Meet the NCRP team
Fundraising Manager
Cynthia Kazaroff serves as NCRP’s Senior Fundraising Associate, where she supports fundraising operations and helps manage the organization’s relationships with grantmakers. Prior to NCRP, she served as Development Manager at the Center for Inquiry, a nonprofit dedicated to defending science and critical thinking in examining religion.
Cynthia has a passion for solving problems and improving processes that she believes she should apply to making the world a better and more just place. After graduating with dual degrees from the University of Akron, she began her professional life as an elementary music and movement teacher in New Mexico and Illinois. She returned to her home state of Ohio and completed a year of national service as an AmeriCorps VISTA with Disaster Services at the Summit County Red Cross. She spent the next fifteen years in higher education, first as a concert production/events manager at the Cleveland Institute of Music and then as a technician in the Annual Fund at Oberlin College.
Cynthia lives in rural Ohio with her husband, son, and dog. She is a voracious reader known to her local library staff by name.