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Taking Action
Jonathan Braniff
Vice President, University Advancement
The ability to listen, learn and transform ideas into action is what distinguishes Jonathan Braniff as he strives towards the goal of supporting the University of Windsor’s vision of enabling people to make a better world through education, scholarship, research and engagement.
“The only way to make that vision reality is to take the brightest and best ideas and make them come to life,” says Braniff, who was appointed Vice President, University Advancement in February, 2011.
Jonathan has a wide variety of experience including working throughout Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom and the United States on capital and endowment campaigns, feasibility and planning studies, strategic consulting, development audits, as well as board training and orientation.
He was Regional Vice President with CCS, an international fund-raising consultancy he joined in 1998 with regional offices in London, Dublin, Chicago, and San Francisco. The company is headquartered in New York City. At CCS he obtained experience working with universities, colleges, schools, hospitals, museums, religious and international organizations. He has raised more than $250-million from individuals, corporations, foundations, trusts and government for scholarship, endowment, infrastructure and program needs in fund-raising campaigns he has managed. Many of these projects represented start-up campaigns with no previous history of philanthropic support or development infrastructure.
As a consultant for the University of Windsor, Jonathan helped to secure $80 million for its new Centre for Engineering Innovation and a further $4.2 million for the Health Sciences Building.
Jonathan has extensive international experience in professional development and staff orientation in managing both fund-raising campaigns and non-profit organizations.
Jonathan holds a BSc. Hons in European Regional Development from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and wrote his honors thesis on congestion and spatial logistics within the city of Zaragoza, Spain. He resides in Windsor with his fiancé Tara Watts, a local musician and artist.
Located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, right across the river from the City of Detroit, the University is home to more than 16,000 students and 3,500 staff. The University’s strategic priorities include the following key objectives:
- Provide an exceptional undergraduate experience;
- Pursue strengths in research and graduate education;
- Recruit and retain the best faculty and staff;
- Engage and build Windsor and Essex County community through partnerships, and
- Promote international engagement.