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Horizon Philanthropic Consulting
Michael J. Rawl is the
principal of Horizon Philanthropic Consulting, a firm
providing philanthropic services to foundation and
non-profit clients, primarily on the DelMarva Peninsula
and Northern Delaware.
Prior to forming Horizon in 2002 Rawl was a corporate
executive who then managed a series of family, corporate
and community foundations for 18 years. Those included
the Intelligent Electronics Foundation, the Sanford Foundation and the
Chester County
Community Foundation.
In 1999 Rawl accepted a three year assignment as
President of the Mid-Shore Community Foundation
for Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay region where he tripled
both MSCF’s endowed assets and its bequests. He
currently serves as the acting executive director of the
Greater Lewes Foundation, a client of Horizon.
During his philanthropic career Rawl has served on more
than 20 non-profit boards and directed many successful
capital, operations and endowment campaigns. He has also
helped form a number of charitable organizations and
foundations.
Earlier in his career Rawl worked in the communications
and corporate sectors, first as a reporter for the Washington Daily News then as an advertising agency
executive and later vice president of marketing
communications for several national companies.
Those included The Source, a subsidiary of the
Reader’s Digest Assn. that was a forerunner to the
Internet; and Intelligent Electronics, the country’s
largest distributor of personal computers.
Rawl has been a featured columnist on philanthropy for
WORTH Magazine’s online publication and a
contributor to HNW. He is the author of “Growth
Cycles of Community Foundations” and of a non-fiction
book, Anacostia Flats.
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