Michael Brodie
Senior Associate, Major Donor Issues
Principal, Brodie Collins Cherel & Associates

Michael Brodie has over twenty-eight years of experience working with non-profit organizations in the United States and abroad, either in a staff capacity or as a consultant.

Senior staff assignments have included Syracuse University, Georgetown University, The Catholic University of America and American Rivers.  As Principal in the firm of Brodie & Associates, Inc. he has advised a wide variety of clients on organizational development, fundraising, and campaign planning, including the American Air Museum in Britain, the Nature Conservancy- Tennessee, the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation and the American Pharmacists Association.

Mike began his development career at Syracuse University, where he served as a member of the fundraising task force for the Carrier Dome.  He later assumed major gift responsibilities in New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Washington, DC, responsible for alumni programs and major gift cultivation and solicitation activities.  In 1981, he was named Regional Director of Development for Georgetown University and led a campaign that raised $30 million in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area as part of the Georgetown University Campaign, a $115 million effort.  In 1987, he joined the staff at The Catholic University of America, and as Executive Director of Development supervised a staff of twenty-four professionals responsible for raising $44 million for the Centennial Campaign.  During his tenure, the American Cardinals Dinner was instituted, winning a CASE Gold Award for excellence in fundraising.

Following his career at CUA, Mike consulted for a variety of non-profit organizations in the greater Washington area. He successfully planned and conducted campaigns and feasibility studies for the University of Maryland College Park,  Sweet Briar College and the Baltimore Association for Retarded Citizens.  From 1993-98, Mike served as Vice President for Development for American Rivers, the nation’s leading river conservation organization.

In 1999, Mike founded Brodie Collins Cherel & Associates, a national consulting firm specializing in fundraising and communications for non-profit organizations. He is a frequent speaker at AFP conferences and seminars and is on the faculty of the Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations.

Mike holds a Masters Degree in Education from the State University of New York at Albany and a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Lawrence University.  He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and a Director of the Fox Foundation for Prostate Cancer in Washington, DC.