About

JILL GARLAND is a leading nonprofit management executive with over 25 years of experience in the field.

The tentpoles of her practice are strategic planning, interim executive management, mentoring early and mid-career fundraising professionals, and Board governance. Partnering with nonprofit Executive Directors and CEOs, she helps identify key strategies that will increase income, build and sustain effective teams, and pave the way towards becoming a more successful, transparent and mission-centric enterprise. Having worked across a variety of fields, Jill has a sophisticated understanding of how nonprofits survive and thrive and a fascination with the intersection of the arts, community, place, and people. Client work has included music, dance, theater, visual arts, social justice, placemaking, publishing and service organizations. Complete list of clients can be found here.

Prior to consulting, Jill was a member of the leadership team of The Public Theater/NY Shakespeare Festival where, as its Senior Director of Development, she and her talented team raised over $18 million annually for the beloved Shakespeare in the Park program and a host of plays and musicals in the organization’s historic downtown home. At The Public, she was deeply involved in organizational and board development, strategic planning, and the creation of key institutional messaging and branding.

Jill served as Montefiore/Nyack Hospital’s Vice President of Development and Executive Director of its Foundation and led a campaign to renovate its award-winning Emergency Department. She was the long-time Director of Development at Playwrights Horizons, where she designed and led their $33 million capital campaign that resulted in a new, five story building and the establishment of an endowment. 

A compelling teacher and speaker, Jill has held adjunct professor positions at New York University’s School of  Professional Studies, Brooklyn College, and has lectured at the Julliard School, Pace University, Marymount College and at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Jill studied dance at Adelphi University, and graduated from Empire State College (SUNY) with a BA in The Arts. She chaired the Board of RiverArts, an arts council serving five communities in the NY Lower Hudson Valley region. Free time is spent enjoying the arts, nature and learning about contemporary issues in historic preservation, creative placemaking and public history.

Via *Dunch Arts LLC, ** Create Today LLC, ***Interim Solutions