Mike Travis joined Boston Children’s Museum as VP, Development in 2019 bringing 18+ years of progressive mission-driven fundraising and organizational development experience at the local, regional and national levels. Prior to BCM, Mike served as Senior Philanthropy Officer at Boys & Girls Clubs of America, overseeing all aspects of individual giving, major and planning giving fundraising for the largest youth serving agency in America, serving 4.7 million youth annually at more than 4,600 Club facilities nationwide located in rural communities, urban neighborhoods, in schools and public housing, on Native lands and on U.S. military installations worldwide. Mike was with BGCA for more than six years, and previously served as Senior Director of Club Consulting, leading a team of fundraising consultants that served 4,600 local affiliates nationwide, and Director of Organizational Development for BGCA’s Northeast region, initiating and providing consultation and support services to local organizations. Prior to BGCA, Mike worked for a national nonprofit consulting firm managing a personalized cultivation program for elite donors that generated qualified leads for major gift officers while using sophisticated modeling and data overlay services to identify top prospects. Mike has a great facility in developing relationships with donors and prospects and partners effectively with senior management, board members, staff, and other stakeholders to build meaningful donor relationships to successively increase revenue. In his career as a frontline fundraiser, he earned a reputation forging relationships needed to bring together many communities including medicine, technology, business, academia, research, human services and community stakeholders. Mike has worked in senior level development positions at large healthcare and human service organizations with budgets ranging from $3 - $100M+ annually. Mike began his career as a fundraiser due to a personal connection to ALS. While with the ALS Association, Mike oversaw all aspects of development functions and efforts to increase donor awareness and philanthropic support to fund research and patient services for those affected by Lou Gehrig’s disease. Mike is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Fundraising Certificate from Indiana University’s Lily School of Philanthropy and is actively pursuing his Masters in Nonprofit Management at Northeastern University.