Senior Director, Development
Brookings Institution
A. Courtney Dunakin is Senior Director of Development for the Governance Studies (GS) research program at The Brookings Institution where she is responsible for raising funds from individuals and corporations. The GS research program explores the formal and informal political institutions of the United States and other democratic regimes to assess how they govern, how their practices compare, and how citizens and public servants can advance sound governance.
Prior to her work at Brookings, she served as Chief of Staff to the President and CEO of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP). VPP is a philanthropic investment organization that helps nonprofit leaders strengthen their organizations to improve the lives of more children and youth from low-income families in the National Capital Region. Before that she was Senior Director of the Annual Fund at Georgetown University where she served on the team that completed Georgetown’s successful $1 billion Third Century Campaign. During her tenure she managed a staff of 20 and the Annual Fund grew nearly 15 percent with a goal in her final year of $22 million. Previously, she was the Director of the Annual Fund at the Children’s Memorial Foundation, the fundraising entity of Children’s Memorial Medical Center in Chicago where she managed the Children’s Miracle Network’s annual telethon, increasing total telethon revenue from $1.75 million to more than $3 million and raised $5 million annually with her team of 10.
She began her career at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), where she researched sources of grant funding and then moved to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), where she planned and executed 25 development conferences.
Courtney has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio and a Master’s degree in public service management from DePaul University in Chicago.
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