H. Gerald Quigg

H. Gerald Quigg (February 5, 1937 – ) is an American specialist in non-profit philanthropy and fund-raising who spent most of his career as Vice President of Development at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, US.

Quigg was born in New Jersey to Joseph Quigg and Catherine Curry. Quigg was educated at the University of Delaware from where he graduated as a history major in 1959. He was captain of the cross country track team and a member of the State and All-American track teams. In the Penn Relays of 1957, his team won the Mile Relay with Quigg running the anchor leg.

After stints in the phone company and in the Army reserve, Quigg was hired as a development officer at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania in 1964. He was recruited to join the administration at the University of Richmond in 1969 at a critical time of its transition from a small, Southern Baptist-affiliated school to a modern university. Shortly after his hiring, E. Claiborne Robins Sr, an alumnus and trustee, donated $50 million to the university, at the time the largest gift from a private individual to a US school. Robins' gift consisted of $40 million in the form of common stock in the A.H. Robins Pharmaceutical Company and an additional $10 million earmarked as a challenge gift for matching funds to be raised by the university over the next ten-year period. Quigg, in partnership with then University President E. Bruce Heilman directed the successful matching effort, ultimately leading to a $60 million addition to the university’s endowment. To accomplish this feat, he organized one of the country's strongest university development offices. The methodology of capital campaigns, alumni tracking, and organizing resources to engage potential philanthropists were either developed or improved by Quigg and his colleagues. These techniques were gathered in his textbook "The Successful Capital Campaign: From Planning to Victory Celebration"

During his tenure, the University joined its separate undergraduate colleges for men and women into a single entity, built the Robins Center arena, founded the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and strengthened endowments for the University of Richmond School of Law and the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business.

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