Wes Livesay named Executive Director of MCC Foundation

Sept. 27, 2023

Wes Livesay was named the Executive Director of the MCC Foundation Tuesday evening during the monthly meeting of the McLennan Community College Board of Trustees. Livesay will step into the role in mid-October.

Livesay has a wealth of experience working in fundraising, donor relations and estate planning, and is a familiar face in the Waco community. From 2004-2007, he worked as the Director of Sales & Merchandising for Baylor University, before becoming the Director of Excellence Funds and Premium Seating for the Bear Foundation, holding that position for five years. Livesay then transitioned into the healthcare field, becoming the Director of Development for the Waco Region of Baylor Scott & White Health. During his three years in the position, he worked to help fund the $21 million Baylor Scott & White McClinton Caner Center, bringing in the leading seven-figure naming gift.

Livesay comes to MCC from Communities Foundation of Texas, where he served as the Director of Charitable Gift and Estate Planning. In just 9 months with CFT, he raised over $6 million in principal and planned gift commitments while managing a 100-person portfolio of givers.

Prior to joining CFT, he spent two years are the Senior Director of Development-Institutional Advancement for the University of Texas Health-Science Center in San Antonio, where he developed and implemented a planning giving program focused on blended gifts and revamped the gift planning website to make giving and estate planning simpler for people to understand, give and save on taxes. During his time, he cultivated and solicited over 30 new gift commitments valued at more than $28 million. He also spent time as the Executive Director-Foundation Development & Administration of the Austin Boys and Girls Club Foundation, the Director of Philanthropy of the Baylor Scott & White Health’s Hill Country Region in Marble Falls, the Associate Director of TCU Sports Marketing, a Commercial Broker with Mohr Partners and a Regional Account Executive and Sales Manager for BSN Sports.

Livesay is an alumnus of Baylor University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in marketing in 1996 and a master’s degree in management in 2003. He is a member of Charitable Gift Planners (CGP), the Dallas Estate Planning Council (DEPC), American Fundraising Professional (AFP) and American Healthcare Professionals (AHP).