Bruce Matthews
Bruce Matthews has twenty-seven years of advancement experience in
higher education, the arts and public broadcasting. Mr. Matthews
currently helps direct Campbell & Company's higher education
practice and has extensive experience with public institutions and their
affiliated foundations. As a practitioner, Mr. Matthews worked
effectively in large, complex institutions by facilitating a
collaborative approach to fundraising involving staff, academic leaders
and volunteers.
Mr. Matthews joined Campbell & Company in 1999 from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, where he managed a staff
of 50 and helped craft the strategy for a comprehensive campaign.
Previously, he spent eight years as the senior development officer in
the University of Wisconsin-Madison's College of Engineering. While
there, Mr. Matthews was involved with the University's first
comprehensive campaign, the $475 million "Campaign for Wisconsin," and
helped organize the College of Engineering's $100 million "Vision 2000"
campaign. Mr. Matthews also served as the director of marketing and
development for Wisconsin Public Radio and the general manager of
symphony orchestras in Rochester, Minnesota, and Madison, Wisconsin.
Mr. Matthews is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and
the University of Idaho, receiving degrees in music performance
specializing on the French horn. As a musician, Mr. Matthews played in
several symphony orchestras in his native Wisconsin. Later, as a member
of both the music faculty of the University of Idaho and the Spokane
Symphony Orchestra, he performed and lectured throughout the
intermountain West and Canada. Mr. Matthews currently teaches a class in
major gift fundraising at the Northwestern University School of
Continuing Education.
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