Sarah Cohen

Sarah has 15 years of experience helping arts and culture nonprofit organizations grow contributed income, train and develop advancement talent, improve stakeholder engagement and effectiveness, and implement best practices for development operations systems to advance their missions and make the greatest impact in the communities they serve.

I Sou profundamente apaixonado por sustentar as organizações de artes e cultura, pois servem como pilares de construção da comunidade e catalisadores para uma sociedade justa e eqüitativa. É imensamente gratificante colaborar com essas organizações, contribuindo para seu crescimento e garantindo seu sucesso contínuo. Otimize os recursos, melhoram o engajamento e a eficácia das partes interessadas e aumentam a colaboração e o desempenho da equipe para avançar suas missões. Uma organização sem fins lucrativos do ensino superior para financiar uma expansão nacional que aumentou o orçamento operacional anual para apoiar mais do que o triplo do número de acadêmicos servidos pelo programa. departamentos curatoriais em um grande museu enciclopédico do condado.”

About Sarah

Sarah brings 15 years of experience in advancement and nonprofit leadership in the visual arts sector, as well as significant industry expertise in higher education and workforce development. She enables nonprofit organizations to grow contributed income, streamline resources, improve stakeholder engagement and effectiveness, and increase staff collaboration and performance to advance their missions.

Throughout her career, Sarah has:

• Led fund and case-for-support development for a newly established film and television production nonprofit focused on training qualified, underrepresented talent for below-the-line industry jobs.
• Directed a $35 million growth campaign for a higher education nonprofit to fund a national expansion that grew the annual operating budget to support more than triple the number of scholars served by the program.
• Created new funding opportunities at an arts and culture institution, growing annual contributed revenue by more than 20% to support exhibitions and educational programs.
• Managed a team responsible for funding collection development through cross-functional collaboration with 25 curators across nine curatorial departments at a large county encyclopedic museum.
• Estabelecida e implementou sistemas de operações de desenvolvimento de melhores práticas, incluindo sistemas de gerenciamento de novos relacionamentos de clientes (CRM) no ensino superior, serviços sociais e organizações de desenvolvimento da força de trabalho. Construção. Sarah iniciou sua carreira em desenvolvimento em duas das principais instituições culturais de Los Angeles, o Museu de Arte do Condado de Los Angeles (LACMA) e o Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MOCA), Los Angeles, onde administrou iniciativas de captação de recursos multimilionários e entregues de melhorias organizacionais, agredir recursos e aumentar a colaboração da colaboração de funcionários. Ela também atuou como diretora de avanço da SCS Noonan Scholars (agora conhecida como estudiosos da Thrive) e diretora de relações com o conselho da XPRIZE.
• Delivered pipeline development strategies for nonprofits across various sectors, including developing cases for support, stewardship and cultivation plans, and impact reports, as well as providing organizational design, leadership, staff training, and development operations infrastructure building.

Prior to her role at Huron, Sarah was the founder and principal of Sound Point Consulting LLC, a consultancy specializing in strategic planning, fund development, and organizational design for nonprofits in the arts and culture, technology, and higher education sectors. Sarah began her career in development at two of Los Angeles' premier cultural institutions, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, where she managed multimillion-dollar fundraising initiatives and delivered organizational improvements, streamlining resources and increasing staff collaboration and performance. She also served as chief advancement officer at SCS Noonan Scholars (now known as Thrive Scholars) and director of board relations at XPRIZE.

Sarah obteve um Bacharelado em Artes pela Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison e um certificado em estudos de arte modernos pela Christie's Auction House, Londres. Sarah é membro do Membro Técnico e Administrativo (ARS) (ARS) (TAAC) e um membro do Conselho de Vida.