Lisa Yancey is a consultant who has worked with many nonprofit arts and culture organizations. She has experience in strategic planning, fundraising, program development, and organizational capacity building. Yancey's background includes studying dance in college, practicing entertainment law, and serving as a consultant for the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone working with cultural institutions in Harlem. She now runs her own consulting firm, Yancey Consulting, which provides services such as strategic planning, revenue generation, and leadership coaching to nonprofit arts organizations.

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Yancey
Consulting
www.yanceyconsulting.com
Strategist. Consultant. Entrepreneur.
Who loves to dance, run, do yoga, travel, collect art, eat amazing
food, sip great wine, listen to music, and laugh all of the time.

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Lisa Yancey
Personal Statement
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Arts and culture, as a robust ecosystem of
innovation and creativity, has been a
vibrant presence in my life for as long as I
can remember. I grew up imitating the
choreography of Paula Abdul and Janet
Jackson in front of the television as a child.
This passion for dance led me to
successfully audition for a local
performance arts high school in Atlanta,
GA. Dance provided a strong foundation
for discipline, creativity, and effective
communication skills that I took with me to
college, complementing my other liberal
arts majors (English and Psychology).
It granted me the prestigious honor of
Emory University's presidential award for
outstanding contributions to the arts upon
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matriculation.
From 1996-1999, I continued to dance and
choreograph throughout law school,
actively engaged in local dance companies
and choreographing videos for the
entertainment law firm where I served as an
intern.
I would tell anyone that my many years as a
dancer instilled the discipline to pass the
New York Bar Association on the first
attempt. I was convinced that I would
practice entertainment law to meld my love
for the arts and entertainment with my
entrepreneurial, analytical, writing, and
communications skills--but fate had a
different plan.
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Fate Had A Different Plan
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In 2001, I was introduced to a fantastic arts
consultant by the name of Mikki Shepard,
who would bring organizational
development consulting for nonprofit
organizations into my life.
By 2002, I served as manager of corporate
sponsorships in a consulting capacity for
the National Black Arts Festival for 2
consecutive years.
My legal analysis and entrepreneurial
acumen adapted beautifully to this field of
practice. In 2003, I broadened my practice
to include institutional fundraising,
strategic planning, mission-aligned earned
revenue generation, project management,
and program development and
assessment.
I was certified as a consultant for the Upper
Manhattan Empowerment Zone in Harlem,
NY, which contracted me to work with a
host of anchoring cultural institutions in
upper Manhattan.
This included The Apollo Theater
Foundation, Harlem School of the Arts,
Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz
Educational Center, National Black
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Theater, JazzMobile, Harlem Stage, and
others.
My work within the sector expanded to
include spearheading a capital campaign
for the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, in
which I raised with the Executive Team and
Board of Directors over $13 million from
public support and designed an individual
and corporate donor strategy to secure the
remaining $7 mil before the organization's
leadership decided to forego the project
with the development partner.
In 2006, my practice expanded nationally
to include strategic planning, capacity
assessments, leadership coaching,
community engagement, and revenue
generation work with national grassroots
organizations that spanned arts, culture,
social justice, and media democracy. I
worked closely with program officers and
grantees of the Ford Foundation, Nathan
Cummings Foundation, and Media
Democracy Fund. I have also worked with
the Open Society Foundations’s
Documentary Photography Project and the
New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs.
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I led the strategic planning and revenue
diversification process for the Media Democracy
Fund in 2013 and worked closely with the Executive
Director during implementation.
I also collaborated with Helicon Collaborative in
assessing the Rockefeller Foundation's Cultural
Innovation Fund. I served as Interim Executive
Director of the Center for Arts and Culture at
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
(Restoration), in a consultancy capacity, for three
years (2007-2010).
I managed, raised funds in support of, and
developed new programming that enhanced
audience attendance and engagement for
Restoration’s Skylight Gallery, Youth Arts Academy,
music and theater programs. In addition to my work
with nonprofits, I have advised a host of startups
and small businesses.
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Although I am no longer professionally dancing, my
love for arts and culture holds true. I am well versed
in devising and leading strategic planning, revenue
generation campaigns, and other organizational
needs that strengthen sustainability.
My commitment to the sector expands beyond my
professional work. I serve on the boards of 3
organizations, 2 of which are in the arts: 1) Mapp
International Productions (a producing organization
that supports performing artists doing cause driven
work) and 2) Fractured Atlas (a membership
organization that provides a host of capacity
support and technical platforms to over 35,000
artists throughout the United States.)
I also serve on the board of the Sadie Nash
Leadership Institute (instilling leadership, social
justice, and confidence in young girls throughout
New York & Newark.)

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Goals.
Capacity.
Strategy.
Implementation.
In all of my work with
clients we start by
clarifying what it is,
exactly, that we are
seeking to accomplish.
What is/are our
intention(s)?
How do they align
with the entity’s
mission, values,
core competencies
and uniqueness?
These are the questions
we start with. Once we
are clear about the
client's intentions, we
set specific goals and
then the strategy work
begins. Prepared in Collaboration; Drafted by Yancey
Consulting, LLC © 2013
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Listen.
Strategize.
Results.
Lisa Yancey | Yancey Consulting, LLC
www.yanceyconsulting.com
lisa@yanceyconsulting.com
917.531.0028
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