The CCS Leadership Team includes highly successful and experienced fund-raising professionals. CCS Executives are extensively involved in the projects they manage.

 

Kimberly Keller

Regional Vice President

 

Kimberly Keller is a Regional Vice President for CCS.  She has provided leadership and supervision for capital and endowment campaigns, conducted feasibility studies, and served as an active member of CCS’s in-house training staff.  In her work with major institutional clients, including American Ballet Theatre, the New-York Historical Society, and the Massachusetts and Connecticut Chapters of The Nature Conservancy, Kimberly has identified and provided comprehensive research on major potential donors; prepared trustees and senior staff members for cultivation and solicitation meetings; strategically organized complex, multi-phase campaigns; coordinated volunteer efforts and special events; produced case statements and major foundation requests; supervised staff members; and developed corporate giving programs.

Kimberly’s experience encompasses fund-raising strategies, campaign planning and implementation, materials development and design, database tracking systems, community relations, and volunteer management.   
Kimberly received her B.A. from Michigan State University and earned a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington.

She has been a member of Phi Beta Kappa since 1990.  Kimberly participated in the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s Humanities at Work initiative and received one of the program’s first Practicum Grants.  She now supports this program, serving as a mentor for humanities graduates who are in the process of seeking fulfilling careers beyond the academy.

Among the institutions that have benefited from Kimberly’s professional counsel are:

  • American Ballet Theatre, New York, NY
  • Archdiocese of Newark, Newark, NJ  
  • Children’s Medical Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  • Diocese of Trenton, Trenton, NJ
  • Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
  • Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY
  • Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, New York, NY
  • Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
  • New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
  • Optical Society of America, Washington, DC
  • St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church, West Chester, PA
  • The Joyce Theater Foundation, New York, NY
  • The Nature Conservancy, Connecticut Chapter, Middletown, CT
  • The Nature Conservancy, Massachusetts Chapter, Boston, MA
  • Virginia Performing Arts Foundation, Richmond, VA