Victoria Devlin
Firm/Title / The Galler GroupSenior Counsel
Contact Information / PO Box 754
South Freeport, ME04078
Phone: (207) 865-9551
Mobile: (207) 415.4977
Email:
Location / Freeport, Maine
Areas of Focus /
- Cultivating Your Philanthropic Community
Vicky Devlin began her formal consulting career in 2007 after over 20 years as a development practitioner and vice-president at small and large shops and at 2 public radio licensees. Her largest, current consulting client is CedarCrestCollege, a small women’s college in Allentown, PA that is striving to develop a best-practice program with a staff of 6 professionals. She is also a founder of The Ithaca Institute, which develops and conducts three-day intensive programs for new Vice-Presidents of Development designed to build leadership, management skills, and leadership giving expertise.
As a consultant, she specializes in helping a staff and its president establish a strong major gifts effort based upon the work that has been done to sustain annual giving/membership. She teaches and coaches teams: to determine what is the best course for their non-profit to cultivate and solicit major donors, to build a compelling case that encourages donors to stretch, to develop programs and events that provide stewardship, to establish a network of volunteers, and to develop the principles of prospect and moves management that build donor loyalty and a culture of philanthropy for the long-term.
At her last institutional position at BatesCollege in Lewiston, Maine, she served as Vice President for College Advancement. She rebuilt a development program that had gone for several years without a vice-president, started a major gifts program, developed a stronger annual fund, and, through education and persuasion, built a culture of collaboration and volunteerism among staff, trustees and alumni, and planned and completed an extremely successful $120-million campaign.
From 1985-1990 and from 1992-1998, she served at WGBH-Boston, a dual licensee and national program producer for both radio and television. She assumed the role of Vice President for Development and Marketing in 1992. She was instrumental in the planning for WCAI, an independent radio station serving Cape Cod and the Islands, and developed a separate department to serve donors with a strong interest in radio. As a development leader, she initiated programs and activities designed to encourage loyal members to increase their giving, and under her leadership, giving societies flourished and the major gift program grew by 300%. From 1990-1992, she served as Senior Vice-President for WETA-Washington.
Vicky has an undergraduate degree in French and pursued graduate studies in education and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Freeport, Maine with her husband, Stuart Jones, and is active in community activities and non-profit work.