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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

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.

Andrea manages internal operations for CCS’s Mid-Atlantic region and is based out of Washington, DC. She works closely with regional executives to streamline processes and maximize operational efficiency. In addition to her regional responsibilities, Andrea is also the firm-wide trainer for CCS’s survey data collection system. She also liaises with several internal corporate teams including Recruitment, Finance, and CCS Learning, among others.

Andrea is especially passionate about recruiting, training, and retaining talent, and is dedicated to ensuring CCS is a supportive and rewarding place for a diverse group of development professionals. She has channeled this passion into developing an onboarding process tailored to CCS’s Mid-Atlantic team that fits seamlessly into CCS’s firm-wide training program.

Andrea grew up on the outskirts of New York City, and has lived in Washington, DC for the last fifteen years. She is an avid New York Mets fan and is currently on a quest to visit every baseball stadium around the country.

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

A seasoned fundraising and consulting professional, Allyson’s areas of expertise include strategic planning, major and principal gifts, foundation and corporate relations, and development staff management, training, and evaluation.

Allyson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a Master of Liberal Arts with a concentration in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She has served on the boards of the Center for Responsible Funding and the Bread and Roses Community Fund. Allyson grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Baldwin School
Howard University
Hunter College
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New-York Historical Society
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Lawrence University

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.

Since joining the firm in 2012, Meghan has led development assessments, managed key campaigns, and executed campaign planning studies for institutions in the healthcare, higher education, civic, social service, and faith-based sectors. She loves partnering with her clients to find new and innovative ways to meet their extraordinary goals. Meghan grounds each of her engagements with quantitative and qualitative analysis to inform the best path forward and is committed to thinking deeply about each client’s needs and developing tailored solutions.

Meghan holds a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary and a Master of Arts from Cornell University. She grew up in Kansas City and now lives in Chicago with her family.

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Archdiocese of Chicago
Feeding America
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
University of Texas at Austin

Natalia works closely with NY-based executives to manage operations and identify and execute strategic initiatives related to talent management, business development, and the client service model.

Over her past ten years with CCS, Natalia worked on client engagements and served in a business development role prior to her current position. She is honored to serve now as a key member of the operations team supporting the growth and vision of CCS.

Natalia received her MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and holds a bachelor’s from Amherst College. She hails from Seattle and now lives in Westchester County, New York.

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