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July 1st Don Durham of Denton, NC joined The Columbia Partnership as a Ministry Associate concentrating onDeveloping Resources. Don is now available to assist congregations with capital campaigns, planned giving, and annual giving as part of the Developing Resources Team with TCP.
Don desires to help “congregations do healthy work to raise the resources they need to do the work they believe God has called them to do, and to be the generous believers God has called them to be.” He feels he can best do this through The Columbia Partnership as part of the Developing Resources team led by Ruben Swint, a Ministry Partner and board member with TCP.
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From June 2002 through June 2010 Don served as President of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Foundation headquartered in Atlanta, GA. The work of CBF Foundation focuses on helping individuals who want to use their resources to provide permanent financial support for Baptist causes related to Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF), and offering endowment investment and administrative services for CBF-related churches and ministry partners. CBF Foundation has more than $34 million under management.
Don’s other ministry and work experience include functioning as a development director for United Methodist Family Services in Richmond, VA, vice president for foundation development for the Albright Care Foundation of Lewisburg, PA, and an assistant to the president and director of gift planning for Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC.
Don completed undergraduate work at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina (BA, Religious Education, 1991) and seminary at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY (M.Div, 1994). He has done additional study in economics, charitable gift planning, and non-profit organizational management. His personal interests include motorcycles, voracious reading, surfing and scuba diving, and most any sort of live music within reasonable driving distance.
In describing his Developing Resources experience, Don says the following: “I’ve worked in fundraising for over 17 years in four very different settings: a Baptist University, a United Methodist continuing care retirement community, a United Methodist child and family services agency, and a denominational foundation. All of my work in not-for-profit settings has been in church-related organizations for which congregations are an integral part of their supporting constituency. During the last eight years I have focused on assisting congregations with endowment promotion and strategic visioning for fundraising.”
With the addition of Don Durham to the Developing Resources Team, TCP now has as members of this team two former presidents of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Foundation—Don and Ruben Swint.
Don is a native of High Point, North Carolina, has two daughters, and currently resides in Denton, NC where he will be starting a new congregation.
To contact Don, you may send him an e-mail at ddurham@thecolumbiapartnership.org or call him at 336.309.2489.
Special Note: Dialogue with Don Durham live on Wednesday, July 21st at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Call 605.715.4900, then access code 954492#.
