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Elizabeth Lowell

Elizabeth Lowell brings to her clients a particular interest in working with the Boards of non-profits to build cohesion, trust and mission-focused decision making. Her training as a Trustee Educator in the Lilly Endowment’s Trustee Leadership Development program only deepened her conviction that strong Trusteeship is key to the success of philanthropic organizations.

Elizabeth began her non-profit career as the first Director of Annual Giving at Concord Academy and then worked as a planned giving consultant before becoming Associate Director of Development at the Lahey Clinic Foundation. Prior to joining Raybin Associates in 1986, she served as Director of Development at the Fay School. She is a graduate of Smith College and of the Adelphi University program in Financial Development/Non-Profit Management. She has taken leadership roles in Smith College alumnae fundraising activities, served as Program Coordinator of the Planned Giving Group of New England, and is a former trustee of the College of Preachers in Washington, DC and her alma mater, Friends Academy on Long Island, where she was also on the Head Search Committee.

For six years, Elizabeth chaired the Board of the Cloud Forest School Foundation: the U.S. support group for the Cloud Forest School in Monteverde, Costa Rica. This unique Pre-K through Grade 11 school is an English immersion experience for 220 local children with the entire curriculum webbed around the environment. Elizabeth led the campaign to purchase the 106 acre campus from The Nature Conservancy and the subsequent build-out. She continues as a Trustee.

An avid gardener, birder, baker and voracious reader, Elizabeth lives in Harvard, Massachusetts. Son Timothy is a special education teacher and administrator across the border in New Hampshire and the father of 7-year-old Peter and 3-year-old Julia.

At the end of 2010, Elizabeth Lowell retired from Raybin Associates after 24 years with the firm. She will be dividing her time among her home in Harvard, MA, her son and his family in Sunapee, NH, and her house in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Elizabeth reports that she has been able to view coverage of the record breaking East Coast snow and ice storms from her deck above the Costa Rican cloud forest – and is not missing New England at all just now. She can be reached at elowell236@aol.com.