Maureen M. Nash, joined The Perlman Music Program as the Director of Development in 2006.
Ms. Nash oversees the development, external affairs and strategic planning functions, including: membership, major gifts, special events, institutional support, development records and research, and public relations at the organization. Working directly with the Program’s Board of Directors, she is responsible for raising $4 million annually for General Operating Support and The Campaign for The Perlman Music Program, an effort to raise a $30 million endowment to permanently secure the Program’s financial resources and ensure its future.
Before joining the Program, Ms. Nash was a Major Gifts Officer at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Other experience includes managing the firm’s corporate community involvement program at UBS PaineWebber, communications work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and as the Deputy Director of Finance and Operations at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs she managed the grantmaking process for over $90 million of grants to New York City cultural institutions.
In 2002, Ms. Nash was the recipient of the Americans for the Arts’ Emerging Leader Award and Scholarship for her economic impact and cultural policy research and was a panelist for “Meet the Grantmakers” (New York Regional Association of Grantmakers). Ms. Nash holds a B.F.A. in Drama and Art History from New York University and the Business Careers Initiative Certificate from Columbia University.
A value instilled by her mother, the visual and performing arts have always played an essential role in Ms. Nash’s life. As a child growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Ms. Nash studied piano and ballet for eleven years, sang in choirs, and starred in national commercials and local theater productions. It is an honor and a privilege for Ms. Nash to work so closely with the faculty and young musicians at The Perlman Music Program.
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