Debbie Schlattman is an Advancement professional with 20 plus years of experience focused on major gift and annual fundraising, donor cultivation and stewardship, strategic planning, volunteer leadership, alumni and parent engagement, community relations, special events, and annual budgeting and forecasting. Her professional experience includes administrative leadership, strategic partnerships with boards of trustees and community leaders, presentation skills, and advancement of several organization's missions. Debbie has dedicated her career to the vocation of philanthropy and currently serves on the Leadership Team at Villa Duchesne School of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis, Missouri as the Director of Advancement.
Through Debbie’s leadership, Villa Duchesne’s fundraising efforts have achieved record breaking results including endowment and annual fundraising growth, achievement of more than $10.5 million in the school’s first capital campaign since the early 2000’s and significant capital projects and campus improvements. The largest gift in school’s history was cultivated and solicited by Debbie and her team in the amount of $3 million. Debbie works closely with the Board of Trustees and serves as the liaison for the Advancement and Committee on Trustees Board committees. Debbie has partnered with dozens of volunteers to revitalize and revolutionize Villa's annual Bonne Chance Auction, doubling its profits in the past 5 years.
Debbie began her career with the United Way of Greater St. Louis, and she has worked in both the non-profit and for profit sectors. Debbie and her family moved throughout the country while she and her husband, Jeff, were growing both their careers and family. This experience provided Debbie with opportunities to work in higher education with the University of Missouri - Columbia and within the field of sales and marketing with Ameritech Cellular and Visara, Inc.
Debbie received her education at the University of Tulsa with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology, and she resides in St. Louis, MO with her husband, and she is the mother of three young adult children.
