rstein@majorgiving.com
Robert Stein, CFRE, founded MajorGiving.com in 1994 and has served as its principal since then. He has been an arts executive and development professional for over twenty-five years with such institutions as the Hartford Stage Company, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Ithaca College, and Syracuse University. Under his leadership, MajorGiving.com has worked with nearly one hundred clients in major giving, executive recruitment, as well as capital campaigns and planned giving.
Among Stein’s honors: appointment in 2005 by the Governor of Virginia to serve on the state’s public broadcasting commission; recipient of the 2003 Public Radio Association of Development Officer's Pioneer Award for leadership; Management Fellow with the National Endowment for the Arts, 1985; Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, Hartford, 1984.
His work in major giving has brought grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which awarded the company both public radio and public television Future Fund support for work with over a dozen stations. Since 2004, MajorGiving.com has served as implementation consultants for nineteen stations participating in the Public Television Major Giving Initiative.
He has been a presenter at dozens of conferences within and outside of public broadcasting. A certified fundraising executive (CFRE), Stein served as an officer for two chapters of the Association of Fundraising Executives. He has served on several grants selection committees, including the arts service organization panel for the New York State Council on the Arts, and the dance panel for the New England Foundation for the Arts. Currently he serves on the board of trustees of the Contemporary American Theatre Festival.
Stein holds an M.A. from the University of Maryland in Dramatic Criticism and Directing, and a B.A. magna cum laude in English Literature from the University of Connecticut. He lives in Winchester, Virginia with his wife, Gina Daddario, a professor of communications at Shenandoah University, and their children, Daria and Levi.