About Us

Joel Evans

Joel has twenty years of experience in fundraising management and strategic planning. He supports clients in the management and assessment of development programs, major gifts and planned giving strategies, program and strategic planning, leadership coaching, and campaign readiness and management.

Currently, Joel provides campaign counsel for two organizations in San Francisco, St. Anthony Foundation's $42 million capital campaign, and Congregation Sherith Israel's $15 million seismic retrofit campaign.

He has recently written campaign cases for projects as diverse as the Alameda County Library Foundation and the Sonoma Country Day School. He wrote a strategic business plan and secured multi-year funding for a chamber music ensemble based in Paris. Before that, Joel worked with BBI's London-based sister company, Brakeley Ltd., to establish a new cultural institution in Boston, the New Center for Arts and Culture. The centerpiece of this project is a $75 million capital campaign to build a new museum by the architect Daniel Libeskind.

As fundraising counsel, Joel has supported strategic projects and capital campaigns at a literary magazine, an early music festival, an array of social-service providers, a dispute-mediation center, an art cinema, a domestic violence agency, and a non-profit housing corporation.

Earlier in his career, Joel served as Director of Development for MIT Hillel; Leadership Gifts and Planned Giving Officer at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts; Director of Individual Giving at the AIDS Action Committee; and as manager of a leading ensemble for contemporary music, the Boston Musica Viva.

In addition to training leadership volunteers, Joel has taught other non-profit executives and fundraising officers at a variety of venues, including the Association of Partners of Public Land, the Association of Fundraising Professionals Conference, the NSFRE Conference on Philanthropy (Massachusetts Chapter), the National AIDS Fund Raising Conference, the Radcliffe College Seminars, and national skills building conferences for AIDS service providers.

Joel received his BA in Russian Studies from Yale College. He sang with the Boston Symphony Orchestra's chorus for twenty-five years and served on the Board of Directors of the Yale Club of Boston.