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A veteran of 16 years in college athletics fundraising and operations, Tom Harvey joined the Bucknell community in 2004 as Manager of Athletics Fundraising. Harvey's primary responsibility is to work closely with Bucknell's director of annual giving, the director of athletics and the director of the Bison Club to identify and solicit new annual donors to the Bison Club, while at the same time soliciting current members of the organization to increase their annual contributions. Prior to Bucknell, Harvey worked as a financial consultant for Smith Barney in Boca Raton, Fla., from 2002-04, but from 1989-2002 he worked exclusively in college athletics. While completing his BA degree in psychology, Harvey worked as an operations assistant at the University of South Florida from 1989-91. In 1992 Harvey received a master's degree in sports administration from St. Thomas University in Miami, at the same time completing an internship in event management at the University of Miami. After working another year in event management with the Tampa Sports Authority, Harvey shifted career tracks to athletic development in 1993, when he was hired as donor relations coordinator at Miami. In 1995, he was promoted to director of regional athletic development, where he maintained and created regional clubs, identified and solicited major donors and directed staff and volunteers at all regional fundraising events. From 1998-2002, Harvey was director of external operations for football at Florida Atlantic University. Among his duties were coordinating all external football units, including ticket sales and operations, marketing and promotions, community relations, advertising, major gifts and the annual fund. Harvey was instrumental in raising over $9 million for the start-up of FAU's football program. Harvey lives in Lewisburg with his wife, Leisha, their son Adrien (16) and daughter Alison (6). | |||||||||||
