August 1-2, 2019
Minot State University Conference Center| Minot, ND
3rd Floor of the Student Center (Campus Map)
Gail Crider, President & CEO of National Arts Strategies
Gail Crider directs program design at National Arts Strategies (NAS) and facilitates organizational alignment to values and strategy. She consults on strategy, leadership, planning and governance. Gail was Vice President and COO for over a decade and was instrumental in the transition from the National Arts Stabilization Fund to National Arts Strategies and providing the range of services offered today.
Over the course of her career, Gail has been an entrepreneur, worked with a variety of nonprofit organizations and spent a decade in philanthropy. Prior to NAS, she was a program officer for a private foundation where she worked on inner-city redevelopment and community building in Washington, D.C. Gail has also worked for the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Key Bank. She co-chaired the Community Development Support Collaborative in Washington, D.C., and has served as a senior fellow for the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania, on the audit committee for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and on grant panels for the Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps), the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Treasury, CDFI Fund. She holds a B.S. in theater from Lewis and Clark College.
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