Overview 

Rebecca is a Senior Consultant at Schultz & Williams. She brings more than three decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, including program management and development leadership.

Rebecca’s development work is notable for her holistic and mission-driven approach to fundraising, effective collaborations with program staff and leadership, and her skill in raising funds for programming across the arts, media, education, and social services sectors.

As a Consultant, she has provided grant writing and campaign support to arts and culture and social services nonprofits across the Philadelphia region. Rebecca has also worked with a number of small and emerging organizations to launch their fundraising programs.

Background 

Before joining S&W, Rebecca worked in fundraising for several nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, including KQED Public Media, for which she secured institutional support for media education programs, and Community Works West, an organization supporting communities impacted by incarceration.

She also served as Development Director at the Bay Area Video Coalition and Aurora Theatre Company. Prior to her development work, Rebecca managed arts and education programs for Community Works West, Young Audiences of Northern California, and California Lawyers for the Arts.

She is also a professional artist, exhibiting her work nationally and making public art inspired by local ecology. Locally, she has worked with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mural Arts, the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership, and the Cheltenham Center for the Arts.

Sample Client Experience

• North10 Philadelphia
• Friends of Washington Crossing Park
• Norris Square Community Alliance (Xiente)
• AccessMatters
• People’s Emergency Center
• WIN Recovery
• Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust
• Gesu School
• Reading Terminal Market

Education 

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting – Rhode Island School of Design
• Master of Arts in Education – San Francisco State University
• Master of Arts in Fine Arts – University of New Mexico