Karen Lindsey
Karen Lindsey
Director
At Coxe Curry, Karen manages new business development for the firm and is a member of our Advancement Services team, where she specializes in writing case statements and campaign brochures for our clients. She also consults on fundraising strategies and conducts development assessments to identify ways clients can strengthen their fundraising practices and results. She brings more than 20 years of fundraising and nonprofit administration experience to her work with us.
Recently, she’s worked with The Extension, the Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta, Hillside, Project Chimps, the Southern Company Foundation, The Temple, Youth Villages, and Zoo Atlanta.
In the community, Karen is active in her children’s schools and with their extracurricular activities, staying busy with basketball and climbing practices, games, and competitions. She has volunteered with the Philanthropy in the Classroom initiative of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Cobb County Foster and Adoptive Parents Association, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Before joining us, Karen was an associate director of corporate philanthropy for the Woodruff Arts Center, where she managed the annual corporate campaign and helped integrate fundraising efforts among the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and High Museum of Art. Before that, she oversaw grant proposal development and stewardship, annual fund solicitations, and employee giving for Visiting Nurse Health System/Hospice Atlanta. She began her fundraising career in the Foundation at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, where she worked on the annual fund and the 1998 Society before joining the grants team.
Karen earned her BA in sociology from the University of Georgia and a Master of Public Administration degree with a focus in nonprofit management from Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. She and her husband—both Marietta natives—live in Cobb County with their two children and their dog, a lab mix.