MORGAN R. CLEVENGER, EdD, MBA is an award-winning fundraiser, professor, and researcher and is a post-doctoral fellow with Monarch Business School, Switzerland in Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Business Ethics. Clevenger is erstwhile associate professor of entrepreneurship at Wilkes University, USA. Having worked more than two decades in higher education and nonprofits, he understands the importance of quality programs, academic standards and teaching methodologies, lifelong and hands-on learning, networking, research, and resource development. Presently, he is President and CEO of the national management and research consulting company, Clevenger & Company Management Consultants, Inc. The company focuses on strategic planning and training in: corporate social responsibility, fundraising, nonprofit management, market research, and entrepreneurship. His research interests include corporate citizenship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystems and communities, family business, and nonprofit management. He has been involved in four capital campaigns.
Clevenger has served in several administrative and teaching positions in business education, institutional advancement, program management, and public relations. Most recently he was tenured associate professor of entrepreneurship at Wilkes University. Previously he was regional vice president with Students in Free Enterprise USA, director of the Mollohan Training Center and assistant professor of business at Alderson-Broaddus University, director of development and alumni relations at West Virginia University Extension Service and 4-H, vice president for institutional advancement at Hargrave Military Academy, director of annual fund at Davis & Elkins College, and public information specialist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Morgantown Energy Technology Center. He has taught a wide range of business courses in corporate social responsibility, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial leadership, leadership, management foundations, corporate entrepreneurship, business ethics, human resource management, and both undergraduate and graduate research. He researchers, writes, and presents widely on issues of corporate citizenship, philanthropy, higher education, nonprofit management, ethics, entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, family business, entrepreneurial ecosystems, entrepreneurial communities, and culture of entrepreneurship. He is author/editor of several books and journal articles.