Samuel
N. Gough, Jr., is a founding principal of The AFRAM Group,
 a full-service,
fund-raising, consulting firm headquartered in Washington,
D. C. Having spent over twenty-two years in institutional
advancement directing staff and managing resources at his
alma mater, Howard University, he has been a full-time consultant
for a range of nonprofit organizations over a decade.
He has
guided the direction of volunteer boards, both as a member
of several boards and as a professional employed for that
purpose. He has managed and conducted annual alumni and non
alumni campaigns, planned giving programs, prospect research
and records management, major gift programs, governing board
and other volunteer training programs, mail and telemarketing
programs, and special Ford Foundation-supported programs.
He has directed programs, staff, and budgets in university
advancement and at other nonprofit organizations. He headed
the Department of Development at Howard University to the
successful conclusion its One Hundred Million-Dollar Campaign.
He pursued
graduate studies at the Harvard University Institute for Educational
Management and George Washington University in addition to
the dozens of other professional educational programs in which
he has participated as mentor, teacher, and student.
He is
a founding member and an officer in both the Association of
Fund Raising Officers (AFRO, Inc.), which has awarded him
formal recognition for his contributions to institutional
advancement, and the National Center for Black Philanthropy.
Also, he has been president and/or chair of the governing
boards of other nonprofit organizations. He was a charter
member and officer of the Deferred Giving Study Group of Greater
Washington, D. C. The D. C. Chapter of the Association of
Fundraising Professionals (AFP) honored him as the Outstanding
Fund Raising Professional in 1992. He currently serves on
the Publishing Advisory Committee and the Ethics Committee
of AFP.
Mr. Gough
has written articles on various development-related subjects.
Most recently, he was a contributing author to Cultivating
Diversity in Fundraising, by Janice Gow Pettey and published
in 2002, by John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, which won
the 2003 Council for Advancement and Support of Education
{CASE} award for best research, the H. S. Warwick Research
Awards in Alumni Relations for Educational Advancement . Also
he was a contributing author to Diversity in the Fundraising
Profession, editor, Janice Gow Pettey, The Center on Philanthropy
at Indiana University and Association of Fundraising Professionals,
published by Jossey-Bass, 2002. He is listed in the 2001 Edition
of Who's Who in America.
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