Doug WingoDOUG WINGO • principal

For 26 years Doug has worked as a fundraiser, manager and communications expert for a wide range of non-profit organizations, in addition to serving on numerous boards. He was the development director for several organizations and a major gifts fundraiser at the American Foundation for AIDS Research before founding Wingo, Inc., where he has worked with over 50 local, national and international organizations engaged in social and cultural change. Doug is a development generalist, with extensive experience in creating and implementing successful, systematic development and donor communication campaigns designed to increase and diversify income for organizations just getting off the ground to those that have been active for decades. He understands fundraising as advocacy and focuses on the role relationshipbuilding and communication plays in successful fundraising. He is a coach and mentor to board and staff members and regularly leads traingings and workshops on fundraising. The fundraising studio grows out of his experience as a painter and a writer, with degrees from both the College of William and Mary and the Harvard Divinity School.
Doug is priviliged to lead a team of smart, talented and caring staff who fully engage in each client’s mission, work hard to meet their needs and maintain warm and productive realtionships with client staff, board, volunteers and donors.