Who We Are

Lindsey Loyd is a non-profit development expert with over 10+ years of experience in the fields of organizational development and fundraising.

Before launching Meraki for Good, Lindsey Loyd was a Senior Consultant at Graham-Pelton Consulting. Here, she managed two campaigns with goals totaling $52 million, acted as an interim Chief Development Officer, and conducted multiple campaign feasibility studies. She led both the campaign feasibility study and a $2 million campaign for the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC), an organization supporting conservation education, research, and outreach activities that increase understanding of our global cultural heritage.

Prior to this, Lindsey served as Major Gifts Officer at New Orleans City Park where she solicited philanthropic investments from individual and corporate donors. In this role, she developed a capital campaign strategy, including benchmarking tactics, prospect pipeline, timeline, cases for support, and a gift catalog demonstrating funding needs.

Earlier in her career, Lindsey was an Associate Director for Orr Group, another consulting firm serving the nonprofit sector. Achievements for her clients during this time include: spearheading comprehensive development for startup non-profit organizations; collaborating with teammates and executive leadership teams to design long-term fundraising plans; managing relationship building with prospective funders by qualifying prospects, strategizing cultivation moves, leading outreach, and submitting funding proposals; and co-writing and submitting grant submissions and stewarding successful foundation relationships.

Lindsey is a graduate of Florida State University where she earned a B.S. in Business Management.