February 2010 – Jessica Harrington, Vice President, Schultz & Williams Direct, is recognized by FundRaising Success magazine as one of this year’s “Fundraising Professionals of the Year.”

FundRaising Success , founded in 2003, is read by more than 35,000 fundraising professionals across the country and provides nonprofits with the most useful and pertinent information, strategies and expert advice to help them generate the necessary fundraising revenue to fulfill their missions. The magazine’s Fundraising Professionals of the Year Awards program is an effort to call out and honor some of those heroes who have dedicated their careers and, in some cases, their lives to raising money to help nonprofit organizations do their invaluable work.

As the recipient of one of six Fundraising Star Awards, Jessica is recognized for her talent, commitment, experience and passion for helping a wide-range of nonprofits and social advocacy groups raise money through direct response strategies. These organizations include American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA), Wildlife Conservation Society ( WCS), New York Restoration Project (NYRP) and Union Station Homeless Services, to name a few.

As stated by Prudence Bovee, a fundraising copywriter who works with Jessica on a number of projects, “Jessica brings out the absolute best in everyone around her. A star in her own right, Jess is also a playmaker bringing those around her to a higher quality of work. She shares her own success by mentoring newer fundraisers; she never compromises in honesty, even when it means telling clients a truth they’d rather not face; her courage is legendary, and that courage often provides her clients with windfalls of revenue or membership.”

Founded in 1987, Schultz & Williams is a national consulting firm headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Today S&W works with nonprofits throughout the United States and continues to exemplify its legacy as one of the first firms in the country to combine the principles of development, management and marketing into our consulting services—an approach that proves successful for nearly every client challenge.