William and I started a SaaS company in 2016. I was sixty-four, with twenty-five years experience running capital campaigns and non-profits. William was twenty-three, had just returned from a one-year tour in Afghanistan, and had been coding and programming since the age of fifteen. I lived in New Mexico. He was posted in upstate New York.
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What brought us together was my desire to create a technology-driven Solution to solve the Pain Point of the majority of non-profits world wide. The Pain Point that has been consistent for decades in the philanthropy industry, creating fundraising anxiety and high stress in non-profits. This has resulted in above average turnover of executive directors, Boards frustration, and constant flux in the fundraising programs of  non-profits. Boards of most non-profits struggle on a yearly basis to keep their organizations financially sustainable.
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William was fascinated by my vision of finding a high-tech solution to the Paint Point and the challenge of creating a fundraising software, using the newest source of technology available with his own proprietary creations. MyCampaignDirector®’s unique mode of action is the first of its kind in the fundraising industry. In 2020, we created our current private foundation. As a non-profit, our goal is to make sure that non-profits worldwide can afford our web-base Annual Strategic Fundraising software and Non-Profit Digital Marketing plans.

I was introduced to the non-profit fundraising community by Peter Kellogg, CEO and Chairman of The Kellogg Organization, Inc. Peter became my most influential mentor in the industry by assigning me to manage my first ever capital and endowment campaign in upstate New York. Over the next 26 years I managed capital and annual campaigns in the 501(c)3 higher education and non-profit sectors and 501(c)6 Economic Development Corporations throughout the country. This accumulation of experience and knowledge led me to develop and co-create MyCampaignDirector®, the first web-based Annual Fundraising software for non-profit organizations worldwide.

Graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder (Go Buffs) with a degree in International Business and, prior to my fundraising and economic development endeavors, I worked for 16 years for E.R. Squibb and Eli Lilly International in Italy, Switzerland, North Africa, Near East, and Greece. Have been a board member of three public libraries, five chambers of commerce, three state economic development associations, and four Rotaries International.

‍Philippe M. Chino
Chairman, Board of Directors

I have worked with several non-profits to improve and modernize their fundraising software. While working with Philippe for numerous years, I started to understand fundraising on a technical and practical level. My profound understanding of fundraising has guided my vision for a modern, innovative, and intuitive future for fundraising and non-profit management software development.  Before becoming the lead architect of MyCampaignDirector®, I spent 11 years in software engineering.

I have architected software and clouds for three Fortune 100 organizations, and several contracting companies. Along with my extensive background in tech, I hold a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in computer science. My dissertation was on the impact of proprietary DevOPS platforms on small businesses. Outside of tech, I developed leadership skills while serving in the U.S. Army for 5 years, with one combat deployment to Afghanistan, and teach classes in computer science.

William Dunbar, PhD
Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors

I became involved with non-profits when I founded a general accounting firm in Washington, D.C. Our diverse set of clients throughout the US included numerous non-profits. I graduate from the University of Denver, with a B.A. degree.  I started  my career in sales and marketing with the 3M Corporation, first in Denver, and then San Francisco, where I assisted in opening the local office and headed the sales department.  

I moved back to N.J, where I was raised, to work with Kraft Foods in New Brunswick, NJ, in sales, representing the entire food line in a multi-county territory. I then became the Administrator for Gorove Slade, an $18 million engineering firm in Washington D.C. , in charge of human resources and the fiscal responsibility for the firm. I supervised the opening of new branches in various states,  which enabled the firm to grow from 16 to 60 employees. 

Sandra Simmons
Board Director, Treasurer-Secretary

I am a veteran Marketing and Advertising professional of 20 years and have built brands for global companies to helped them sell more and be more profitable. After joining the NFSFoundation, I assist non-profits to raise more money and become financially sustainable, year after year. I have always been interested in Indian non-profits by being greatly inspired by my mom and her work with NGOs and non-profits.  

As the Global Marketing Director, I direct a seasoned team of digital marketing experts and I oversee creating partnerships with non-profits in the English-speaking countries to assist them with our fundraising technology with our digital marketing targeted only to NGOs and non-profits. Today, digital marketing is at the cusp of change and only NPOs that operate at the intersection of data, analytics, and technology, will survive. That is why our foundation focuses on Strategy (Using proprietary frameworks), Messaging and Marketing automation helping us improve fundraising outcomes by at least 25%.

I am a graduate in Economics with an MBA in Marketing and Finance. I have been Senior Director with Dentsu, Japan's leading Martech company. I am also on the MIT Tech Review's panel for opinion giving. I have not stopped learning and recently completed a Leadership Program in AI from the University of Texas at Austin preparing myself for the 4th Industrial Revolution.
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Biswajyoti (Raja) Basu
Global Marketing Director

I am one of slightly more than 100 professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fund-Raising Executive designation. In my thirty-plus years as a philanthropic consultant, I have managed capital campaigns that have raised more than $50,000,000, helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals and authored more than 20 books, most on fundraising.

I am proud to say I have trained more than 50,000 development professionals in Canada, Mexico, Egypt, Bermuda, and most of the fifty states in the US, in addition to leading hundreds of virtual training programs with a worldwide audience. I am especially proud of my comprehensive Online Courses."

I am a graduate of Alvernia University, with majors in banking and finance and theology/philosophy, and a minor in communications. I am also a Master Teacher, graduating from AFP’s Faculty Training Academy and served on the Association of Fundraising Philanthropy (AFP) Foundation for Philanthropy Board and the Professional Advancement Division for AFP. Some of the awards I have received over the decades include the Outstanding Fundraiser of the Year award from the Eastern Pennsylvania, Las Vegas, and Sierra (Nevada) chapters of AFP, was honored with the Barbara Marion Award for Outstanding Service to AFP and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Las Vegas AFP chapter.

The major reason I am part of the foundation is because the leaders truly understand how to help non-profits attain their annual financial sustainability through the technology they created. I direct and implement a brand-new method of training for the strategic annual fundraising, where hands-on fundraising technology is used, and participants keep for free.
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Linda Lysakowski,ACFRE
Director of Worldwide Training