

At VCU, he has also served in prior roles as director of annual giving for VCU Massey Cancer Center and director of development and alumni engagement for the L. He currently serves as senior director of University Development, leading a university gift officer team for engagement and gift interest as well as working with talent management in the areas of fundraising and leadership training for development. James Wasilewski has served in various fundraising, constituent engagement and student recruitment roles in higher education for 20 years. He holds a master’s of public administration in public policy and nonprofit management from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. During this time, Tom participated in three comprehensive campaigns of $1 billion or more. His management duties included building and leading teams of gift officers in major and mid-level giving as well as overseeing numerous donor affinity groups. He served in various roles including major gifts officer, associate director of major gifts and manager of major gifts. Prior to joining Children’s National, he served in the joint development office of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan. He also has extensive experience in enhancing and expanding grateful patient and family programs through partnership with physicians, researchers and other health care providers. Prior to his time at VCU, he served as AVP for annual, major and planned giving at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he had responsibility for all individual giving programs. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of philanthropy mostly at academic medical centers.

This also includes the Massey Cancer Center as well as the hospitals, clinics and programs of VCU Health. Tom Maness originally came to VCU in 2018 as associate dean and chief development officer for the School of Medicine. He was appointed to his current role in January 2019 and has responsibility for philanthropic support across the health sciences campus including the colleges and schools of Dentistry, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. He began his higher education career as an assistant dean of admissions at Wittenberg University in 1995.ĭavenport holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Xavier University and a master's degree in higher education administration from Ball State University. Previously, Davenport was director of development and team leader at Rice University and held fundraising positions as a college development director at the University of Memphis College of Business and Wright State University College of Engineering. Areas under his purview include advancement solutions, alumni relations, annual giving, corporate and foundation relations, development and alumni communications, donor relations, regional philanthropy and the universitywide development staff.ĭavenport has served in several roles at Wake Forest since 2010, including as assistant vice president of college development, assistant vice president of major gifts and associate vice president and campaign director. Before joining VCU, Davenport served as associate vice president of individual giving and campaign management at Wake Forest University.Īs VCU’s chief development officer, Davenport leads development and alumni engagement efforts for both the university and VCU Health. Jay Davenport began his position as vice president for Development and Alumni Relations in September 2017.
