Alexandra Rollins

About Alexandra Rollins

Private, nonprofit, and government contracting. Expertise: historic preservation planning, management and oversight; grants planning, writing, and management, especially leading to historic preservation and arts management; core infrastructure analyses and establishment. Valued for effective break-through and change accomplishments in finance and grants. Start up operations and follow through management for the Dietrich American Foundation, the Diplomatic Reception Rooms/Department of State, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America/National, Harvard Astrophysical Observatory/Grants and Contracts, the Corporation for National Service, and others. Interim Executive Directorships for the Rhode Island Council of the Humanities, the Museum of Arts and Design, Bates College Museum of Art, and the Kennedy Institute. Focus on building stability with flexibility using current, clear governance documents, structural components, financial integrity, and collaborative communications. Experienced, energetic, strategic, creative, honest.

Experience

1. Principal

   Alexandra Rollins Associates

   Dec 1975 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Specializing in governance, finance and management. Operational and management assessments, interim management, start up operations, fiscal advisory, leadership facilitations, grants/financial management, and organizational restructurings include, for example, Harvard Astrophysical Observatory, Corporation for National Service, Diplomatic Reception Rooms/US Department of State, Educational Development Center, and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. Engaging the community, developing partnerships and collaborations, inspiring donors and members, moving the conversation from whether we can to how can we - these are what I believe in and why my work leverages strengths and enforces integrity. Clients include foundations, historic preservation groups, corporate trusts and philanthropies, museums, government agencies, universities, and 501[c][3]s.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  MA

• Harvard University Kennedy School

  MPA

• Connecticut College

  BA

Skills

• Nonprofit Management
• Community Development
• Fundraising
• Volunteer Management
• Historic Preservation
• Community Outreach
• Public Relations
• Art History
• American History
• Policy
• Grant Writing
• Strategic Planning
• Arts Administration
• Strategy
• Grants
• Organizational Development
• Program Management
• Philanthropy
• Budgeting
• Editing
• Budgets
• Board Development
• Program Development
• Leadership
• Nonprofits
• Research
• Stewardship
• Annual Giving
• Museums
• Public Policy
• Non-Profits
• Non-Profit Administration