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Jerry May, Vice President for Development
Jerry May is the vice president for development at the University of Michigan. As vice president, he is responsible for all fundraising activities at the University, including policy formulation, strategic planning, and program implementation. He also manages the University's fundraising programs and works with a staff of 410, including development officers in schools and colleges, regional major gift and planned giving officers, corporate and foundation officers, annual giving staff and development support professionals.
At Michigan he planned and implemented a $2.5 billion campaign, "The Michigan Difference," which kicked off its public phase in May 2004. This is the fourth comprehensive campaign in the University's history. The campaign has raised nearly $2 billion.
Before joining U-M, Jerry was the vice president for development at The Ohio State University and president of The Ohio State University Foundation from 1992 to 2003. As president, he guided and advised the 45-member Board of Directors of the foundation, the University's lead fundraising volunteer board and primary gift-receipt organization.
From 1993-95 Jerry planned the second university-wide campaign in Ohio State history, and implemented the campaign from 1995 to 2000 with a goal of $1 billion. The campaign, entitled "Affirm Thy Friendship," was completed June 30, 2000, with more than $1.23 billion in gifts from Ohio State friends and alumni.
Prior to his time at OSU, Jerry was director of the principal gifts program at the University of Michigan. He was also responsible for the nucleus fund of Michigan's first billion-dollar campaign, "The Campaign for Michigan," which began in 1990. The campaign raised $1.4 billion.
In previous positions, Jerry was director of the major gifts program at Michigan, as well as senior associate director of an earlier campaign, a successful five-year $160 million effort that concluded in 1987. He was also director of the Business School's $15 million component of that campaign.
Often a speaker at professional fundraising meetings, Jerry has brought his expertise to CASE conferences, AGB conferences, individual staff and deans development seminars at major universities, and the faculty of the Big Ten Fundraisers Institute on Mackinac Island. With a colleague, Roy Muir, Jerry has edited a book for CASE entitled, "Developing an Effective Major Gift Program: From Managing Staff to Soliciting Gifts." He wrote a chapter in "Developing Major Gifts," published by Jossey-Bass, and wrote a paper published by the Association of Governing Boards entitled " Recruiting and Retaining Senior Foundation Executives and Senior Fund Raisers."
Jerry has been an active volunteer in his career, having served as a local fundraising co-chair for Hope College, as a trustee of New England College in Henniker, N.H, as a trustee of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, as a trustee of the Columbus Symphony, and on the Board of Governors of the Bexley Education Foundation, where he is past chairman. He also serves as a director of Fifth Third Bank of Eastern Michigan.
Jerry holds a bachelor of arts degree in English from Hope College and a master's degree in higher education administration from the University of Vermont. He also did graduate work at the University of Michigan.
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