Linda Garrison

...brings more than 20 years of nonprofit experience in management, board development, fundraising, public relations and prospect research. Garrison's goals include generating philanthropic donations supporting the entire Space Foundation enterprise, with a special focus on education programs and continuing the next phase of the new Space Foundation Visitors Center, located at its world headquarters, 4425 Arrowswest Dr., Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Garrison was most recently interim director of development at the Colorado "I Have A Dream"© Foundation. Previously, she was director of campaigns and major gifts at Metropolitan State University of Denver, and was vice president of the Robert B. Sharp Company of Colorado. A member of the board of directors of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Colorado Chapter for the past three years, she chaired the 2012 Rocky Mountain Philanthropy Institute and is 2013 RMPI co-chair. She is also a member of the Colorado Planned Giving Roundtable.