Stephen McDaniel, CFRE
Interim Vice President for University Advancement, Governmental Affairs and External Relations
B.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Stephen L. McDaniel is a certified fundraising executive. He has held senior-level fundraising and marketing leadership positions at universities or colleges, including Lincoln University PA, UMES, UVI, Norfolk State University, Alcorn State University, Fayetteville State University, Alabama A & M University, North Carolina A & T University, Tuskegee University, Atlanta Technical College, and the University of Maryland at College Park.
He began his professional fundraising career as an integral Capital Campaign member of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). He joined UNCF in 1980, supporting the Capital Resources Development Campaign as the Assistant Director; he later served as a Regional Telethon Coordinator and concluded his service at UNCF in 2006, after six years leading the Atlanta, GA, area office.
In 1997, McDaniel was a philanthropy consultant in Niamey, Niger. In 2001, he served on the team that evaluated fundraising readiness at the Kigali Institute of Science, Technology, and Management in Kigali, Rwanda.
McDaniel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a certificate in managing institutional advancement from the University of Chicago. He is a Certified Fund-Raising Executive (CFRE), a former member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) National Commission on Philanthropy, a former member of the Board of Directors for CASE District III, and a former member of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Advisory Council for Communications and Public Affairs.
McDaniel is the Charles B. Wright Charitable Trust administrative trustee, the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation Board of Directors secretary, and an active Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. member serving as the chair of the development committee of the PBS Impact Foundation and Capital Development Committee. He has two adult sons and, his primary residence is in Atlanta, Georgia.