Benjamin James Everidge

For-Profit & Not-For-Profit Executive

CONTACT & SUMMARY

Email:        beneveridge@me.com

Mobile:      407.473.7789

LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/benjamineveridge

My common career thread? Generating significant return on investment for projects while doing inspirational public good through best practices and innovative collaborative initiatives. An experienced non-profit and for-profit executive with a deep background in public-private-philanthropic partnerships, ultra-high-net-worth philanthropy, media, and federal-state government relations. I served on management teams at one of the largest admitting hospitals, academic medical centers, and professional staff in Congress.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cannon & Caius LLC – Greater Orlando, Florida                                                                                                    2006–Present

Managing Partner

Discretely advise high-impact stakeholders on all facets of initiatives structured through innovative public-private-philanthropic partnerships collaborating with their trusted advisors and family members. Privately held strategic consulting practice supported by industry-leading experts who raise and guide, on-staff or as consultants, seven-to-nine-figure gifts for medical centers, universities, sports, tourism, and other initiatives.

·         Structured a comprehensive regenerative medicine campaign with participating global sports teams.

·         Designed a collaborative sovereign fund healthcare program in medical simulation training.

·         Advocate for PRI funds through community foundations for campaign strategies in health innovation.

Bassett Healthcare Network – Cooperstown, New York                                                                                            2021-2023

Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer

Led the Network's foundation, marketing and communications, spiritual care, and volunteer programs. As a teaching hospital and medical school campus partnered with Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and through a nationally renowned Research Institute and venture partnership with Silicon Valley’s Andreessen Horowitz's a16z initiative, Bassett Healthcare Network continually advances its 100-year-plus mission of patient care, teaching, and research always anticipating and developing to meet the evolving needs of the people and communities in an upstate region the geographic size of the state of Connecticut.

·         Advanced over $100 million in new funding for urgent network priorities.

·         Launched the Uniquely Bassett advertising campaign that earned twenty million impressions in a year.

·         Helped strategically direct and secure a million-dollar New York state government grant for a critical project.

Give Kids The World Village – Greater Orlando, Florida                                                                                         2018-2019

Vice President, Development

Give Kids the World is a "storybook" resort where children with critical illnesses and their families are treated to weeklong, cost-free vacations. At $59 million a year in charitable revenue, the Village is generously supported by Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, SeaWorld, Perkins Restaurants, Boston Market, NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Legoland, Hasbro, Make-A-Wish, and other corporate partners. The 84-acre non-profit in Central Florida can raise donations in all fifty states plus the District of Columbia. Since 1986, more than 170,000 children and families, including those from seventy-six countries, have fulfilled their dreams with the help of 18,000 active volunteers in a whimsical Village unlike any other place on earth.

·         Led a comprehensive fundraising campaign including principal, major, planned, and special event gifts.

·         Served on the Village Leadership team, overseeing all aspects of Village operations and strategies.

·         Sustained and closed challenging budget, achieving a 113% increase in funding in the first nine months.

Boca Raton Regional Hospital/University of Miami Partnership – Palm Beach County, Florida                       2006

Executive Vice President, Foundation, Marketing & Community Relations

An advanced tertiary medical center that was consistently named one of America’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report. Recipient of Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence.

·         Raised a record single $75 million principal gift for a new hospital.

·         Managed $245 million in assets with ten reporting staff.

·         Rebranded the 50-year-old healthcare system as being among the safest hospitals.

Florida Hospital (now Adventist Health System) – Orlando, Florida                                                                  2002-2006

Director of Development

One of the largest admitting hospitals in the United States with over one million patient visits a year. Orlando is the flagship of a nationally leading health system with 19,000+ employees at the time.

·         Spearheaded the successful federal funding for a $450 million VA Hospital at Lake Nona Medical City.

·         Secured a $20 million lead gift in a thriving $100 million heart and children’s campaign.

·         Design and marketing team member for the 100th anniversary and $1 billion capital expansion.

The Everidge Group, Inc. – Orlando, Florida                                                                                                                  1990-2002

Principal Owner

A full-service advertising, public, and government relations company.

·         Government relations and head of state protocol consultant for nine venues of World Cup USA.

·         Achieved a 212% market share increase for product in New York and 100% in four other large states.

·         Negotiated impact sponsorship packages with iconic MLB, NFL, NASCAR, NBA, and NCAA teams.

The Astronauts Memorial & Florida Space Research Foundation – Kennedy Space Center, Florida      1988-1990

President & Chief Executive Officer

A national monument to America’s fallen astronauts and the home of NASA’s K-12 education program, which uses space as a motivator to teach math, science, history, and geography.

·         Raised over $90 million in $15 donations by helping start the first national model charity license plate.

·         Helped secure approval of the first commercial spaceport authority in the nation with a focus on health.

·         Established collaborations with Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, and Nickelodeon Studios.

Georgetown University – Washington, D.C.                                                                                                                   1987-1988

University Fellow

Founded in 1789, the same year the U.S. Constitution took effect, it is the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. It conducts major research in various fields, including medicine, science, politics, foreign policy, and business.

·         Awarded one of the few paid university fellowships for teaching, research, and graduate study.

·         Extensive academic research on American government and international relations.

·         Specialized in healthcare interaction with Congress and the Executive branch.

United States Senate & U.S. House of Representatives – Washington, D.C.                                                      1976-1987

Professional Legislative, Press & Campaign Staff

Professional staff positions managing legislative and media issues in healthcare, foreign affairs, defense, commerce, space, energy, tourism, and the environment. Placed stories in major media, including cover stories in Time and National Geographic, a feature on the CBS Evening News, and front-page articles in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Worked on staff for:

·         U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles, Senate Budget Committee Chair from Florida.

·         U.S. Representative (former Florida senior U.S. Senator, astronaut, and former NASA Administrator) Bill Nelson,

·         U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, John Dingell of Michigan Chair, Jim Florio of New Jersey Subcommittee Chair.

·         More than two dozen campaigns for President, U.S. Senate and House, Governor and State Cabinet, State Senate, Mayor, and County Commission (70% of races won).

EDUCATION

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Master of Arts, American Government, with a minor in International Relations.

American University, Washington, D.C.

Bachelor of Arts, International Studies.

COMMUNITY

Florida Chamber of Commerce Management Board; Leadership Florida Board of Regents; Leadership Orlando; Prevent Blindness Florida Board Chair; Greater Orlando Habitat for Humanity Board; Greater Orlando Chamber of Commerce Washington Fly-In Committee Chair; Holy Family Catholic Church “Souper Bowl” of Caring Food Drive Committee; Rollins College Board of Advisors, Rollins College Adjunct Professor in International Relations, Florida grades 6-12 certified social studies teacher.

AUTHOR

Generosity: Giving, Getting & Managing Philanthropy Preeminently, ISBN-13: 978-0-9989115-6-4     Coming 2024

Rescuing Nicholas: The Secret Mission to Save the Tsar, ISBN-13: 978-0-9989115-3-3                                                2018

Hoya: The Watchmen Waketh, ISBN-13:978-0-9989115-0-2                                                                                             2017

SKILLS & PLATFORMS

Leadership, management, fundraising, strategic thinking and planning, principal and major gifts, program-related investments, planned giving, special events and project management, annual funds, stewardship, volunteers, donor pipeline cultivation, mentoring, board relations, advertising, marketing, media, public relations, public speaking and presentations, government relations, research, policy, oversight and analytics, new business development, and innovation.  Salesforce for Nonprofits & Marketing Cloud, iWave, Classy, Crescendo, Optum Analytics, Microsoft Office 365 & Project, Adobe Creative Cloud, social media, and others.