Debbie Flinn

Senior Associate

With over 20+ years’ experience Debbie Flinn, MBS, CFRE, is a fundraising/capital campaign and strategic planning expert. Deeply familiar with all aspects of institutional advancement, her expertise includes major gifts, planned giving, donor engagement and relationships, project and risk management, capacity building, obtaining, and managing federal grants, and establishing corporate relationships with Fortune 500 companies. 

Debbie brings expertise in creating new and sustainable funding sources for organizations in the healthcare, education, and community-based membership and advocacy sectors. And, having held significant roles the US, Canada, and New Zealand (where she also led a team of three hundred health professionals in hospital and community health settings and conducted quality health research and Six Sigma process mapping), Debbie she has raised over $100 million. 

Fluent in French and English, Debbie holds a BA from Carleton University, an MBA from Averett University, and a Graduate Certificate of Nonprofit Management from Duke University. 

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Debbie is a Fundraising Campaign and Strategic Planning expert. Her wide experience also spans the areas of Major and Principal Gifts, Planned and Legacy Gifts, Donor and Constituent Engagement, Project Management, Risk Management and Fundraising Governance and Development Program Review and Engagement Strategies.  

Sector Experience: Healthcare, Education, Community Based Membership and Advocacy  

Debbie’s fundraising must have: You do good work! We can help you do better by establishing meaningful donor relationships to advance your organizational capacity. 

Contact Debbie at: [email protected]