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For Christianna, philanthropy is full of catalytic moments. The moment when a donor steps into partnership with an organization. The moment when fundraisers believe it’s a privilege to invite someone to give and become part of something bigger than themselves. And the moment that donors commit themselves to giving resources beyond their treasure.

Philanthropy isn’t a career Christianna fell into; rather, from her first days calling alumni to support her alma mater’s annual fund, she was hooked. After graduating from Taylor University (Upland, IN) with bachelor’s degrees in Mass Communications and Spanish, she went on to complete her Executive Master of Arts in Philanthropic Studies from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (Indiana University).

Christianna has directed successful capital campaigns, conducted campaign feasibility studies and nonprofit assessments, and provided interim development leadership. Her portfolio of experience spans nonprofit sectors, such as associations, human service organizations, independent schools, higher education institutions, and healthcare systems on both the East and West Coasts.

Before joining CCS, Christianna served in advancement at two higher education institutions, with an international humanitarian aid organization, and at a metropolitan center for nonprofit advocacy. She is a four-time chapter author for Giving USA, the leading annual report on philanthropy in the US, and has earned the respected Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) designation.

Raised in the Midwest, Christianna happily calls Phoenix, AZ home. She has traveled to 30+ countries and has two states left to visit. She is winter sports enthusiast, loves the National Parks, and can often be found entertaining friends on her patio.

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Make-a-Wish America, Phoenix, AZ
University of California Office of the President, Oakland, CA
American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation, Washington, DC
PeaceHealth Southwest, Vancouver, WA
Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson, MD
Queen of the Valley Foundation, Napa, CA
Apprenti, Seattle, WA
World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
Marjaree Mason Center, Fresno, CA
Social Venture Partners International, Seattle, WA

Since joining CCS, Chloe has partnered with a wide range of clients in the education, advocacy, arts and culture, and religious sectors providing counsel on capital campaign planning, annual fund management, and special fundraising events. Chloe specializes in conducting strategic development assessments and providing interim management support. Most recently she has acted as Chief Development Officer for Physicians for Human Rights and supported Georgetown University with an assessment of the largest campaign effort in their history, charting the path to a $3BN goal. Chloe has enabled her clients to exceed annual fundraising goals, outperform historical giving day targets, launch new giving vehicles, and double participation rates of priority donor groups.

Chloe began her career at HRH Prince Charles’s charity The Prince’s Trust. There, Chloe was responsible for stewarding relationships with a portfolio of high-profile corporate supporters. More recently, Chloe served as an executive director for a national UK education non-profit where she was accountable for the organization’s operations, sustainability, and growth. While in post, Chloe enabled the organization to move away from a grant-based financial structure towards a revenue-generating sales of service model, in part by increasing the base of fee-paying members by 25%. During her tenure, Chloe was instrumental in strengthening the organization’s resource base with successful bids to government agencies, philanthropic trusts, and corporations. Since moving to the US, Chloe has advised the leadership teams of several US and UK based non-profits and public service organizations as an independent consultant. Notable clients include Dress for Success Worldwide and Her Majesty’s Government Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office.

Chloe holds an MBA from Henley Business School, a Masters in Non-Profit Accounting and Financial Management from Cass Business School, and a Bachelor of Science in Social Psychology from Loughborough University. Chloe lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

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As an Executive Vice President at CCS Fundraising, Carolyn has dedicated her career to the nonprofit community throughout the Philadelphia region and beyond. For 17 years, she has helped organizations of all sizes achieve philanthropic growth and mission-impact. Carolyn has raised more than $25 million for organizations including The Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Back on My Feet, Habitat for Humanity, Malvern Preparatory School, and The Salvation Army. Early in her career, Carolyn was also privileged to conduct large-scale assessments for Habitat for Humanity International and the State University of New York, both resulting in pathways toward exponential philanthropic opportunity.

In 2018, Carolyn joined the Strategy & Operations team at CCS to design the necessary infrastructure to maintain and grow business development and market presence activity for the newly established Philadelphia office. Since that time, the Philadelphia team has more than doubled in size, revenue and client reach.

