Charles D. Brown has been named director of advancement at The Pennington School.
The Pennington School named Charles D. Brown its new director of advancement.
His appointment, which was announced by Headmaster Designate William S. Hawkey, is a homecoming: Brown lived in Pennington for many years and previously worked at the school. He returned to Pennington as acting director of development in December.
Brown has had a long career in strategic consulting and fundraising for nonprofit organizations, focusing especially on independent schools and institutions of higher education. He began his career in institutional advancement at Princeton University and spent three years in development at TPS before going on to other institutions.
As director of advancement, Brown oversees the school’s fundraising and alumni relations endeavors, working with a five-member staff and alumni and parent volunteers. He reports to the school’s head and also works closely with the Board of Trustees and its Development Committee.
Part of Brown’s immediate focus is completion of the TPS’ 175th Anniversary Campaign, which encompasses the new Kenneth Kai Tai Yen Humanities Building; restoration of Old Main as the heart of the School campus; conversion of Stainton Hall into a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics building; and renovation of the historic former home of Pennington headmasters to create Wesley Alumni House.
Brown brings to Pennington extensive experience in fundraising and strategic consulting. After serving positions at Princeton University at TPS, Brown went on to serve for six years as director of development and campaign director at The Lawrenceville School before returning to higher education with positions at Johns Hopkins and Stanford universities.
From 2004 to 2010 he was principal of his own consulting firms, Charles D. Brown and Associates in Palo Alto, Calif., and Brown Schroeder and Associates, Inc., in Swarthmore, Pa., working with universities including Harvard, Hawai’i Pacific, and San Jose State, and schools including St. Albans, Sidwell Friends, Gilman, Pingry, and Phillips Exeter Academy. He comes to Pennington from The Haverford School, where he had been director of development since 2010.
A graduate of Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in politics, Brown has also been an active alumni volunteer for his Princeton Class of 1975, serving as class president for five years and as a member of the class’s annual giving and major reunion special gifts committees since his graduation.
More information is online at pennington.org.
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