Coley is a thirty six-year veteran of the free-market movement and has dedicated himself to helping public policy organizations across the nation more effectively advance liberty.
Prior to working with Movement Funding Coley served as the Vice President of Development and Investor Relations at the Media Research Center. He managed the direct marketing, digital communications, donor communications, and development operations teams, as well as overseeing the investor relations major gifts, and foundation staff.
Before Media Research Center, he ran a consulting firm for nonprofit organizations. Their areas of focus were senior nonprofit management, development, communications, and grassroots mobilization. He trained these organizations on how to better achieve their goals and helped them successfully affect significant policy changes at the state and federal levels.
Prior to that, Coley served as the Vice President of External Affairs at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and served as President of Americans for Competitive Enterprise. Before joining CEI in 2013, he directed the development teams at Americans for Prosperity, Mercatus Center, and worked at the National Rifle Association. Coley also spent seven years with the National Right to Work Committee in development, government relations, and communications.
Coley has been a regular speaker on numerous policy topics, and his work has been published in the Washington Times, Washington Examiner, and Human Events, among others as well as being a guest on dozens of radio shows. He regularly lectures on fundraising and policy topics for organizations like the Leadership Institute, America’s Future Foundation, and the State Policy Network.
Coley is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. He received his bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University, majoring in Aerospace.
He spends his free time enjoying shooting sports, playing guitar, and piddling around in his garage workshop.