Founder & Director,
Lauren Gibbs
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 $30M 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, Irondale, 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 Garden, NY Botanic Garden Rubin Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of National History, MoMA, Municipal Arts Society, MassMoca, 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.
Grants Associate,
Anna Brady Marcus
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 over 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.
Associate,
Megan Foehr
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.
Associate,
Lucia Roldan
Lucia Roldan joined LG Capital for Culture in 2024. Originally from Spain and based in Brooklyn, she is a fundraising professional with 20 years of experience in the cultural field, specializing in the creation and execution of comprehensive Fundraising Plans, Strategic Fundraising, Individual Giving, Major Gifts, Corporate Sponsorships, Foundation Grants, Special Cultivation Events, and Benefit Galas.
Having worked with leading museums, art centers, and arts organizations in the US and Europe, such as the American Federation of Arts, MoMA PS1, ArtTable, Public Art Fund, Independent Curators International, and Lazaro Galdiano Museum, among others, she has demonstrated exceptional organizational skills in special events management and superior creative problem-solving abilities. With a portfolio of more than 950 events organized throughout her career, her expertise spans planning and executing the logistics for events of various scales, including large-scale gatherings of 5,000+ guests.
Lucia holds a certificate from the Heyman Program for Philanthropy and Fundraising at NYU, an M.A. in Arts Administration, a B.A. in Journalism, and another B.A. in Humanities. She is a member of ArtTable, Women in Development, The Noguchi Museum, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program’s (ISCP) Young Patrons Group.