If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.

– Alan Simpson, Former Senator Wyoming

Project Team

Distinguishing Characteristics—The Kellogg Organization, Inc.’s business model is about transformation, not transaction. For 43 years, our Denver-headquartered national firm has been defined as a high-quality, hands-on practice that serves only a select number of national and international clients. This client-oriented approach is designed to protect the Principals’ and project team’s direct and consistent involvement with each engagement. The Kellogg Organization’s process is energetic, responsive, creative, and flexible. The entire TKO Project Team—Peter M. Kellogg, Chairman and CEO, and Marne Davis Kellogg, President, along with our 12 nationally based Senior Executive Consultants and Strategic Alliances—are accessible, engaged, and accountable for support and guidance.

Corporate

Peter M. Kellogg, Chairman & CEO

Peter Kellogg’s extensive background and management experience in both the private and non-profit sectors bring a wide range of expertise and understanding to each client. He is recognized as a national and international leader in strategic planning and transformational major gift development.

Mr. Kellogg, who founded the firm in 1981, is personally dedicated to the philosophy of philanthropy. As Chairman and CEO, he and his staff have researched, strategized, and managed over 550 separate capital, endowment, program, and annual campaigns for a variety of non-profit organizations in 29 states and the District of Columbia, Africa, and the United Kingdom.

Peter’s leadership and guidance—in collaboration with the dedicated volunteers representing these institutions—has resulted in over $2.5 billion dollars of achieved goals with public and private sector charitable contributions.

Peter is Past Chair of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of the US Foundation for St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. He is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals nationally, as well as California and Colorado chapters, and the National Western Stockman’s Club.

Marne Davis Kellogg, President

Marne Davis Kellogg specializes in campaign communications and major donor prospect cultivation strategies. As well as creating and overseeing the development of the distinctive campaign branding support materials for which The Kellogg Organization is known, Mrs. Kellogg is instrumental in conceptualizing and developing individualized strategies for transformational donor acquisition.

In addition to serving as President of The Kellogg Organization, Inc., she is also the international best-selling author of 11 mystery novels; past Chair of the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo’s Citizen of the West Dinner Arrangements Committee and current Chair of the Reservations and Seating Committee and member of the Citizen of the West Advisory Committee.

Senior Executive Consultants

The Kellogg Organization is known for the excellence, high standards, and expertise of its project team members. TKO’s Senior Executive Consultants are fully engaged in the Study and Campaign Implementation processes. In coordination with the firm’s principals, they conduct interviews, participate in drafting studies and reports, participate in campaign PowerPoint Presentations and strategy sessions, and ultimately are responsible, in a team approach, for managing and implementing the campaign.

Susan Winsor Borst
Senior Executive Consultant—Rocky Mountain West

Susan Winsor Borst is a civic leader specializing in Board development, strategic planning, endowment and capital fundraising projects. Since 1996, she has served as a Trustee at the Dawson School, Lafayette, Colorado. As Chair of the Development Committee, she helped raise $30+ million through Endowment, Capital, and Annual Fund campaigns along with other fundraising initiatives. Susan is a Trustee of the Alexander Dawson Foundation and one of Northern Colorado’s most respected community leaders.

Susan has worked on numerous TKO projects including:

  • Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, AZ
  • Community Action of Laramie County, Cheyenne, WY
  • Cherokee Ranch, Sedalia, CO
  • Sansum Family Health, Ft. Lupton, CO
  • YMCA of Northern Colorado, Lafayette, CO

Ashley W. Bruemmer
Senior Executive Consultant—Santa Barbara and Montecito

Ashley Walmsley is one of the Central Coast’s most respected fundraising professionals with over a decade of experience in major gift fundraising, individual and corporate annual giving, and donor relations.

Since 2015, Ashley has worked on numerous projects for The Kellogg Organization, including:

  • Elings Park $10 Million EPIC! Capital Campaign, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Solvang Festival Theater, Solvang, CA, $4.7 million capital campaign
  • Providence School $24 million capital campaign, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Guadalupe Nipomo Dunes, Center Guadalupe, CA, $5 million Capital Campaign
  • Santa Barbara Symphony, Philanthropic Assessment
  • Santa Ynez Valley Community Aquatics Foundation, Santa Ynez, CA $8.5 million capital campaign
  • Santa Barbara Botanic Garden $30 Million Centennial Campaign
  • Mystic Ocean Adventures, Principal Gifts Initiative, Santa Barbara, CA

A Santa Barbara native, Ashley attended Cate School, received her B.A. from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA, and a master’s degree in the History of Art from New York University.

