Doug Schneider has over a decade of experience in sales, marketing, communications, public relations, publishing, and fundraising, and currently consults with nonprofits in these areas. Doug recently served as the director of development for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a national educational organization that works to instill in successive generations of college students the economic, political, and moral principles that sustain a free and humane society. In this capacity he managed ISI's annual fund and oversaw the institute's marketing and communications efforts. During his time at ISI he also served as manager of sales, director of marketing and sales, and director of institutional advancement.

An entrepreneur, Doug owns or co-owns several businesses, including Vista Properties, LLC, a real estate investment and management company, and DKS Sports Development, LLC, which operates a successful Soccer Shots franchise in New Castle County, Delaware, and Chester County, Pennsylvania. A community leader, he serves on several boards, including A Rose And a Prayer and Landenberg Christian Academy.

Doug graduated magna cum laude with a degree in political science from Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. He resides in Newark, Delaware, with his wife Shannon and their three young children.

RECENT POSTS BY DOUG SCHNEIDER

• Lawyers and musicians

  Last night I attended a fundraiser for the Washington Conservatory of Music (WCM), sponsored and hosted by K&L Gates law firm.… MORE >>

• Auditing the auditors

  Obama announced departure of acting IRS head Steven Miller in wake of revelations, but he was leaving next month anyway.… MORE >>

• “Uneven” is one word for it

  NY Times’ take on IRS debacle: Focus on minutiae of conservative applications meant complaints filed about large “political” nonprofits went ignored.… MORE >>

• Givers, takers, and civil society?

  Adam Grant is the wunderkind of business professors, a Harvard and University of Michigan graduate who, at 31, is the youngest tenured faculty at Wharton Business School.… MORE >>

• House Committee to investigate nonprofit fundraising by Sebelius. Letters have gone to her and to 12 large corporations, including H&R Block (because Obamacare intersects IRS/taxes).… MORE >>

• Update: New Common Core essay in The Freeman Online

  In their op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on May 14 (subscription required), Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Sol Stern and Joel Klein, former chancellor of New York City schools, team up to state a “conservative” case for the Common Core State Standards.… MORE >>

• IRS Inspector General’s report in full is available at http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/700698/i-r-s-inspector-generals-report-on-targeting.pdf… MORE >>

• IRS scandals connect to the scandal of HHS Sec’y Sebelius fundraising for pet nonprofits.… MORE >>

• “What taxpayers deserve to know”

  With U.S. nonprofit sector “the size of India,” and a “murky” IRS historical record, Americans deserve to know more as current scandal unfolds.… MORE >>

• Online class in how to “philanthropize”

  “Giving with Purpose” is online class designed to “teach the art of philanthropy” through application; Doris Buffett is supplying $10K for students to grant.… MORE >>