John Rivas

• Director of Fund Development

  GBOD

• Director of Development

  The United Methodist Church Foundation

• Director of Development

  New Mexico State University

• Associate Director

  El Paso Community College Foundation

• Director of Development

  Community of Hope

• Director of Development

  P.F. Bresee Foundation

• Member

  Brentwood United Methodist Church

• Treasurer (past)

  Croft Design Center Middle School PTO

• Certified Fund Raising Executive

  CFRE International

• A.B., Social Science/Religious Education

  Southern Nazarene University

• M.R.E., Religious Education

  Nazarene Theological Seminary

John Rivas of Brentwood, Tennessee, serves as Director of Fund Development of The General Board of Discipleship of The United Methodist Church (GBOD). A certified fund raising executive with more than 18 years of professional fund development experience, John is responsible for developing and managing a strategy for individual major and planned gifts and identifying other funding sources on the denominational level for the GBOD.