Timothy A. McDermott
Senior Executive Consultant—East Coast

Tim McDermott is an experienced fundraiser with nearly 40 years of professional development experience who also specializes in a variety of donor research platforms including AI. He has served public and private institutions of higher education, academic medical centers, and non-profits. He has ten years of consulting experience serving over 24 non-profit organizations. His fundraising expertise includes service to Virginia Wesleyan University, Virginia Commonwealth, Duke University, and Virginia Tech.

As Feed More’s Chief Development Officer, Tim directed their successful $19.5 million comprehensive campaign, and led the Development Office’s effort to raise $62 million in operating funds over six years, He received his Master of Public Administration degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Tim has worked on numerous Kellogg Organization projects for over 20 years including managing the $50 million USO campaign for the new Warrior Family Centers at Walter Reed Military Hospital in Bethesda, MD, and Ft. Belvoir, MD

Mary K. Schaefer
Senior Executive Consultant, Rocky Mountain West

Mary Schaefer joined The Kellogg Organization in 1998 and provides strategy, direction, and organizational and management development expertise to over 75 TKO clients. Mary specializes in campaign administration, community partnership development, volunteer management, and major gift development.

Sample projects include:

  • Hermitage Foundation Museum, Norfolk, VA
  • Madison Symphony Orchestra, Madison, WI
  • Sandler Performing Arts Center, Virginia Beach, VA
  • Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Arts of Collin County Foundation, Allen, TX
  • Arvada Center for the Humanities,  Arvada, CO
  • Charles M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT
  • Lone Tree Cultural Arts Foundation, CO;  The Montpellier Foundation; Montpellier, VA
  • Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, CA

Jessica Talmadge
Executive Consultant—Operations

Jessica Talmadge holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film & Media Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, complemented by a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Leadership, specializing in fundraising, from Virginia Tech. During her graduate studies her academic path led to a Development internship at the internationally acclaimed Donmar Warehouse in London, UK. Between 2019 and 2023, Jessica served as the Associate Director of Development for Solvang Theaterfest, playing a pivotal role in the theater’s successful $5.3 million capital campaign.

Strategic Partnerships

TKO’s Strategic Partners are national leaders and specialists in their fields and consult with TKO and its clients.

Scott R. Lumpkin, Principal
Scott R. Lumpkin & Associates, LLC.
National

Scott Lumpkin consults with nonprofit organizations and individuals on transformational philanthropic strategies, with a focus on planned, major and principal gifts. Prior to launching his consulting firm in 2015, Scott had a 32-year development career at the University of Denver working primarily with high-net-worth donors to maximize their philanthropic impact.

Craig M. Springer, Ph.D.
National

Craig Springer comes to The Kellogg Organization with more than 30 years of success in nonprofit performing arts management. Working in the diverse settings of higher education, civic government and private nonprofits, Dr. Springer has demonstrated skillful organizational change management, facilities, and product management,

strategic communication development, and creation of data-driven sales, branding, and overall marketing campaigns.

Craig was Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts—now The Granada Theatre—and is currently the President and CEO of the Barclay Theatre at the University of California Irvine.

Code of Ethics

The Kellogg Organization subscribes to the Code of Ethics as set forth by The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) which exists to foster the development and growth of fundraising professionals and the profession, to promote high ethical standards in the fundraising profession and to preserve and enhance philanthropy and volunteerism.

