“Working with shapiroassociates, we developed a leadership recruitment program which resulted in the addition of four new Board members. Their work… positions us well in our current and future fundraising efforts.”
Sara Gardner
President
The Fund for Public Health in New York
Susan Shapiro
Founder
Susan’s 30-plus years of firsthand development experience guides our practice. Her experience is rooted in developing successful campaigns and fundraising programs that maximize an organization’s assets while building internal capacity.
Prior to launching shapiroassociates, Susan served in senior management positions at the Partnership for New York City, where she led a multi-million campaign for education reform in NYC’s public schools. As Vice President at Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Susan organized and managed an unprecedented five year national $200 million campaign. She also led the major gifts effort of the $165 million campaign for Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
Susan has been a coach and mentor to dozens of young and transitioning professionals interested in the sector, contributed to fundraising articles and trained Board members and staff in campaign planning, donor development and solicitation techniques.
Susan discovered her passion and honed her fundraising skills at Columbia University where during her tenure, the arts and sciences community doubled its unrestricted annual funding.
Nancy Burd
Senior Counsel, Strategic Planning and Organizational Development
Nancy has built a career advising grantmakers on strategic and effective philanthropic practices and guiding nonprofit agencies and their boards through organizational transformation, growth and scale. As President of The Burd Group, Nancy teaches and writes about good grantmaking practices and authored "On The Money: A Review of Key Financial Challenges Facing Nonprofits Today – And How Grantmakers Can Help (Grantmakers for Effective Philanthropy)."
Ron Erdos
Senior Advisor
Ron Erdos has been a strategic planning, development consultant and manager of institutional fundraising programs for more than 40 years. A co-founder of Philanthropy Management Inc., Ron has been instrumental in leading innovative advancement programs for clients that include Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, The Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis), New York Presbyterian Hospital, The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and WHYY Public Television (Philadelphia).
Holly Thompson
Institutional Funding
Holly is a seasoned development professional with over 20 years of experience in institutional fundraising, program planning and design, and outcomes measurement. Holly helps the Firm’s clients more effectively tell their stories and, in so doing, maximize their institutional funding. Holly holds an MPA with a focus on non-profit management from New York University’s Robert Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Angela Vaughan
Senior Researcher
Angela brings 25 years of prospect research experience to our team, including three years as a Senior Researcher with the University of Virginia and seven years as a full-time consultant. She has presented at APRA (Association for Professional Researchers in Advancement),and published numerous articles on topics ranging from Internet research to estimating net worth and philanthropic capacity.