Robyn Furness-Fallin

    Senior Consultant
    Robyn -Furness-Fallin

    Robyn Furness-Fallin, CFRE, offers financial development and volunteer leadership consulting for nonprofits and higher ed. As a Senior Consultant with DBD Group, Robyn brings more than 30 years of nonprofit management experience to her clients. Robyn is an astute strategist who helps bring clarity and focus to the campaigns she supports.

    Robyn’s deep understanding of the challenges facing nonprofits and higher education allow her to customize her coaching based on the organization. She provides counsel for:

    • Endowment and Planned Giving
    • Development Assessments
    • Development Staff Coaching
    • Board and Volunteer Development
    • Research, Policies and Trend Analysis
    • Feasibility Studies and Capital Campaigns
    • Annual Campaigns

    Robyn began her professional life as an elementary school teacher followed by several marketing positions with consulting firms in the greater Baltimore area. Her nonprofit career started at the YMCA of Central Maryland in 1986. From there she held several leadership positions at the YMCA of Santa Clara Valley, the Metro Atlanta YMCA, and the YMCA of Silicon Valley. In 2013, she was asked to join the senior team at YMCA of the USA as the Chief Development Officer focusing on capacity building, major gifts and grant making.

    From 2015 to 2020, Robyn was the Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations for Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. During her tenure the university received its largest single planned gift of $50 million to launch a School of Business and raised $21.6 million to build a new academic building.

    Robyn has received a North American YMCA Development Organization’s Award for Excellence in Fundraising. She is also an alumnus of Leadership Atlanta and Leadership San Jose. Robyn graduated with a BA from McDaniel College and holds additional nonprofit management certifications from Goucher College.

    She and her husband Bill reside in Fairhope, AL.

    Phone/Fax (toll-free):877.323.3904
    Phone (direct):404.822.6093

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

      Robert Louis Stevenson

    • "Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have."

      Margaret Mead

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

      John Bunyan

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      John Quincy Adams

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      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

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      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

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      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

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      Greek Proverb

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      Gladyn Browyn Stern

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      Carlos Ramirez

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      Maya Angelou

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      Mother Teresa

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      Albert Schweitzer