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Kathleen E. Loehr has been with the American Red Cross since March 2001. As the interim Senior Vice President of Development, Loehr oversees the organization’s fundraising at National along with supporting Field fundraising. This includes disaster fundraising, major gifts, planned giving, cause marketing and leadership engagement, as well as direct mail, online and all systems that support successful fundraising. Under Loehr's leadership since 2001, the Red Cross has been building and implementing a successful relationship based fundraising program for large gifts to complement strong episodic disaster fund-raising activities.
Loehr’s 27-year career in fundraising includes political fundraising for congressional campaigns, grassroots fundraising for the child care industry, international fundraising (working with world leaders to eradicate wars and genocide in the Balkans, Indonesia, Central Asia and Africa), major gift fundraising with women leaders at Cornell University, capital campaigns for various projects costing from $3 million to $65 million and staff leadership in a comprehensive $1.5 billion campaign at Cornell University.
Her skill set includes successful leadership of complex teams and budgets, creative design of successful solutions for complicated issues, strong relationship building with donors, leaders and staff, strategic solicitation for major gifts, positive volunteer engagement, expertise in women and philanthropy, creation of systems and best practices for fundraising operations and mentoring/training of fundraisers. | 