Kate Golden is a Senior Managing Director in the nonprofit division of Changing Our World, where she has served as a strategy advisor to her clients for over two decades. With deep expertise in navigating complex organizational structures, Kate helps her clients thrive in their dynamic and evolving operating environment. She is highly skilled in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, case writing, and institutional grantmaking. She brings an analytic and innovative eye to each engagement, helping her clients address their challenges and achieve their goals effectively and efficiently.  

Most recently, Kate partnered with Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, to design and implement a comprehensive three-year development plan. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, she pivoted to help their team of development professionals raise funds for the hospital’s COVID-19 Response Fund. Through Kate’s cultivation and solicitation strategies, she helped raise over $1M for COVID-19 relief, and over $12M in total fundraising for the hospital in her time with Maimonides.  

Her clients have included the United Nations Population Fund, the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC), and The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), where Kate led a successful feasibility study that identified new funding prospects, broadening the organization’s donor base. Kate also spearheaded a targeted major gifts campaign for YWCA Greenwich that was launched during the pandemic.  

Kate holds a BA degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Virginia. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and three young children.