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Karen Rappleyea

Karen Rappleyea

Karen is Vice President for Campaign Services for Innovative Resources Group. As a national nonprofit consultant, development professional and volunteer leader, Karen has had a flourishing career in nonprofit management and consulting. She provides clients a unique perspective and in-depth experience in stewardship, membership, capital and endowment campaigns, campaign planning studies, and special-purpose campaigns. Karen has worked with a wide range of organizations and institutions throughout the United States and internationally, including colleges, churches, human services, zoos, museums, cultural and arts.

Karen joined Innovative Resources Group in 2004 and has been working with the firm's team of senior professionals serving community health centers, public libraries, arts centers, public policy research centers, historic preservation organizations, colleges and public television stations.

Along with her Innovative Resources Group colleagues, Karen believes each client must earn a donor's philanthropic support. Channeling her energies to "make it happen", Karen offers specific solutions to diverse client issues. She provides unique perspective and guidance to build and nurture each client's stakeholder relationships. With every project, Karen enjoys the collaborative relationship with an organization's staff and volunteer leaders.

As an active community volunteer in every community she has lived in, Karen has held leadership positions serving on the boards of the Reece Center for Handicapped Horsemanship, the Millbrook Library, and the Centre for Playback Theatre. She has also served her alma mater as the Alumnae Liaison and Class Agent for Wheaton College (MA). In addition to holding a B.A. from Wheaton College, Karen has studied at Villanova University and the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.

A native of Dutchess County, New York, she and her family reside near Saratoga Springs. Karen and her husband escape to Saratoga's historic race course whenever time allows.

Latest and Greatest
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Innovative Resources Group has recently been engaged as capital campaign counsel by Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Located in the mid-Hudson Valley, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School is launching a major capital project to address the tremendous admissions growth since its relocation to the Boardman Road facility in 1997. Celebrating the School’s 50th anniversary, plans include completing the campus with refurbishment of a wing, new athletic fields and expanding scholarships and the endowment.“We are pleased to have been selected to work with Father John Lagiovane and his team,” said Karen Rappleyea, Vice President for Campaign Services and project leader, “This is a transforming project not just for today’s students but for those that come for the next fifty years and beyond.”

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"From feasibility studies to giving pyramids, fundraising techniques have become antiquated and stagnant. What makes Innovative Resources truly innovative is the creative and critical thinking that is applied to each unique organization. Using the collective experience and expertise to help transform a nonprofit is the "art" that is missing with all the canned, checklist formats repeated by many other consulting firms."

-Karen Rappleyea,
Vice President for Campaign Services


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