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John Hicks
John Hicks, CFRE, joined J.C. Geever, Inc. in 1988 and became president and chief executive officer upon the firm’s 25th anniversary in 2000. He provides consultation and strategic guidance for annual and capital fundraising programs for a variety of clients serving diverse constituencies and communities. He also counsels not-for-profits on building managerial, fundraising, and board capacity. He has worked with a diverse and broad group of clients, ranging from grassroots organizations to national not-for-profits. Hicks's current and former clients include Doctors Without Borders USA, the Children's Defense Fund, the Fresh Air Fund, the Ronald McDonald House of New York City, East Side House Settlement, the Brain Injury Association of America, and the Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center of Chicago. Hicks presents the Foundation Center’s Proposal Writing, Proposal Writing II and Cultivating Grantmaker Relationships seminars. He has provided grant writing and fundraising training for a variety of nonprofits, including the Library of Congress, Newspapers in Education, American Technion, American Friends of Bar-Ilan University, the Ford Fellows Program and Paralyzed Veterans of America. Hicks is a contributing author to the The Nonprofit Handbook: Fund Raising (Wiley, 2001) and has published articles with Fund Raising Management and Advancing Philanthropy. A member of the Association of Fund Raising Professionals, he is currently president of the Greater New York Chapter of AFP. Hicks has served in volunteer leadership positions for International AFP, including Chair of the International AFP’s Chapter Management Task Force and a member of AFP’s Governance Transition Task Force. In 2003 and 2004, he served as Chair of Fund Raising Day in New York, the nation’s largest one-day conference on philanthropy. Additionally, he has been a member of the Board of the AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy and a judge for CASE's Grenzebach Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Philanthropy. He holds a B.Mus. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a M.Mus. from the University of Hartford.
