Catherine Cunning is the Director of Fundraising and Development Services at Cathedral Corporation. In 2013, Cathedral acquired the Cunneen Company where Catherine served as a Parish Director supporting Parish campaign work across New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  Prior to her tenure at Cathedral, she served as Senior Director of Major Gifts at Conservation International, in Washington, D.C., a premier environmental NGO focused on healthy sustainable societies and as Director of Leadership Programs at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey securing gifts from five and six figure donors.

Catherine began her professional fundraising career with Immaculate Conception Seminary, in South Orange, New Jersey.  ICS remains the largest theologate in the United States.  At ICS she managed both an annual fund and a major gifts program during, and after, the Seminary’s very successful $10M capital campaign.  She was the youngest Director and the second woman to hold this position. She was appointed directly by Archbishop John J. Myers, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey. 

Catherine is completing her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration at Seton Hall University.  She lives in Middletown, New Jersey with her husband Edward, and two sons, Eddie and Gavin.  Catherine and family are active parishioners at Saint Mary Mother of God Parish in the Diocese of Trenton.