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

 

Christopher K. Looney

Regional Vice President

 

Chris Looney joined CCS in 1998 and now serves as Regional Vice President with responsibility for managing the company’s operations in southern California.  Chris has more than 12 years of experience working with non-profit organizations on major fundraising initiatives and has assisted more than 100 organizations with audits, studies and campaigns.  Over the years Chris has helped his clients, including some of the nation’s most sophisticated and well-known nonprofit institutions, raise hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of a broad spectrum of organizations.  Chris’ clients have included hospitals, schools, churches, international and regional social service agencies, and civic institutions.  Projects on which Chris has served funded capital improvements, renovations, endowment, new programs, and ongoing operations. Chris’ primary areas of expertise are in designing and managing capital campaigns and preparing organizations for major gift solicitations.

Chris is a member of the CCS Training Institute faculty and remains actively involved in the Association of Fundraising Professionals throughout southern California.  Chris earned a B.A. from Princeton University and currently resides in Irvine, California with his wife, Anisha and their son, Gavin.  In his spare time, Chris serves as President of the Princeton Club of Orange County and is actively involved with Mariners Church. 

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

  • All Saints Church, Pasadena, CA
  • Alta Bates Summit Hospital, Berkeley, CA
  • Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  • Archdiocese of Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley, Fountain Valley, CA
  • Children’s Institute, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
  • Friends Christian High School, Yorba Linda, CA
  • Goodwill of Orange County, Santa Ana, CA
  • Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, Gardena, CA
  • Hillview Acres Children’s Home, Chino, CA
  • Lions Clubs International Foundation, Oak Brook, IL
  • Orangewood Children’s Foundation, Santa Ana, CA
  • Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, Newport Beach, CA
  • Providence High School, Burbank, CA
  • Santa Margarita Catholic High School, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
  • Serving People in Need (SPIN), Costa Mesa, CA