NDI Faculty: 2007-2008
Leaders with an unparalleled commitment to practitioners
Rachelle Bussell - Hamilton-Bussell Associates
 Rachelle Chaney has over 15 years of experience in nonprofit development and consulting.Ms. Chaney’s career includes three years Executive Director in health care administration, four years as vice-president for development for a private school, and the last seven years as a founding principal in a full service consulting firm for non-profits. Chaney’s extensive development career includes start-up operations for development, current and capital campaigns, phonathons, endowments, estate planning, golf tournaments, special events, public relations, direct mail, marketing, and publications. She has conducted development and admission audits, feasibility studies, and board and staff workshops. She serves on the Board of the Association ofFundraising Professionals, and holds the Certified Fund Raising Executive designation from CFRE. Ms. Chaney holds a B.A., General and Experimental Psychology and a A.D.N. in Nursing from Midlands’ Technical College.
James P. LaRose - National Development Institute
 Jim, during his career as a development professional has assisted over 180 non-profit institutions in the U.S. and overseas. The organizations he's served include child and human welfare agencies, colleges and universities, private K-12 schools, civic organiza-tions, mental health institutions, animal protection agencies, and fine arts coalitions. He specializes in major gifts cultivation, special events, direct mail, foundation solicitation, annual fund campaigns, capital campaigns, feasibility studies and board/staff development. Jim has worn the hats of conference speaker, development officer, and agency director, and is past President of both the Association of Christian Development Professionals (ACDP) and the Western Maryland Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). He is the founder of the National Development Institute, a certificate program for development professionals committed to continuing education. He has held the Certified Fund Raising Executive certification from the AFP, and is a graduate of Indiana University's Executive Leadership Institute and Faculty Training Academy, Indianapolis, IN, the National Planned Giving Institute, Memphis, TN, Tennessee Temple University, Chattanooga, TN and Word Of Life Bible Institute, Schroon Lake, NY.
Wesley A. Rediger - Rediger-Taylor Group
 With more than twenty years of leadership involvement in fund development, Dr. Rediger has comprehensive experience in all aspects of organizational advancement including planning, administration, fundraising, public relations, operating fund and capital campaign leadership. Dr. Rediger is an experienced organizational auditor, Vice President for Development, teacher and consultant. He has served large and small organizations in developing and guiding operating fund plans, public relations strategies, and capital campaigns. In the slow economy of 2002, he guided two organizations with vastly different missions in a small rural community to collaborate and raise $2,361,000 against a goal of $2,000,000 in just 6 months.
He has also served organizations in major metropolitan areas including Philadelphia and Indianapolis, and international organizations based in Europe and the Caribbean. Dr. Rediger has served on the faculty at annual conventions of various international fund development associations.He holds a B.A. from Taylor University, and an M.A. and Ed. D. in Educational Leadership from Teachers College at Ball State University. He earned the Certified Fund Raising Executive, CFRE, certification from the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 1995. He is also certified to administer and interpret the Myers Briggs Type Indicator which he has used widely in management training and team building seminars.
Louise Slater - Catalyst Consulting
 Louise began her work in 1979 in the training and development industry through internships with Milliken and Company and J.P. Stevens & Co., both textile manufacturers in South Carolina. After receiving her master’s degree in industrial phychology, Louise joined Wilson Learning in 1981 as a performance consultant. While a performance consultant, Louise developed and taught courses for DuPont, AT&T, John Deere, General Mills, Amtrak, and Raytheon Aircraft. Louise worked in both union and non-union plants for Sonoco. Louise’s current activities include teaching a supervisory course at the University of South Carolina (USC) that she has been teaching for over 8 years. This workshop includes supervisors from companies throughout the Southeast, primarily manufacturing. She also teaches "in-house" workshops for USC for clients such as Alcatel, Toyota, Fuji, and Piggly Wiggly. Since 1997, Louise has been chairman of the board of a family owned steel fabricating company headquartered in Columbia, SC. Louise is past chair of the South Carolina State Museum Foundation, volunteers regularly at her church, and past secretary of EdVenture Children’s Museum Board. One of her passions is her volunteer work with incarcerated youth at the S.C. Dept. of Juvenile Justice. She is a member of three committees (VECTOR, Friends of Dept of Juvenile Justice and the Dept of Juvenile Justice Advocacy Committee) organized to rehabilitate juvenile offenders, alleviate and prevent juvenile delinquency through “after school centers”, and advocate for positive changes in the juvenile justice process.
Kathleen Wilson - Center for Neighborhood Development
 Kathleen Wilson (BA, Moody Bible Institute; MEd, Texas Woman’s University; PhD, Michigan State) is a research professor and director of the Center for Neighborhood Development. Her field is rural community development, with special emphasis on community capacity building to achieve positive development outcomes in children, youth, and families. Prof. Wilson is nationally and internationally known for her professional work and writings on systems-based approaches to community improvement, which is used by practitioners to transform and create social organizations, government, and community social structures and processes that build social capital needed to stimulate economic and social development. She has done extensive community development work related to human service and health systems reform, and food, agriculture, and natural resource management. Prof. Wilson previously served as associate director of the Institute for Families in Society at the University of South Carolina (1995-1999). Before coming to South Carolina, Prof. Wilson was a tenured professor in the College of Agriculture and Human Resources (Department of Human Resources) and in the College of Social Sciences (Department of Urban and Regional Planning) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1981-1994.She was a tenured research associate at the East-West Center before joining the UHM faculty (1978-1981). She has also been Vice President of Programs for an international club, camping, and leadership development program, Pioneer Ministries (1970-1975), Acting Director of Educational Design Associates (1975-1978) a private consulting and publishing firm, a science teacher in the Denton Texas school system (1967-1970) while completing her MEd, and Director of a nonprofit literacy program in inner city Chicago from 1964-1967, while completing her BA. From 1966-present, she has been actively involved with the Peace Corps in Africa and Asia conducting pre-departure training programs, consulting with various country staff, developing division projects, and re-designing and evaluating various programs. From 1975-1978, while completing her PhD, she co-directed a multi-million dollar United States Agency for International Development project at Michigan State University to build Indonesia's technical college system.
From 1981 to 1992, Prof. Wilson served as national team leader for the US Department of Agriculture’s national Systems Approaches to Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Project. This project sought to create new instructional resources for faculty and to train faculty in new systemic approaches to resource management. The project was sponsored jointly by the USDA, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Association of State Colleges of Agriculture and Renewable Resources, and an industry advisory group. In 1986, she received an Award of Distinction from the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges for her work on this national project. She was awarded the University of Hawaii Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching and Research in 1990, the highest award given at UHM. She also has received awards of distinction from the Peace Corps and USDA for her community development work. Having traveled and worked in 151 countries, she is a recognized leader in rural community development in developing countries.
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