Instructor and Professional-in-Residence for the SAEM program
Office: 1106 West Penn Building
Phone: 412-392-4741
Email: tgregory@pointpark.edu
Teresa Gregory provides her arts expertise for the sport, arts and entertainment management program.
Biography
Over her 25-year career in the arts and higher education, Gregory has been a high-level, results-oriented fundraiser and administrator with extensive expertise in all aspects of development and nonprofit management. She has been part of the leadership team on campaigns ranging in size from $200,000 to $40 million for a wide variety of organizations. Gregory has been a team member of such arts organizations as the California Theatre Council, the Los Angeles Theater Center, Stamford Center for the Arts, StageWest (MA), Tennessee Repertory Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre/Yale School of Drama. In Pittsburgh, she has worked at the Green Building Alliance and at Robert Morris University.
Gregory has her own consulting firm, Pinnacle Fundraising Consultants, LLC., providing strategic guidance and creative services to nonprofit organizations including assistance with fundraising, (particularly government grant seeking), organizational development and technology solutions.
She has served as an adjunct professor for the Master of Arts Management program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Public Policy. Currently, she teaches at the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management, The Foundation Center, the Community College of Allegheny County and at AFP educational sessions.
Education
M.F.A., theatre arts (Theatre Producer’s Program), University of California at Los Angeles
B.F.A., theatre management with a business minor, Ithaca College, N.Y.
Courses taught
- Fundraising Fundamentals for Arts Managers
- Best Practices in Nonprofit Development
- Grassroots Fundraising
Proposals That Get the Grant - Fundraising Basics
- A Strategic Approach to the Principles of Writing Winning Proposals
- Fundraising 101
- Building a Major Gift Program
- Cultivation & Solicitation of Major Gifts
- Prospect Research on the Internet
Certifications
Certified Fundraising Consultant (CFRE) granted by the International Association of Fundraising Professionals
Professional Members and Community Involvement
- Member, Council for Advancement and Support of Education
- Strategic Leadership Program, Graduate, University of Washington
- NashvilleYoung Leaders Council, Alumna, Nashville, Tenn.
- Co-chair membership committee, Association of Fundraising Professionals (2008-2009)
- Board member, Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), SW Pa. Chapter (2006-2009)
- Chair, Mentoring Program, AFP, SW Pa. Chapter (2007-2009)
- Member, Pittsburgh Planned Giving Council (2006-2007)
- Chair of Public Policy Committee, AFP, SW Pa/ Chapter (2006-2007)
- Rebuilding Together South Sound, vice president of board and chair of the development committee (2003-2005)
- Board of directors and chair of the development committee for Theatre Puget Sound, Seattle, Wash. (2001- 2002)