Barry Kendall
Director of Philanthropy @Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Philanthropy @Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, US
As Director of Philanthropy, I provide strategic leadership for the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s institutional and individual major giving programs. l lead institutional grant strategy and oversight and manage a substantial individual major gift portfolio across annual, capital, and planned giving efforts.
EDUCATION
Yale University
MA, magna cum laude
Stanford University
Ph.D., Directing and Dramatic Criticism
Emory University
BA, summa cum laude
SKILLS
ABOUT BARRY KENDALL
I’m a nonprofit executive with 20 years of leadership experience and a strong track record of growing revenue, building teams, and turning vision into momentum. I bring strategic clarity, financial acumen, and deep listening to every role—and I’m at my best when navigating complexity with purpose and heart.Currently, I serve as Director of Institutional Giving at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, where I lead strategy and operations for a $4M annual institutional portfolio spanning foundation, corporate, and government funding. I work across departments to develop fundable strategies, manage a growing grant pipeline, and drive impact storytelling that secures major support for one of the Bay Area’s most vital community institutions.Previously, as Executive Director of Circus Center, I revitalized the organization by raising $2.25M+ in new contributions, growing revenue by more than 90%, and launching innovative programs—including a performance season and a city-funded outreach initiative bringing circus arts to children in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.Previously, as chief executive of two public policy organizations, I built coalitions to amplify the reach and impact of national policy campaigns for the 2009 stimulus package, the 2010 federal budget, the Affordable Care Act, and immigration reform. I began in the arts, leading a performing arts center in Atlanta back to financial health and teaching acting and research design at Stanford, where I earned my PhD.Thanks to those theatrical roots, I’m just as comfortable emceeing an event or leading a strategic planning session as I am facilitating a tough conversation or engaging a room full of stakeholders in a shared vision. I live in the Bay Area with my family, who not only tolerate but celebrate my enduring love of karaoke. Skills include: strategic planning, financial management and budgeting, program development, team leadership, constituent relations, donor relations, stakeholder management, fundraising, development, institutional advancement, and nonprofit operations.
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