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Jack Foerst is Special Advisor to the Chairman of Changing Our World. Jack is perhaps the most prominent nonprofit fundraiser in American history and has spent more than 50 years guiding nonprofit organizations around the world in fundraising and development. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Community Counselling Services, Co., Inc., one of the largest fundraising companies in the world, for 28 out of his 44 years with the company. Jack began his career as a social worker in New York in 1950 and later that year became New York State regional director for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. He joined CCS in 1952 and built it into a company that has raised more than $10 billion for nonprofits around the world. Now, he brings that expertise, experience and commitment to Changing Our World. Jack is an acknowledged worldwide leader in corporate and foundation philanthropy, and an expert in long-range planning, prospect cultivation, and the organization of trustee boards. He has led scores of successful campaigns for colleges, universities, religious institutions, and hospitals. He pioneered the first Catholic diocesan campaign, spearheading the Cardinal’s Jubilee for the Archdiocese of Toronto in 1953, which resulted in CCS conducting campaigns in more than 125 Roman Catholic dioceses around the country. During the early Sixties, Jack also was personally responsible for designing and managing the fundraising campaign that led to the creation of Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan. While at CCS, he designed and supervised campaigns for the Bangalore Medical Center in Bombay, India; the Archdiocese of Panama; King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Bermuda; the Globe Theatre in London, and the Rotary and Lions Clubs of Japan and Hong Kong; Maynooth College in Ireland; the Blood Bank of the American Red Cross in Puerto Rico; and the $100 million Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Milstein Pavilion campaign. He is a past chairman of the American Association of Fund Raising Counsel. Over the years, he has been a board member and director of many charitable, religious and health organizations including St. Francis Hospital The Heart Center - in Roslyn, NY; founding trustee of the Catholic Health System of Long Island; the Center for Applied Research in the Apostulate (CARA) of Washington DC; the Mid-Atlantic Hospital Trust in Bermuda; the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington DC; the Council of the American Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; The National Center for Disability Services in Albertson, NY; Telicare of the Diocese of Rockville Centre; the 59 Wall Street Fund, New York; the Nassau Center for the Developmentally Disabled, Long Island; the School Art League of New York City; and the National Board of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. | 