Pursuant Welcomes Rachel Muir to Lead New Training Services Initiative

DALLAS, March 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Pursuant, a full-service fundraising agency dedicated to helping the world's leading nonprofit organizations, announced today that Rachel Muir, CFRE, recently joined the company as part of a new line of training services. Muir will incorporate Pursuant's fundraising philosophy and her 20-plus years of fundraising experience as an expert consultant, trainer and presenter as she develops various training opportunities and events designed to help fundraisers sharpen their skills and techniques.

"Pursuant lives and breathes their mission: redefining fundraising. I'm thrilled to join them and help the great individuals and organizations that make up the nonprofit sector take their success to new heights," said Muir.

Muir's impressive career span includes launching and running successful nonprofit organizations, leading an online fundraising consulting practice at Convio, and managing major gift portfolios for some of the country's largest and most successful nonprofit brands. Rachel's innovative approach and passion for the nonprofit sector began back when, at the age of 26 (and with just $500 and a credit card), she started Girlstart, a nonprofit organization empowering girls in math, science, engineering and technology.

Several years later, Muir had raised over $10 million and been featured on Oprah, CNN, and The Today Show. A winner of Oprah Winfrey's Use Your Life Award, Rachel is also a four-time finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award, was named "Outstanding Fundraising Executive of the Year" by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), and was one of Fast Company magazine's "Fast 50" Champions of Innovation.

"Rachel is a fantastic fundraiser. She has been both a fundraising practitioner and a consultant, which gives her a unique perspective to provide education and training services to our market. I'm excited that under Rachel's leadership, we will be able to provide valuable fundraising training to nonprofit organizations of all sizes," explained Trent Ricker, chief executive officer of Pursuant.

For more information about Pursuant's upcoming training courses, visit www.pursuant.com.

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