Adam Kessler
Deputy Director of Development @The Nature Conservancy
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WORK HISTORY
Deputy Director of Development @The Nature Conservancy
Brunswick, ME, US
Help lead the Development team by providing strategic guidance and leadership to team members, the Senior Leadership Team, and conservation staff. • Responsible for building and growing relationships with 100+ of the organization\'s top individual and institutional donors and prospects to support incredible conservation, ecological restoration, economic development, and community projects in Maine and around the world. • Lead fundraiser on a team that generates $10-12 million annually in operations, capital, and deferred gifts. Helped launch, lead, and execute the Join Maine campaign: the organization’s largest-ever fundraising initiative ($200 million).• Works effectively with for the Board of Trustees, Executive Director, and other senior and program staff to successfully design and execute multi-year solicitation, cultivation, and stewardship strategies.
EDUCATION
Bates College
BA, American History
School for International Training
Experiential study abroad program (Ghana)
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University
MBA
SKILLS
ABOUT ADAM KESSLER
Values-driven professional with demonstrated success, collaboration, and leadership in fundraising, development, and program management. Empathetic listener and experienced relationship-builder, strategist, mentor, supervisor, content creator, and systems thinker. Committed to anti-racist, pro-justice, equitable change processes for individuals, institutions, and broader social and political systems. Specialties and Values:*Relationship building and management; strategy and program development; principal and major gifts fundraising; institutional giving; planned giving; donor stewardship; writing and communications; volunteer engagement and management; management and supervision; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategy, programs, and facilitation*Value equity, diversity, respect for self and others, empathy, mental health and wellness, mindfulness, personal growth, and opportunity*Coaching/mentorship/sponsorship relationships and programs*Parent to my children; partner to my spouse; hiker; runner; downhill skier; reader; craft beer and cocktail enthusiast; futbol, English Premier League, and Tottenham Hotspur and Portland Hearts of Pine fan
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