Expertise

• Feasibility studies

• Major fundraising campaign planning and management

• Strategic planning

• Development assessments and audits

Experience

Liz has more than 20 years of experience working for and with nonprofits. She joined Skystone Partners in 2007 as a senior consultant, became managing partner in 2010, and president and CEO in 2013. Her previous nonprofit experience includes serving as executive director of the Starling Project Foundation, and staff roles at Women Helping Women, Cincinnati Opera Association, and the Behringer-Crawford Museum.

Her expertise includes planning and managing major gift campaigns, creating innovative solutions to help nonprofits achieve their goals, assessing development operations and interpreting fundraising data, facilitating visioning and strategic planning processes, and helping boards and executive leadership become more effective organizational leaders.

She was the 2015 Cincinnati USA Chamber’s Woman of the Year Entrepreneur, has been published in the Advancing Philanthropy, The Cincinnati Enquirer, and the AFP Weekly Newswire, and contributed a chapter to the book, Building Strong Nonprofits: New Strategies for Growth and Sustainability.

Liz has volunteered with the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Greater Cincinnati Chapter, where she was a founding member of the Ethics Committee, AFP International, is currently the Cincinnati Parks Foundation Women’s Committee Hats Off Luncheon sponsorship chair, and also volunteers at The New School Montessori.

She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music in percussion performance and attended the University of Cincinnati for graduate studies in German Language and Literature with a focus on Holocaust Literature.