A member of the firm’s Operations leads, Carolyn collaborates across teams on special projects to standardize functions, enhance efficiencies, and scale for growth. Most recently, Carolyn was invited to build the strategy & operations infrastructure for CCS’s Systems & Analytics practices in addition to her role on the leadership team in Philadelphia.

Committed to her local community, Carolyn is a volunteer for causes supporting open adoption and currently serves on the Endowment Board and Development Committee for St. Agnes Elementary School in West Chester, PA.

Carolyn earned a master’s degree in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in Religion from La Salle University.

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Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Habitat for Humanity International, Atlanta, GA
State University of New York, New York, NY
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

Blake Reiser joined CCS in 2011 after working in Advancement at Pepperdine University School of Law. During his time with CCS, Blake has helped to design, plan and execute successful major fundraising efforts for dozens of nonprofits. He works with each organization’s leadership to develop thoughtful plans, craft compelling communications, leverage volunteers, and build successful major donor strategies. In his engagements, Blake brings an organized and committed approach that is tailored to the culture of each organization.

Blake is a graduate of Pepperdine University with a BA in Organizational Communication and a minor in Business Administration.

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Catalina Island Conservancy, Long Beach, CA
Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, CA
Mariners Church, Irvine, CA
The Pegasus School, Huntington Beach, CA
St. Monica Catholic Community, Santa Monica, CA
The Salvation Army California South Division, Orange County, CA
United States Military Academy, West Point, NY

Autumn started with CCS in 2012, advising and guiding client partners across sectors to achieve nine-figure campaign goals and mobilizing thousands of volunteers to make a difference. Her areas of expertise include strategic planning, campaign management, donor communications, board coaching and staff development.

Autumn is currently working with the Feeding America National Office in Chicago, IL to build and resource a brand-new department. Access Services will facilitate relationships between Feeding America, their 199 food bank members, and the thousands of agencies that distribute food across the United States. Before working with Access Services, Autumn conducted a major gifts planning and strategy engagement with the Feeding America Development team in response to their tremendous growth over the past two years. The outcome of this project was a three-year plan to chart the course of fundraising practice and investment.

Prior to her partnerships with Feeding America, Autumn was working with the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health in Palo Alto, CA. LPFCH is the sole fundraising entity for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the child health programs at Stanford University School of Medicine. She started with LPFCH in an interim management position, leading a stewardship team of eight. She then transitioned into implementation of a new strategic plan that CCS developed with LPFCH leadership toward a goal of raising $200 million each year.

Autumn served as Development Manager of Kadlec Foundation in Richland, WA, from 2015-2017, before returning to CCS. She worked closely with donors, executive leadership, and trustees to elevate community health. Kadlec Regional Medical Center is part of the Providence St. Joseph Health system.

Autumn and her husband, Tyler, a family physician, are both from Idaho. She is an alumna of Boise State University and New York University. She has lived in five countries and enjoys reading, cooking, tennis, and hiking.

Annie Reynolds is an Executive Vice President with the Central United States team at CCS Fundraising. Based in Chicago, Annie works closely with the firm’s leadership to partner with organizations to help them achieve their extraordinary missions by providing strategic and operational support. She has worked across all sectors with clients pursuing fundraising targets ranging from $1M-$500M.

Annie has led dozens of campaign planning, development assessment, case development, custom learning, and campaign management efforts during her tenure at CCS, including managing the launch and implementation of over 100 feasibility and planning studies.

She specializes in development audit and assessment work, structure and systems reviews, major gift strategy, philanthropic landscaping research, and prospect pipeline development, as well as developing and designing cases for support, gift proposals, impact reports, and other fundraising collateral and communications. She has deep experience in building and implementing actionable recommendations for enhancing development efforts and growing fundraising dollars.

Originally from Indianapolis, Annie now lives in Chicago with her husband David and daughter Emilia.

Anne’s passion for philanthropy lies in the people-oriented nature of the sector. She is driven by the desire to create positive, lasting change for organizations and their communities through strategic operations and goal setting.

During her tenure at CCS, Anne has worked with institutions across the nonprofit sector providing strategic counsel on organizational infrastructure and operations management, major and principal giving, annual fundraising, campaign planning and management, case development, and volunteer and trustee engagement. In her role, Anne is a project leader who partners with organization leadership, staff, and volunteers to ensure execution of fundraising plans.

