Kay Sprinkel Grace, CFRE, is a San Francisco-based organizational consultant, providing workshops and consultation to local, regional, national and international organizations in strategic development planning, case and board development, staff development, and other issues related to leadership of the fund raising process. Recent clients (2007 – 2009) include: Link Media; Internews; PBS; Valley Public Radio; Kronos Quartet; Music in the Mountains; Family Violence Prevention Fund; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Montfort Hospital, Ottawa; Piper Trust, Arizona; St. Dominic’s Church, San Francisco; San Antonio Independent Schools; Goodwill San Francisco/Marin; Catalina Island Land Trust; Loma Linda University and Medical Center. From March 2004 to June 2007 she was principal external consultant to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Major Giving Initiative. 110 public television licensees participated in the program which included webinars, on-site consulting, and facilitation of national meetings.
Her B.A. (Communications-Journalism) and M.A. (Education) are from Stanford University, where she served as the first woman Volunteer Chair of the Stanford Fund. She has received Stanford’s highest award for volunteer service, the Gold Spike, as well as their Associates’ Award, Outstanding Achievement Award, Award of Merit, and Centennial Medal.
She speaks frequently at regional, national and international conferences including CASE, AFP, AHP and DMA. In recent years she was a featured presenter at the Fundraising Institute Australia, the Swedish Fundraising Council and the International Fund Raising Conference in The Netherlands. In 2007 she organized and co-presented the first seminar on philanthropy for NGOs in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. In 2008 she presented at a fundraising conference in Moscow, and in 2008 and 2009 she participated in the International Fundraising Festival in Prague. She will present at the Prague IFF again in 2010. In 2009 she presented National Philanthropy Day programs for AFP chapters in Northern New England, Minnesota and California, and delivered sessions at professional conferences including AFP Golden Gate and New Orleans, Colorado Planned Giving Roundtable, Hemophilia Association, ArtsReach, ASTC, Noyce Institute, NAMAC, Draper Richards, FSI (London) and Nativity Miguel Schools.
She is the author of six books, all available through “Books” on this web site: Beyond Fund Raising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment (John P. Wiley, 1997; second edition, 2005); High Impact Philanthropy: How Donors, Boards, and Nonprofit Organizations Can Transform Communities, co-author, with the late Alan Wendroff (John P. Wiley, 2001); Over Goal! What You Must Know to Excel at Fundraising Today (Emerson & Church, 2003 and 2006); The Ultimate Board Member’s Book (Emerson & Church, 2003 and 2008); Fundraising Mistakes That Bedevil All Boards (Emerson & Church, 2004 and 2008); The AAA Way to Fundraising Success (Whit Press, 2009); and co-author of the booklet, The Nonprofit Board’s Role in Mission, Planning and Evaluation (Board Source, 2008). She has contributed chapters to several books including both editions of Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising by Henry A. Rosso and Associates (1987 and 2003), Taking Fund Raising Seriously, and Taking Trusteeship Seriously.
She serves on the Advisory Board of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University, and on the national board of the Alliance of Artists Communities. She previously served on the boards of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program (Woodside, CA), the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, and the Advisory Board for the University of San Francisco Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management. She lives in San Francisco and is passionate about philanthropy, writing, travel and her photography.