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Now in her tenth year with CCS, Eliza Huleatt has directed numerous development assessments and planning studies, conducted Board orientations and staff trainings, and led successful campaigns for a variety of client organizations. Eliza’s fundraising experience spans higher and secondary education, healthcare, medical research, and cultural institutions. She specializes in strategic development projects to expand philanthropic revenue, driving progress and client deliverables.

During her time at CCS, Eliza has worked with the CCS President on corporate initiatives to enhance the firm’s service offerings; developed content for CCS’s internal Learning program and taught firm-wide education courses on feasibility and planning studies, business writing, and donor engagement; led the Mentorship program for the Mid-Atlantic region; and served on the firm’s recruitment and onboarding teams. She is a past contributor to the Philanthropy Now blog. Eliza has an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. from Colby College. She enjoys running, world travel, and spending time outdoors with her husband and two young sons.

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Baltimore Community Foundation
Howard University
Lieber Institute for Brain Development (Johns Hopkins University)
National Audubon Society
Peddie School
Rheumatology Research Foundation
Spelman College
United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
University of the South
Virginia Union University

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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Brooke’s passion for philanthropy developed from her own career experiences both relying on and distributing philanthropic funding. She is passionate about the ability of a shared mission to unite communities and create change.

Prior to joining CCS in 2015, Brooke worked with Chicago-based social service organizations including Youth Guidance and Thresholds. She also worked at State Farm supporting strategic initiatives and insurance, as well as Habitat for Humanity in Indianapolis.

Her areas of expertise include campaign planning and feasibility studies, major gifts strategy, campaign management, development office assessment, prospective funder landscaping, and volunteer training. She has worked with client partners of all sizes across a variety of sectors, with a special interest in social and human services.

As a trained social worker, Brooke is known for bringing empathy to her work. She is looked to for coaching and supporting colleagues and clients alike. She has served as a co-chair and on planning committees for multiple learning conferences at CCS, co-founded the employee resource group Pets at CCS, and formerly served on the Gift Planning Committee, among other roles.

Brooke received a master’s in social service administration from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science from The University of Arizona.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Nine PBS
Northeast Illinois Council – Scouting America
Northern Illinois Food Bank
Northridge Preparatory School
Northshore Country Day School
Norway House
PAWs Chicago
Robert Crown Community Center
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Martin de Porres – Cleveland’s Cristo Rey High School
St. Paul Academy and Summit School
Temple Beth El
Tennessee Performing Arts Center
United Way of Greater Cleveland
University of South Alabama
YMCA of Greater Cleveland
Vatican Apostolic Library

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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.

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

An Nguyen is a Senior Vice President at CCS Fundraising and has dedicated over 15 years to advancing the philanthropic work of nonprofits from an expansive range of sectors including primary and secondary education, healthcare, human services, arts and culture, and religion. Her expertise includes major gift fundraising, campaign assessment and management, events coordination and volunteer mobilization – all through a targeted lens of building an environment where individuals of all backgrounds, races, and economic capacity feel welcome and valued to participate in philanthropy.

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Castilleja School
Diocese of San Jose
Feeding American National Organization
India Basin Waterfront Park
Phillips-Brooks School
SF-Marin Food Bank
UC Davis Health System

Amy joined CCS in 2016, bringing over 10 years of knowledge as a non-profit leader. She has extensive experience providing strategic counsel on major and principal giving, organizational planning, and campaign management. Amy brings a wide range of expertise in major gift fundraising, institutional giving, program development, advocacy, and staff recruitment and management.

Amy has worked with a broad range of signature New York City institutions. Notable clients include New York Botanical Garden, NYU Langone Health, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, The Public Theater, Muscular Dystrophy Association, and Hadassah. Her projects have collectively raised hundreds of millions of dollars.

Amy earned her BA from University of Michigan. Currently, Amy resides in Manhattan on the Upper East Side with her husband and two children.

Aly Mennuti has had a passion for philanthropy from a young age, largely due to the influence of her mother who instilled a belief that the global and local must unite to change the world. Aly has been privileged to merge her idealism with a career that provides her with the ability to help nonprofit organizations across all sectors set bold goals and deliver tangible achievements.

Since joining CCS in 2015, Aly has partnered with clients across several sectors; from small local organizations to international nonprofits and has helped them strengthen their programs, elevate their causes and profiles, and achieve their mission-driven goals. It has been Aly’s pleasure to follow best practices in philanthropy and apply those constantly evolving approaches to the unique needs of each nonprofit to guide transformational change.

Aly has vast experience in the areas of marketing, foundations, corporate and individual giving, major gifts research and solicitation, campaign volunteer management and pledge collection. She has had the opportunity to partner with clients ranging from associations, independent schools, arts, health and human service, and religious sectors.

Recently, Aly was privileged to work side-by-side with the American College of Cardiology on a bold endeavor to implement and execute their capital campaign to fund programmatic efforts in diversity and inclusion, leadership development and global health disparities and care. The campaign, which exceeded all projections, will further efforts in innovation in cardiovascular care and treatment for patients worldwide.

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The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
American College of Cardiology, Washington, DC
House of Ruth Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Alissa has spent her career advancing the missions of nonprofit organizations. Her first-hand experience witnessing the community impact of nonprofit work drives her passion for philanthropy.

Alissa has over a decade of experience working with organizations in the arts and culture, higher education, advocacy, and primary and secondary education sectors. As a Vice President, Alissa partners with mission-driven organizations and provides interim management and strategic guidance on transformational fundraising campaigns, infrastructure assessments, volunteer leadership development, and systems management.

Within CCS, Alissa is proud to be part of her team’s mentorship program, helping newer directors at CCS succeed. She also serves on a committee to expand CCS’s DEI initiatives and a thought leadership task force working to provide firmwide educational resources and professional development opportunities around the topic of fiscal management.

Alissa received her BA from Cornell University. After seven years in Vermont, Alissa returned to her home state of New York and currently resides in Manhattan with her husband. She enjoys taking longs walks in Riverside Park, experiencing all the cultural gems New York City has to offer, and attending the occasional tennis match and basketball game.

Adam Miller provides leadership and strategic guidance to the nonprofit sector, designing innovative fundraising initiatives, directing extraordinary campaigns, and advising on resource development models.

Partnering with organizations ranging from $1m to $100m+ in annual philanthropic revenue, Adam helps design tailored revenue growth strategies, optimize resource allocation, and implement programmatic initiatives.

Adam has provided guidance on various development functions and strategies both nationally and internationally and across all nonprofit sectors. He is an expert in board engagement, growth and sustainability planning, campaign methodology, principal and major gift strategies, organizational design, corporate partnerships, change management, complex gifts and planned giving, interim development management, data analytics and modeling, development assessments, feasibility and planning studies, and post campaign strategies, among others.

Adam serves as a CCS Learning Facilitator, has presented at national and international conferences, and has been published in journals and business publications. In 2020, the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) recognized Adam as a 40 Under 40 Leader. Outside of his work, Adam personally serves on several nonprofit boards and committees.

Prior to CCS, Adam practiced as an attorney counseling individual and business clients on employment and commercial matters, and helped secure two record-breaking jury verdicts. Adam earned a JD from Loyola University Chicago and a BA from Indiana University. Adam resides in Columbus, OH with his wife and two children.

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