Penelope Cagney has consulted to nonprofits in North America, Europe and Africa. Among them:
Audubon Arizona, Phoenix¹
- Planning study direction resulting in a successful $6,700,000 effort for new Audubon Center
Bailiwick Theater Arts Center, Chicago
- Marketing consultation
Beatitudes Campus, Phoenix, AZ¹
- Planning study and counsel on a successful $5,000,000+ Caring for the Greatest Generation campaign
Cambridge Children's Hospital, UK
Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO²
Catholic Diocese of Belleville, IL²
- Associate campaign management of successful $12,000,000+ Future Full of Hope campaign for program and capital needs in 118 parishes
Charities Aid Foundation, UK
- Counsel on national workplace giving program
Clay & Baker Kids Net, Orange Park, FL
Creative Children’s (Quest) Academy, Chicago
Desert Southwest Conference of United Methodist Church, Phoenix²
- For umbrella organization of 133 congregations in Arizona and Southern Nevada, conducted the campaign, Bold in Christ, to fund new churches, revitalize existing congregations, and renovate three youth camps. The conference raised more than $10,300,000 on a goal of $10,000,000
Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, MI²
DuPage Arts Center, IL
- Planning consultation
East Valley YMCA, Mesa, AZ¹
- Planning study and campaign direction resulting in achievement of more than $2,500,000 on a goal of $1,700,000
GeVa Theater, Rochester, NY
Jubilee Centre, UK
Mercy Housing, Denver, CO²
- Organized and supervised planning studies and campaigns in five regions of the country, resulting in more than $19,000,000 raised
Mordine Dance Company, Chicago
Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, CA²
National Cultural Center of Egypt, Cairo
- At request of US Embassy, comprehensive management audit of national cultural center housing 11 resident arts companies
Phoenix Theatre, AZ¹
Saint Anthony Parish, Camdenton, MO²
- $1,000,000+ raised in eight weeks
Scripture Union, UK
Tuscarawas Central Catholic High School, OH²
- Achieved more than 50 percent over original endowment goal
¹ with Young and Company
² with CCS
…professional, forthright and persistent… an important factor in our success.
Sister Lillian Murphy, RSM
President & CEO
Mercy Housing, Inc.
Denver, Colorado
Arts & Culture
The Cagney Company specializes in the visual and performing arts: museums and galleries, arts centers, arts education organizations, theatres, ballet and dance companies. A practicing artist today, early on Penelope Cagney worked in some of Chicago’s most prominent art galleries. As an undergraduate fine arts student she studied textile arts in Japan and visual arts in Europe. Later she acquired a masters in arts administration, interning in development at English National Opera and writing a thesis on “Private Sector Funding in Key British Arts Organizations,” under the tutelage of MIT professor, Dr. J. Mark Davidson Schuster, an expert in arts funding and international tax incentives for giving. Living in London, Penelope conducted research into cause-related marketing for Sir Roy Shaw, former Secretary-General of the British Arts Council. Later Penelope taught graduate management courses at Columbia College and at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, and created an arts management program for American University in Cairo, Egypt. She served on governing boards in Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art New Group, the Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, and on a auxiliary board for the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She served as a panelist for grants administration for Chicago Artists International and contributed to “A Dictionary for Artists, Performers, Managers and Entrepreneurs,” (Simon & Schuster, 1998).