VR welcomes Clark Vandeventer

As we promised last month, Veritas Rex is adding to our list of contributors.  Today, we welcome Clark Vandeventer to our fold.  Clark hails from Santa Barbara, California, where he has just finished a stint working for Young America's Foundation at the Reagan Ranch.

Several authors can vouch for Clark's passion and tenacious work to better his world.  His bio:

Clark Vandeventer is the founder and CEO of World Changers, Inc.  He is a graduate and former student body president of Indiana Wesleyan University, whose mission is to develop world changers.  As a student, he was inspired by this mission, and the lasting impression of his time there created the vision for World Changers.

World Changers aids non profit entrepreneurs and acts as philanthropic advisors to both organizations and individual donors. Providing challenging, strategic, and visionary thinking for non-profit organizations through staff recruitment and training, coaching for boards, and other specialized services, World Changers equips organizations for new levels of success.  In addition to providing training for organizations, World Changers acts as a philanthropic advisor to individuals who seek the maximum impact of their charitable gifts.  Drawing on the experience of more than 1,000 meetings with philanthropists, Vandeventer is uniquely positioned to help an organization understand the heart of a donor and help the donor identify his/her true passions. 

World Changers is also dedicated to the development of kingdom building businesses.  Vandeventer and his wife Monica are intimately involved in the prototype for this concept,  Finestra Cafe. Located in downtown Santa Barbara, Finestra is uniquely positioned where business meets lifestyle and provides a connection to things bigger and more lasting than this world.  The purpose of kingdom building businesses is to move the ministry out of the church and into every day life--it is taking common things and making them sacred.

Additionally, World Changers provides representation for New York Times best-selling author Dinesh D’Souza (Illiberal Education, What’s So Great About America, What’s So Great About Christianity, etc.) through the One Man Movement Project.  The One Man Movement Project provides institutional momentum to world changing individuals.

Formerly, Vandeventer served Young America’s Foundation, the nations leading Conservative Movement youth outreach organization as Deputy Director of the Reagan Ranch.  He devoted nearly a decade of his life to Young America’s Foundation and the preservation of the Reagan Ranch, first as one of the Foundation’s top campus activists, then as an entry level staffer, then director of development and supporter relations before being appointed deputy director.  He played a key key role in the campaign to open the $20 million Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara and establishing the Reagan Ranch brand and the “Reagan Ranch Experience”.  During his tenure at Young America’s Foundation, the Foundation’s annual budget and fundraising revenue nearly doubled--moving from just more than $10 million to just short of $20 million.  He hosted more than 500 tours of President Reagan’s home and Western White House, including visits with United States Senators and Congressmen, Governors, and leaders as diverse as actors Charlton Heston and Joseph Phillips, to Judge Ken Starr, 75th Attorney General Ed Meese, and James Dobson.

He is the chairman of the President’s Advisory Council for Excellence at Indiana Wesleyan University where he works closely with both President Henry Smith on special projects. He and his wife Monica are active in their church, Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara, and reside in Goleta, California with their son Jackson.