Stan Campbell

Background

About Stan Campbell

Stan Campbell has been a fundraising professional since 1978. He worked in the central development office at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, managing nearly every aspect of development, from direct mail and phonathons to corporate and foundation relations. He initiated UNC’s parents’ campaign and student giving program, which became the USA’s model senior class gift program and CASE National Award winner. He also selected and trained volunteers, organized and ran reunion campaigns, staffed the Annual Giving Council, and was instrumental in revamping the central annual giving program to include 16 schools/foundations on campus. Stan was senior executive vice president at Ruffalo Noel Levitz where he managed 41 consulting contracts personally. In addition, he was head of the MASTERS division consulting group that raised over USD annually for its clients and included seven vice presidents reporting to Stan. The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) named Stan AFP’s ‘Professional Fund Raiser of the Year’ for the Research Triangle area of North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill). Stan formed Campbell Consulting, LLC, in 2016. He consults with colleges and nonprofit organizations about their annual, capital, and prospect file strategies and tactics, and has held national fundraising seminars since 1985 on special constituency giving programs. He continues to live in Chapel Hill, NC, with his wife, son and daughter, where he has served as county-wide chair of the annual United Way campaign for six years, chair of the fundraising committee and board member of the Chatham Education Foundation for six years, chair of the capital campaign at his church, and committee chair for the church's annual stewardship campaign effort to fund its budget).