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Cynthia J. Halverson
President, ELCA
Foundation and
Executive Director, ELCA
Development Services
Cynthia J. Halverson
is the president of the ELCA Foundation and executive director of ELCA
Development Services. She assumed the concurrent roles September 2007.
Ms. Halverson has
spent most of her professional career fundraising for church-related
ministries.
In 1999, she joined
the ELCA Foundation as the first director of the ELCA Fund for Leaders
in Mission,
a churchwide endowed seminary scholarship program. In seven years, Ms.
Halverson raised $28 million in gifts and deferred gift commitments with
the scholarship endowment balance reaching $13.2 million. During her
tenure, over $2 million was distributed through scholarships to ELCA
seminary students.
In 1982, Ms. Halverson
began her career in fundraising as associate director of development and
was later appointed director of development with Lutheran Child and
Family Services of Illinois. She joined Lutheran Social Services of
Illinois in 1989 and served 9 years as director and vice president for
development. In 1997, Ms. Halverson accepted the position of vice
president with the Alford Group, a national nonprofit consulting
firm.
A former executive
secretary for the Association of Lutheran Development Executives, Ms.
Halverson currently serves on the development committee of The Lutheran
Deaconess Association.
Ms. Halverson earned a
B.A. degree in English and journalism from Valparaiso University and is
currently pursuing an M.B.A. degree at
Dominican
University,
River Forest, Ill. She is married to the Rev. Brian Halverson and has
two daughters, Madeleine and Eliza Grace.
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