August 17, 2022 |LifeScene, News, Non-profits

LifeScene Family and Children Services Announces New Director of Advancement

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LifeScene Family & Children Services (LFCS) announced today that its Search Committee has elected Stefanie A. Smith as Director of Advancement. The Director of Advancement, a member of LFCS’s five-member executive team, is responsible for coordinating the organization’s fundraising and marketing activities.

“We are delighted to have Stefanie on board,” said Selvin Chambers III, Executive Director of LFCS. “She has the right personality and skillset to work with our service community and corporate leaders to advance our fundraising and marketing activities.” 

The Director of Advancement, a member of LFCS’s five-member executive team, is responsible for coordinating the organization’s fundraising and marketing activities. Stefanie brings a wealth of knowledge to LifeScene Family & Children Services from her time spent as a formally trained Diversity Practitioner for over 10 years and most recently the Director of Business Marketing and DEI Communications at diversity consulting firm PrismWork.  Her work focused on business development, executive training and the creation of equity and diversity strategy programs. The result, lasting culture change within company policies, practices, and procedures across the entities of government, non-profit, for-profit, start-ups and corporate.   

In 2017, Stefanie served as Director of Diversity to global non-profit The One Club for Creativity. There she championed the advertising and creative industry by overseeing donor development and elevating the One ID department by creating impactful educational programming, conferences, and public workshops. By 2019, department revenue grew by 225% from her insights, service, and upscaling programming resulting in the Creative Boot Camp main program service sites from 8 to 18.  This included shifting their annual tent-pole event titled Here Are All the Black People from a student only service track to include executive and mid-level participants resulting in major sponsor and attendee growth. Sponsor engagement resulted in $60K of new revenue and attendee participation grew from 600 to 1,200 people.

Stefanie’s primary responsibilities will be to coordinate and advance LSCFS’s annual endowment individual and corporate giving campaigns, and to smoothly integrate a complementary and comprehensive fundraising efforts as well as creating new development campaigns and initiatives.

“I’m thrilled to join LifeScene Family and Children’s Services. LifeScene has a unique position in the NorthShore Community to bring all sectors together and create long-term change for families by positively impacting generational advancement.”

Stefanie A. Smith

Stefanie is a social researcher at heart and holds two master’s degrees. Her first hails from the University of Massachusetts Boston where her focus on Gender and Public Policy while also researching and publishing studies on Youth Programming and the Use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies.  Her second, Master’s in Public Administration obtained from Baruch College School of International Public Affairs.  Stefanie was born in Atlanta, Georgia but calls Boston, Massachusetts “home” where she completed her Bachelor of Science in Advertising from Salem State University.

The above press release was submitted to us by LifeScene Family & Children Services (LFCS)