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Erin has worked to advance the missions of nonprofit organizations for over eight years. During this time, she has worked with organizations of all types, including a focus on arts and culture, health, education, religious, and human services causes. She specializes in fundraising, strategic planning, creative case messaging, donor communications, and volunteer management.

Erin’s experience in major gift strategy has been exhibited through her campaign management work with project goals ranging from $5 million to $100 million. Additionally, each of Erin’s managed feasibility studies have resulted in over $70 million raised in subsequent campaigns. Erin lead several successful major gift efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, navigating rapid change and uncertainty.

Erin holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Entrepreneurship from The University of Louisville and a Bachelor of Science in Community & Nonprofit Leadership and Entrepreneurship degree from The University of Wisconsin – Madison. Originally from Milwaukee, Erin currently resides in Chicago where she loves all aspects of living in the Midwest – including the snow! Erin enjoys playing tennis, traveling, cheering on all Wisconsin sports teams, and exploring the unique neighborhoods that Chicago has to offer with her husband, Jake, and Boston Terrier, Woody.

Select Client Partners

  • Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati, OH
  • St. Paul Academy and Summit School, St. Paul, MN
  • Christ Church Winnetka, Winnetka, IL
  • B’nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim, Deerfield, IL

Elizabeth joined the firm in 2017 after spending a decade supporting non-profits in New York, New York. Professionalism, diligence, curiosity, and dedication to hard work fuel Elizabeth’s passion for working with nonprofit organizations to help them achieve their goals. In her role, she brings operational and strategic leadership to CCS’s more complex engagements and partnerships with a focus on the health sector. She has worked across the spectrum of health institution and project types, led the planning and management of campaigns over $1 billion, directed the forming of collaborative philanthropic models, and has guided clients in securing multiple nine-figure gifts.
 
A lifelong learner and dynamic professional, Elizabeth’s clients appreciate the trust, organizational fluency, sense for opportunity, clear direction, and candor she brings to each of her engagements. Her areas of expertise include assessments and growth plans, strategic planning, campaigns, principal gift programs, and capacity building. Her goal with every client engagement is to elevate the organization’s overall capacity and efficacy to fundraise in support of its mission.
 
Within CCS, Elizabeth is a member of the CCS Board of Directors Innovation Sub-Committee. She also serves as the Executive Sponsor of CCS Elevate, the firm’s thought leadership incubator designed to apply CCS best practices to the next big questions in philanthropy – an initiative Elizabeth served as the founding Co-Chair of. She also regularly partners in speaking engagements with the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy and the Woodmark Summit.

Originally from San Diego, California, Elizabeth currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, where she was elected Captain of the Field Hockey team. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, fitness, and spending time outdoors with her 115-lb Rhodesian Ridgeback, Judd.

select client partners

  • Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Children’s Health
  • Children’s Wisconsin
  • Communities Foundation of Texas
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • National Marrow Donor Program
  • Northwestern Medicine
  • Obama Foundation
  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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.

select client partners

  • 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.

select client partners

  • MoMA PS1
  • Georgetown University
  • Physicians for Human Rights
  • The Ethel Walker School
  • Ethical Culture Fieldston School
  • Church of Heavenly Rest
  • Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States
  • The Harvard Crimson

resources

Five Steps to Kick-Start Campaign Planning for an Independent School

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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.

select client partners

  • Archdiocese of Chicago
  • Augusta University
  • Barrington Area Council on Aging
  • Be The Match Foundation (NMDP)
  • Boys and Girls Club of Dundee Township
  • Cathedral High School
  • Chicago CRED
  • The Cove School
  • Deborah’s Place
  • Douglas County Salvation Army
  • Feeding Louisiana
  • Foundation for Excellence
  • Forsyth School
  • Hospice of the Western Reserve
  • JCC Minnesota
  • Jewish National Fund – USA
  • JourneyCare
  • Karam Foundation
  • Lake Country School
  • Lake Forest Open Lands
  • Lakeview Hospital – HealthPartners
  • Little Home Church
  • Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry
  • 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

publications

Snapshot of Today’s Philanthropic Landscape, 2022

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.

Select client partners

  • Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
  • Salt Lake Community College
  • Feeding America
  • Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
  • International School of Denver, Denver, CO
  • Kiwanis International, Indianapolis, IN
  • NatureBridge, San Francisco, CA
  • NEA Baptist Health, Jonesboro, AR
  • Sacramento Zoological Society, Sacramento, CA
  • Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Catherine of Siena, Austin, TX
  • Trinity Health, Minot, ND
  • University of Windsor, Windsor, ON

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.

Select Client Partners

  • 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.

select client partners

  • 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.

select client partners

  • New York Botanical Gardens
  • NYU Langone Health
  • NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  • The Public Theater
  • Muscular Dystrophy Association
  • Hadassah Women’s Zionist Organization of America
  • StoryCorps
  • Chabad of Greenwich
  • Broward Performing Arts Center

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.

select client partners

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