Carol Wittmeyer, Ed.D.
Carol Wittmeyer, Ed.D.
Carol is principal of the Meliora Group LLC, a consulting firm devoted to serving leaders passionate for philanthropic success. She has been active in this area for decades and has regional and national clients including colleges and universities, foundations and non-profits.
Carol served as Interim VP and Executive Director of Campaigns for Newman University in Wichita, Kansas, where she led a $14.25 million campaign for a new library. She served as Associate VP for University Relations at Alfred University where she managed the New Millennium Campaign which raised $82 million, $7 million over goal, and included several endowed chairs, the largest foundation gift ever received to develop a program in biomedical engineering, and over $3 million for entrepreneurship and family business programming. She served as VP for College Relations at Medaille College where she restructured the office staffing and procedures to model best practices. Annual Giving, participation rates and trustee membership increased under her tenure.
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For two years she served as President of the Raymond Family Business Institute, a foundation dedicated to promoting and serving family business owners. Along with colleagues from the Kauffman Foundation, London Business School, Babson College, and Kennesaw University, she coordinated and coauthored international and national research projects including the family business research in the 2003 Global Entrepreneur Monitor and the 2003 American Family Business Survey – one of the most widely cited research findings on family business. This research includes the impact of family businesses on philanthropy.
As acting dean of Education at St. Bonaventure, she was responsible for external relations and academic programming.
As a board member of the Olean General Hospital, Montessori, YMCA and the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education, Carol has been active in her community. She is the Resource Chair for the Genesee Valley Association of AFP.
Carol was awarded the 40 Under 40 Business Leader Award for professional excellence and service from Buffalo Business First in 2001.
She earned her doctorate from the University of Rochester where she has endowed a scholarship in honor of a deceased classmate. Her dissertation was: Decision-Making Processes of Private College Trustees. She has served as a visiting research fellow at Babson College, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Rochester.
Carol earned her MBA specializing in Accounting and her BBA in Accounting from St. Bonaventure. She is a graduate of the Harvard University Management Program and Wharton’s Strategic Management Program.
She is an assistant professor of management at St. Bonaventure University where she teaches corporate and nonprofit strategy, organizational behavior and family enterprise.
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