl Scouts-Cactus Pine Council – Phoenix, Arizona

Prepare an audit and recommendations for a pre-campaign capital development project to build a camp for the 25,000 girls in Arizona.
Status: Audit and recommendations complete.

Great Hearts Academies – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of a $1.5 million campaign to complete the Trivium campus in Litchfield, and a $450,000 campaign to fund additional projects in the newly opened Cicero campus in Scottsdale.

Status: Campaigns successfully completed and both campuses are fully built out.

Great Hearts Academies – Phoenix, Arizona

Provide onsite counsel to design and implement a sustainable funding model for Arizona’s largest charter school management organization, while ensuring that the two campuses out of the 16-campus network which serve disadvantaged populations reach their budgeted revenue goals for 2013.
Status: Annual Giving Plan competed and implemented; Revenue goals for 2013 exceeded.

 

Herberger Theater Center – Phoenix, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct an endowment campaign.
Status: Study completed.

Hospice of the Valley & Kivel Campus of Care – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel to a $3.5 million campaign to build and substantially endow a new hospice home.
Status: The Minnie and Armond Sherman Hospice Home has opened on the Phoenix Campus of Mayo Clinic.

ICAN – Chandler, Arizona

Conduct a capital development study to acquire a new facility to provide guidance and life changing skills for Chandler youth.
Status: Study completed; Campaign approved.

ICAN – Chandler, Arizona

Prepare and facilitate a one day retreat to clarify roles and responsibilities of board and staff, develop board ground rules, define strategies for one to three years, redefine the current board committee structure and define board’s goal in capital campaign.
Status: Retreat completed.

ICAN – Chandler, Arizona

Conduct a $5.6 million campaign to build a new larger state of the art facility to house afterschool programs designed to combat gang violence and substance abuse in the Chandler Redevelopment Area.
Status: Campaign over goal and new facility opened June 2012.

John C. Lincoln Health Foundation – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of a $3.2 million campaign to endow the Marley House Family Resource Center.
Status: Campaign completed and over goal.

Maricopa Integrated Health System – Phoenix, Arizona

Prepared a study and provide capital campaign development recommendations for acquiring philanthropic support for expanding services in Maricopa county.
Status: Study and recommendations completed.

Maricopa Health Foundation – Phoenix, Arizona

Provided board development, development planning and executive search services to establish a philanthropic foundation and served as counsel on a $5 million capacity building campaign.
Status: Foundation in operation and campaign to be completed.

Mesa Arts Center – Mesa, Arizona

Counsel to a campaign to provide $3.7 million in charitable support toward the City of Mesa’s new $94.5 million arts complex.
Status: Campaign completed; New facility has opened.

Nature Conservancy, Arizona – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel to the final stages of the $20 million Wild Arizona campaign.
Status: Campaign completed.

Notre Dame Preparatory High School – Phoenix, Arizona

Planned and launched a capital campaign to expand and renovate the school.
Status: Campaign completed: school expansion and renovation completed.

O’Connor House, LLC – Phoenix, Arizona

Business planning for the newly rebuilt historic home of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Status: Plan completed.

O’Connor House, LLC – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel in creating a capital campaign to establish an organization dedicated to address public issues and move the O’Connor House to another location.
Status: Campaign completed.

Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel to a $23 million campaign for renovation, expansion and endowment.
Status: Campaign completed and over goal; Construction completed.

Phoenix Indian Center – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel on a $4.2 million capital development campaign for combined agency building improvements.
Status: Successfully secured three founding tribal gifts for $1 million. Board postponed campaign.

Phoenix Theatre Company – Phoenix, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct a campaign to fund construction of a new theatre.
Status: Study completed.

Phoenix Zoo – Phoenix, Arizona

Counsel for the $20 million World Class Zoo for a World Class City campaign to renovate and expand the 50 year old facility. The campaign will add new infrastructure, exhibits, staff and volunteer headquarters, an education and event center, and remodel the front entrance.
Status: Campaign concluded in October 2013 having raised $22.5 million.

Phoenix Zoo – Phoenix, Arizona

Study to determine level of community support for a $12.1 million campaign to fund and endow new and upgraded exhibits on the Africa and Tropics Trail, the conservation center, and the construction of a 500-seat amphitheater.
Status: Study complete and campaign authorized.

Ronald McDonald House – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of a $6.2 million campaign to expand guest facilities for families of seriously ill children at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
Status: Campaign completed; Two new facilities have opened.

St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of a  $31 million campaign to expand and renovate the hospital, including  a new tower for the Barrow Neurological Institute.
Status: Campaign completed; New Barrow patient tower has opened.

St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance – Phoenix, Arizona

Provide counsel in conducting a $3 million capital development campaign to purchase additional warehouse facilities.
Status: Campaign completed; New warehouse open.

St. Paul’s Preparatory Academy – Phoenix, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct a capital development campaign.
Status: Study completed.

Scottsdale Cultural Council – Scottsdale, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct a development campaign to build an endowment.
Status: Study completed.

Sojourner Center – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of campaign to raise $11.8 million to expand campus for victims of domestic violence.
Status: Campaign completed; New facilities have opened.

Technical Assistance Partnerships, St. Luke Health Initiatives – Phoenix, Arizona

Half-day workshop with independent contractor, Lynda Bowman, to member nonprofits on solicitation techniques – June 2010.
Status: Workshop completed; More to be scheduled.

The Tesseract School – Paradise Valley, Arizona

Counsel on a campaign for $11 million for renovations and to open a new campus at 40th Street and Shea.
Status: Campaign completed and new campus is open.

Valle del Sol – Phoenix, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct a capital development campaign to expand social service facilities.
Status: Study completed.

Valley Big Brothers Big Sisters – Phoenix, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct a capital development campaign to acquire a facility and build endowment.
Status: Study completed.

Valley of the Sun YMCA – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of $25 million Step Up for Youth Campaign to expand YMCA capacity in Arizona.
Status: Campaign completed.

Valley of the Sun YMCA – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of $9.1 million campaign to build a new branch in Maryvale.
Status: Campaign completed; New Maryvale Branch has opened.

Valley of the Sun YMCA, Chris-Town Branch – Phoenix, Arizona

Management of a $3.1 million campaign to expand and upgrade the Chris-Town Branch in West Central Phoenix.
Status: Campaign completed; Remodeled branch opened in September 2011.

Valley of the Sun YMCA, Sky-Y and Chauncey Ranch, Phoenix, Arizona

Study to expand and renovate camps at Sky-Y and Chauncey Ranch.
Status: Study completed.

Valley of the Sun YMCA, Flagstaff – Flagstaff, Arizona

Capital development campaign to build a new YMCA in Flagstaff.
Status: Campaign completed and branch open.

Volunteers for Hospice – Sun City, Arizona

Counsel on development of an annual giving program.
Status: Counsel completed.

West Valley Child Crisis Center – Glendale, Arizona

Management of a $3.3 million campaign to expand capacity to care for children removed from their homes by Children’s Protective Services.
Status: Campaign completed and over goal; New facilities have opened.

Whispering Hope Ranch – Phoenix, Arizona

Study to determine readiness to conduct a capital development campaign to build a camp for children with special medical needs.
Status: Study completed.