Scott Bucko

Scott Bucko is a Senior Managing Consultant for AmPhil and has served in the nonprofit sector since 1996.

Prior to joining AmPhil, he provided institutional leadership as the director of mission advancement for the Newman Center at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. He consulted numerous organizations with mission advancement and fundraising in his role at the Catholic Foundation of Greater Philadelphia while also assisting with back office support and major gift strategy for the annual $10 million Catholic Charities Appeal and the annual $3 million St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Appeal. He was proud to be a capital campaign director for CCS Fundraising and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia during its historic $200 million capital and endowment campaign completed in 2010.

He has also worked in commercial real estate, owned a small bookstore in Charlottesville, Virginia, and loved his time working with young people as a teacher and school principal.

He leverages this varied experience to assist nonprofit leaders in cultivating health in their organizations and thinking boldly and wisely in their strategic planning and decision-making. He provides counsel in organizational audits, major gifts, capital campaigns, annual appeals, and marketing and communications, always seeking to help his clients to be worthy of philanthropic support.

Scott is always learning and growing, but along the way he has earned a M.Ed. in educational leadership from the University of Virginia, an M.A. in Christian studies from Regent College at the University of British Columbia, and a B.S. in agricultural and applied economics from Virginia Tech.

You can connect with Scott on LinkedIn here or send him an email if your nonprofit is ready to accelerate fundraising.