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We are happy to announce the hiring of two new Agros Resource Development (RD) staff — Kathie Delph and Stuart Scadron-Wattles.  Kathie is the new Director of RD, and Stuart will serve as Major Gifts Officer.  While we celebrate the accomplishments of this past year, with more than 8,500 people served in 37 villages across Central America and Mexico, there are still many rural poor families around the world waiting for an opportunity to break free from poverty. It is with those people in mind that Agros is building capacity to fulfill our vision of restoring hope and opportunity to the world’s poor.

Kathie Delph, Director of Resource Development.
Kathie Delph joined the Agros team in September of this year as the Director of Resource Development, bringing 16 years of international nonprofit experience to her position.

Born and raised in California, she and her husband Steve moved to the suburbs of Boston in the mid 80’s to help plant a church. In the years that followed, both became engaged in international nonprofit work. Kathie’s heart for the poor grew while serving with Compassion International, where she became exposed to the breadth and depth of poverty on millions of children in the majority world.

Before her hiring at Agros, Kathie served at Compassion International as the Director of Foundation & Corporate Development, later becoming the Director of Development. She has been a board member of the So Colorado Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), and she currently volunteers as a board member of the Development Associates International — an organization providing organizational leadership training to nonprofits in least accessible regions of the world.  She also serves on the board of the US office of Fondation le Grain de Ble, a Swiss based organization helping underprivileged children in Europe and around the world.

Kathie and Steve have two grown children; Brittany, a senior business major at the University of Colorado, and Taylor, a recent high school graduate who is preparing to travel to West Africa to volunteer with humanitarian organizations in Mali and Senegal.

Stuart Scadron-Wattles, Major Gifts Officer.
Stuart joined the Agros team in August 2007 as Major Gifts Officer for Resource Development. He has 26 years of experience in not-for-profit fundraising, beginning with capital gifts work at Cornell University, and moving through various performing arts organizations in the US and Canada. Stuart also has a theater degree, and has spent 16 years as a theater professional. Before joining Agros, Stuart was a principal in Smartworks Consulting, specializing in major gifts program design and capital giving strategies for the arts. Stuart grew up in Europe and in the US, spoke four languages as a child, and has long been interested in international issues, studying international relations at Johns Hopkins University. He has been on staff at Youth With A Mission and is a member of Seattle Mennonite Church. He describes his transition to Agros as “one of those unlikely corners one turns, only to recognize a place foreknown by the heart.”

Stuart and his wife Linda live in Seattle, where they have two married daughters and three grandchildren.