The American Diabetes Association has fundraising down to an art and a science

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

More succinctly, Brtva says, “You can’t hear the enthusiasm on paper, but every day I say that I have the most awesome job in the world.”

There seems to be no getting around the influence that Bennett has had on development at ADA. Thoughts from some of her staff:

“The growth of the development office can be attributed to the vision Vaneeda had for a system that allowed every area of development to benefit from moving a donor up the giving pyramid,” DelGiorno says. “As the development office has grown, so have our synergies with one another.”