A zoo campaign introduced former California Community Foundation president Jack Shakely to fundraising early on.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

Why fundraising: “As most people, I sort of fell into fundraising. With my journalism background, I would go to work for a nonprofit in communications, then be asked to write a fundraising letter, then a fundraising brochure, and next thing I knew I was director of development. It became an accidental career, but one I wouldn’t trade with anyone.”