FUND RAISING CERTIFICATE program

FACULTY

Bill Bergosh began his not-for-profit career as the District Director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for Kansas and western Missouri. Since that time he has held many positions in administration and development for area not-for-profit organizations. He is certified as a Certified Fund Raising Executive, CFRE, by The National Society of Fund Raising Executives, (the Association of Fund Raising Professional). Bill is currently the President of the John Knox Village Foundation, a UMKC adjunct professor and a Senior Fellow of the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership. He also does consulting work with nor-for-profit organizations in the areas of strategic planning, fund development and organizational structure.

Robert W. Buchanan, Ph.D.

In 1971 Bob began his non-profit management and fund raising career while a professor at Ottawa University.  As assistant dean he developed and marketed a non-traditional adult education program in Kansas City and began working with alumni in fund development.  He became Director of University Relations and coordinated the fund development and public relations programs for the university.

In 1978 he became development officer of Ozanam Home for Boys and completed a successful capital campaign, strengthened the annual giving and special events efforts and developed the planned giving program.

In 1983 he spent a year wrapping up the capital campaign for the Folly Theater, a historic restoration rental and presentation house in Kansas City.

In January 1984 he established Buchanan & Henry Fund Raising Counsel and spent the following eight years providing consulting services to such clients as the Salvation Army, Little Sisters of the Poor, Harvesters, UMKC, Friendship House, Rose Brooks Center, the Association of Independent Hospitals and Associated Youth Services.  He has conducted feasibility studies, managed capital campaigns, provided fund raising audits and presented many board and staff training seminars.

From 1992-1999 Dr. Buchanan was a principal in the firm of Bergosh, Buchanan and Associates a full service fund raising firm in Kansas City, MO.

Currently Bob provides fund development consulting and fund development staff coaching to a variety of clients across the mid-west.

Bob is also an Senior Fellow of the Mid-West Center for Nonprofit Leadership in the Bloch School of Public Administration at the University of Missouri Kansas City where he teaches in fund raising techniques, research and proposal writing, major gifts and planned giving and fund raising trends and ethics.

Bob is past president of the Mid America Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives, has served on the National Board of NSFRE.  He is active in the Greater Kansas City Council on Philanthropy, the American Prospect Research Association, and the Mid-America Planned Giving Council. Current community volunteer actives include Village Presbyterian Church Respite Care Committee, Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American Red Cross Marketing and Fund Development Committee, the Association of Fundraising Professionals board (2005-2007) and Quality Hill Playhouse board (2006-2008).

In  1993, Bob received the Excellence in Fund Raising Award from the Greater Kansas City Council on Philanthropy.