Paul A. Dunne, CFREAfter a successful business career and inspired by the need to serve after the event of 9/11, Paul joined the nonprofit sector as a Senior Development Officer for the Denver Rescue Mission. He furthered his career serving as Executive Director of Development for the Inner City Health Center where he started the development department and quadrupled donations in a 3 year period before leading them in a $ 5.5M campaign for a new clinic. Mr. Dunne followed up this success by accepting a position with the North Hawaii Community Hospital and guided them through a tumultuous year and managed to cap off their $ 19M campaign by raising the final $ 6M. Paul then returned to the mainland to Ability Beyond Disability on the East Coast where he was one of the primary architects behind their present campaign and introduced the “Power of Ten” concept to the board resulting in over 250 new donor prospects. Throughout his varied fundraising career, Mr. Dunne has been involved with different boards and assisting them in their development needs. He currently serves on the AFP International Board along with other national committees. Paul has been awarded the Colorado Chapter AFP Outstanding Fundraiser and was nominated for the Colorado Outstanding Professional in Philanthropy. Driven by the need to give back to his alma mater, Mr. Dunne served as the Vice President for Development for Howard Payne University in Texas, where he and his staff have quadrupled their donor base and helped design, identify and raise the first $5.2 million dollars of their new $18M campaign. Before coming back to Texas, Paul was the Vice President with the Kempe Foundation in Colorado - a world leader in the fight against child abuse and neglect. For the past few years, Paul has been an extremely effective consultant first with his own firm, thinkpadsolutions and then merging with Catapult Fundraising where he currently serves as the Executive Vice President. Mr. Dunne is an ordained minister and has led worship for over 30 years. Paul has sang backup on both John Tesh videos along with performing with Peter Cetera, Shania Twain and others.