Jennifer McCrea

A fundraiser for more than 20 years, Jennifer has personally raised over $100 million and held key leadership positions at Case Western Reserve University and then at Washington University in St. Louis during their multi-billion dollar capital campaign. She was also Vice President for Development at Dickinson College.

As president and founder of Sarvada Consulting in New York City, Jennifer has partnered with some of the world’s most visionary leaders on their philanthropic efforts. Some of her current clients include the Quincy Jones Foundation, Millennium Promise, Columbia University, Harvard University and Preventive Medicine Research Institute founded by Dr. Dean Ornish. She’s also recently worked on projects for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Creative Commons, NPower New York, and the Alliance for a New Humanity co-founded by Deepak Chopra.

Jennifer is a visiting research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, where she is developing a fundraising institute, and a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.