Anne is a senior fundraising strategist at Choose Life Marketing. She has over 30 years of experience as a non-profit executive, specializing in major gift development and has personally raised over $10 million. Her unparalleled skill and expertise are revealed in the very successful fundraising efforts that she has managed for Choose Life Marketing clients since joining their team. Over the last three years, she helped nine organizations go from raising $1.6 million to $8.7 million.
She’s a past senior market director for Vitae Foundation and raised $8 million from $1,000+ donors during her 14-year tenure. She was also a lobbyist/community organizer for the Missouri Catholic Conference. While there, she played a lead role in the passage of the partial-birth abortion legislation including the successful override of the governor’s veto, which was only the 7th in Missouri’s history and was upheld by the Supreme Court. She was also the first executive director for Missouri Right to Life which was the start of her major gift fundraising journey.
Anne graduated summa cum laude from William Woods University with a Bachelor’s in Business Management. She has finished six half’s and one full marathon. She has been married to her husband, Jim, for 39 years and has been honored by several organizations including Zonta International, International Biographical Centre, Marquis Who’s Who, and Outstanding Young Women of America.
