Martin Grenzebach


Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Analyzing Your Major Gifts Portfolio: A Guide to Resource Planning and Management
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Centennial Ballroom 2

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Effective Collaboration between Constituent Unit and University-Wide Development
2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Centennial Ballroom 1

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Martin Grenzebach, Chairman of Grenzebach Glier and Associates (GG+A), has served with the firm since 1974.  His consulting work encompasses such services to clients as campaign consultation, supervision of capital campaigns, strategic planning studies, and strategic and organizational counsel, as well as overall marketing and management of services offered by the firm.  Martin’s special expertise is in working with colleges and universities with a particular focus on tax-assisted educational institutions.

A frequent speaker at professional conferences and programs, Martin has made presentations at district and national programs for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), as well as at CASE Capital Fundraising and Capital Campaign conferences.  He has also been a speaker at conferences for the National Society of Fundraising Executives (NSFRE), the Big Ten Fundraisers Institute, the Big Ten Directors of Development Annual Conference, and the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. 

Martin’s service to the professional fundraising community includes membership on the CASE Campaign Reporting Advisory Group that recently produced the CASE Campaign Standards guide, a pioneering document to assist with management and reporting standards for educational fundraising campaigns.

Martin holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also did graduate work.  He served for 10 years on the Board of Trustees of the Morgan Park Academy in Chicago, where he once taught, and served for six years as chairman of their development committee.  He is a former member of the Chicago Crime Commission and a former trustee of the University of Charleston, West Virginia.

During his tenure with GG+A, Martin Grenzebach has provided counsel to the following client institutions:

Advocate Charitable   Foundation

University of Alabama

Allegheny College

The University of Arizona Foundation

Auburn University

Ball State University

Baylor College of Medicine

Bucknell University

University of California, Davis

University of California, Riverside

University of California, San Francisco

Case Western Reserve University

Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago

University of Central Florida

Children’s Hospital Foundation, Denver

Children’s Hospital Trust, Boston

Children’s Medical Center Dallas

Children’s Memorial Foundation, Chicago

City of Hope

Clarkson University

Clemson University

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland State University

Colorado School of Mines

DePaul University

Drake University

University of Florida

Florida Atlantic University

Folger Shakespeare Library

Georgetown University

Graduate Theological Union

University of Houston System

Indiana State University

Indiana University

Iowa State University

University of Iowa

University of Kansas

Kansas State University

Kentucky State University

University of Kentucky and the College of Engineering

University of Kentucky Hospital

Kettering University

Lincoln Park Zoo

Louisiana State University

Loyola Marymount University

Loyola University of Chicago

Loyola University Medical Center

Loyola University New Orleans

The Madeira School

Mankato State University

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Mayo Foundation

Miami University, Ohio

Michigan State University

Michigan Technological University

Milwaukee School of Engineering

Minnesota Medical Foundation

University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management

University of Minnesota Institute of Technology

University of Missouri-Columbia

University of Missouri-Kansas City

University of Nebraska

University of New Mexico

Norton Healthcare Foundation

University of North Florida

Northern Illinois University

Northern Michigan University

Northwestern University

Ohio University

The Ohio State University

Oregon State University

The Pennsylvania State University

University of Pittsburgh

Purdue University

Rockhurst College

St. Edward High School

St. John’s School

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Sweet Briar College

University of South Carolina

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

University of Tennessee

Temple University

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

United States Coast Guard Academy

United States Military Academy

Utah State University

University of Washington

Washington State University

Wayne State University

Whitman College

University of Wisconsin-Madison

YWCA of Waukesha

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