Senior Consultant
robert.alpaugh@campbellcompany.com
“With 20 years of experience as an executive in the nonprofit sector, I have a deep understanding of my clients’ needs in regard to development, governance, financial management and other key institutional priorities. To each engagement, I bring practical solutions grounded in recent hands-on experience and fundraising best practices. Through this, I build strong, lasting and mutually rewarding relationships with my clients.”
Areas of Expertise
Arts and Culture Philanthropy, Social and Human Services Philanthropy, Higher Education Philanthropy
About Robert Alpaugh
Robert Alpaugh is passionate about philanthropy, and about the need for collaboration and planning as keys to success. Robert encourages clients to see a capital project as part of a larger vision: that of assuring the long-term sustainability of the organization. Sustainability requires proper capitalization of the project and building the reserves and endowment necessary for sustainable growth. This requires careful planning at the very inception of the idea to build or launch a campaign, and collaboration—between staff and volunteers, donors and leaders, and between consultant and organization—are key to laying this foundation for success. In each client relationship, Robert values opportunities to:
- Work with committed, creative, smart individuals who are using their resources to create a better world
- Help organizations use data to drive results
- Help leaders think creatively about what defines success for their organization, plan properly for a campaign, and set realistic, visionary expectations
- Work one-on-one with staff and volunteers to develop strategies that result in philanthropy that is satisfying to the donor and makes a difference for the client
- Help organizations use capital campaigns to build the capacity of the organization so that the result of a capital project in increased impact on community
- See the results of Campbell & Company’s work in the faces of the users of the client product, whether they are theatre or symphony audiences, disabled individuals enjoying a game of wheelchair soccer, or children reintegrating into school after recovering from abuse
In his initial work with Campbell & Company, Robert served as interim Vice President for Development at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He assisted the Symphony’s new president in coordinating efforts among marketing, fundraising and public relations staffs while managing day-to-day fundraising operations as the Symphony searched for its fulltime development leader.
Robert has worked in opera, theater, dance and music, serving as executive or managing director of institutions such as the Joffrey Ballet, Williamstown Theater Festival and Arizona Theater Company. While at Campbell & Company Robert has had the opportunity to successfully transfer his experience to the human services and higher education sectors.