Lora Dow

    Senior Vice President
    Lora-Dow

    Since 2006, Lora has helped nonprofits of all sizes develop a clear and compelling case for support. Effective communications are critical to any organization's ability to inspire donors, advocates and volunteers. Lora's expertise and experience make the process of developing those communications the most effective they can be.

    With more than 25 years of marketing experience – including 20 years working with non-profits – Lora offers a wide variety of communications counsel, including:

    • Case Development (printed materials, videos, direct response strategies and more) for Annual, Capital and Planned Giving Programs
    • Communications Assessments
    • Communication Strategies
    • Development Strategies

    As a member of the DBD Group Leadership Team, Lora shapes and nurtures the DBD brand, helping our organization to reach more nonprofits across the country.

    A graduate of Georgetown University, Lora began her career in marketing for technology and banking companies. She then spent six years in senior management at the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee. She continues that passion to help great causes in her work with DBD and in her volunteer activities including her role as Board Chair of the Portland Insight Meditation Community. 

    Phone/Fax (toll-free):877.323.3904
    Phone (direct):414.416.0392

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    • "Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but the seed you plant."

      Robert Louis Stevenson

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      Margaret Mead

    • "You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

      John Bunyan

    • "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

      John Quincy Adams

    • "No one has ever become poor by giving."

      Anne Frank

    • "It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves."

      Charles Dudley Warner

    • "It's every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."

      Robert F. Kennedy

    • "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

      Frederick Douglass

    • "Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle."

      Ken Hakuta

    • "Philanthropy is the mystical mingling of a joyous giver, an artful asker, and a grateful recipient."

      Douglas M. Lawson

    • "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

      Jim Rohn

    • "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

      Winston Churchill

    • "Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

      Henry David Thoreau

    • "The greatest problem with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death. Causes don't need workers as much as they need informed, dedicated and passionate advocates."

      Harold J. Seymour

    • "A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit."

      Greek Proverb

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      Gladyn Browyn Stern

    • "What a world this would be if we just built bridges instead of walls."

      Carlos Ramirez

    • "I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

      Maya Angelou

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      Mother Teresa

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      Albert Schweitzer