About A.C. Fitzgerald
A.C. Fitzgerald & Associates is a national consulting firm providing business solutions for charities and other nonprofit organizations. Our principal goal is to help client organizations achieve their vision by developing strategies to increase income and effectiveness.
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Company Profile
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Ann Fitzgerald |
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President
 Ann Fitzgerald, President of A.C. Fitzgerald & Associates, has a master's degree in philanthropic studies from Indiana University. She has more than twenty years experience in sales, management, fundraising publishing and marketing. She has directly supervised large, multi-function teams as well as small groups specializing in these areas.
Fitzgerald was a key catalyst in launching the original Townhall.com site for The Heritage Foundation in the mid-‘90s and subsequently went on to lead the marketing efforts for the entire organization. Later, she also led the foundation’s publishing and production units. As Director of Development for The Heritage Foundation, she helped increase contributions income by twenty percent by establishing integrated programs for direct marketing, major gifts, and planned giving. Fitzgerald regularly writes and speaks on fundraising, systems management, proposal writing, donor relations, and prospect research. In 2008, she launched "Finding the Funding," a fundraising training series for nonprofit executives. In 2009, she published the manual, 100 Tips, Techniques and Templates for Persuasive Proposal Writing, and more recently released the follow-up manual, 125 Ways to Identify and Cultivate Supporters for Your Cause.
Ms. Fitzgerald is a graduate of The Catholic University of America and has lived and worked in Paris, France. She started her career at BNA Software, a division of the publishing company the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Later she joined the parent company and worked in both sales and marketing roles. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
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Victoria Hughes |
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Executive Vice President
 Victoria Hughes, Senior Vice President of A.C. Fitzgerald & Associates, was the founder and former president of the Bill of Rights Institute, which she formed in 1999 to educate the next generation about America’s Founding principles. Under Hughes' leadership, the Bill of Rights Institute grew from a business plan to a major national educational organization that has provided more than 40,000 teachers with instructional material on the Founding documents. Prior to establishing the Bill of Rights Institute, Hughes served in senior executive roles at the Charles Koch Foundation, Citizens for a Sound Economy, The Heritage Foundation, the Reagan-Bush ’84 Campaign and Presidential Inaugural Committee, the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, and the U.S. Information Agency. Hughes also lived for three years in Barbados, where – as the wife of the United States Ambassador – she actively participated in many charitable activities benefiting the islands of the Eastern Caribbean. Victoria began her career as a classroom teacher and has taught in suburban Cincinnati, Boston, and inner-city Washington, D.C. She earned her degree in education from the University of Dayton.
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Michelle Taylor |
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Vice President
 Michelle Taylor has more than seven years of experience in marketing, management and fundraising. She worked for Young America’s Foundation at the Reagan Ranch and served on the management team responsible for the construction of the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, CA. As part of the development team, Taylor focused on raising funds and awareness for the Foundation’s student programs as well as the preservation of the Reagan Ranch. In 2006, she moved to Washington, D.C. and worked at Citizens United as the Director of Development. She oversaw all fundraising and development staff at the organization. Taylor also worked on the marketing and distribution of three of Citizens United’s films and productions. Since joining A.C. Fitzgerald & Associates in 2007, Taylor has worked to develop successful fundraising strategies for client organizations and improve both their marketing and communications outreach.
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Maria Shumaker |
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 Senior Researcher and Editor
Maria Shumaker is senior editor and researcher at A.C. Fitzgerald & Associates. In her role, she identifies fundraising prospects and edits donor communications. She is also editor of the Non-Profit Partner. Shumaker has a master's degree in secondary education from the Catholic University of America and has taught literature and writing at both the elementary and high school levels. She has several years experience in the newspaper industry and has worked as a trainer for Thomson Financial and Chevy Chase Bank.
She was responsible for redesigning the Intranet site for The Technical Operations Group at Thomson Financial, helping to educate end users on what services were available to them and providing updates on emerging technologies. In 2005 and early 2006, Shumaker was instrumental in creating a new Intranet site for Adventist HealthCare’s Financial Services and contributed to the group’s newsletter.
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Brian McNicoll |
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Senior Writer
 Brian McNicoll has worked his entire adult life – and more – in the information business. He began at age 15 as a sportswriter for the morning daily of his hometown, Shreveport, La. Since then, he’s served as a reporter, political and sports columnist, editor, editorial page editor and managing editor for newspapers in Louisiana, Virginia and Maryland. McNicoll also has written for and edited magazines and newsletters, served as host of his own television program for three years and worked in the highly regarded public relations shop at The Heritage Foundation. He worked as press secretary for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and its prominent chairman/ranking member, U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va. He has produced op-eds, editorials, columns and a series of letters-to-the-editor on health care issues. McNicoll also has written extensively about education policy, energy and the environment, crime and justice and economic policy and has worked on political campaigns. McNicoll coaches, referees and serves on the youth basketball board of directors in McLean, Va.
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