Susan G. Stein is the Chief Executive Officer of the Milwaukee Philanthropic Venture Fund, Inc., a public charity created in 2007 and registered in the State of Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Philanthropic Venture Fund – an IPO with a heart! seeks to eradicate poverty in Milwaukee and to support education, arts & culture, and the environment.

Susan G. Stein, Founder and President of STRATEGIES FOR PHILANTHROPY LLC, has worked for 34 years in the private and public sectors. Before moving to Milwaukee in 1987, she was the national associate director of the international foundation New Israel Fund, based in New York City, where she also worked in financial and retail marketing, and as a French teacher at the college level and as a private tutor.

In its fifth year, STRATEGIES FOR PHILANTHROPY LLC develops client strategies to enhance philanthropy for nonprofits, families, and corporations. The firm’s motto is 'Vision Focus Action,'’ and in all projects, Stein achieves quick and meaningful results for clients. These include: strategic plans; fund development plans; executive recruitment; media campaigns; campaign organization and management; speechwriting; and full service project conceptualization and implementation. Stein completes projects on time and within budget.

Stein created the precedent setting "Women in Philanthropy" conference held in Milwaukee on October 30, 2003, which drew 175 women from throughout Wisconsin. A second "Women in Philanthropy' seminar took place in Milwaukee, including two national speakers, on October 24, 2005. Its theme was "Yours, Mine, and Ours – Philanthropy in a Fractured World." Follow-up sessions for individuals and family groups took place on March 8 and 9, 2006.

From 1987 - 2002, the operating, capital, and endowment campaigns at three Milwaukee institutions, under Stein’s leadership, raised in excess of $150 million. Under her advisement since 2002, more than 25 nonprofit clients’ revenues have increased dramatically, as they have met resource development, employment and strategic planning objectives.

Stein ran concurrent operating, capital, and endowment campaigns at the Boys & Girls Clubs, all of which exceeded their goals. She solicited and closed the two largest endowment gifts in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s history, $10 million and $3.6 million respectively during 1997-2002. University School of Milwaukee’s endowment campaign was the largest day school campaign for endowment in the nation (and extremely unusual, in that its $13.1 million was nearly all in cash gifts).

Stein has served as President of the Boards of Directors of both TEMPO and the Artist Series at the Pabst and as Vice President of the Milwaukee Jewish Council for Community Relations in the early 1990’s. She served on the statewide cabinet for Wisconsin’s office of State of Israel Bonds and as a longtime member of the United Way of Greater Milwaukee’s Women’s Initiative. She served as a board member of the Mental Health Association from 2005- 07 and as a founding member of the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin advisory committee on adolescent psychiatry.

Strategies for Philanthropy LLC has a strategic alliance with Inspired Legacies, of Houston, Texas, founded by the internationally acclaimed philanthropist Tracy Gary. Stein is a founding member of the national advisory board of the Younger Women’s Task Force of Washington, DC.

Stein was a 2005 judge of the financial award section of the Nonprofit Management Excellence Awards, administered by the Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management at UW-M and the Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee. Stein has solicited gifts and held multiple leadership positions with a wide array of local organizations, including Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Jewish Federation and as a founding member of its Economic Forum, and the United Way of Greater Milwaukee.

Stein holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. She is the recipient of a certificate in Financial Management from New York University and a Certificate in Nonprofit Governance from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. A Milwaukeean since 1987, Stein resides in Milwaukee with her two teenagers. Stein has written and published poetry, two novels, and short stories. In the early 1980’s she was a French translator for World Press Review. Her most recent work is These Are Not Your Husband’s Portions, published in 2005 by Wood Place Imprints LLC.

Ms. Stein is the winner of the 2007 Milwaukee Business Journal Women of Influence Award, the 2003 Tempo Milwaukee Mentor Award, and a 1992 award from the Council for the Advancement and Support for Education. In 1969 she was elected to the Cum Laude Society as a junior at Saint Margaret’s School in Waterbury, CT.

Stein’s recreational activities include a lifelong commitment to the performing and visual arts, tennis, biking, knitting, reading, and attending her son’s and her daughter’s theatrical performances.

Susan G. Stein

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