William F. Bartolini

William F. Bartolini, Ph.D., is an Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive (ACFRE), one of less than 100 in the country.  He is currently Associate Vice President for Development at The George Washington University (in Washington, DC), where is responsible for all fundraising that occurs at the school or unit level and also serves on the leadership team guiding the current comprehensive campaign. Bartolini was the chief development officer at Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D), a national nonprofit with 21 offices that engages 7,100 volunteers annually in the recording of over 6,000 textbooks. Prior to building RFB&D’s national fundraising presence, Bartolini served as vice president at Northeastern University in Boston, where he was responsible for sparking the final push to complete a $200 million campaign. He came to Northeastern from Kent State University, where he was the executive director of development. There, he was part of the leadership team that completed Kent State’s first-ever $100 million comprehensive campaign – a campaign that raised $121.9 million. The campaign received the 2004 AFP/Campbell and Company Award for Fundraising Excellence in recognition of this achievement. Bartolini joined Kent State after working for Bellflower Center for Prevention of Child Abuse in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was responsible for the development efforts. He has also worked with the University of Illinois and Ball State University on fundraising and marketing programs for public broadcasting.  His Ph.D is from Kent State University where he studied donors cognitive and emotive reactions to fundraising messages.

 

William F. Bartolini teaches Major Gifts.