A graduate of the University of Arizona, Ethan has called Tucson home for more than four decades. He is a Certified Fund Raising Executive and has more than two decades’ experience in southern Arizona. He has raised more than $50,000,000 in support of a Who’s Who of important nonprofits here.
Ethan began his fundraising career at the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation and has since held fundraising and other administrative positions at the Arizona Opera, the University of Arizona, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Planned Parenthood, and Tohono Chul Park.
As a volunteer, Ethan has served on nonprofit boards ranging from Tucson Pride to the Planned Giving Round Table, and from the LGBTQ+ Alliance Fund to the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Southern Arizona Chapter, which honored him with their prestigious Outstanding Fundraising Executive award in 2016!
Ethan’s fundraising philosophy is to create opportunities for everyone to support the thing(s) they care about most. As he often says, “Philanthropy is not about who can write the biggest check, it’s about helping everyone find a way to make a difference in their community, in any way possible.”