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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.
 

Robert Kissane

President

Robert Kissane is the President of CCS and its international operations in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Over the past 25 years, Bob has directed and counseled major fund-raising initiatives in the North America, Latin America, Western Europe and Russia, Africa and Asia.

As an executive with the firm, Bob has designed or directed some of the firm's most significant projects including the $1.3 billion Discoveries that Make a Difference campaign for Weill Cornell Medical College; the $1.2 billion Invest in CUNY campaign for the City University of New York; the $1 billion To Realize Medicine’s Promise campaign for New York Presbyterian Hospital, the $200 million research initiative The Only Remedy is a Cure for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, Inc.; Rotary International's $246 million The PolioPlus Campaign; the $78 million A Soaring Spirit campaign for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Human Rights Watch's $45 million A Special Moment in History endowment campaign; among numerous others.

Bob has served as a member of the Resource Mobilization Task Team for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) Industry Advisory Council; and the AHP (Association of Healthcare Philanthropy) Foundation Board of Directors. Bob serves on the board of directors of five nonprofit institutions: Human Rights Watch ~ the largest human rights organization based in the United States; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, Poets House ~ the literary center and poetry archive in SoHo; WITNESS ~ a human rights program utilizing video and communications technology; and FilmAid International.

He resides in Manhattan with his son, Evan.
 

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

  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
  • American Hospital in Paris
  • American Red Cross
  • Archdiocese of Washington, DC
  • Baylor University Medical Center
  • Beth Israel Medical Center
  • CARE USA
  • City University of New York
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
  • Doctors Without Borders/Medicines Sans Frontières (MSF)
  • The Franklin Institute
  • Harlem Children’s Zone
  • Human Rights Watch
  • INSEAD
  • International Accounting Standards Board
  • International Crisis Group
  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
  • The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
  • Morehouse School of Medicine
  • Museum of Television and Radio
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
  • New York City Opera
  • The New School
  • Rotary International – The PolioPlus Campaign
  • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
  • State University of New York
  • US Fund for UNICEF
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • United Nations Foundation
  • United Way of New York City
  • University of California – San Francisco
  • University of Manchester (Institute of Science and Technology)
  • University of Missouri – Kansas City
  • University of London (Imperial College)
  • Weill Cornell Medical College
  • Westchester Children’s Hospital Foundation
  • Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo
  • WNYC Public Radio
  • World Trade Center Memorial Foundation