With more than 20 years of experience in fundraising and philanthropy, Linda Cameron applies her extensive skills and expertise to further enhance Kennedy Krieger Institute’s philanthropic efforts. As vice president of philanthropy and a member of Kennedy Krieger’s leadership team, Cameron is responsible for helping to shape the Institute’s strategic plan, and design and implement its next capital campaign.
Cameron spent more than 15 years as a fundraising and philanthropy consultant for CCS Fundraising, internationally known as the largest development firm serving more than 500 clients a year in the U.S. and abroad. At CCS, Cameron was managing director and partner where she worked in collaboration with hundreds of nonprofit organizations in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast region across all sectors including healthcare, secondary and higher education, arts and culture, and human services. Her areas of expertise include capital endowment campaign design and management, strategy development, volunteer training, development assessments, and working with the board members and executive leadership to advance philanthropy to fund an organization’s mission. Her work has helped organizations raise over $1 billion.
Prior to CCS, Cameron was the director of corporate relations at the American Heart Association in Baltimore, where she served as a senior member of the local development team and worked directly with the Association’s regional board members. In this position, Cameron was responsible for the development of relationships in the corporate community and securing funding. She was also the director of external relations at the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) in Washington, D.C., where she led the start-up of the ERC Fellows Program, which brought together chief executive officers, chief ethics officers, chief compliance officers of business and government, as well as those in academia, to discuss and address ethical issues in the workplace. With an eye towards solutions, Cameron also led the strategic planning and business development process at ERC. Cameron started her career in banking.
Cameron received her bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Richmond and a Master of Business Administration from Loyola University Maryland. She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and currently serves on the boards of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, Roland Park Country School and the Patterson Memorial Fund.