Communities In Schools of Nevada (CIS), the nation’s leading evidence-based stay-in-school organization serving 118 Nevada schools with regional offices in the Clark, Elko, Humboldt, and Washoe County school districts, announces the appointment of Brittany DuPree to chief development officer.
No stranger to CIS, Brittany DuPree served as the organization’s director of resource development in 2012. During her five-year tenure with the organization, DuPree helped to conceptualize and implement key events including the annual Today for Tomorrow “ungala” and CIS’ Fill the Bus, a campaign that she helped grow into a statewide back-to-school drive that now supports four school districts across Nevada. DuPree left CIS in 2017 and for several years held other leadership positions within the Las Vegas nonprofit sector, including development director for St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, chief growth officer for Green Our Planet, and most recently, senior director of fundraising for United Way of Southern Nevada.
DuPree returns to CIS as chief development officer and is responsible for leading the organization’s fundraising strategy. This includes overseeing all fundraising efforts for CIS through the creation and implementation of a strategic and comprehensive development plan that consists of donor cultivation, grants, charitable initiatives, and marketing opportunities.
A Las Vegas resident since 1999, DuPree received a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and mass media studies and a graduate degree in public administration with a nonprofit management certification from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
About Communities In Schools of Nevada
CIS places full-time and professionally trained site coordinators in 110 Title I and high-needs schools across Nevada to support more than 100,000 students in grades K-12 who face barriers to their success—increasing the likelihood of students staying in school and graduating on time. The organization taps into a statewide network of more than 120 community nonprofits, partners, and agencies, bringing the community into the school to get students whatever they need to overcome the barriers they face that prevent them from achieving academically. From eyeglasses, dental care, health care, and professional counseling to food, school supplies, clothing, and housing, CIS identifies student needs and finds a way to address them, closing the gaps they experience in their everyday lives. CIS’s long-term vision is for every child enrolled in a Title I or high-needs school to access a CIS site coordinator and their evidence-based model of integrated student support, otherwise known as wraparound services. The graduation rate for CIS case-managed high school seniors in Nevada for the 2022-2023 school year was 95 percent. For more information, visit http://www.cisnevada.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
