Networking & Knowledge

Bridgette Brant has over 11 years of nonprofit experience and currently serves as Director of Stewardship at Cincinnati Children’s. In her role, Bridgette works with leadership and frontline fundraisers to ensure each donor receives impactful stewardship.  She oversees the stewardship efforts including strategy and planning of impact reporting, individual stewardship plans, and stewardship event approaches.  

Throughout Wendy’s career in non-profit and higher education leadership, she has turned around underperforming advancement divisions at several organizations. By generating impactful fundraising campaigns, prospect solicitation messages, and donor relationship strategies, she is consistently able to establish new fundraising records and many “firsts.” Through developing a campus-wide culture of philanthropy and creating meaningful and lasting affiliations with stakeholders, she has personally closed more than $115M in new gifts. Wendy’s educational background includes a PhD in Global Leadership at the Indiana Institute of Technology, her Master of Science from Alabama A&M University, and her Bachelor of Science in marketing is from the University of West Florida. 

Emily Fay is currently the Vice President of Agency Advancement for 4C for Children where her role is to facilitate the overall financial makeup of 4C’s programmatic needs, including private fundraising and government grants, to ensure that resources are available to meet the needs and opportunities facing our child care community and the families they serve. Prior to 4C, Emily served 8 years at United Way of Greater Cincinnati in several roles for the development team focused on corporate fundraising, affinity groups, and lastly as the Director of Individual Giving which included major gifts, segmented donor groups and planned giving.  

Bethany Doverspike is the Director of Development at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, overseeing all components of contributed revenue to both the annual and capital campaign. She earned her MBA at Northern Kentucky University, where she also earned an undergraduate degree in psychology.