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Senior Associate
For the past seven years, Sue Kinney has served as a freelance development consultant, advising a diverse clientele spanning the arts, human services, education, and religion. She most recently worked with the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, helping assess and revitalize their development program while working closely with the Board of Directors to adopt a more creative, ambitious approach to resource development.
Sue has assisted another well-known Cambridge institution, the Cantata Singers, in devising effective fundraising strategies for their first major gala, which netted over $350,000. Well aware of the financial challenges confronting mid-size arts organizations in Boston, and the need for them to remain relevant amid a rapidly changing marketplace, she also secured a major grant from the Fidelity Foundation, earmarked towards capacity building, branding, and long-range planning.
She has provided counsel to Project Bread in an effort to broaden their fund-raising efforts beyond the Walk for Hunger. Responsibilities included reinvigorating the Board of Trustees, expanding the development department, establishing a leadership giving society, and increasing Project Bread's readiness to launch a major gifts program.
Several years ago, Sue planned and implemented a successful $3 million capital campaign at St. Andrew's Church in Wellesley, the second largest parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Utilizing the momentum of the campaign, she also collaborated with leadership to launch the church's first planned giving program that within two years exceeded its initial goal of $1 million. As a result of these efforts, St. Andrew's is on solid financial footing, having established a more vigorous culture for philanthropy within the congregation.
From 1993-2000 Sue served as a Senior Management Consultant with the Wayland Group in Sudbury, specializing in capital campaign feasibility, planning and execution; long range strategic planning; major gifts; planned giving; and executive search. During her seven years at the Wayland Group, Sue advised a variety of clients including the National Academy of Sciences, the Boston Foundation, Radcliffe College, Tufts University, Emerson College, Lasell College, YMCA of Greater Boston, the Worcester Art Museum, the New England Aquarium, Chestnut Hill School, Miss Hall's School, Nashoba Brooks School and Shady Hill School.
Prior to her work as a consultant, Sue spent a decade as a senior executive with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, helping build a nascent development operation into a competitive powerhouse. As Assistant Director of Development, Sue wore a variety of hats, supervising the Annual Fund department, raising major gifts, establishing successful independent fundraising programs for Tanglewood and the Boston Pops, inaugurating the BSO's successful corporate fundraising franchise, Presidents at Pops, and planning the capital campaign for Sejii Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood.
She began her career as a marketing specialist in public broadcasting, working with National Public Radio, WGBH in Boston, and WNYC in New York. Sue currently serves on the Board of Visitors at Miss Hall's School in Pittsfield, and has served on the Board of Directors for Women in Development of Greater Boston. She is a graduate of Middlebury College.
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