Lucy Kim

As Endeavor Health’s inaugural Chief Development Officer, Lucy Kim leads the organization’s comprehensive philanthropic strategy, focusing on collaboration and partnerships to grow fundraising revenue in support of our mission. She is responsible for shaping an integrated development vision across the system’s five local Foundations, strengthening philanthropic impact at the community level while advancing growth and innovation systemwide.

Kim brings over 25 years of experience in nonprofit management and philanthropic advancement, with a proven record of building trusted relationships and securing transformative support. She is passionate about working with donors and internal partners to align strategies and values toward achieving shared purpose and ambitious outcomes.

Before joining Endeavor Health, Kim served as Chief Advancement Officer for Chicago Public Media, overseeing Development and Membership and serving as a key partner to the CEO and Board. During her tenure, she led the effort to raise $61 million to enable the acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times by WBEZ, a public radio station, a first in American media history. Prior to that, she was Vice President of Development at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where she led philanthropic strategy in support of the organization’s mission to improve public policy and governance. Additionally, Kim served at Harvard University for 15 years in a number of leadership roles at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was the campaign director at Radcliffe and Chan that collectively raised over $1 billion during the $9.6 billion Harvard Campaign that concluded in 2018.

Kim has served as a Board member of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and a non-resident adviser for Harvard undergraduates. She has also taught Public Narrative, a leadership-development practice developed by her mentor, Marshall Ganz, that empowers individuals and communities to propel social change.

Kim holds a Master of Education in Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Master of Music from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Music from Boston University. While a New England native, she is now a proud Evanstonian and loves to travel, cook, ride her bike along the lake, listen to music and attend live theater performances with her husband and daughter.