MARILYN
BANCEL has rejoined The Oram Group as partner and
director of our San Francisco-based West Coast office, following
two and a half years as in-house development director at CuriOdyssey
Museum, a former Oram client.
She has long been active with the Association of Fundraising
Professionals Golden Gate Chapter, for which she has served as board member
and officer and as chair of various programs and events, serving in 2000 and
2009 as co-chair of National Philanthropy Day. Marilyn is a recipient of
the chapter’s Hank Rosso Outstanding Fundraising Executive Award (2002). In
addition to consulting, Marilyn has been Adjunct Professor at the University of
San Francisco where she has taught Capital Campaigns and Major Gifts in the
College of Professional Studies, Institute of Nonprofit Management. She is
author of the long-popular workbook, Preparing Your Capital Campaign
(Jossey Bass/Wiley 2000).
Marilyn’s current client focus
includes all facets of the work needed to position an organization to conduct
major gift fund-raising and campaigns — feasibility and planning studies,
organizational analysis, board development, prospect engagement, and strategic
or institutional planning. In addition to CuriOdyssey other clients
have included San Francisco Girls Chorus, World Arts West, Boys and Girls Clubs
of San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, Glide Foundation, Headlands
Center for the Arts, Human Rights Campaign, Peninsula Interfaith Action,
National Foster Youth Action Network, Bar Association of San Francisco, Raphael
House, Synergy School, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, University of California Press
Foundation, Population Action International, United Religions Initiative, and
many others.
Prior to joining Oram, Marilyn
worked for fifteen years as an institutional fund-raiser—as director of
development for The Exploratorium, a museum of science, art and technology -
and an Oram client served by Oram partner Hank Goldstein.
She was also director of development for The Oakland Symphony; and as
founder and executive director of East Bay Performance, Inc., publisher of the
bi-weekly journal Bay Arts Review. Before entering the non-profit field,
she lived for three years in Turkey where she operated an 80-person cottage
craft and clothing export business.
