Kerry Alys Robinson
Kerry Alys Robinson is Executive Partner for Global and National Initiatives at Leadership Roundtable and Executive Director-Elect of the Global Prize Foundation.
Kerry Alys Robinson has been with Leadership Roundtable since its inception serving first as its founding executive director for eleven years, then as its global ambassador for four years, and now as partner for national and global initiatives. Leadership Roundtable is dedicated to promoting excellence and best practices in the management, finances and human resource development of the Catholic Church by harnessing the managerial expertise and financial acumen of senior level lay executives.
Kerry is a trustee of the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities and a member of FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities).
She is the prize winning author of Imagining Abundance: Fundraising, Philanthropy and a Spiritual Call to Service and is the founding editor of The Catholic Funding Guide: A Directory of Resources for Catholic Activities first published by FADICA in 1998. She has been an advisor to grantmaking foundations, charitable nonprofits and family philanthropies since 1990.
Kerry served as the director of development for Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University and led a successful $75 million dollar fundraising drive to expand and endow the Chapel’s intellectual and spiritual ministry and to construct a Catholic student center, designed by Cesar Pelli, on Yale’s campus.
Kerry is a frequent writer and speaker on the subjects of philanthropy, development and faith. She is a columnist for Chicago Catholic and has a blog on spirituality called Love in Ordinary Time.