Pat Boelter, Director
Pat is the President of Signature Services Group, LLC, a consortium of accomplished professionals working together to meet client needs in strategic planning, marketing, communications, fundraising, organizational development, and community outreach.
The cornerstone of Pat's success has been establishing and cultivating strong and trusting relationships, whether that be with board members, donors, business owners, government officials, media, or community partners. She believes that all successful marketing and fundraising starts with building relationships and then progresses by connecting customers and donor to organizational impact and a vision for the future.
Pat is an accomplished marketing and fundraising executive recognized for her ability to raise brands and significant dollars for non-profit organizations. Prior to starting Signature Services Group, Pat served as an executive for two large and highly-respected non-profit organizations-Goodwill Industries, and All Saints Healthcare System (now Ascension).
She served as Chief Marketing Officer at Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin, the largest Goodwill in the world. While in that role, she developed and executed multi-channel marketing strategies that generated significant revenue and awareness, forged new donor relationships and business opportunities, and advanced the brand contributing to the organization's exponential growth.
She established the Power Partners Program to engage area business in volunteering, philanthropy, social responsibility and new business development opportunities. She established the Second Century Club for legacy giving, started and led Goodwill's Retro Rendezvous annual fundraising event, recognized as one of Milwaukee's premier events.
She started Project Prism, a workforce development initiative with the Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare System (now Ascension) to train individuals for great careers in healthcare. She established Mission Connect and Leader Connect, external and internal online platforms to make mission stories more accessible for sharing and make storytelling easier. She developed and cultivated affinity partnerships and co-branding initiatives with colleges and universities, media partners, and sports athletes and teams, including bringing Green Bay Packer Donald Driver to Goodwill.
Before Goodwill, she served as President of the All Saints Healthcare Foundation and Vice President of Public Relations and Development for the All Saints Healthcare System, now Ascension. She established a new All Saints Healthcare Foundation, after the merger of two hospitals and two medical clinics, recruited the board of directors, led a strategic planning process, and established the infrastructure for efficient operations, including policies and procedures, donor recognition, committee structure and financial reporting. She established a major gifts and planned giving program. She grew the volunteer program from a few hundred individuals to over 1,200 active and engaged volunteers.
Pat created and ran the Christmas House for Cancer, an annual fundraising event that drew an average of 30,000 visitors each year raising millions of dollars. As a result of these efforts and a capital campaign, the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Cancer Center was built with 100% philanthropic dollars. Throughout her career Pat has successfully led over a dozen capital campaigns, with every single campaign exceeding its dollar goal.
Pat was named a Woman of Influence and Chief Marketing Officer of the Year by the Milwaukee Business Journal and has received numerous other national fundraising and marketing awards. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Waukesha County Community Foundation, the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame, the Donald Driver Driven to Achieve Foundation, Milwaukee Women, Inc. and Journey 21.