William J Mountcastle

Bill Mountcastle is the founder and president of Health Giving, a specialized healthcare fundraising consulting firm serving community-based health and healthcare nonprofits. He is a noted expert in healthcare capital campaign planning, collaborative fundraising among major university health science colleges, hospital foundation mergers and strategic restructuring, and grateful patient and physician engagement for fundraising results. He has more than two decades of experience in fundraising,...See more

Bill Mountcastle is the founder and president of Health Giving, a specialized healthcare fundraising consulting firm serving community-based health and healthcare nonprofits. He is a noted expert in healthcare capital campaign planning, collaborative fundraising among major university health science colleges, hospital foundation mergers and strategic restructuring, and grateful patient and physician engagement for fundraising results. He has more than two decades of experience in fundraising, rising to senior leadership positions at leading multispecialty academic medical centers and research universities with sophisticated and successful development programs. He wrote the chapter on healthcare capital campaigns for the 2014 book, Redefining Healthcare Philanthropy, from the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. Before founding Health Giving, he served as senior associate vice president of development at The Ohio State University. As the chief development officer for the University's Wexner Medical Center and seven health science colleges, he oversaw fundraising activities for all aspects of one of the most comprehensive university health science complexes in the nation. He led efforts to promote interdisciplinary academic, research, and healthcare teams that collaborated closely to optimize philanthropic investments among the seven health science colleges. He helped design and lead quiet phase activities for Ohio State's But For Ohio State capital campaign with a $2.5 billion goal. Prior to joining Ohio State, Mountcastle was vice president of institutional relations and development at University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland, Ohio. In this role, he was also the principal campaign manager for the $1 billion Discover the Difference: The Campaign for University Hospitals, the capital campaign in support of the most comprehensive expansion in the health system's history. Mountcastle previously had a successful career at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, rising to senior director of development for the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center. He helped design and lead the pre-public planning phase of the Clinic's Today's Innovations Tomorrow's Healthcare campaign to raise $1.25 billion, at that time one of the largest campaigns of any not-for-profit academic medical center in the country. He also served as a member of the Clinic's Securing the 21st Century campaign major gift team that successfully raised $256 million, including $148 million in "brick-and-mortar" dollars for a three-building capital campaign, not only exceeding the target but doing so a year ahead of schedule. Mountcastle is a graduate of Muskingum College (BA) and Cleveland State University, Levin College of Urban Affairs (MPA). He has served on the board of the Ohio Association for Healthcare Philanthropy and the development committee for Circle Health Services in Cleveland, Ohio. He has served on the boards of community organizations including the Center for Community Solutions, Down Syndrome Association of Central Ohio, Children's Museum of Cleveland, and Lorain County Habitat for Humanity. Crain's Cleveland Business magazine named him to its Forty Under 40 list in November 2007 and Inside Business magazine profiled him a One 2 Watch in April 2003. See less