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STELLAR CEO Interviewed for Delta SKY Radio
STELLAR CEO Terry Cusack was recently interviewed by the Sky Radio Network
about STELLAR’s unique ROI approach to fundraising
 efforts. SKY Radio
provides business, technology, health and entertainment programming to
some of the largest air lines in the world, including United, American,
Delta, Northwest, US Airways and America West.
Click on the Delta Airlines logo (above) to hear the
interview.
North Carolina's Piedmont TRIAD Partnership chooses STELLAR/Capital
Strategists Group
The Piedmont Triad Partnership, which serves 12 counties in North Carolina
including the cities of High Point, Greensboro and Winston-Salem, has
chosen STELLAR to conduct an in-depth
funding feasibility study.
 Due
to its large geographic coverage and the recent completion of other
economic development fundraising campaigns within the region, the
STELLAR
team brought in Capital Strategists Group (CSG) to provide the needed
return-on-investment (ROI) and case development work. According to CSG’s Tom
Ralser, “This is the kind of complicated situation when we are typically
called in to help. It fits perfectly with what we do best: show a return
to those who will be asked to invest.”
Tom will spend the first month of the process developing the value of the
proposed program, or Organizational-Value-Proposition, a term invented by CSG to describe ROI for nonprofits organizations. This will then be
condensed into the prospectus used in the funding feasibility study.
STELLAR Team to Keynote Professional Development Course
STELLAR will be providing an advance seminar for the Mid-America
Development Council entitled “Fundraising, Economic Development
Strategies, Developing Return on Your Investment in Your Economic
Development Program” at the organization’s
2003 Mid-America
Competitiveness Conference, to be held December 7—9, 2003 at the Swissotel in Chicago.
STELLAR’s Terry Cusack, Jack Allston,
CEcD, FM, and Tom Ralser, of CSG, will share their
considerable expertise in these subjects during the session and be
available throughout the conference to discuss attendee’s questions or
concerns.
South Dakota Campaign Off to Rapid Start
 Focus Watertown, the economic engine for this community of 20,000 in South
Dakota is well on their way to raising $1.85 million for their second,
five-year program. Focus Watertown has been in existence since 1998 and
has been successful in creating over 1,400 jobs and $115.5 million in new
capital investment.
Jack Allston, CEcD, FM, is the
STELLAR Campaign Director in Watertown. Focus Watertown’s President Richard Benda credits
STELLAR’s
professionalism with the success of the campaign. “STELLAR Executives have
done a great job listening to, supporting, and understanding the
investors”.
Montana Group Launches Campaign to Fund Economic Development
After engaging STELLAR for a feasibility study, the lead economic
development organization in the Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana will
launch a $2 million campaign to increase investment in this business savvy
economy.
 Jobs Now, Inc. president Liz Harris said that "with the advent of a
national recession, our business leadership has chosen to buck the trend
and move ahead with
our plans to identify new target clusters, aggressively search out
strategies for existing business growth road-blocks and build new
collaborative economic development strategies with our economic partners
in the region".
MAEDC Selects STELLAR
 The
Mid America Economic Development Council (MAEDC) has selected
STELLAR
Fundraising to conduct a sponsorship assessment to determine how this
organization of economic development professionals might better serve its
current sponsors and provide incentives to attract others.
MAEDC's mission is to enhance economic developer's knowledge, capabilities
and opportunities through regional networking and cooperation, as well as
promotion and marketing of the ten-state members to site selectors and
industries.
Indiana Attracts a STELLAR Senior Consultant
STELLAR Vice
President and Senior Consultant Rod Crider, CCE, has been named executive
director of the Terre Haute Area Economic Development Corporation (THAEDC)
effective October 27. Crider will join assistant director Claudia Tanoos
in leading the organization. Norman L. Lowery, president of the Terre
Haute Area EDC, said, “We’ve assembled an extremely qualified,
professional team. I’m very optimistic about our economic future.”
The entire STELLAR team wishes Rod
and his family well in his new position.
Terry
J. Cusack
President & CEO
STELLAR Fundraising Executives, Inc.
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