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R. Rebecca Donatelli
R. Rebecca Donatelli is the President of Campaign Solutions
and eDonation.com, as well as Chairman of Connell Donatelli, Inc.
Becki
Donatelli was the lead Internet consultant to the McCain for
President campaign, and as such directed the successful fundraising
campaign that brought the Internet into the forefront of political
consulting. The first political consulting firm to raise political
donations online, the firm now represents Bush Cheney ’04,
the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional
Committee and a host of Senate, House and gubernatorial campaigns.
Campaign Solutions has designed and managed the face of this
year’s Republican National Convention.
The firm was awarded
twelve Pollie Awards for work during the 2002 election cycle.
These included:
- First Place, Best Overall Internet Campaign: NY Governor
George Pataki
- First Place, Best Use of a Website for Fundraising: NRCC
- First Place, Senate Website: Arkansas Senator Tim Hutchinson
- First Place, Best Local/Municipal Campaign: Tempe Mayor
Neil Giuliano
- First Place Tie, Best Governor Website: Schundler for Governor,
primary
Mrs. Donatelli brings three decades of successful
small business ownership and experience serving
as a managing partner of WJD Associates.
She was a founding director of The George
Washington National Bank, later serving as
Chairman of the Board of Directors and also Chairman of the
bank holding company. She presently serves as a regional
director of BB& T
Bank. In 1996 she was honored by the Chamber of Commerce
as the Business Leader of the Year.
Mrs. Donatelli began her political career with the
national staff of the original Citizens for Reagan in 1976.
She has raised money and offered political strategy and advice
on races from the local city council to the presidency.
Mrs. Donatelli's not
for profit fundraising skills were honed during her three year
tenure as the Chairman of the Golden Circle Board for the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as a director of
Capital City Opera and President of the Mt. Vernon Children's
Theatre. Her fundraising background was essential to the planning
and execution of the software development process that brought
Edonation.com to the market. She was recently named one of the
top 12 most powerful women in direct response marketing by The Non Profit Times.
She is a recognized authority
on Internet fundraising, has lectured at Yale, Johns Hopkins,
American University and GWU among others. She is a contributing
author for George Washington University’s
Institute for Politics Democracy and the Internet book The Political
Consultant’s Online Fundraising Primer.
Mrs. Donatelli was
appointed to the board of advisors for the Metropolitan Washington
Airports Authority by then Governor George Allen and the President's
Advisory Committee on the Arts by President George Bush. She
presently serves as a Director of the American Association
of Political Consultants.
Becki Donatelli, a native
of California, is a 1975 graduate of the University of Southern
California with a BA in LAS/ Intern ational Relations. She
lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband Frank Donatelli.
Their daughter Elizabeth is a recent graduate of the University
of Southern California.
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