Chuck Crowe Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

United States

Denver, CO

Denver, Colorado, United States

Colorado UpLift is a nonprofit youth service organization that teaches character, leadership, and life skills to urban kids in Denver & Aurora Public Schools. Our unique model uses full-time, salaried staff who teach and mentor kids starting in elementary school, continuing on to middle school, high school, and beyond! Colorado UpLift offers five program.

Greater Denver Area

• Recruiting Effective Leaders. Growing Organizations. Building Fundraising Solutions.DRi works with and for the non-profit sector because it believes in the important work done everyday by the sector’s extraordinary.
• Executive Search
• Board/Executive Development
• Strategic Planning
• Feasibility Studies
• Fundraising Consulting including Audits, Planning & ExecutionStrategiesSpecialties include - Executive Search & Staffing, Organizational Development, Fundraising Consulting, Campaign Execution

Northern Colorado

• Managed Foundation and launched Student Success program for largest community college in the state with more than 30,000 students.
• Provided more student scholarships in 3 years than in the previous 15 years combined. Provided $1.6 million in scholarship support to help 1,500 students.
• Increased student course completion, from 52% to 92%. Launched and implemented proven and promising engagement practices to decrease both personal and academic barriers to student success. Identified as the one of the.
• Increased contributions by 300% in three years – with significant increases in both unrestricted and restricted giving. Doubled the endowment.
• Established collaborative partnerships across academic pipelines and other scholarship organizations to increase enrollment and completion rates among low-income and first-generation students.
• Collaborated with Board of Directors to complete Foundation’s first strategic plan.

• Increased giving from $4 million to $10.9 million in one year.
• Established individualized strategic cultivation plans for 200 top prospects.
• Establish campaign readiness plan and prepared Daniels College to launch its first $100 million campaign.
• Hosted the largest alumni event in Daniels history.
• Managed operations budget of $700,000.

Lead integrated development and marketing program for national ministry dedicated to curing the world of leprosy. Manage ten staff including major gifts, planned giving, communications & marketing, direct response, computer operations, internet and new initiatives to raise awareness and over $6 million annually.

• Directly supervised 8 Regional Financial Development Officers. Increased annual giving in eleven states by 22%, from $80 to $98 million.
• Served as Interim Director. Managed 48 development professionals and $4.8 million budget. Successfully led team through two senior leadership changes by increasing productivity and reducing the budget.
• Led board of directors, volunteers and staff to raise more than $300 million for local, national, and international disaster relief operations and capital campaigns.
• Led fund raising efforts of 2004 Hurricane Season, the second largest domestic disaster relief effort since 9/11. Planned and launched a $50 million nationwide campaign, raised $150 million.

• Strengthened the fund raising capacity of the American Red Cross in South Carolina by providing leadership and technical assistance to chapter paid and volunteer board leadership.
• Developed and implemented fund raising campaign strategies, systems, and activities for forty-six chapters. Created the One-week Major Gift Campaign, a board-led major donor fundraising campaign, designed to spur.
• Working with local boards and community volunteers, raised over $1.5 million in one week on two separate National Disaster Relief assignments.

• Created, planned, and directed all areas of fund raising including: finance committees, major donors, political action committees, special events and direct response programs for two successful campaigns.
• Directed a staff of 12 and 300 community volunteers in nine counties.
• Raised more than $2.5 million.

• Increased Annual Fund giving by 32% without a budget increase.
• Set fund raising record for three consecutive years, raised over $1 million annually.
• Awarded the SC Independent Colleges & Universities highest recognition for Alumni Fundraising by increasing participation by 27%.

Bba, International Business

Graduated Cum Laude. Returned and earned degree while working full-time and raising a family.

Certificate - High Performance Leadership, Organizational Leadership