Great Rivers Greenway Foundation Welcomes Karen Schleicher as Development Coordinator

The Great Rivers Greenway Foundation is pleased to welcome Karen Schleicher, of Kirkwood, as Development Coordinator. She will work alongside Chief Development Officer Kevin Miller and the Great Rivers Greenway Foundation Board to support the organization’s efforts to enhance and enrich the mission of Great Rivers Greenway and the vision of the River Ring. Her responsibilities will include overseeing the day-to-day back office operations of the Foundation, working with the organization’s Greenway Friends program and assisting with special events, grant writing, membership mailings and Foundation Board of Directors’ meetings.

Schleicher brings more than 20 years’ experience to the Foundation, including a background in developing donor solicitation strategies and programs to better manage donor records. Schleicher most recently served as Operations Director in the Office of Philanthropy of the St. Louis Symphony, where she managed the donor database, overseeing donor data entry, acknowledgment letters and benefit packages. She was also responsible for developing and implementing policies and procedures for managing the database. Her prior experience also includes serving as Development Specialist at the Boone Center Inc., in St. Peters, Mo., and as Foundation and Planned Giving Manager at Emmaus Homes in St. Charles, Mo.

Schleicher earned her Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is also a graduate of the Fund Raising School in Indianapolis’ program in Planned Giving.

“Karen’s development operations and database skills will be a tremendous asset as we work to advance the mission of the Foundation,” says Kevin Miller, Chief Development Officer for the Great Rivers Greenway Foundation. “We are fortunate to have her on board as we establish our strategies and systems to build upon the taxpayers’ investment in a network of greenways.”

For more information on the Great Rivers Greenway Foundation, visit https://greatriversgreenway.org/support/. For more information about Great Rivers Greenway, visit www.GreatRiversGreenway.org.