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The CCS Leadership Team includes highly successful and experienced fund-raising professionals. CCS Executives are extensively involved in the projects they manage.
 

Bernadette Lane

Senior Vice President and Managing Partner

Bernadette Lane is a Senior Vice President and Managing Partner of CCS. She has been with the firm since 1989, providing professional counsel as an on site director as well as executive leadership and supervision to educational, civic, cultural, social, health care, and religious organizations and institutions throughout the United States and internationally.

As a principal of the firm and the leader of the Midwest Executive team, with particular responsibility for clients in Michigan and the surrounding region, Bernadette is responsible for projects from initial contact and on going client liaison through campaign planning and successful implementation.  Her particular strengths are in planning and operations.   

During Bernadette's career with CCS, she directed and managed Lions Clubs International's world wide Campaign SightFirst which raised $146 million on a goal of $130 million for blindness prevention and sight restoration programs.  The campaign was conducted in 40,000 clubs in 180 countries and involved some 7,000 trained volunteers.  She is currently assisting them in the planning and implementation of their second worldwide campaign with a goal of $150 million as well as in developing a plan for increased support of Lions Clubs International Foundation.  

A selection of institutions that have benefited from Bernadette’s counsel include:

  • John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan
  • University of Missouri Kansas City
  • Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy
  • University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
  • Alternatives for Girls, Detroit, Michigan
  • Cleveland Opera, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Detroit Public Television, Detroit, Michigan
  • Leader Dogs for the Blind, Rochester, Michigan
  • Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, Dubuque, Iowa
  • Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit, Michigan
  • Nashville Symphony, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Nature Conservancy Michigan Chapter, Lansing, Michigan
  • Novi Public Library, Novi, Michigan
  • Archdiocese of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan
  • Diocese of Lansing, Lansing, Michigan
  •  Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington, DC
  • Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, Evanston, Illinois
  • St. John Health System Foundation, Detroit, Michigan
  • St. Joseph Mercy of Macomb, Clinton Township, Michigan
  • St. Joseph Mercy Oakland, Pontiac, Michigan
  • St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, Mishawaka, Indiana
  • St. Vincent Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio
  • United Methodist Church Communications, Nashville, Tennessee