Linda Wise McNayLinda Wise McNay is an independent fundraising consultant with Our Fundraising Search in Atlanta. She is in her second decade consulting and has served more than one hundred clients. Linda's nonprofit background includes work with both higher and secndary education, the arts, and human service organizations and has included work in capital campaigns, annual fund, planned giving, membership, strategic planning, and development search. In addition to assisting many faith-based clients in their fundraising efforts, Linda has helped her own Baptist and Methodist churches with their stewardship. Prior to years of consulting work with Alexander Haas, Linda served as chief development officer for the High Museum of Art, leading its efforts to raise $95 million to bring great art from the Louvre and China to the Atlanta community. During her tenure, she also managed the execution of an endowment campaign, initiated the institution's first full-time planned giving effort, and increased the museum's membership to a record fifty thousand. During this time, Linda served as national president of the Art Museum Development Association. She currently serves on the Directors Counsel, University of Kentucky Art Museum. Linda served as director of advancement at Pace Academy, a K-12 private school in Atlanta. At Pace, she led the school's largest and most successful capital fundraising campaign with a goal of $15 million. The campaign was an overwhelming success, reaching goal ahead of schedule, under budget and with 95 percent parent participation and 100 percent board and 100 percent faculty/staff participation. In higher education, Linda has held positions including vice president of the Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges; executive director of the Emory Challenge Fund at Emory University; director of development at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and alumni and development roles at her alma mater, Transylvania University. In her career, Linda has been responsible for raising more than $250 million for her employers and clients. She is the author of Fundraising for Schools: 8 Keys to Success Every Head of School Should Know and Fundraising for Museums: 8 Keys to Success Every Museum Leader Should Know as well as the author of numerous articles for publication. Linda is a regular speaker and presenter at workshops and conferences. Linda earned her doctorate in the philosophy of higher education from Georgia State University. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled, The Relative Cost Effectiveness of Three Direct Mail Techniques on Non-Alumni Prospects. She also earned a master of business administration degree, specializing in personnel administration, from the University of Kentucky; and a bachelor of arts degree from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Linda and her architect husband, Gary, have two adult sons. Read More Read Less