06-67
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 3, 2006
Contact: Christine Somosi, 216.397.4663

John Carroll University Appoints Maggie Cretella as
Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations

CLEVELAND, OH – Maggie Cretella joins the John Carroll University community as director of corporate and foundation relations. In her position, Cretella will report to the vice president for university advancement creating strategies for the cultivation and solicitation of financial support from corporations and public and private foundations.

“Maggie brings a wealth of experience to the job,” says James Noffke, interim vice president of university advancement. “We are excited to have her at John Carroll and she is happy to return to her roots in Northeastern Ohio. As a Boston College graduate, she appreciates the value of a Jesuit education, which makes her a perfect fit for the university.”

Cretella has worked in the non-profit arena for the last twenty years. Prior to John Carroll, she served as a community research and grants management officer for the Columbus Foundation in Columbus, Ohio, where she conducted analytical reviews, managed available funds, and made recommendations for grant applications related to a number of fields. Before her time at the Columbus Foundation, Cretella served as the technical assistance manager at the U. S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center in Boston, Massachusetts, where she also reviewed applications and managed grants for the Department of Safe and Drug Free Schools.

Previous to that position, she worked as a research associate at Advocates for Human Potential where she managed projects with several nonprofits including Pacific Institute for Research Education and Girls Incorporated and with government agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice and U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition. The university has some 3,350 plus undergraduates and just over 750 graduate students. The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 5 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and second in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland. John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.