James serves as the Director of Annual Giving at The Heights, where he graduated in 2003. In his current role, James oversees the school’s annual and legacy fundraising efforts. James earned a B.A. from the University of Dallas and a S.T.L. from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. James previously worked in the Department of Admission at the University of Navarra in addition to a number of inner city educational initiatives in Mexico, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.. James is also the varsity squash coach and teaches finance in the upper school.

Fundraising Articles

Below is a sample of articles on various aspects of fundraising. Please contact me to talk more.

• 10 Things Learned in 10 Years of Fundraising
• I was Just Hired to do School Fundraising. Now What?
• The Gracious Art of Fundraising
• Almsgiving (Dr. Robert Jackson)
• What the Fundraiser said to the CEO
• Fundraising Reading List
• The Three Kinds of Donor Meetings
• Fundraising and Parent Partnership, Feature or Flaw?
• How to End an Auction, And Its Consequences
• The Long View (Dr. Robert Jackson)
• Flattened Fundraising: The Annual Fund to Planned Gifts and Everything in Between
• Breakdown of The Heights Development Office
• The Elements of an Annual Fund
• Is Anonymity a Good Thing in Fundraising?
• The “Civilization Machine”
• On “Friday Night Lights” and Relationships
• On the Fragility of Schools
• The Antidote to Acedia
• Intermittent Almsgiving
• Preparing for the Impromptu
• The Vocation of a Fundraiser 
• Prohibited Practices in Fundraising
• Fundraising and Admissions
• What’s in a Name? To Name, or Not to Name, in Fundraising? 
• What Leads Me to Drinking 
• Give, or the Dog Gets Shot! 
• What Metrics Matter Most in Fundraising?
• Life Changing Proposals, and Agreements
• Tone, Tone, Tone. On Communications and Publications
• What Is My Legacy? 
• Practicing Hermeneutical Generosity
• We Own Time Machines

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