About Us

Jack Miller is a professional speaker and fundraising consultant registered with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. During his 30-year career, Jack has conducted annual and capital campaigns, special events and estate planning seminars, written and produced two planned giving videos and helped individuals contribute millions of dollars to charity. In 1999 his consulting work led the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation to hire him as its first director of gift planning, a position he still holds.

From 1993 until 2006, Jack also headed Anlin Industries' development division before founding Miller Consulting. Since 1975, Jack served western Pennsylvania as planned giving director for United Way of Allegheny County and St. Barnabas Charitable Foundation; chief development officer for Suburban General Hospital, The Medical Center and St. Peter's Child Development Centers; executive director of Duquense University's Duke's Court sports booster organization; assistant development and alumni director at LaRoche College and public relations coordinator at the School for Blind Children.

Jack graduated with distinction from Bethany College, is a certified fund-raising executive, member of the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning and a past-president of the Pittsburgh Planned Giving Council. In 2000, the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Western Pennsylvania Chapter named him its Outstanding Fund-raising Executive.

In 1992, Jack helped to organize a statewide development issues task force that was instrumental in passing the Pennsylvania Charitable Gift Annuity Exemption Act, 10 P.S. §361 et. seq., that established parameters for Pennsylvania charities to issue gift annuities. The task force also helped to pass legislation that defined purely public charities in Pennsylvania.

Some interesting gifts Jack has closed include an outright gift of a personal residence with a retained life-interest; the first funeral home in Pennsylvania to fund a charitable remainder annuity trust and a $500,000 grant from a major foundation to be used to promote planned gifts as a way of leveraging resources to protect architecturally significant historic farms in western Pennsylvania.

In addition to his professional interests, Jack was ordained a deacon in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh on June 11, 2011 and appointed by Bishop David A. Zubik to assist in the ministry of sacrament and ministry of word at St. Teresa of Avila Parish, in Perrysville, in accord with the faculties for deacons, under the direction of the pastor. He was also appointed to assist in the ministry of service and charity at the Diocesan Office for Stewardship and Development.

In 2006, Jack and his wife Donna received the Manifesting the Kingdom Award from then Bishop Donald W. Wuerl in recognition of their service at Incarnation of the Lord Parish where Jack chaired both the parish finance council and capital campaign and co-promoted the annual men's retreat; and Donna served as an extra-ordinary Eucharistic Minister, bereavement committee chair, Meals on Wheels driver and head of several parish-related fund-raising projects.

The Millers have been married since 1975, live in Pittsburgh and have three adult children and three grandchildren.

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