WID Joins Forces With WOC
To Present
Fundraiser. Philanthropist. Ally. Expert.
Perspectives on Race, Equity, and Action
A Discussion and Virtual Forum
Monday, June 8, 2020
11:00 a.m.
Free to the Entire Fundraising Community!
A link will be included in a confirmation email
Moderated By:
Yolanda F. Johnson
Featured Guest:
Andrea Brown, Dr. Angelique Grant,
Lindsay Marciniak, and Shaunda McDill
We have all watched a truly unprecedented time unfold before us. First, the Coronavirus pandemic, and now in addition to that crisis, the nation - and worldwide reaction to racial injustice. From recent conversations with those in the black community and communities of color to many allies who are not people of color, but who want to know what can be done to take action, I have determined that it is time for a real, honest dialogue about how we can move forward and enact change; first as human beings and then as a professional community of fundraisers and philanthropists. WID and the newly established Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy join forces to tackle these difficult issues.
Until then, let us stand together against racism and for justice.
Onward, Upward, Forward
Featuring
Andrea Brown, Vice President of Philanthropy, Girls Inc. of New York City (GINYC).
Andrea Brown is the Vice President of Philanthropy and a member of the executive leadership team for Girls Inc. of New York City (GINYC).
Before joining GINYC, Andrea worked as a nonprofit professional for organizations focused on youth development and academia, such as Columbia University and Girl Scouts of the USA. Andrea has also consulted for the Harvard Business School Club of New York and the New York Academy of Sciences. She has served on the Executive Committee for Women In Development, New York; the NYC area's premier professional organization for women in fundraising and philanthropy.
Before transitioning into the non-profit sector, she had a 13-year career in the book publishing industry, working for art, reference, and academic publishers including Rizzoli and W.H. Freeman & Company. During the last four years of her publishing career, Andrea served as the Director of Special Markets and Export Sales overseeing a global sales and distribution team for Facts on File.
Andrea holds a B.S. from Marymount College, Tarrytown (now Fordham University Marymount), a Certificate in Global Philanthropy from New York University, and a certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Angelique Grant, Senior Consultant & Vice President, Aspen Leadership Group
Angelique S.C. Grant, Ph.D. is a senior consultant, vice president and certified diversity recruiter with Aspen Leadership Group. Dr. Grant provides counsel in diversity, equity and inclusion practices, fundraising, and nonprofit strategies. Her services include philanthropic strategic thought partnership, building and leading effective, diverse teams, recruitment and retention strategies, diversity audits and assessment, and cultural awareness trainings. She is a certified unconscious bias trainer and facilitator, has been an active speaker for countless industry associations over the years, and has chaired and served as faculty for several conferences across the country.
Throughout her 25-year career, Dr. Grant has successfully managed teams to meet fundraising goals in several multi-million dollar campaigns, and two separate billion dollar campaigns. Previously, she served as an Assistant Vice President of Development and Assistant Dean of Medical Advancement, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University. Her extensive experience in higher education advancement has also included roles at Princeton University, Washington State University, and the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.
Dr. Grant is a proud Miami, Florida native. She is a Fulbright Scholar who holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration specializing in Institutional Advancement from Washington State University. She has a M.A. in Communication, specializing in Public Relations and Media Management from Washington State University, and a B.S. degree in Journalism from Florida A&M University.
She is the founder of the South Florida Network of Blacks in Philanthropy and serves on numerous boards, including Our Fund (LGBTQ) Community Foundation and the African American Development Officers Network (AADO). She has been recognized as one of the 25 Most Influential and Prominent Black Women in South Florida by Success South Florida Magazine, a Lumina 10 in ICABA Honors South Florida 100 Most Accomplished Blacks Healthcare & Law, and selected as a Top Hat Woman of Achievement Award for Community Empowerment.
During her free time, she enjoys traveling, attending local events and festivals, and spending time with her family in the US and the Bahamas.
Lindsay Marciniak, Managing Director, CCS Fundraising
As a Managing Director of CCS Fundraising, Lindsay supports nonprofit organizations to acquire the resources they need to fulfill their missions and positively impact our communities – locally, nationally, and globally. Her efforts and leadership have resulted in nearly $1 billion in philanthropic support secured for her clients. She is an expert at designing and directing comprehensive campaigns, implementing major gifts programs, leading initiatives to build fundraising capacity, and developing strong relationships with senior leadership, staff, board members, and donors.
