Meet Devon Lawrence
Founder and Principal, Clark Lawrence Consulting
Devon C. Lawrence
Devon has a passion for helping non-profits of all sizes discover that success and growth is achievable and possible for everyone. For the past ten years, she has worked for and with a range of non-profits focused on the arts, social services, community innovation and development, and family services within healthcare. This broad experience has given Devon a comprehensive understanding of what different organizations need to succeed. Her clients have praised her ability to be well attuned to the needs, opportunities, and challenges of non-profit organizations and her reliability as a source of guidance on fundraising and organizational development.
Most recently, Devon spent two years living in Singapore and working with international non-profits. Understanding the difference between best practices in the United States and those in Southeast Asia was an invaluable lesson that allowed Devon to help organizations in Singapore discover new tools and resources, and to share her skills and expertise with a flourishing community of non-profits.
Prior to consulting, in 2017 Devon was the Director of Development for the Lowline, leading fundraising strategy and operations for a $100MM capital campaign. From 2010 to 2017, Devon held strategic roles at two of the most formidable fundraising institutions in New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Robin Hood Foundation. At The Met, she led the planning and strategy for high-end capital campaign events for the Southwest Wing Project, a multi-year $600MM effort to rebuild the contemporary art wing, and also ran the ‘Travel with The Met’ program representing 30 trips, 600 travelers, and 50+ countries per year. At Robin Hood, she managed the year-end donor solicitation campaigns, increased fiscal year donation fulfillment by 15% over 3 years, ran cultivation events, and improved protocols for processing $80MM in donor funding. Before moving into development, Devon worked at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum supporting operations and events for the Curatorial and Education Departments.
Devon currently serves on the Board of Bowery Residents' Committee (BRC), where she is the Chair of the Development Committee and advises the organization on governance and board recruitment. She is also a Board Member of Association of Nonprofit Specialists in Manhattan and is Co-Chair of the Governance Committee.
Devon was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA and attended Trinity College in Hartford, CT with a B.A. in Art History and minor in Italian Studies. She currently lives in NYC with her husband and son and her passions include food, wine, travel and A Cappella.