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Vice President of Development

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Vice President of Development

Rhode Island Foundation

Providence, Rhode Island

As Rhode Island’s sole community foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation (the Foundation) mobilizes financial resources, fosters collaboration, and champions innovative solutions to the state’s most pressing challenges. With a deep commitment to strengthening communities and enhancing quality of life, the Foundation serves as a trusted steward of charitable giving—investing in initiatives that create opportunities and drive meaningful change.

Rooted in a century-long legacy, the Foundation continuously evolves alongside Rhode Island’s needs. Backed by generous donors, it not only provides funding but also strengthens organizations, builds partnerships, and drives progress. Guided by a newly released Five-Year Action Plan, the Foundation is poised to deepen its impact and expand its role as a unifying force for the state’s future.

The Opportunity

The Rhode Island Foundation seeks a visionary and strategic Vice President of Development to lead its fundraising efforts and align philanthropic initiatives with the Foundation’s new Five-Year Action Plan.

Reporting to the President and CEO and serving as a key member of the Leadership Team, this role will drive new business development, donor stewardship, professional advisor engagement, and planned giving strategies to ensure long-term sustainable growth.

The ideal candidate is a results-oriented, collaborative leader with a track record of expanding donor pipelines, implementing fundraising best practices, and strengthening operational efficiencies. They will bring a strategic mindset, exceptional communication skills, and a data-driven approach to setting and achieving ambitious fundraising goals. Experience in community foundations or grant-making organizations is a plus.

This is an ideal opportunity for a strategic and visionary fundraising leader to drive philanthropic growth, cultivate deep community engagement, and shape the future of the Rhode Island Foundation’s impact across the state.

By admin|2025-02-13T18:03:22-05:00February 13, 2025|Comments Off

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Libby Roberts has earned the trust and admiration of executives across sectors and industries for her bold leadership, incisive judgment, and refreshing candor. A paragon of relationship-building, Libby forges strong client partnerships by deriving clear, actionable insights from open and honest dialogue. Libby’s expert guidance, rooted in a deep understanding of nonprofits, makes her an essential partner for organizations navigating the complexities of succession planning and executive recruitment.

Expertise

Libby’s proven recruiting and talent management strategies are designed to achieve the unique goals of her clients. She excels at guiding boards and leaders through the many stages of a search, collaborating with stakeholders while surfacing the core goals, priorities, and aspirations that unite an organization. For Libby, the end goal isn’t simply placing top talent in leadership roles but preparing organizations and teams to maximize the new leader’s potential long after the search has concluded.

Libby’s client list and broader community involvement reflect her extraordinary global network as well as her commitment to service. Her work has ranged across arts and culture, healthcare, higher education, and advocacy, as well as faith-based hospitals, universities, and other organizations.

Experience

With years of experience in the leadership roles for which she now recruits, Libby brings with her a deep and nuanced understanding of how organizations can engage their communities, develop teams, and recruit talented individuals who will succeed and drive missions forward.

Prior to joining Lindauer, Libby held leadership roles at many influential institutions, including Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dartmouth, and Harvard Law School.

Her experience in annual giving, major gifts, and fundraising campaigns allowed Libby to form a holistic picture of the interconnected components of modern advancement programs. Meanwhile, her time spent managing teams and engaging boards honed her ability to navigate complex organizational structures effectively.

Through her extensive volunteer work, Libby gives back to her community and contributes to the development of the field of philanthropy. She has served on many boards, including the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Boston Trinity Episcopal Church, the Nelson Rockefeller Center, and The Boston House. She brings a wealth of global experience through her travel, international education, and work with Habitat for Humanity. She maintains her connection with her alma mater, Dartmouth, where she has been deeply involved since matriculation.

Libby’s passion for effecting change, her wealth of experience, and her commitment to forging successful client partnerships make her a valued leader and an essential resource for any search, leadership, or talent management project.

Education

Libby holds a BA from Dartmouth College with a Religion major.

Josh Maker brings to Lindauer and its clients significant global philanthropic consulting and project management experience in the nonprofit sector.

Prior to joining Lindauer, Josh played a key role in advancing alumni and donor engagement at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He partnered with institutional leaders and volunteer committees to design and deliver flagship reunion programs that strengthened the School’s philanthropic pipeline and deepened alumni commitment.

Josh also spent several years at Grenzebach Glier and Associates (GG+A) where he served in multiple roles. As the Executive Director of Consulting Resources, Josh was a member of the firm’s senior leadership council and led a team in Chicago of 10 professionals in delivering client reports, presentations, and trainings. As the Chief of Staff to the President, he worked in close partnership with GG+A’s President and senior leadership to deliver on the firm’s strategic initiatives, as well as supporting the President in all of her client engagements. In the role of Senior Project Manager at GG+A, Josh managed upwards of 20 client projects at a time, ranging in sectors from arts and culture, academic medicine and healthcare, higher education, independent schools, to voluntary sectors.

Josh has partnered with a number of clients including; Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Law School, Carnegie Mellon University, Cancer Research UK, Charlotte Country Day School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Drexel University, Esade Business School (Barcelona), Fuller Theological Seminary, Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Sidwell Friends School, Tate, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Queensland, and the University of Toronto.

Josh holds a Master of Arts in Cultural and Creative Industries from King’s College London, and Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Kent State University.