Specialty
Business & Nonprofit Development
Mission
St. Cloud Leadership serves as a nonprofit thought partner to executive directors and boards of directors experiencing staffing gaps due to management or organizational transitions.
Bio
Stephanie Casenza, MS, APR, CRFE, Stephanie offers a breadth and depth of experience in nonprofit management, development and public relations with nonprofits ranging in size from three to 11,000 employees in social and human services, higher education, healthcare and the arts in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego. This includes roles as executive director of two nonprofits. She has also served on 15 nonprofit boards of directors.
She possesses strong operational skills and excellent interpersonal skills balanced by a direct, decisive approach and collaborative nature to mobilize a team or structure a project. This allows her to quickly assess your nonprofit’s needs and provide the leadership necessary to keep your development program on course during a staffing crossroads.
Stephanie is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) and earned the universal accreditation for public relations (APR) from the Public Relations Society of America. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Golden Gate Chapter, and the Development Executives Roundtable, for which she was a board member and past president. She graduated with a Master’s in Executive Leadership from the Knauss School of Business at the University of San Diego and a BA in Journalism and Political Science from San Diego State University.
In addition to her professional experience and community service, Stephanie taught fundraising courses in the Nonprofit Management Certificate Program at CSU East Bay; the capstone course in the public relations major at San Diego State University; and various public relations and marketing communications courses at the University of California Extension, San Diego.
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