Nancy Brimhall
Nancy Brimhall, established her fundraising consulting practice in 1990 in Boston and for over ten years serviced
organizations in the Northeast that have encompassed healthcare, education, the arts and community-based organizations. In the Fall of 2004,
after completing a five year $55M campaign as Vice President for Development at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in
California‘s Napa Valley (founded by icons Robert Mondavi and Julia Child) she re-established a consulting practice, based in Los Angeles.
She brings more than 29 years of experience in capital campaigns, major gifts, feasibility studies, development audits, and executive search.
Her major consulting clients have included diverse regional and national organizations, such as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
(Boston, MA), The Center for Responsible Genetics (Boston, MA), Community Resources for Justice (Boston, MA), Dublin School (NH),
Hospice of Cambridge (MA), Hospice of Napa Valley (CA), Institute for Child and Adolescent Development (Wellesley, MA), The Forsyth
School (St. Louis, MO), Lawrence and Memorial Hospital (New London, CT), Minority Law Review (Boston, MA), Oxfam America (Boston, MA),
The Population Council (NYC), and Wellspring House (Gloucester, MA), among others.
Immediately prior to her tenure at COPIA, she was the Chief Development Officer for Harvard Medical Schools‘ Schepens Eye Research
Institute, where she oversaw a $2M annual fund and a $50M+ capital campaign. Previously she worked for several noted Boston institutions,
including the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she served as Director of Development and worked to integrate two development
offices during a hospital merger, designed and supervised significant programs and provided operations oversight to a substantial staff
engaged in a capital campaign of $57M and provided initial planning for a $125M+ campaign for medical education.
A California native, she has lived in remote regions of Alaska and for many years in Boston, Massachusetts. While in Alaska she conceived
of and implemented a highly successful state-wide conference series to support artisans in the areas of law and marketing and was selected
to become the first executive director of the Institute of Native Alaskan Arts. She is twice a former board member of Women in Development
of Greater Boston (the largest fundraising organization in New England), and has served on senior planning committees numerous times for
fundraising organizations, including serving as the 1998 vice chair of Massachusetts Assn. of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) conference.
She has been a frequent mentor, lecturer and presenter on both coasts. She was among the first to be certified as a “Certified Fund Raising
Executive” in 1985. She has a B.A. in English and Art and a California lifetime teaching certificate.
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