Penelope Cagney

Penelope Cagney, MA, MFA, CFRE, President of The Cagney Company, is the editor of "Global Best Practices for CSO, NGO and Other Nonprofit Boards (BoardSource/Wiley and Shanghai University of Finance and Economic Press; co-editor of the AFP/ Skystone Partners Award in Research: "Global Fundraising: How the World is Changing the Rules of Philanthropy." "Global Fundraising" (Wiley and Shanghai University of Finance and Economic. Press). She is also author of "Nonprofit Consulting Essentials: What Every Nonprofit and Consultant Needs to Know" (Wiley).

She has consulted on fundraising and nonprofit management (governance, planning) in North America, Europe and North Africa. Penelope and has taught at American University in Cairo, Egypt; Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and in the Nonprofit Management Institute at Arizona State University. She has addressed audiences in China, Korea, Japan, Italy, and Mexico, delivering keynote and plenaries on a variety of topics.

She has consulted on fundraising and nonprofit management (governance, planning) in North America, Europe and North Africa. Penelope and has taught at American University in Cairo, Egypt; Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and in the Nonprofit Management Institute at Arizona State University. She has addressed audiences in China, Korea, Japan, Italy, and Mexico, delivering keynote and plenaries on a variety of topics. Penelope served on the board of AFP Global's US Foundation for Philanthropy and the AFP Global Association. She has served on the Wish Fund Committee for Make-A-Wish International. Previously she has also served on the boards of the Arizona Costume Institute at Phoenix Art Museum; Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago; Chicago Academy for the Arts; and the New Group at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; as well as the Selection Committee for the Asia Philanthropy Awards.