Presenters
Jerry F. Smith, CFRE
Author, lecturer, teacher and fund-raising consultant Jerry F. Smith founded the J.F. Smith Group in 1991.
Following a successful development career as Executive Director of Alumni and Development at Auburn University (including a $110 million dollar capital campaign, ending in 1985), Smith was asked to speak to the board of a large Christian school in Birmingham, to offer advice with regard to a possible capital campaign. At the end of the Board meeting, Smith was asked if he would take the job.
Since then, the J.F. Smith Group has conducted feasibility studies and capital campaigns for clients all across the country - from Edmond, Oklahoma to Washington, D.C. and from Chicago, Illinois to Orlando, Florida. Significantly, the company has conducted two and three campaigns for many of these same clients.
Smith is a popular and respected convention presenter. He has conducted seminars on an assortment of fund-raising topics both here in the United States, for CASE, ACSI, Blackbaud, AFP, NAADD and in Germany for the Catholic Fundraising Institute.
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Julia O'Neil Pipes, CFRE
Julia O'Neil Pipes is the Senior Vice President & CFO of the J.F. Smith Group. Ms. O'Neil brings a diverse range of marketing knowledge and business skills to the J.F. Smith Group. Her immediate duties comprise management of JFSG marketing, financial and administrative affairs; JFSG feasibility studies; JFSG Focus on Fund-raising development institutes; development conference speaking engagements; JFSG Solutions online prospect rating service; JFSG Solutions prospect/donor management software and JFSG Solutions publication sales.
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Amanda Griffin, CFRE
Amanda Griffin is currently Senior Vice President of the J.F. Smith Group. Prior to joining JFSG, Ms. Griffin worked for over 15 years as a freelance journalist, public relations consultant, and fund-raising volunteer at Westminster Christian Academy, a school of over 900 students in south Louisiana. From 1997 to 2003, she served as Director of Institutional Advancement at Westminster, where her experience included the oversight of a $1.7 million capital campaign, an annual fund drive of over $100,000, and the creation of a major gift program, “Pursuing the Vision….the Next 25 Years.” She has presented at ACSI, AFP, and FACCS.
