An experienced fundraiser and non-profit executive, Craig Issod takes a “hands-on” approach to consulting.  In doing so, he provides both top-level strategic direction and implementation support for non-profit clients.  Insightful, dedicated, inspirational, strategic – clients regularly use these words to describe Craig’s service.

Craig has helped numerous organizations reach their next stage of growth. Among those that have benefited from his counsel include:

• The Arc San Francisco

• California Interscholastic Federation - San Francisco Section

• Bay Area LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation)

• Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee

• The John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes

• Clausen House

• Contra Costa Jewish Day School

• First Place for Youth

• Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation

• Lifelong Fitness Alliance

• Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Foundation

• Orion Academy

• Peace4Kids

• Remember Them: Champions for Humanity

• Springboard Schools

• URJ Camp Newman

Craig has served non-profit organizations in various staff roles.  He was most recently Vice President of External Affairs at Easter Seals Bay Area, where he led development, marketing and public relations functions across a seven-county region.  Craig also served as the first Marketing and PR Director for the Santa Barbara Zoo, building that department from the ground up.

Craig also brings experience from the for-profit arena.  An accomplished manager and strategist, he authored the global sales and marketing plan for a $1.1 billion Walt Disney World theme park venture, and has also managed the Sprite brand for Coca-Cola and the PowerBar brand for PowerBar Inc. 

His other claims to fame?  Serving on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee (BASOC), the Bay Area's bid organization for the 2012 Olympic Games.  Spending a day at Walt Disney World as the character Tigger, inventing two new flavors of PowerBar, trucking in 30 tons of ice to create snow in Santa Barbara, and completing nine marathons.  

Craig has served on the Board of Directors of several non-profit organizations and currently serves on the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee for the San Francisco Unified School District.

Craig has an MBA from Duke University and a BS in Finance and Political Science from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.