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DC Project
Services
Services for organizations include:
- Board, Leadership and Prospect Development
- Case and Messages
- Program Strategy and Support
- Fund raising operations and Campaign feasibility
Services for individuals include analysis and counsel in:
- Mission, goals and priorities
- Current and potential charitable investments
- Short and long-term philanthropic strategy
Clients & Organizations Served
For over 20 years, Deborah Chay has worked in a variety of capacities to support the programmatic and advancement efforts of colleges, universities, and other not-for-profit organizations, including the following:
- American University of Beirut
- California College of the Arts
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- Fort Dobbs Historic Site
- Japan Society (New York)
- Johns Hopkins University
- M. Young Communications
- North Carolina Central University
- Occidental College
- Triangle Modernist Houses
- University of Southern California
- Yale University
About DCProject
DCProject was established in 2011 to help organizations and individuals make a greater difference through their philanthropic and social investment activities.
We help clients
- evaluate options
- mobilize assets
- create strategies
- implement plans
to achieve mission-based objectives.
Our focus is resource development and application. Our approach is synthetic. We believe that great outcomes result from honest evaluation, thoughtful planning, and respectful, accountable relationships. DCProject works with clients to develop these and other resources into sustainable strategies for success.
We specialize in helping people and programs build alignment around core values and advance purposefully during periods of transition in leadership, priorities, resources and competitive environment.
Deborah Chay, Principal
About Deborah Chay
For nearly two decades, Deborah Chay has provided strategic fund raising and programmatic counsel and support to distinguished colleges, universities, and not-for-profit organizations. Chay has special expertise in organizational strategy and communications, building effective boards, establishing and reorganizing comprehensive fund raising programs, and mobilizing support for priority initiatives across traditional boundaries both within and between organizations and their partners. Her professional experience as an academic and in prestige brand marketing informs her approach to helping clients negotiate difference to create distinction in today’s competitive fund raising environment.
Deborah Chay received a PhD in Literature from Duke University, a Baccalaureus Artium et Scientiae degree in Linguistics from the South Carolina Honors College at the University of South Carolina, along with several national grants and awards for her teaching and research in the Humanities, including support from the Mellon Foundation and a Harvard University Fellowship with the WEB DuBois Center for Afro-American Research.
Ngozi Okaro, Of Counsel
About Ngozi Okaro
Over the course of a non-profit career serving higher education, social service, and faith-based organizations, Ngozi Okaro has developed expertise in fund development, organizational planning and operations, and all aspects of change management, with a special focus on early-stage enterprises. Prior to her current role as Executive Director of the Nigeria Higher Education Foundation, she was Director of Major Gifts at John Jay College, where she started the institution’s individual giving program. As Senior Director at CCS Fundraising, Ngozi’s clients included United Nations Association, INSEAD, and the National Urban League and its affiliates.
Ngozi Okaro graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center and from Morgan State University. She is licensed to practice law in Louisiana and New York. Among other distinctions, she is certified by New York University’s Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising. Ngozi is presently enrolled at The American College earning the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy certification.
CONTACT US AT:
Phone: 919.998.6828
Email: info@dcproject.co
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