Holli Emore, CFRE, is EDR Owner and Principal Consultant, and has for nearly fifteen years assisted a wide variety of clients, including non-profits, state agencies, and churches, with needs ranging from board facilitation and training, to capital campaigns, fund development plans and assessment, and marketing strategies.  She currently provides organizational assessments and consulting for grantees of the J. Marion Sims Foundation in Lancaster, S.C.

Ms. Emore provided fund development expertise in her role as a member of the consulting team at Health Dimensions Group, a Minneapolis-based firm specializing in senior health care and housing services, in the 2000’s.  Over the years, she has  frequently partnered with Tidwell & Associates of Irmo, S.C., on federal grants and projects such as the Governor’s Task Force for School Safety and coordination of First Steps implementation planning with counties, as well as fund development planning and management.

Since January 2008, Ms. Emore has served as the part-time Executive Director of Cherry Hill Seminary distance education program.

An active community volunteer, Ms. Emore’s board service has included Cherry Hill Seminary Board Chair, the Leave A Legacy Committee of the S.C. Planned Giving Council, the S.C. Funeral and Consumer Alliance, Wellspring Resource Center, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, which she served as President from 2002 - 2003, and former President of the Carolina Chamber Players.  Ms. Emore chaired the 2000 Physician of the Year awards and reception, and the Philanthropy Day 2000 awards breakfast and seminar.  She is the founder of Osireion, and founder of the Pagan Round Table.  Ms. Emore is a regular guest speaker on fundraising, nonprofit management and ethics issues.

As a senior consultant for Holliman Associates, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from 1995-1997 Ms. Emore conducted feasibility studies, facilitated organizational development, and managed capital campaigns, raising nearly $7 million in 1996-7. As Director of Membership for the Columbia Museum of Art (1993-1996), she created and managed a new membership program which resulted in a 45% increase in museum members, with an accompanying increase in dues income. She assisted that museum in its $9 million capital campaign, and coordinated annual giving drives which reached new record levels.

Ms. Emore is a Certified Fund Raising Executive, one of only about twenty South Carolina practitioners who have earned this distinction for excellence in fundraising management.

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