Great missions, great leaders, and great strategy can make outstanding impact; but only when everything works together. That’s why we founded The Levy Group an innovative consulting firm that specializes in providing leadership strategy and coaching, fundraising expertise, developing high performing teams, strategic planning, and search solutions exclusively to nonprofit organizations. Our mission is to leverage our experience in the nonprofit sector to positively impact those organizations that change our communities.Deborah services have been in demand during COVID. She is producing several important intimate and virtual events and trainings. Additionally, Deborah Levy can also be retained as a motivational speaker and presenter on topics including crisis management, how to engage the news media, brand integrity, social media coverage, personal resilience, and board development, innovative fundraising.

Responsible for $4M+ field mission delivery team, philanthropy (major gifts, annual giving, planned gifts), corporate development and sponsorships, staff development, Board of Trustees and community volunteer engagement to achieve mission in Orange County, Riverside County, and San Bernardino County in Southern California.• Designed/implemented comprehensive strategic plan that resulted in revenue increase from $2.9M in FY18 and trending toward $5M in FY20 prior to COVID pandemic.• Secured new corporate/community partnerships to support significant and continued growth.• Cultivated/maintained long-term and collaborative relationship with key stakeholders and organizations to achieve mutual philanthropic goals.• Built strong relationships with local physicians and hospital partners including City of Hope, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Desert Regional Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Orange County, UCLA, and Loma Linda University Health.• Developed and executed strategic plan ensuring LLS’ National strategy is effectively translated to the Chapter level, driving market & donor development and sustained revenue growth.• Created team culture of cohesiveness and collaboration, leading to numerous national awards for record-breaking revenue campaign success for Light The Night, Man & Woman of the Year, Students of the Year, Pennies for Patients, and Leukemia Cup Regatta.• Managed/directed 15 professional staff and numerous volunteer committees across diverse geographies toward high levels of performance and enrichment including implementing new national Platinum Board strategy.• Launched $100M Children’s Initiative and secured top philanthropic gift in Southern California.

Restructured organization to better align roles with organizational needs, recruited new talent, provided leadership on organizational culture initiatives that improved internal collaboration and inspired the 250 team members to annually outperform strategic goals.• Increased revenue by 76%, from $3.4M in FY14 to $6.0M in FY17 and improved profitability.• Dramatically increased community impact from 2,600 of children served in FY14 to 5,639 children in FY17 by improving six core programs, increasing brand awareness, and developing new scheduling model.• Secured new impactful partnerships including UniHealth Foundation grant to study impacts of dance with children who have autism through University of California, Irvine. • Produced new high profile events, such as “Strikeout for CP” with Los Angeles Angels Baseball (MLB) pitcher, Andrew Bailey.

Provided overall leadership, operational direction, and policy development to reach $12M annual budget goal throughout the chapter; as well as creating innovative programing scaled through RMHC globally.• Orchestrated strategic direction and management in the Southern California market including all fundraising, talent development, program operations and campaign execution to exceed revenue targets year-over-year while building an endowment.• Cultivated/recruited/managed/retained high level Board volunteer leadership for the organization across wide geographical area. • Personally secured two multi-million-dollar Estate gifts through donor cultivation and demonstrated program success.• Implemented IT platforms and technologies to help modernize donor, finance, HR and tracking systems.• Opened California’s only Ronald McDonald Family Rooms located inside of CHOC Children’s Hospital and CHOC Children’s at Mission Hospital. - Led negotiations with hospital executive management, leading to approval through California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and capital campaign for required funding.

Television News Anchor and Investigative Reporter for 3 CBS Affiliates: KLAS-TV (Metropolitan Las Vegas, Nevada), WINK-TV (Southwest Florida), and KRCG-TV (Jefferson City/Columbia Middle Missouri)ACHIEVEMENTS:KLAS-TV •Led new start-up organization for the first five years of existence managing team of reporters, photographers, producers, editors, and writers, and helping develop nightly newscasts and programming content. •Anchor nightly newscasts including fill-in anchor for KLAS-TV. Enterprise and report news stories. Write creatively, clearly, accurately and quickly. Provide live coverage of breaking events. •Demonstrates the highest standards of behavior through honesty, fairness, and trust. •Service to the Community: Dedicated to making the community a better place to work and live by volunteering to host/emcee numerous non-profit fundraising events including The American Cancer Society Cattle Baron’s Ball, City of Henderson’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, and Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas Bissell Clean Day. •1998 “Best Reporting” Women in Communications-Las Vegas •Investigative report exposed phony doctors working in a low-income clinic prompting Nevada’s State Medical Board to take action.WINK-TVMORNING & NOON NEWS ANCHOR Solo anchor for market’s #1 weekday one and a half hour morning newscast and hour-long noon newscast. • 1998 “Florida Governor’s Public Service Award”-Highest public service award given in Florida. Recognized for helping a family in dire need and then leading community effort to raise funds, do home repairs and cleanup, and obtain medical care.KRCG-TVWEEKEND ANCHOR