Leading U.S. Fundraising Executive Seabolt Joins STELLAR Team
STELLAR Fundraising, the leading economic and community development fundraising firm, announced today that Mike Seabolt has been named Executive Vice President. In this capacity, he will be primarily responsible for client relations and strategic planning to aid with STELLAR’s continued growth.
“Mike brings an extraordinary combination of corporate savvy and hands-on nonprofit consulting experience to STELLAR, with a deep understanding and broad experience across all types of development fundraising,” said STELLAR Founder and CEO Terry J. Cusack. “Mike also brings a proven track record in helping local leaders take their communities to higher levels of prosperity and vitality. We’re thrilled to welcome him to the STELLAR team. Our success is dependent on the quality of our team members and the addition of a person of Mike’s caliber and character will allow STELLAR to continue its excellent service to our clients and the firm’s growth.”
Seabolt’s has a reputation for getting the campaign’s he leads done on time, under budget, and above goal using his vast fundraising experience. This can only advance STELLAR’s already strong reputation even further for highly successful campaigns and further its dramatic growth. “Mike has tremendous leadership skills and an innate ability to engage organizations, its leadership and their communities in developing a vision for much greater levels of economic performance and community prosperity and instilling in them total confidence in the unique STELLAR process for getting them there,” said Cusack.
Seabolt’s distinguished career includes work with chambers of commerce, economic and community development organizations, Boy Scout councils, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) chapters, museums, arts and culture organizations and educational institutions of varying sizes across the nation.
Most recently, Seabolt served as Senior Vice-President, Business Development for National Community Development Services (NCDS), a competitor of STELLAR. He is credited with leading more than 75 campaigns in his fifteen year career there and is described by his former firm as “focused”, “organized”, “on point” and “successful”. “Mike Seabolt has individually led more campaigns than likely anyone in the fundraising business; that’s a lot of talent and experience to put behind our client campaigns,” Cusack noted.
Seabolt expressed his excitement about his new leadership role and ability to use his experience and enthusiasm to advance STELLAR’s already strong record of campaign success. “I’ve always respected STELLAR Founder and CEO Terry J. Cusack, he said, for his candor, honesty and team work. His innovation in developing new models for the challenges of the marketplace and forward thinking is the way of the future. I look forward to helping Terry and STELLAR take an already outstanding organization to new and even greater heights. To me, STELLAR offers a refreshingly energized and cooperative team spirit and it’s a pleasure to join such a professional and diverse staff. I’m ready to hit the road and tell all my friends about the unique and very successful STELLAR team and methodology used by STELLAR to raise big money for all kinds of organizations across the country. I’m proud to represent STELLAR as its newest team member,” Seabolt concluded.
Prior to joining NCDS, Seabolt spent twenty years with a Fortune 50 company where he obtained valuable experience on the “other side of the desk" and a great understanding of the factors that motivate corporate executives to participate in fund campaigns. While there, he formed the company’s charitable foundation and oversaw its operation for eight years. Having also run his own service company for five years, Seabolt brings both small business and corporate experience to STELLAR’s clients.
Mike earned his MBA from the University of Georgia and an Industrial Management degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He and his wife Kathy reside just northeast of STELLAR headquarters in Jacksonville in St. Simons Island, GA and are the parents of three sons. He is an active leader in church affairs and enjoys golf, especially when it includes his three sons.
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