Chamberlain’s Children Center (CCC) announced the hiring of Denise Cauthen-Wright as its new fund development and donor engagement manager. She has more than 27 years’ local experience in the for-profit and non-profit world. She worked 17 years at the Free Lance newspaper in sales, several years as the executive director for the San Juan Bautista Chamber of Commerce and as event coordinator at the Hollister Downtown Association.
Cauthen-Wright has an associate of arts degree in airport management from Ohlone College of Fremont as well as four years at San Jose State University, with a focus on business. She is a 2010 graduate of Leadership San Benito County and was honored as the Chamber’s 2014 Woman of the Year. She has extensive skills in community outreach and education, fundraising, public speaking, writing, volunteer and event coordination.
"We are extremely excited to welcome Denise to Chamberlain’s," said CCC Executive Director Robert Freiri. "Denise's background in Community Engagement will definitely be an asset to Chamberlains.” Freiri added that he and Cauthen-Wright were classmates in Leadership San Benito County, where he saw her skills and leadership firsthand.
As fund development and donor engagement manager, Cauthen-Wright will join Chamberlain's leadership team with responsibility for generating support for the organization by fundraising from individuals, businesses, faith communities and service clubs and by marketing the organization to stakeholders and the public. Of her new position, Denise Cauthen-Wright said, "I am thrilled to join an organization with such a long-standing commitment to supporting foster youth."
Chamberlain’s Children Center is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization targeting improved social, mental health and educational services for foster youth who have been victims of child abuse and/or neglect. It is entering its 40th year of providing schooling and residential treatment in home-like environments. The well trained and caring staff provides these children with empathy, comfort and a safe haven. Clinical staff are available to assist the children in moving through the traumas they have so vividly lived to be emotionally stable and well-adjusted.