Lori Smedley

Senior Vice President, Institutional Advancement

Lori Smedley is The Washington Center’s Senior Vice President of Institutional Advancement, responsible for meeting TWC’s ambitious goals for growth in funding from private sector partners—a fourfold increase by 2016—through relationships with individuals, foundations, and corporations.

 

Before joining TWC in February 2012, Lori spent five years raising funds for global health for children at the GAVI Campaign (the U.S.-based fundraising arm of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization), first as Director of Individual Giving and then as Deputy Executive Director. While at GAVI, she was instrumental in designing and establishing the GAVI Matching Fund, a $130 million joint challenge grant issued by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.K.’s Department for International Development intended to drastically increase the involvement of foundations and corporations in funding global health work.

 

Prior to her work at GAVI, Lori served fundraising roles for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, WHYY (Philadelphia’s dual-affiliate NPR/PBS station), Community Women’s Education Project (community-based adult and family learning), and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. She volunteers as an advisor to the Lee Montessori Public Charter School as it navigates the charter school application process in the District of Columbia. She is a graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.