Lindsay serves on CCS’s leadership team, identifying innovative and unique ways to serve clients, managing and mentoring staff members across the country, and analyzing industry trends. Lindsay brings to every engagement a big-picture perspective and a hands-on approach.
She has led marquee projects for the firm and supports her clients to realize some of the largest philanthropic gifts in their histories. She has had the privilege of partnering with organizations across all nonprofit sectors, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, United Way, The Salvation Army, Feeding America, Cuyahoga Community College, Northwestern Memorial Foundation, North Shore Country Day School, Lions Clubs International Foundation, and Kiwanis International.
Lindsay regularly presents on fundraising topics to clients, board members, and development professionals across the country. She serves as a faculty member at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management.
Lindsay earned her MPA in Nonprofit Management at Indiana University and a BS in Psychology with honors from John Carroll University in Cleveland. She lives in Chicago and is actively engaged in her community, volunteering for the local chamber of commerce and social service agencies.
Photo credit is: Lindsay B. Garvin
Shaunda McDill, Program Officer, Arts & Culture, The Heinz Endowments
Shaunda McDill joined The Heinz Endowments in October 2017. As program officer for arts and culture, she works to promote the strength and vitality of a suite of Pittsburgh-based artists and arts organizations through general operating support and a programming portfolio comprised of the Investing in Professional Artists program, the Small Arts Initiative, the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh initiative and the foundation’s first cross-programmatic social justice initiative, Just Arts, which she helped to found. Alongside her colleagues, she has also been instrumental in fortifying the role of the Endowments’ Creativity Strategic Area in utilizing art to combat stereotypes and improve outcomes for veterans as part of the foundation’s “Rethink Vets” campaign.
Shaunda has more than a decade of nonprofit executive and arts management experience, working for theater companies across the country, including The Goodman Theatre of Chicago, Second Stage Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse and Cornerstone Theater Company. In 2006, she also founded demaskus Theater Collective, a nonprofit, service-oriented collective of artists and administrators who produce theatrical projects that share stories of the marginalized. In Pittsburgh, Shaunda served as vice president of programming and cultivation at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, where she managed all artistic and educational programs, including the production of the city’s first Black Dance Festival. As the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s director of public relations, she headed both national and local public relations campaigns, including the North American premiere of Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duck Project, which generated more than $10 million in direct spending in the city.
Shaunda has a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where she majored in African and African-American Studies and minored in Theater. She has a master’s from Yale University’s School of Drama with a concentration in theater management. She is a member of Macedonia Church of Pittsburgh and is married to Pittsburgh native Sager McDill. Shaunda recently became a member of the Jada House International, Inc. board of directors.
Moderator
Yolanda F. Johnson - President, YFJ Consulting, LLC, Founder, Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy (WOC), and President, Women In Development, NY
With more than two decades of experience in the non-profit sector, Yolanda F. Johnson has successfully led fundraising operations for a wide range of non-profit organizations, launching creative event, sponsorship and marketing initiatives that produced new streams of both contributed and earned income. Her fundraising expertise includes securing foundation, corporate, and government funding and cultivating a diverse major gifts portfolio.
In addition to leading YFJ Consulting, LLC, Yolanda is the President of Women In Development (WID), NY, the NYC area’s premier professional organization for women in fundraising and philanthropy. In order to continue a strategic focus on her work with women of color, in 2020, she launched Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy (WOC). Yolanda has also had an outstanding career as a performing artist, as a composer, as a producer, as an educator, and she has used her background as a performer to become a sought-after fundraising expert.
Her leadership roles include serving as an International Advisory Board member and the former Representative for the Foundation for Post Conflict Development to the United Nations, and as a member of the board of directors of the Lehman College Art Gallery. A trailblazing figure on the national fundraising landscape, Yolanda is the first African American President in the 40-year history of WID. She co-established the WID Diversity and Inclusion Task Force and is often a featured expert on incorporating DEI initiatives into organizational culture. She has appeared as a panelist at Fundraising Day in New York, the Women’s Alliance National Conference and CASE events among others. Yolanda was also recently appointed to the Chronicle of Philanthropy Advisory Committee of national leaders in the non-profit sector.
Tying together her life as a successful performing artist and a non-profit leader, she developed All the World's A Stage, a special workshop using performance practice for getting what one wants out of fundraising, philanthropy and life. She presents All the World's A Stage to audiences across the country. Yolanda is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota International Women’s Music Fraternity and is on the artist roster for Random Access Music/Queens New Music Festival and the newly formed Westchester Chamber Soloists Orchestra.
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