Members of AFP are motivated by an inner drive to improve the quality of life through the causes they serve. They serve the ideal of philanthropy; are committed to the preservation and enhancement of volunteerism; and hold stewardship of these concepts as the overriding principle of their professional life. They recognize their responsibility to ensure that needed resources are vigorously and ethically sought and that the intent of the donor is honestly fulfilled. To these ends, AFP members embrace certain values that they strive to uphold in performing their responsibilities for generating philanthropic support. AFP members commit to:

  • practice their profession with integrity, honesty, truthfulness and adherence to the absolute obligation to safeguard the public trust;
  • act according to the highest standards and visions of their organization, profession and conscience;
  • put philanthropic mission above personal gain;
  • inspire others through their own sense of dedication and high purpose;
  • improve their professional knowledge and skills, so that their performance will better serve others;
  • demonstrate concern for the interests and well-being of individuals affected by their actions;
  • value the privacy, freedom of choice and interests of all those affected by their actions;
  • foster cultural diversity and pluralistic values, and treat all people with dignity and respect;
  • affirm, through personal giving, a commitment to philanthropy and its role in society;
  • adhere to the spirit as well as the letter of all applicable laws and regulations;
  • advocate within their organizations, adherence to all applicable laws and regulations;
  • avoid even the appearance of any criminal offense or professional misconduct;
  • bring credit to the fundraising profession by their public demeanor;
  • encourage colleagues to embrace and practice these ethical principles and standards of professional practice; and
  • be aware of the codes of ethics promulgated by other professional organizations that serve philanthropy.

Our Basic Strategy and Core Values

  • We work with non-profit institutions nationally and internationally that represent a mix of disciplines and cultures.
  • We provide Assessments, Campaign Philanthropic Marketing Studies, Campaign Business Plans and Implementation Services that enable our clients to achieve their strategic fundraising goals through transformational philanthropy.
  • We are in service to others (the non-profits for whom we work)—through research, structuring, and implementation of comprehensive campaigns that assist them in fulfilling their mission and expanding their vision.
  • We want to make clients successful with our work. We work strategically, creatively, and accurately in our service to others.
  • We have a visceral, spiritual commitment to our business and our clients. These values and work ethic mean we put our clients’ interests first. We assist them in their growing success.
  • Positive attitudes about life in general and our philosophy of creative, responsible, and transparent service with integrity specifically are the genesis of our commitment.

Standards of Professional Practice

Furthermore, while striving to act according to the above values, AFP members agree to abide by the AFP Standards of Professional Practice, which are adopted and incorporated into the AFP Code of Ethical Principles. Violation of the Standard may subject the member to disciplinary sanctions, including expulsion, as provided in the AFP Ethics Enforcement Procedures.

PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS

  1. Members shall not engage in activities that harm the member’s organization, clients, or profession.
  2. Members shall not engage in activities that conflict with their fiduciary, ethical and legal obligations to their organizations and their clients.
  3. Members shall effectively disclose all potential and actual conflicts of interest; such disclosure does not preclude or imply ethical impropriety.
  4. Members shall not exploit any relationship with a donor, prospect, volunteer or employee for the benefit of the member or the member’s organization.
  5. Members shall comply with all applicable local, state, provincial, federal, civil and criminal laws.
  6. Members recognize their individual boundaries of competence and are forthcoming and truthful about their professional experience and qualifications.

SOLICITATION AND USE OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS

  1. Members shall take care to ensure that all solicitation materials are accurate and correctly reflect the organization’s mission and use of solicited funds.
  2. Members shall take care to ensure that donors receive informed, accurate and ethical advice about the value and tax implications of contributions.
  3. Members shall take care to ensure that contributions are used in accordance with donors’ intentions.
  4. Members shall take care to ensure proper stewardship of philanthropic contributions, including timely reports on the use and management of such funds.
  5. Members shall obtain explicit consent by the donor before altering the conditions of contributions.

PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION

  1. Members shall not disclose privileged or confidential information to unauthorized parties.
  2. Members shall adhere to the principle that all donor and prospect information created by, or on behalf of, an organization is the property of that organization and shall not be transferred or utilized except on behalf of that organization.
  3. Members shall give donors the opportunity to have their names removed from lists that are sold to, rented to, or exchanged with other organizations.
  4. Members shall, when stating fundraising results, use accurate and consistent accounting methods that conform to the appropriate guidelines adopted by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)* for the type of organization involved. (* In countries outside of the United States, comparable authority should be utilized.)

COMPENSATION

  1. Members shall not accept compensation that is based on a percentage of contributions; nor shall they accept finder’s fees.
  2. Members shall not pay finder’s fees, or commissions or percentage compensation based on contributions, and shall take care to discourage their organizations from making such payments.
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