Rochelle McReynolds is Director of Philanthropy for the Applied Neuroscience Institute and founder/president of InsideTheNow. She has over twenty-five years experience in building relationships with philanthropists and assisting them in fulfilling their philanthropic intent. She has worked both ends of the equation as an executive with not-for-profits as well as an expert representing individuals and their family foundations in their charitable giving.

 

Her wealth of expertise matches the prospective donor to a charity to ensure the maximum impact for the intended gift. Over the years countless donors have relied on Rochelle’s ability to find worthy organizations for their donations.

 

Rochelle recently completed her professional coaching license from the Applied Neuroscience Institute as a NeuroPositive Life Coach. She is combining her neuropositive coach training with her demonstrated leadership in fund raising in her capacity as ANI Director of Philanthropy.

 

Rochelle holds a BA in Fine Arts and graduate coursework in Mass Communications. She has served as a volunteer Board Member of the following organizations: Girl Scouts of Orange County, Danceworks Boston, MA, the Orange County Film Commission, BRAVA Theater, the Laguna Moulton Playhouse, Executives Leading Sustainable Change, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP.) She received the award for “Executive of the Year” from the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 1995. She has been named to Who’s Who of Professionals from 1983 to the present. In 2003, she was featured in the Chronicle of Philanthropy for her successful entrepreneurial work in the not-for-profit sector. She also has received 3 Emmy Award nominations for her work in film production with PBS. She is a graduate of Stanford University’s Non-Profit Management Institute.