Lee A. MacVaugh
Director of Development & Fundraising
The Character Education Partnership (CEP)

I have been the Director of Development & Fundraising here at the Character Education Partnership (CEP) for the past two years.

Previously, I have fundraised for three other non-profits, over the past 20 years. I began fundraising at the Sidwell Friends School in the mid-1970’s.

My work has involved extensive travel for face-to-face meetings with high-end donors, corporations, and foundations. My responsibilities have included adding new members, recommending possible Board Members, working closely with Boards, and writing grant proposals.

I am a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals/DC (AFP/DC); chaired their Mentor/Mentee Committee for seven years; and, have spoken at many of their fundraising seminars.

I am also very active participant at the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation’s monthly “Development Exchanges.”

E. Maynard Moore, Ph.D.
Principal / Managing Partner
CommunityNexus Consulting, LLC

Sandra Renner, MSW, CFRE
Principal
Renner Consulting

Sandra has more than twenty-five years experience in the not for profit sector, most of it in fundraising.  She has focused much of her work on developing creative campaign strategies and helping a variety of organizations develop their fundraising infrastructure. Her expertise includes major gifts, development assessments, train­ing, board development, and fundraising plan­ning.  In 2005, Sandra formed Renner Consulting in order to provide more specialized and hands-on services to nonprofit organizations.

Prior to forming Renner Consulting, Sandra spent almost fifteen years with the Alford Group, a nationally recognized consulting firm, at its Chicago and Washington DC offices where she became regional manager.  Before joining the Alford Group, she was the Director of The DuPage Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tion, the subur­ban affili­ate of The Chicago Community Trust. As its first direc­tor, she was re­sponsi­ble for its overall ad­minis­tra­tion, endowment and operating funds de­velop­ment, and grant mak­ing.

Her previous experience includes serving as the Development Director for two mental health agencies and as a school social worker and special education administrator where she pub­lished a curriculum guide and conducted a variety of work­shops through­out the Midwest.  She also worked as a sales representative for Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals and Baxter, winning numerous sales awards.

She has worked with more than 90 local and national organizations at Renner Consulting and the Alford Group, directing numerous successful campaigns and helping clients raise millions of dollars, attract new donors, and significantly enhance their infrastructure and volunteer leadership.  Her most recent clients include American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, William S. Abell Foundation, CFED (Corporation for Enterprise Development,) Jubilee Housing,  the Higher Achievement Program, Montgomery County Collaboration Council for Children, Youth and Families, and ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid.)

She is a member of the Association Foundation Group, the Consultants Consortium, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Greater Washing­ton, DC where she was a member of the board of directors.  She is a member of International AFP’s Committee on Diversity and chairs a diversity task force.  She serves on the boards of the United Church of Christ Home and the Association Foundation Group. She recently co-chaired National Capital Philanthropy Day which honors individuals, organizations, and foundations that have made a difference in the greater Washington DC region. 

Sandra has been an adjunct faculty member on fundraising since 1999 at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University and served as a Dean for the Maryland Service Exchange, a program of the Governor’s Com­mission on Service. She is a peer reviewer for the Standards of Excellence program of the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations and a consultant in the Kellogg Foundation’s Action Lab (KAL.)  As a recognized leader in the fundraising community, Sandra has been a speaker at numerous conferences and meetings, including numerous presentations at the International Conference of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

In 2003, Sandra was awarded the Eugene A. Scanlan Outstanding Service Award by the Alford Group to recognize her exceptional leadership, commitment and service to the company, and to the profession of nonprofit consulting. 

Adam Rosenberg
Executive Director
Baltimore Child Abuse Center

Dr. E. Maynard Moore
Principal                  
CommunityNexus Consulting, LLC

Dr. E. Maynard Moore has been a consultant in financial resource development and management for non-profit organizations on a full-time basis for more than twenty-five years. Prior to 1984, Maynard Moore served as a teacher, administrator, and fundraising executive for a community college, a large state university, and a major private university, including service in roles as Assistant to the President and Assistant Vice President. For a national association of cities and counties, Dr. Moore served as Vice President for Development & Corporate Relations, managing fundraising initiatives and functioning as liaison with major corporations, research universities and federal  R & D laboratories. In the 1990s, Dr. Moore served on the $175 million capital campaign staff for The George Washington University Medical Center.  More recently, Dr. Moore served as Executive Director for the Funding Future Ministry Program of the Stewardship Center & Foundation, of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church. 
In consulting roles, Dr. Moore has served more than a dozen colleges and universities, and scores of church ministries, health organizations, youth agencies and arts groups. He has participated in capital campaigns for several major educational institutions, including an $85 million campaign for American University and a $35 million campaign for a social service agency.  With Douglas M. Lawson Associates, Dr. Moore conducted a Campaign Audit and subsequently organized the comprehensive capital and endowment campaign for a major medical system in Texas (nine area hospitals) targeted at $40 million.  Among Dr. Moore’s major clients, projects have been completed for the World Federation for Mental Health, the Minority Health Professions Foundation, Delaware State University, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Loma Linda University & Medical Center, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Library of Congress, The Washington Ballet, the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity International, The Phoenix Zoo, Medical Group Management Association, the European Foundation Center, IUC-Europe, and the PAX World Foundation. 
Dr. Moore received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, and went on to take graduate degrees at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, an M. A. in Social Ethics at the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Adult/ Continuing Education at Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Maynard has served on several boards of trustees in youth and religious organizations, and holds memberships in professional societies such as the American Association of Higher Education, the National Council of Resource Development, the National Council on Planned Giving, the Society for Ecological Restoration, and the Public Affairs Council.  Dr. Moore conducts numerous fund raising workshops and training events annually, has written articles for periodicals and scripts for promotional fund raising videos, and is recognized as a Certified Fund Raising Executive   by the national Association of Fundraising Professionals. Dr. Moore has been a member of the Baltimore-Washington Conference since 1981, and his Charge Conference is Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church in Washington DC.