Anne holds a BA from Barnard College and MBA from Columbia Business School. In her spare time, she enjoys being a member of multiple book clubs, making ice cream, and spending time with her family.

Angel has nearly two decades of experience working with and within organizations in the health, education, cultural, and human services sectors. As a Senior Vice President, Angel is a highly motivated, results-oriented, and compassionate executive. She has advised organizations and planned and managed campaigns ranging from $20 million to $2.8 billion. She has extensive expertise and experience managing strategic operations, planning and directing large-scale capital and comprehensive campaigns, incorporating gift planning strategies, refining major gift programs, and building and fostering positive cultures of philanthropy.

Within CCS, Angel has held a number of leadership positions. She led her NY-based team’s mentorship program for five years and served as one of a cohort of mentors for 35+ colleagues. She founded and led the Working Parents community for two years, which engaged over 100 colleagues through bi-monthly webinars featuring internal and external guests and panelists. More recently she was chosen for CCS’s DEI Working Group, which is tasked with creating substantive policies and initiatives and to contribute positively to the national discourse on DEI and anti-racism and the intersection with philanthropy. As of October 2020, Angel was elevated to lead the Gift Planning Team and is responsible for managing a cross-firm team to create a new project concept with the potential to diversify and increase revenue for CCS’s nonprofit partners.

Prior to joining CCS, Angel worked for the Alvin Ailey organization, first with The Ailey School coordinating the Ailey/Fordham BFA program, and later with Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation developing and managing the marketing plans and budgets for the School and the junior company, Ailey II.

Originally from West Texas, Angel studied English Literature and Dance at Washington University in St. Louis before moving to New York City. Angel currently resides in Westchester County, New York, with her family, and constantly draws on her dance, yoga, and Ayurvedic training to maintain her flexibility and strength in mind, body, and spirit.

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A Better Chance
FoodCorps
Irish Arts Center
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI)
The Masters School
The NAACP
New York City Bar Association
NYU Langone Medical Center
St. George’s School
Signature Theatre Company
University of Florida and Shands HealthCare
Westchester Medical Center
Westport Library
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Andrea Gonce joined CCS in 2002 and has a versatile background with domestic and international fundraising design, planning, and implementation. During Andrea’s experience with CCS, the campaigns that have benefitted from her expertise have raised nearly $1 billion to support their charitable, educational, pastoral, and healthcare needs. She has worked in virtually every type of demographic and socio-economic setting.

Andrea is currently leading the philanthropic effort at Nemours Children’s Health System. Under Andrea’s direction Nemours is executing a plan for exponential growth and implementing immediate operational needs across the system. Prior to this engagement, Andrea lived in Sydney, Australia and assisted the University of New South Wales in the design and implementation of its historic $650 million campaign.

Andrea received her MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo in New York and her BA in Corporate Communications and Anthropology from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.

Before joining CCS, Andrea served in the United States Peace Corps as a Health and International Development Specialist in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Andrea is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and is a certified Emergency Medical Technician volunteering for over 20 years.

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Arch/Dioceses of Arlington, VA; Bridgeport, CT; Buffalo, NY; Philadelphia, PA; and Raleigh, NC
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Washington, DC
God’s Love We Deliver, New York, NY
Lions Clubs International Foundation, Oak Brook, IL
Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, DE & Jacksonville, FL
Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Philadelphia, PA
United Way Worldwide, Alexandria, VA
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Andrea manages internal operations for CCS’s Mid-Atlantic region and is based out of Washington, DC. She works closely with regional executives to streamline processes and maximize operational efficiency. In addition to her regional responsibilities, Andrea is also the firm-wide trainer for CCS’s survey data collection system. She also liaises with several internal corporate teams including Recruitment, Finance, and CCS Learning, among others.

Andrea is especially passionate about recruiting, training, and retaining talent, and is dedicated to ensuring CCS is a supportive and rewarding place for a diverse group of development professionals. She has channeled this passion into developing an onboarding process tailored to CCS’s Mid-Atlantic team that fits seamlessly into CCS’s firm-wide training program.

Andrea grew up on the outskirts of New York City, and has lived in Washington, DC for the last fifteen years. She is an avid New York Mets fan and is currently on a quest to visit every baseball stadium around the country.