Fundraising Solutions
Heritage Designs is committed to serving the nonprofit sector and to providing excellence in designing solutions for fundraising. The cornerstone of its approach is MatchMaker FundRaising Software, a fundraising/donor management software package. At Heritage Designs we understand the critical significance of a solid infrastructure upon which to build a successful development program. Nonprofit organizations must implement current hardware and software strategies to maintain and build their funding base, and fulfill their organizational missions. MatchMaker FundRaising Software is the answer to solid donor management for nonprofit organizations.
Diana V. Hoyt, CFRE, is president of Heritage Designs. She designed and markets MatchMaker FundRaising Software. In addition, Diana provides fundraising consulting services and training to nonprofits. Diana has more than thirty years of professional and volunteer fundraising experience. She created five nonprofit development offices in the Greater Phoenix area and has been involved in almost every facet of the development process.
Diana, a Certified Fund Raising Executive, has served on the Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater Arizona Chapter board for seven years and is a past president of the chapter. She has served as both a mentor for and on the faculty of the chapter's Professional Mentoring Program. Diana was the 2004 recipient of the AFP Greater Arizona Chapter's Fundraising Executive of the Year Award.
Diana holds a bachelors degree from Kansas University and a masters degree from Arizona State University. Prior to her involvement in fundraising and fundraising software, she taught high school and junior high mathematics in Arizona, Missouri and Germany.
Lisa Viggiano, a long-time Arizona resident, started her career in the nonprofit sector in 1990 when she joined the staff of the Arizona Cactus-Pine Girl Scout Council. She worked in numerous capacities at the Girl Scouts including sales clerk, data entry clerk, senior council registrar and then fund development administrative assistant. In 1997, she left the Girl Scouts to work at the Arizona Science Center as development associate. She was later promoted to membership assistant manager.
Lisa is Vice President Client Services and has been with Heritage Designs since 1999. Her responsibilities include client data conversion and technical support for MatchMaker FundRaising Software and software upgrade development and testing.
Lisa also serves as Heritage Designs' representative to Executive Women International (EWI) where she has held the following positions: directory chair, secretary, programs director, publications director, and vice president/president elect, and president. Lisa is the current treasurer of the Phoenix Chapter of EWI.
Michael Pearson, a native of Arizona, joined Heritage Designs in 2006 as the business development manager. He brings with him more than four years of sales experience in both nonprofit and corporate settings. Michael is responsible for product sales, cultivating business leads, meeting with prospective clients, and representing the company at trade shows and other industry events.
Previously, Michael worked for United Blood Services in the community relations department, as well as Imaging Systems of Arizona and OpenWorks.
A graduate of Northern Arizona University, he has his bachelor of science in business administration with an emphasis in management. He has also received a Professional Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Arizona State University Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management and is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater Arizona Chapter.