Lauren Gibbs, Founder and Director

Lauren is a multi-disciplinary arts administrator with over two decades of professional experience and proven results in diversified fundraising strategies.  To date, she and her team members have helped raise over $25M successfully for 35+ unique nonprofit cultural and academic organizations.

She founded LG Capital for Culture LLC in 2014 to formalize the business structure for her company’s services to the nonprofits arts and culture sector. Lauren and her skilled team of expert development strategists, event managers, major gift specialists, researchers and grant writers work diligently to meet the unique needs of each client.

Lauren has an academic and professional background in dance theater and business, which stems from her lifelong passion for the performing and visual arts.  She has worked with startup to medium sized arts nonprofits, including culturally specific orgs, individual artists, presenters, schools, museums, advocacy and service orgs, residency orgs, impact investment firms, and more.  She has dedicated her professional career to date to promoting and advancing the cultural sector.

She has held full-time staff positions and consulting positions in fundraising management for a variety of artists and arts organizations, including: Ballet Hispanico, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Museum Hue, Fractured Atlas, Origin Theatre Company, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, HB Studio, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Museum of Arts and Design, Signature Theater Company, Tarrytown Music Hall, Count Basie Theater, Millay Arts Colony, Young Concert Artists, and Queens Symphony Orchestra, among many others. 

Lauren and her skilled LG Capital for Culture team have extensive experience in the creation and implementation of annual and capital strategic development plans; feasibility studies and surveying; solicitation of diversified support through prospect research, grant writing, membership, and individual giving; board development and cultivation; event planning and execution; nonprofit incorporation; communications and digital strategy; and general management.

Lauren has taught development strategy as a guest professor for the Master’s Program at NYU, Brooklyn College and Hostos College. She is also a Working Session consultant for Pentacle’s Administrative Support Program. She has served as a grant panelist for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and a SmART Bar presenter at the Dance/USA and Dance/NYC annual symposiums. She has also completed a Diversity Training program led by CCADI in Harlem.

In June 2023, she was appointed to serve as an Ex Officio Trustee for the New York Botanical Garden as a NYC Mayoral designee. She has served annually as a Host Committee member for the Dancers Responding to AIDS Annual Hudson Valley Dance Festival for the past decade.  She volunteered to help found and implement Dakar Vert’s fiscally sponsored cultural activities in Senegal in 2015, and she helped manage Dakar Vert's Environmental Film Festival, which opened the 2016 BAMFilmAfrica Festival. She is a member and frequent patron of many local cultural nonprofits such as Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Botanic, Rubin Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of National History, MoMA, Municipal Arts Society, and others. 

She earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Performing Arts Administration from New York University, as well as dual Bachelors Degrees in Dance/Theatre (B.A) and International Business (B.B.A.), with a concentration in French, from James Madison University.

Residing in Brooklyn with her wonderful husband Robert and her pup Griffin, she has previously worked and lived in Manhattan, Paris, Lisbon and the Jersey shore.

Elizabeth Jones, Senior Associate

Liz joined LG Capital for Culture in 2015.

Liz is an enthusiastic and results-driven arts administrator with more than 17 years of fundraising and general administrative experience. She has helped manage development and social media consulting work with LG Capital for Culture’s following clients: Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Dancewave, Dance Lab New York, HB Studio, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Museum Hue, Origin Theatre Company, Stephen Petronio Company, Tarrytown Music Hall, Shamel Pitts/TRIBE, and Works & Process at the Guggenheim, among others. Previously, Liz held development positions in the nonprofit sector with American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispanico and Paul Taylor Dance Company. She also worked in the for-profit sector in Human Resources at the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates.

Liz has proven successful in producing, planning and executing a wide range of events and fundraisers. She specializes in all areas of individual giving, including: cultivation, membership, major gifts, board development and training. Liz has been effective in creating and implementing development plans, social media and marketing plans, a wide-range of prospect research, HR relations and staff management.  

In Spring 2023, Liz was elected for a second term as Vice President of Cultural Arts by her children’s elementary school PTA to bring the students enriching arts education programs. She was also invited in 2023 to join an advocacy committee for dance education on Long Island. 

Liz holds a B.F.A degree in dance from the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University. Earlier in her professional career, she was a dance teacher and she danced professionally for the Arena Football League’s New York Dragons dance team, The Firedancers, for 3 years. 

A lover of all-things design and ocean life, Liz is a makeup artist and an avid beach goer. She resides on Long Island with her extraordinary husband and two children.

Anna Brady Marcus, Grants Associate

Anna joined LGCapital for Culture in 2018.

She started her career in arts management in 2001 at Pentacle (DanceWorks, Inc.) where she worked directly with dozens of dance companies and hundreds of performing artists.

In her various roles over the last nearly twenty years, she has been a fiscal manager, booking representative, program director, development associate, and curator and producer of dance films.

As a grant writer, she has fifteen years of experience developing proposals for private and government institutions, specializing in funding for the performing arts.

She is also a fiction and creative nonfiction writer, and the founder of Anchor Your Legacy, a ghostwriting and personal history business.

Anna has a B.F.A. in dance from California Institute of the Arts and a graduate certificate in media management from the New School.

She currently resides in the Hudson Valley with her musician husband and budding performer daughter.

Megan Foehr, Associate

Megan joined the LG Capital for Culture team in fall 2022. 

She is a Development professional for arts & cultural organizations, specializing in Individual Giving and Events. Her work experience includes individual donor prospecting, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship, emphasizing strategic growth initiatives for major donors, and special event creation and management. She sincerely enjoys cultivating genuine relationships with donors and stakeholders, and advancing nonprofit missions that make a positive impact on the world.

Megan began a career in fundraising a decade ago to pursue a life of meaningful work, and she hopes to enhance the causes that she champions. Her past work experience in Development positions include: Quantum Theater, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, HB Studio and MCC Theater. She is currently the Senior Development Manager at Reach Out and Read of Greater NY.

She is an alumni of Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College (Master of Arts Management) and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (BFA in Drama).

In addition to her career in philanthropy, Megan’s interests include the live performing arts, nutrition & wellness, and experimenting with new recipes from the NYT.