Hoover Institution at Stanford University Hoover Institution Stanford University

Donald C. Meyer Donald C. Meyer
Associate Director – Resource Development

Expertise: Estate and tax planning, resource development

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Donald C. Meyer has served as associate director for resource development since April 1997. He manages Hoover's development effort, which generates the necessary financial support to sustain and build the research and collecting programs at the Institution. Currently, his primary responsibility is overseeing Ideas Defining a Free Society, Hoover's $75 million fundraising campaign.

Prior to joining the Hoover Institution, Meyer served in senior development capacities at Princeton University and Stanford, where he gained a national reputation for creative and effective gift arrangements. At Princeton, he served as University Counsel (Tax) and was actively involved in the Campaign for Princeton. Meyer came to Stanford in 1989 and served as director of planned giving during the Centennial Campaign and then as associate director of principal gifts from 1994-1997. His roles in these highly successful campaigns provide Meyer with experience that is critical to Hoover's development efforts. He has also worked as an independent estate and tax planning consultant.

Meyer graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in English in 1965 and earned his J.D. from the University of Iowa Law School in 1968.


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