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Message from the Director of Advancement |
As benefactors, you are doing something very worthwhile and impacting. Your philanthropic spirit provides significant financial assistance in offsetting the increasing costs of educating our future priests, deacons, and lay ministers. We need you and you are responding individually and as a faith filled community.
Thank you for your partnership in supporting the mission of the Athenaeum/seminary.
You are truly in the right place at the right time doing the right thing - displaying a genuine commitment for the future ministry of our Church.
It is my hope that with this website, we may extend our efforts in keeping you informed, involved and vested in the Athenaeum/seminary and provide better stewardship of your investments.
Our website provides a tremendous opportunity for the Athenaeum/seminary to showcase itself as one of the most respected Catholic seminary and theological centers in the United States. It's a place where Catholicism is nurtured, advanced and shared.
It is our design that this site will be full of information and purpose and will provide us with another tangible way to say "thank you". I look forward to sharing the good news throughout the year with meaningful updates on your prayers and gifts at work.
God's blessings!
Best regards,
James W. Jackson
Athenaeum/Mount St. Mary Seminary
Director of Advancement
jjackson@athenaeum.edu
513-233-6161
Brief bio for James W. Jackson
James W. Jackson is a development professional with a 20+year proven record of leadership experience and advancement/fundraising management achievement in the nonprofit sector.
The advancement efforts for the Athenaeum/Mount St. Mary Seminary are led by Mr. Jackson who serves as the Director of Advancement. Reporting to the President/Rector of the Athenaeum/Mount St. Mary Seminary, Mr. Jackson provides leadership for the advancement staff and is accountable for the planning and implementation of a comprehensive advancement program, including fundraising programs/campaigns, alumni affairs and public relations/communications and marketing.
Prior to the Athenaeum/seminary, Mr. Jackson was charged with the oversight and accountability for all development efforts (major gifts, planned gifts, foundations/ corporations, annual fund, internal advancement services, and directing campaign planning and implementation for Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, serving as the Director of Development/ Executive Director for Principal Gifts and Stewardship.
Mr. Jackson, a native Cincinnatian, is a graduate of Moeller High School and Xavier University (Edgecliff College). Mr. Jackson and his wife, Mary, have four children: Katie, Jay, Holly and Maggie.
