Currently based in the United Kingdom, Claire Bens has experience fundraising around the world including the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. She has partnered with non-profits and institutions spanning the philanthropic sector from higher education and healthcare to international schools and social service organisations. Specializing in campaign management, Claire works primarily on planning large-scale fundraising initiatives, developing major gift strategies, and building the internal fundraising capacity of her clients. She aims to bring a personalised, organised, and positive approach to each client partnership.

Claire earned her MSc in Conflict Studies at the London School of Economics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with BAs in Political Science and Global Studies from Ohio University. A native of Cincinnati, Claire currently lives in London. She is a member of AFP and an accredited CFRE. In her spare time, Claire participates as a member of Impact 100 London and enjoys hiking, kayaking, and running.

select client partners

  • American Community School of Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Africa Public Health Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Central European University, Vienna, Austria
  • World Migration Report, IOM, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Saint Peter’s University, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
  • Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, Illinois, USA
  • St. John’s Academy, Jamestown, North Dakota, USA
  • Vocational Guidance Services, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Camille has worked with local, regional, national, and international nonprofits to reach their most ambitious fundraising goals.  Working in a family office prior to CCS has given her insight to provide clients a well-rounded, innovative approach where she has guided clients on operations, events, financial development, marketing and crisis public relations. She brings creativity to her clients and has been instrumental in building relationships with donors, board members and client staff, as well as working seamlessly with volunteers at all levels, including former heads of state and corporate decision makers. Her strong interpersonal and analytical skills make her a critical part of the projects she has been assigned and to the overall CCS team.

Camille has conducted feasibility and planning studies, development assessments, and special development projects, consistently solving issues with innovative, efficient, and productive solutions. During the pandemic, Camille quickly pivoted a client’s in-person event to strategically build a virtual speaker’s series that exposed an additional 3,000 potential members to the organization and secured campaign donors while replacing event income. The series was such a success, it continues on a bi-monthly basis.

To bring joy to CCS’s employees, Camille serves as a co-leader of the Pets at CCS employee resource group, and currently leads the team that produces The Woofington Post quarterly newsletter. She is an avid potter and lives in Dearborn, Michigan with her two dogs, Casey and Cooper.

select client partners

  • The OSS Society
  • The Chrysler Museum of Art
  • Greater Baltimore Medical Center
  • American Physical Society
  • American College of Radiology
  • International Association of Fire Fighters
  • Cayman Islands National Recovery Fund

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 education and social service organizations including Youth Guidance and One Million Degrees. 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, planned giving and gifts of major assets, campaign management, development office assessment, prospective funder landscaping, and staff and volunteer orientation and training. She has worked with client partners across the Midwest 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, previously acting as the Mentoring Officer. 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 Masters in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago and a Bachelors of Science from The University of Arizona.

select client partners

  • Be The Match
  • Cathedral High School
  • The Cove School
  • Deborah’s Place
  • JCC Minnesota
  • Lake Forest Open Lands
  • Northern Illinois Food Bank
  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
  • Saint Louis Zoo
  • Vatican Apostolic Library

publications

Snapshot of Today’s Philanthropic Landscape, 2022

Stemming from experience volunteering, Ashley has a great passion for the nonprofit sector and the vital work done by individuals championing those causes. Ashley earned her Master of Public Affairs (MPA) in Nonprofit Management from the O’Neill School at Indiana University.

Ashley brings extensive experience supporting the nonprofit sector to each engagement. Her areas of expertise include lead and major gift strategy, volunteer management, board engagement strategy, and structuring regional fundraising initiatives. Early in her career, Ashley worked with CCS and the Kiwanis Children’s Fund on The Eliminate Project, a $110 million campaign in support of a UNICEF-run worldwide vaccination campaign.

For the past several years, Ashley has been engaged with campaign feasibility studies and campaign management projects. Her clients include a wide range of organizations across subsectors of the nonprofit sphere. Notably, Ashley was a campaign director for the successful Hope to Health campaign at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Hospital, a $300 million campaign for medical education, research and patient care, and cancer research and care.

select client partners

  • The Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Hospital
  • Jackson Preparatory School
  • The Kessler School

For more than twenty-seven years, Andrea has partnered with non-profit organizations to raise funds throughout the Midwest and beyond. Prior to joining CCS in 2006, Andrea worked in the fundraising sector in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As a member of the CCS team, she has worked with clients in the religious, secondary education, human service, health care, and cultural sectors. She excels in major gift strategy implementation, campaign management, board orientation, volunteer training, and grant writing. Andrea brings invaluable industry expertise and insight to her clients through coaching, collaboration, analysis, and mentorship of staff.

Andrea is motivated by collaborating with committed people on their organization’s fundraising goals. She likes to teach and empower volunteers to make gift requests on behalf of organizations they are passionate about. She is continually re-energized by joining forces with passionate people to exceed campaign goals.

Select client partners

  • Frassati Catholic High School, The Woodlands, Texas
  • Lutheran Social Services of Michigan (LSSM), Detroit
  • Episcopal Cathedral of Saint James, South Bend, Indiana
  • Guest House, Lake Orion, Michigan
  • Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, Michigan
  • Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  • Summa (Hospital) Foundation, Akron, Ohio
  • Lafayette Catholic School System, Lafayette, Indiana
  • St. Ignatius Catholic Parish, Mobile, Alabama
  • St. Christopher Catholic Parish, Speedway, Indiana

Tania brings over ten years of nonprofit management and fundraising experience to advance the missions of clients across philanthropic sectors. As a Vice President with CCS, Tania leads capital campaigns, development programs and operations, feasibility and planning studies, and organizational assessments. She partners with clients to create compelling cases for support and donor communications; to recruit, train, and manage volunteer leadership; to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward individual, corporate, and foundation donors; and to develop and operationalize strategic plans to achieve target goals and outcomes among other responsibilities.

Tania began her career in the museum field, holding development positions at The Jewish Museum (New York, NY), The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY), and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (New York, NY and Venice, Italy). During her MBA studies, she interned with the Governance & Accountability Institute and Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership. She earned her MBA at Rutgers University and BA in History of Art at Haverford College.

select client partners

  • Ability Beyond, Bethel, CT
  • Charles River Watershed Association, Weston, MA
  • City of Paris/Fonds pour Paris, Paris, FR
  • Elms College, Chicopee, MA
  • Fairfield University Rugby Football Club, Fairfield, CT
  • National Urban League, New York, NY
  • Neighborhood House Charter School, Dorchester, MA
  • Northeast STEM Starter Academy, Mt. Vernon, NY
  • Guadalupe Radio Network, Washington, DC
  • Texas Children’s Hospital and Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation’s Global HOPE, Houston, TX,
  • Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD

Stephanie is passionate about supporting nonprofit leaders in transforming their visions into actionable plans and results to be celebrated.

She has advised clients in the education, healthcare, human services, humanitarian and faith-based sectors, and her work has included feasibility and planning studies, assessments, case development, capital campaign planning and execution, board training and major gift strategy. Stephanie also has experience partnering with clients on grant writing and grant management.

In addition to her work with clients, Stephanie serves as a Co-Chair of CCS’s internal Health Sector group and takes great pleasure in mentoring and supporting new colleagues during their first year at the firm.

Stephanie is a graduate of Wellesley College and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband.

select client partners

  • American Red Cross Greater New York
  • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens
  • Fordham University
  • Gracie Square Hospital
  • Monmouth University
  • New York Genome Center
  • Phelps Hospital Northwell Health
  • SEO Scholars SF
  • The Viscardi Center