The most rewarding part of our work is the thought partnership with our clients. I’m grateful for opportunities to co-create strategies that build organizational capacity, elevate storytelling, and bring ambitious visions to life.

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Abby has spent her career working to strengthen the bridge between impact-driven organizations and their philanthropic, public, and private partners to sustain and accelerate their growth goals. Since joining CCS, Abby has planned for and managed capital and comprehensive campaigns with goals ranging from $10 million to $8 billion. She has worked with senior leadership to develop and implement strategies for seven-, eight-, and nine-figure gifts, strengthen development teams, build the case for support, and activate volunteers as philanthropic champions.

Throughout her career, Abby has worked with cross-disciplinary teams to identify business solutions to systemic environmental challenges. She began her career at Trust for Public Land, where she advised government agencies and their nonprofit partners on capacity-building and sustaining public-private partnerships. She has also built strategies for innovative environmental finance programs at The Nature Conservancy and Social Finance. Abby holds MBA and Master of Environmental Management degrees from Yale University and a BA from Williams College. She serves on the boards of Yestermorrow Design/Build School and the Williams College – Mystic Seaport Coastal and Ocean Studies Program. In her free time, she enjoys exploring parks, often by bicycle.

Select Client Partners

  • ADL (Anti-Defamation League)
  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • The Frederick Gunn School
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Museum of Chinese in America
  • NYU Stern School of Business
  • Ocean Conservancy
  • The Trustees of Reservations

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Boston, MA 02110

(617) 292-2666

Thank you for your interest in a partnership with CCS Fundraising. We are proud to work with nonprofit organizations that do such impactful work in our communities.

Over our decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, we’ve found that our services are most impactful for well-established 501(c)(3) organizations. If your nonprofit is in an earlier stage of growth, we encourage you to explore the free foundational resources available on our Fundraising Fundamentals page. Developed by our fundraising consultant experts to provide a starting point for emerging organizations, we hope you can leverage these resources to propel your fundraising efforts forward, with the goal of an engagement with CCS once you are further along in your fundraising journey.
We look forward to hearing from you and exploring how our services can maximize your fundraising efforts.

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