Raising money is his passion

Raising money is his passion: "Raising money is his passion

By Cliff Peale
Enquirer staff writer
Zoom The Enquirer/Cara Owsley
Pat Ryan is chairman and CEO of Skystone Ryan, a fund-raising consultant that's helped nonprofits from Freestore Foodbank to the Contemporary Arts Center.
SKYSTONE RYAN

Expertise: Nonprofit fund-raising consultant.

Chairman and CEO: Pat Ryan.

President and COO: John Olberding.

Year founded: 1977, as Staley Robeson Ryan.

Employees: 60.

Headquarters: 638 W. Seventh St., Suite 107, Queensgate. (513) 241-6778.

Clients: Nearly 80 organizations around the country. Since its founding, the firm has served more than 200 nonprofits in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.
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In more than three decades raising money for nonprofit groups, Pat Ryan has successfully collected $50,000 from Jimmy Hoffa and been turned down by Mother Teresa.

The solicitation to Hoffa's Teamsters Union, for a hospital expansion near Detroit, came in cash - in a brown paper bag.

'I took it to the bank,' recalls Ryan, chairman and chief executive officer of Queensgate-based fund-raising consultant firm Skystone Ryan. 'I was stupid because I should have counted it."