Josh Jacobson serves Vandever Batten as a Development Associate. Josh joins the Charlotte community from a successful career in New York City, where he accrued extensive experience in non-profit institutional advancement and demonstrated acumen as a top-level major giving professional. Josh has supported a wide variety of campaigns and programs.

In 2008, Josh ended his fourth season as a senior director with New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club; a Broadway-producing non-profit theatre company dedicated to the production of contemporary work.

• As MTC’s Director of Institutional Giving, Josh raised nearly $3 million annually to support the development of new work, the company’s acclaimed $1.5 million Education Program, and world premiere productions like John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt and David Lindsey-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole – both Pulitzer Prize-winning plays.
• Josh honed his prospect researching skills as Senior Officer for Research at The Juilliard School, working on the $150 million Campaign for Juilliard, which sought capital support for scholarships and building renovations. This campaign would later be expanded to include the recently-completed Lincoln Center renovation.
• As Grants Manager at the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville in North Florida, he was in the unique position of managing a $5 million cultural service re-grant, while at the same time seeking funding for Council programs.

Past positions also include a stint in the Florida state-level political arena as a campaign consultant and intergovernmental relations associate.  Josh earned a B.A. from Flagler College.

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